Never too soon to start thinking about a road trip when you aren't the one playing. After last night's beatdown of St. John's, I've been excited about our return trip to play the Johnnies on their turf. But this year, as we all probably heard, it's not at MSG, it is at UBS Arena out by the Queens/Nassau Co. border on Sunday 2/18 at 5pm. Also, the bigger part, that's Presidents' Day weekend!

Sunday afternoon/evening game a little further out from NJ might have been a question mark for me, given Monday on the horizon, but I think this team has been playing so well and Sha has put together such an incredibly good product as the season has gone along, I want to make the trip out there and hope all who post here make the trip too. Big positive that Monday is a holiday.

If there were ever a time to show up and support the team on the road, this would be it. I hope the university can put together a bunch of student busses out there. Planning to drag along some SHU alum friends of mine who haven't gone to games in a while. Who else is planning to go?

"Auburn basketball a good excuse to miss class" Bruce Pearl

AMEN! A few classes missed won't hurt anyone.

Saw https://verbalcommits.com/players/darien-moore is annoucing today, we are the latest offer and most prominent program.

Any word from anyone?

25 or 6 to 4 live at Tanglewood 1970 Chicago Transit Authority, shortened to Chicago. Enjoy them in their prime in 1970. Full concert on YouTube. You'll witness one of the top guitarists of all time, Terry Kath. For best results, play this loud!!

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Left Wing domestic hate groups are running amok in the city with a huge surge in hate crimes against Jews

Another example

Yeah, those jabs

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It’s alive and well here.

Usually around 35/40% of the population falls victim to it.

On this LOTS board it’s a higher number no doubt.

To the sheeple, and you know who you are, if you’re interested in your condition read up on MFS but obviously don’t read the same govt scrubbed propaganda that programmed you in the first place.

You’re not unique, in Nazi Germany in the 30’s , the percentage that were duped and fell victim to MFS was over 70%. They were completely aligned with their main stream media and regime too Just like you are now.

Swish. Record. Wow!!! Love watching her play. Great passer too.

Any update on how his ankle is doing?

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Philadelphia, Pa. - Al-Amir Dawes (Newark, N.J.) finished with a team-high 14 points with four made three-pointers and Kadary Richmond (Brooklyn, N.Y.) added 12 points, four rebounds and three assists in the Seton Hall men's basketball team's 80-54 loss at Villanova on Sunday afternoon.

Isaiah Coleman (Fredericksburg, Va.) chipped in with eight points off the bench on 3-of-4 shooting from the field. The Pirates move to 15-9 overall and 8-5 in the BIG EAST on the season with the loss.

How It Happened

Villanova jumped out to a 7-0 lead but the Pirates fought back to make it a two-point game after back-to-back buckets by Dre Davis (Indianapolis, Ind.) that made it 11-9 with 13 minutes left in the first half. The Pirates were once again down by seven at 18-11 when five-straight points by Richmond on a jumper and a three-point basket made it a once possession game once again. However, the Wildcats used an 18-5 run over five-plus minutes that helped give them a 15-point cushion, 36-21, late in the first half.

The Hall trailed by 15 at the break but a three from Dawes on the first offensive sequence of the second half drew the Pirates within 12, 39-27. With the Pirates trailing by 11, 45-34, after a three-pointer by Richmond and a layup by Jaden Bediako (Brampton, Ontario) with 13:32 left to play, the Wildcats used an 8-0 run that gave them their largest lead of the game, 54-34, and it forced Seton Hall to call a timeout. The Pirates would get as close as 18 twice after jumpers from Coleman and Sadraque NgaNga (Luanda, Angola) but the Wildcats proved to be too much on both ends of the floor.

Inside The Box Score

• Seton Hall was plagued by 15 turnovers and allowing Villanova to shoot 46 percent from three-point range (14-of-30).
• Villanova's 14 threes made was the most allowed by Seton Hall this season.
• In a game between two of the top free throw shooting teams in the BIG EAST, both teams combined for just 13 free throw attempts in the game and missed only one freebee a piece.
• Villanova scored 19 points off of turnovers and finished with 20 points in the paint compared to Seton Hall's 18.

