Lou Carnesecca was a New York basketball icon thanks to his days at the helm of the St. John's men's basketball program.

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 at 99, just a few weeks shy of what would have been his 100th birthday.

A huge personality in the Big East, Carnesecca was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992