St. John's full 2015-16 schedule: Maui, Syracuse, and more

This year's St. John's team is a giant unknown in college basketball - enough raw talent to intrigue, enough of an influx of talent to be better than terrible, but also enough youth and newness that it's hard to say with logical, reasonable certainty what to expect out of the team.

And then there's the complete rookie head coach.

Below is the set of games that lay out before new coach Chris Mullin, his chances to stamp a mark on the Red Storm program in his first year, even before the recruiting gets rolling in the 2016 class, where the staff is chasing guards Shamorie Ponds and Bashir Ahmed, along with a plethora of 2017 and 2018 star talent from the New York City area.

Some facts about this year's schedule:

Last year St. John's played ten regular-season games at Madison Square Garden. This year, only seven contests will be at MSG - okay, eight if you count at least one Big East Conference Tournament game. Last year's slate included the NIT Season Tip-Off - two games at the Garden. One notable change: Creighton gets the friendly confines of Carnesecca Arena after drawing 10,700 to Madison Square Garden last year.

The Johnnies will have one matchup on Fox - the home game against Villanova. At least two games will be on FSN and four on CBS Sports Network the non-conference game against South Carolina, the road game against Villanova, the game against Marquette in Madison Square garden, and the barnburner that will be DePaul at St. John's on Wednesday, February 17th.

No Valentine's game this year.

The only Big East games that aren't on Wednesday or Saturday: the conference opener against Creighton (the second game of the Big East Tip-Off marathon); the noontime Sunday home games at Madison Square Garden against Villanova and Seton Hall; a Monday matchup at Georgetown; the road game against Big East behemoth DePaul; and the road game against Creighton.

St. John's has two stretches with six or more days off - after Thanksgiving/ Maui Invitational; between the road game at Butler in January and the Marquette home game; and the near-week off before the last game of the season against Providence.

The schedule in its entirety, from Wagner to Providence:

Day	Date	Opponent	Where	Event	Time	Channel
We	11/4/15	St. Thomas Aquinas	Carnesecca	Exhibition	TBD	TBD
Sa	11/7/15	Sonoma State	Carnesecca	Exhibition	TBD	TBD
Fr	11/13/15	Wagner	Carnesecca		6:00 PM	FS1
Mo	11/16/15	UMBC	Carnesecca	Maui Inv-Campus	7:00 PM	FS1
Th	11/19/15	Rutgers	Carnesecca	Gavitt Tipoff game	7:00 PM	FS1
Mo	11/23/15	Vanderbilt	Lahaina (HI)	Maui Inv	2:30 PM	ESPN2
Tu	11/24/15	Indiana/ Wake F.	Lahaina (HI)	Maui Inv	TBD	TBD
We	11/25/15	TBD	Lahaina (HI)	Maui Inv	TBD	TBD
We	12/2/15	Fordham	Rose Hill (NY)		TBD	TBD
Su	12/6/15	St. Francis NY	MSG	Holiday Fest	11:00 AM	FS1
We	12/9/15	Niagara	Carnesecca		5:00 PM	FS1
Su	12/13/15	Syracuse	MSG		12:00 PM	FS1
Fr	12/18/15	Incarnate Word	Carnesecca		7:00 PM	FS1
Su	12/20/15	NJIT	Carnesecca		12:00 PM	FS1
Tu	12/22/15	South Carolina	Mohegan Sun (CT)	HoF Shootout	9:00 PM	CBS SN
Th	12/31/15	Creighton	Carnesecca	Big East	2:00 PM	FS1
Sa	1/2/16	Providence	Dunkin (RI)	Big East	3:30 PM	FS1
We	1/6/16	Xavier	Carnesecca	Big East	9:00 PM	FS1
Sa	1/9/16	Marquette	Bradley (WI)	Big East	2:00 PM	FSN
We	1/13/16	Georgetown	MSG	Big East	6:30 PM	FS1
Sa	1/16/16	Butler	Hinkle (IN)	Big East	12:00 PM	FS1
Sa	1/23/16	Marquette	MSG	Big East	8:00 PM	CBS SN
We	1/27/16	Seton Hall	Prudential (NJ)	Big East	7:00 PM	FS1
Su	1/31/16	Villanova	MSG	Big East	12:00 PM	FOX
We	2/3/16	Xavier	Cintas (OH)	Big East	6:30 PM	FS1
Sa	2/6/16	Butler	Carnesecca	Big East	4:30 PM	FSN
Mo	2/8/16	Georgetown	Verizon (DC)	Big East	7:00 PM	FS1
Sa	2/13/16	Villanova	W. Fargo (PA)	Big East	8:00 PM	CBS SN
We	2/17/16	DePaul	Carnesecca	Big East	8:00 PM	CBS SN
Su	2/21/16	Seton Hall	MSG	Big East	12:00 PM	FS1
Th	2/25/16	DePaul	AllState (IL)	Big East	9:00 PM	FS1
Su	2/28/16	Creighton	CenturyLink (NE)	Big East	2:30 PM	FS1
Sa	3/5/16	Providence	MSG	Big East	12:30 PM	FS1

Which games look like actual "easy wins"? And which ones look like the kind of game an inexperienced team could lose? What's your early prediction for final record?