We have an absolute stud head coach whose imposing his grit and love for Seton Hall onto a very likeable group.

We have a team full of grinders. The amount of growth for this group from the non conference to today is incredible.

You know all you need to know about Sha when he ran halfway onto the court last night after a TO to chew out the players for subpar defense resulting in a barrage of Butler 3s.

The best part about where we stand this afternoon is that Sha won't let them even consider that they have accomplished anything. We've got four more games to seal a bid. Can't wait until Wednesday!

Very good burgers, 2 burgers, tater tots, soft drink for $11. Left a $5 tip wife and I were happy. Place was empty in Bloomfield, half way through our meal 2 SHU fans came in for their burgers and we celebrated last nights victory. Gotta figure South Orange location was busy. People working in Bloomfield had to talk with the manager to find out about the promotion.

irreverent but curios!

At least Rutgers can win once in a while. 😆

Trump trounced WEF Haley in her home state.

Maybe she can go camping with her BFF Newsom in CA

I’m not that knowledgeable about turn around times but there is a Devils game at the Rock today at 2. At the X game we had a few players slip and I believe 1 came off the court. Not sure if they are related but afraid of a repeat of the Desi incident. Does anyone know the protocols

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Phoenix, Ariz. – Taylor Hill (Little Falls, N.J.) hit a pair of home runs and Kelsey Carr (Ridgewood, N.Y.) added a long ball of her own as the Seton Hall softball team took down New Mexico State, 4-2, in game one of Saturday's doubleheader at the Sun Devil/GCU Classic. The Pirates would fall in game two of the day to Grand Canyon, 3-0.

Game 1: Seton Hall 4, New Mexico State 2
How it Happened

• Seton Hall got the bats working early, as back-to-back home runs from Hill and Carr put the Pirates up 2-0 in the first inning.
• The Pirates tacked on another run in the third inning, as Lela Allen (Phoenix, Ariz.) was hit by a pitch with the bases loaded to make it a 3-0 game.
• Kyra Kreuscher (Great River, N.Y.) was cruising in the circle to start off the game, allowing just two hits over her first five innings of work.
• Hill added more insurance in the fifth inning by launching her second home run of the game.
• The Aggies put two runs on the board in the sixth to cut the deficit in half, but Kreuscher was able to slam the door shut with a scoreless seventh to seal the win.

Notes & Numbers

• Hill's two-homer game was the second of her career. It was also the second straight season in which her first two home runs of the season came in the same game.
• This was Hill's third multi-hit game of the season so far.
• Carr's home run was her first of the season after she hit 13 last season.
• Kreuscher pitched all seven innings and improved to 2-0 on the season.

Game 2: Grand Canyon 3, Seton Hall 0
How it Happened

• The Pirates put a runner in scoring position in the top of the first as Carr singled and later advanced to second, but The Hall was unable to score.
• The Lopes snagged the lead in the second inning on an RBI single to take a 1-0 lead.
• An RBI groundout and a fielder's choice in the fifth inning grew Grand Canyon's lead to 3-0.
• Carr got aboard to leadoff the seventh as the Pirates tried to mount a late comeback, but a double play thwarted that attempt.

Notes & Numbers

• Babik posted another solid outing in the circle despite the loss, firing six innings and allowing just two earned runs.
• Carr has now collected hits in each of her last three games.

What's Next
The Pirates wrap up their weekend in Arizona on Sunday morning as they face Utah Valley at 11 a.m. back on Arizona State's campus.

It is bad karma to take joy in other's misfortune, but MY GAWD. DePaul lost 77-76.

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Just updated. 62 from 65

Should be constantly updated. If Kempom can do it so can they. They have more employees than sense. Surely someone there can program it to update and publish.

By Mike Vaccaro

The ghost has been given up. The flag has been furled. The sword has been surrendered. One minute late Sunday afternoon, St. John’s was trucking Seton Hall at UBS Arena, up by 19, seemingly making its first essential stand of a season that had already been reduced to a series of must-win games.

When it was over, Rick Pitino shook Shaheen Holloway’s hand after Holloway’s Seton Hall Pirates had trucked and trampled Pitino’s St. John’s Red Storm, 68-62.

The Pirates had taken the Johnnies to the woodshed across the game’s final 20 minutes, and Holloway had all but thrown Pitino’s first St. John’s team into a wood chipper.

