Hall of Fame men's college basketball coach Lou Carnesecca, who won 526 games during a legendary career at St. John's, died on Saturday. He was 99.

Lou Carnesecca, the excitable St. John’s coach whose outlandish sweaters became an emblem of his team’s dazzling Final Four run in 1985, has died.

Lou Carnesecca, a founding father of the Big East Conference and a St. John's legend, not to mention one of the most colorful personalities in college basketball history, passed away on Saturday at the age of 99.