News & Notes

• Davis' streak of 13 consecutive double-digit scoring performances was snapped with a six-point performance
• The Pirates move to 6-2 on the season when Dawes is their leading scorer.
• Seton Hall is now 2-1 in their gray uniforms this season.
• Sadraque NgaNga (Luanda, Angola) and Arda Ozdogan (Ankara, Turkey) scored field goals coming off the bench.

Up Next

The Pirates will next host Xavier at Prudential Center on Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. in another crucial BIG EAST matchup. Tickets can be purchased at setonhalltix.com.

I never understood why this guy went back to Russia. He had to know he would never make it out alive.

Anyway for those Russian fanboys out there. This is what Putin is. A murderous dictator.

Student season tickets cost $199 for the year. Many schools give away tickets to games. Any reason you can’t give free student tickets to any student who makes a $150 donation to NIL?

If we have those in the law school who can embezzle 7 figures and not see jail time, surely we can find a loophole here.

That’s $150k to NIL on 1K student tickets.

School still takes seat donations for season tickets. Can’t the school offer a seat upgrade for NIL? I know at center court, there is a $800/seat difference for about 9-10 rows near the top. Maybe offer a “free upgrade” to that person with proof of a $500 NIL donation? Do it in-season, not before the season. God knows we have empty seats.

Get creative.

Many years ago upon being made aware of this site by a very good friend I join.

Both Hallrox and I have made bequests when we pass to donate substantial money to the school. We were both going to do this without informing the school. But I was eventually told that the money bequested if known by Seton Hall could be used as collateral for future endeavors.

Help if you can.

Now 113 in NET falling from 98 after losing at home to PSU. Not much fun on the Banks

Desperate and pathetic attempt will fail​

By Emma Thumann

On Feb. 5, former University President Dr. Joseph Nyre filed a lawsuit against Seton Hall alleging multiple violations of New Jersey’s Law Against Discrimination (NJLAD) and Conscientious Employee Protection Act (CEPA). His wife, Kelli, is also a party in the lawsuit, and claims that former Chairman of the Board of Regents, Kevin Marino, sexually harassed her on two occasions.

Although the defendants of the lawsuit include many members of the Board, Marino is not named as a defendant. R. Armen McOmber, a lawyer for the Nyres, said this is because their “issue is with the University and how they acted, not with the core of the problem.”

Read Marino’s full response below:

“Dr. Nyre’s lawsuit, in which I am not a defendant, is rife with false and defamatory statements. I recruited Dr. Nyre to serve as Seton Hall’s President in 2018 and he recruited me to serve as Chairman of the Board of Regents. He and I then worked effectively together for several years before I objected to his gross mishandling of the investigation of an embezzlement scandal at Seton Hall Law School. He hired a friend of his to conduct that investigation—a lawyer fired by the Iona University Board of Trustees—and together they made former Law School Dean Boozang a scapegoat of that scandal although she had nothing whatsoever to do with it. When I lodged my objection, Dr. Nyre vowed to have me removed as Chair and proceeded to make a host of false allegations about me to a group of six Regents, centered around the entirely bogus claim that I had a conflict of interest based on my professional relationship with the Dean. In making that claim, Dr. Nyre concealed from those Regents an opinion letter written by the Connell Foley law firm stating, in no uncertain terms, that I had no such conflict. I completed my term as Chair on June 30, 2023, and resigned from the Board in December.

“Dr. Nyre’s wife’s disgraceful claim that I harassed her on two occasions is false in every respect. That never happened, and she knows it. I have provided ample evidence to the EEO Office refuting her baseless accusations, and expect to be fully exonerated when the pending investigation of that claim is resolved.

“Dr. Nyre’s lawsuit is a direct violation of his separation agreement with the University, to which I was not a party, and flatly undermines the statements he made when he left his position. Stated simply, he is attempting to rehabilitate his tarnished reputation and secure another undeserved payout from the University. I am confident that desperate and pathetic attempt will fail.

“I have loved and served Seton Hall for more than forty years, and will love and serve Seton Hall long after Dr. Nyre’s tenure is just a bad memory.”


Emma Thumann is the Setonian’s editor-in-chief and a writer for its News section. She can be reached at emma.thumann@student.shu.edu.