All that remains is a fantasy — a folly, really — of winning four games in four days at Madison Square Garden next month. There will be no storybooks sold on Utopia Parkway, not this year. The season has gone from 12-4 to 14-12 in an eyeblink. No magic potions. No magic wands.

“This,” Pitino said, “is the most unenjoyable experience of my lifetime.”

It’s a matter of record that, while Pitino’s entire college-coaching career has been a case study in program rehabilitation, he has never overseen a complete first-year turnaround. Mostly, he has taken over programs that were dying or decaying — file St. John’s under the latter — sold a system and a promise in Year 1 and then started to do serious winning in Year 2.

At Boston U., it was 17-9 followed by 21-9 and a regular-season ECAC-North title. At Providence, it was 17-14 followed by 25-9 and a rollicking ride to the Final Four. At Kentucky, it was 14-14 in Year 1, 22-6 and a regular-season SEC title in Year 2. At Louisville, it was 19-13 his first year followed by 25-7 and a Conference USA championship his second. And Iona went from 12-6 (though they did win the MAAC Tournament) in 2021 to 25-8 in ’22.

On one hand, this is exactly the blueprint. The Johnnies are still probably going to hit 18 wins. Maybe they’ll sneak into the NIT. And if they do stick at 18, it will fill many detractors who comprise his vast enemies list with the gleeful reality that 18 was what Mike Anderson got out of last year’s team.

And Pitino deserves at least a couple of the slings and arrows now pointed at his team after going 2-8 in its last 10. He probably miscalculated on a lot of the temporary program stopgaps that either played way over their heads the first 16 games or have regressed to the mean the last 10 (or both). That’s on him. Joel Soriano’s puzzling regression the last month, at least in part, is on Pitino. The team-wide inability to guard against second-half collapses, that’s on him, along with his failure to find a system to match his talent after it became obvious this group couldn’t play at his preferred, frenetic, 3-point-happy pace.

It doesn’t mean he’s forgotten how to coach. But even the best coaches have tough years. This has been a tough year. And if you’re going to use Pitino’s past successes as a guide going forward, it should be pointed out — as Pitino himself has repeatedly pointed out this year — that this is a different landscape than the ones he negotiated at BU, at PC, at UK and at UL. NIL makes it so. The transfer portal makes it so. The presence of UConn as an annual supernova makes it so.

It should be pointed out: For all the optimism Pitino’s hiring engendered, Pitino himself never guaranteed an NCAA bid this year. He did make assurances that the team would be better in January than it was in November, and better still in March. The first part of that was correct; the second … well, it doesn’t look good.

St. John’s also didn’t hire Pitino to win in 2023-24; he was hired to win across the next five years, to rebuild and reestablish infrastructure, interest, excitement and prosperity in the Big East’s dormant sleeping giant. He has done the first three. The last is the trickiest. But that will be what’s best remembered, if he’s able to get this program there. It is still awfully hard to bet against that happening.

It’s just equally discouraging to see what’s become of a once-promising season. Maybe the Johnnies have four magical days at the Garden in them in a few weeks. More likely is an NIT watch party.

Not sure if it was posted here but it looks like the SHU Baseball team went 2-1 in the opening weekend of the season. Fell to #20 Iowa (5-2) before beating Michigan State and Merrimack. Would be nice if Baseball could consistently be in contention in the Big East.

Sounds about right to me after the tough week we had compared to others, and the weak metrics.

At the halfway point of the BE season it’s all in front of us to earn a bid and make Selection Sunday an event!

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Good crowd it seems

Was there a reason for this. Or just false advertisement on the tip time so Fox could sell more ads?

As close to a must win as any game played this season short of DePaul and Georgetown.

Home court should make the difference

Seton Hall 75
Butler 68

As they fall to Wake.

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff Writer

We've had a conversation about the value of handshake lines for years. Every time there is a problem after a game, we begin to question their purpose.

As we should.

On Wednesday, the Southland Conference announced the suspensions of eight players from Incarnate Word and Texas A&M-Commerce after their postgame melee that began -- obviously -- in the handshake line.

The line itself isn't necessarily the problem, but collegiate sports could learn from the pros by not forcing athletes to shake hands after an emotional matchup. It should always be optional. That's one way to help avoid some of the postgame drama we've witnessed in recent years.

For 40 minutes, players battle in contentious games. Compelling them to shake hands has always been a risky move. It's time to make these handshake lines optional.

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Tonight according to sportsline. 4.5 according to vegas insider.