text: New St. John's Red Storm coach Steve Lavin already drawing top recruits - ESPN New York
  New coach's reputation helping turn heads toward St. John's among Class of 2011
  Updated: November 13, 2010, 8:57 AM ET
  NEW YORK -- Dwayne Polee was brutally honest: He had never even entertained the thought of coming to St. John's until Steve Lavin was hired as head coach."Nah, it never even entered my mind really," Polee said.And really, why would it have? Polee was a West Coast kid, the player of the year in Los Angeles, being courted by some of the top programs in the Pac-10. St. John's is 3,000 miles away, and has been one of the proverbial doormats of the Big East in recent years.But ...Read full story