Taliek Brown

Biography

An NCAA national champion with a decade of professional playing experience, Taliek Brown joined the Red Storm staff in April 2023 as an assistant coach. In three seasons at St. John’s, Brown has been instrumental in turning around the trajectory of the Red Storm men’s basketball program. Inheriting a team that had won 20 games just four times in the previous 20 seasons, Brown has helped St. John’s go 81-25 over the past three seasons, highlighted by consecutive 30-win seasons, back-to-back outright BIG EAST Regular Season Championships and back-to-back BIG EAST Tournament titles. In 2024-25, the Red Storm matched a program record with 31 wins, earning a no. 2 seed in the NCAA Tournament and winning the Red Storm’s first game in The Big Dance since 2000. This past season, the Johnnies won 30 games and advanced to the Sweet 16 for the first time since 1999. Brown has seen two of his St. John’s student-athletes earn BIG EAST Player of the Year honors, as RJ Luis Jr. took home the award in 2025 before Zuby Ejiofor unanimously won the accolade this past spring. Ejiofor was also named the BIG EAST Defensive Player and Scholar-Athlete of the Year, the first player in the conference to win all three awards since Brown’s teammate Emeka Okafor did so in 2004. Before coming home to Queens, Brown helped Iona post a 27-8 overall record in 2022-23, including a 17-3 mark in MAAC play, and earn a bid to the 2023 NCAA Tournament. Before his one year as an assistant coach in New Rochelle, the