Really upset that the game is at UBS on Sunday… just makes it much harder for pirate fans to attend. Think it’s BS that they can put it farther away to have the advantage of less Seton Hall fans. What are your guys thoughts? Should be allowed or not allowed? I am Most likely not attending, if it was at garden would 100% go. Ticks me off to no end.

By Zach Braziller

In an alternate universe, Rick Pitino is touting his backcourt as among the country’s best.

St. John’s fans are preparing for a single-digit seed in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since 2015. A bye in the Big East Tournament is all but a guarantee. A Sweet 16 run is considered realistic.

It could’ve all happened had Walter Clayton Jr. followed Pitino from Iona University to St. John’s.

Last season’s MAAC Player of the Year’s decision to spurn the Johnnies for Florida, his hometown school, had ripple effects that are still being felt.

Instead of Clayton, St. John’s landed Penn transfer Jordan Dingle, the second-leading scorer in the country last year who has fallen well short of expectations.

The 6-foot-2 Clayton, meanwhile, is leading Florida to the NCAA Tournament, averaging 16.3 points, 3.6 rebounds, 2.6 assists and shooting 36.3 percent from 3-point range. Tuesday night, while St. John’s was suffering yet another painful loss, their seventh in nine games, Clayton was guiding Florida past LSU. It was the Gators’ sixth win in seven games, which includes résumé-boosting victories over No. 13 Auburn and No. 22 Kentucky. Clayton was brilliant in those two wins, hitting 10 3-pointers and scoring a total of 43 points.

Dingle, meanwhile, has produced career-lows in scoring (10.4), field goal percentage (39.6) and 3-point percentage (30.3). The other main shooting guard, UConn transfer Nahiem Alleyne, has also struggled with consistency, shooting just 33.8 percent from downtown. As a team, St. John’s is 221st in the country in 3-point shooting at 32.9 percent.

This all reinforces how costly that recruiting miss has been. Now, it should be noted that there really wasn’t anything St. John’s could have done differently. Clayton wanted to be close to home — he grew up 145 miles from Gainesville, Fla. — and near his pregnant girlfriend, Tatiyana Burney, who gave birth in December to a baby girl. It nevertheless hurts because of the way this season has played out.

St. John’s is 5-6 in games decided by single figures. In contests in which the margin is six or fewer in the final five minutes, it is 3-8. The team doesn’t have a closer. It has been apparent throughout the season in several disappointing second-half performances. The Johnnies are 2-9 in Quad 1 games and have held halftime leads in six of those setbacks.

So much is being asked of Iona transfer Daniss Jenkins from a leadership, scoring and distributing standpoint. He seems to be wearing down late. It’s hard to fault him. It’s also hard not to imagine how this season would’ve gone had Clayton wound up in Queens like his Iona backcourt-mate.

They were dynamic together, interchangeable guards who led Iona to the NCAA Tournament. Behind the duo, the Gaels were the lone team to hold a halftime lead over eventual national champion Connecticut in the dance. Several times during the season, Pitino raved about them, saying they were as good as backcourt he’s ever coached, and up there among the best in the country.

Jenkins has been by far St. John’s best and most consistent player. Clayton has thrived at Florida, and is only getting better after a somewhat slow start.

There are plenty of what-ifs as this once-promising season seems destined for the NIT. What if AJ Storr, leading 20th-ranked Wisconsin in scoring, stayed? What if the staff was able to keep junior college transfer Yaxel Lendeborg and forward O’Mar Stanley, excelling at UAB and Boise State, respectively? What if St. John’s had found a way to win one of those close losses, particularly the one-point setbacks to No. 4 Marquette and No. 17 Creighton? What if center Joel Soriano continued to play at a high level instead of struggling so mightily over the last nine games?

The biggest what-if, however, the one that has haunted St. John’s, is losing out on Walter Clayton Jr. He is exactly what this team is missing.

Seton Hall Leads Wire To Wire In Rout Of Xavier

By Colin Rajala

Just three days removed from a one-sided road loss at Villanova, Seton Hall adjusted its sights to Xavier and avenging a double figure loss in Cincinnati 53 days ago. The Pirates did just that – rising to the occasion and paying back the Musketeers with a lopsided 88-70 win Wednesday evening at the Prudential Center.

