St. John's Red Storm Zach Braziller St. John’s star frontcourt gets ‘picture-perfect ending’ with historic NBA draft By Zach Braziller Published June 25, 2026, 1:27 a.m. ET Forward Zuby Ejiofor #24 of the St. John's Red Storm celebrates. Charles Wenzelberg/New York Post One by one, they fought back tears: Zuby Ejiofor, Dillon Mitchell and Bryce Hopkins.
This was on March 27, after a hard-fought, Sweet 16 loss to Duke inside Capital One Arena. The three friends weren’t ready to say goodbye to what had been a memorable season. They were hurting and it showed. They didn’t get their fairy-tale moment then.
As it turns out, they just had to wait a few more months.
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It wasn’t a Final Four or a national championship, but the St. John’s frontcourt got to live out their dreams separately over two nights of the NBA draft, and in the process make more Red Storm history.