“It’s unacceptable. I took that [loss at Villanova] personally on the chin, not having my team ready to go against a good team. And give these guys credit, for two days, we had two hard days of practice and they came out ready to go,” Head Coach Shaheen Holloway said, after the 18-point rout.

With the victory, Seton Hall (16-9, 9-5) climbed back into a tie for third place in the conference standings with 17th ranked Creighton, while Xavier (13-12, 7-7) fell into a three-way tie for fifth place with Butler
and Providence.

The Hall won in convincing fashion, leading wire-to-wire and assisting on 64% of its field goals with four players in double figures in what turned out to be a Valentine’s Day massacre.

The Pirates jumped out to an early 6-0 lead on back-to-back threes from graduate guard Al-Amir Dawes off assists from senior forwards Dre Davis and Dylan Addae-Wusu before Xavier recorded its first basket more than two minutes into the game.

Seton Hall Hall extended its lead to 10-2 before the first media timeout after senior guard Kadary Richmond connected on floater in the lane and then found graduate center Jaden Bediako down low for
an easy layup.

The Pirates defense forced Xavier into seven turnovers before the visitors scored their second field goal nearly nine minutes into the game, but by that point Seton Hall had already begun to pull away, leading
18-2. A layup from Xavier’s Dayvion McKnight closed the score to 23-11 with less than ten minutes remaining, which would be the closest the Musketeers would get the remainder of the first half.

Seton Hall shared the ball well and assisted on three pointers from freshman guard Isaiah Coleman and Davis along with a layup from Addae-Wusu for an 8-0 run to help balloon their lead to 31-11 with eight
minutes to go.

The Pirates saw all eight players who entered the first half score as they closed the half up 47-25, shooting 17/31 (54.8%) from the field and 5/11 (45.5%) from distance, while assisting on 14 of their 17 made baskets with Richmond accounting for nine dimes. It was just as much the defense excelling as the offense for Seton Hall as they turned Xavier over 10 times, including four steals and three blocks, which
led to 12 points for the home team.

“Just playing hard and playing with energy, we didn’t do that at all [on Sunday]. So, that was something I preached, that’s something my teams always do, and we came out and did it tonight,” Holloway said.

Seton Hall maintained its double-digit lead throughout the second half and when Xavier made its push, drawing the score to 70-56 with just over eight minutes remaining, the Pirates had the answer as Dawes
found Richmond inside the Musketeers’ zone defense for an easy bucket to stymie any notion of a comeback.

Richmond led the Pirates with 20 points and was just two rebounds shy of his second career triple-double, recording a career-high 13 assists and 8 rebounds to go along with two steals.

Dawes scored 18 points, including 4/6 from long range, Bediako tallied 12 points and 9 caroms, while Coleman came off the bench to chip in with 14 points.

“I think all the good teams have a good bench, a guy that comes off the bench and plays well. We’re trying to be one of those teams. We’ve gotta get a couple more guys to play like that, but it’s good to have him [Coleman] coming off and playing. I thought when Kooks was out, (Coleman) starting those games definitely helped his confidence get back up. He played big for us tonight, and we need him to continue that,” Holloway said.

Davis was perfect from the field, recording 9 points in 13 first half minutes before sitting the entire second half with an injury to his right leg, while Addae-Wusu scored 8 points along with 3 rebounds and 3
assists.

“I don’t know too much right now [about Davis’ status]. I know they said his ankle kind of swelled up. He tried to come out in the second half and warm up, and he couldn’t do too much, so Tony [Testa] shut him down,” Holloway said.

Pacing Xavier was Quincy Olivari with 25 points and 6 rebounds, while McKnight was the only other player in double figures for the visiting team with 11 points.

Seton Hall returns to action with a trip to Long Island to face off with St. John’s Sunday at 5 p.m.

Curious is to any current Seton Hall students on this form.

If so, why the lack of interest in the basketball program. The year started out strong with lots of presence but it has completely fallen off.

There appears to be maybe 100 students there tonight.

4 wins and 2 losses is my prediction.

Creighton and Uconn hopefully competitive efforts, got to win the others...they would be a top 5 seed at msg, hope can get to semi friday

The other path to the Dance we dont discuss is the following....

Beat UCONN on the road and DePaul and we are in. We could lose every other game.

The less likely path but a win at UCONN has us in....... and stranger things have happened.