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Men's Golf Announces Spring Slate


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The Hall will compete in eight events this spring.


SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – The 2024 Seton Hall men's golf fall schedule was announced on Wednesday. The Pirates will participate in eight events this spring.

The Hall will open the spring season with the BIG EAST Match Play event, hosted by the University of Connecticut, February 5-6. The Pirates will likely play three matches against BIG EAST competition over the two days at Bear Lakes Country Club in West Palm Beach, Fla.

Seton Hall will open tournament play this spring with the Hal Williams Collegiate, Feb. 12-13. The field will play three rounds over two days at Magnolia Grove Golf Club in Mobile, Ala. The Pirates opened the spring season there last year, finishing 15th overall. Wenliang Xie (Zhaoqing, China) tied for 22nd overall at 1-under-par.

At the end of the month, The Hall will head to a spring favorite, the Loyola Intercollegiate, February 25-27, at Palm Valley Golf Course in Goodyear, Ariz. This will be the third straight year and the eight time in nine years that The Hall has played the event. Last year, the Pirates played 16th as a team. George Fricker (Woodbridge, England) tied for 45th place at 2-over-par.

The Hall will head to The Big Texan for the third time in the last four years, March 25-26. Hosted by the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley, the three-round event will take place at River Hill Country Club in Kerrville, Texas. In 2022, The Pirates won the team event at 12-over-par. Angus O'Brien (Barwon Heads, Australia) tied for second place among all individuals at 2-under-par.

Seton Hall will make the trip to the west coast for the RedHawk Invitational, March 31-April 2. Hosted by Seattle University, the three-day event will take place at beautiful Chambers Bay Golf Course in University Place, Wash. This will be the Pirates' sixth trip to Chambers Bay. In 2022, the event was shortened due to poor weather, but Seton Hall tied for second place.

For the 10th time, The Hall will participate in in the Princeton Invitational, April 6-7 at Springdale Golf Club in Princeton, N.J. Last spring, the Pirates placed fifth at even-par. Fricker tied for 10th among all individuals at 3-under-par. Seton Hall won this event in 2017.

The Pirates will take on a new event, the Shark Invitational, hosted by LIU, April 15-16. The three-round event will take place at Brookville Country Club in Old Brookville, N.Y.

The BIG EAST Championship is back at Riverton Pointe Country Club in Hardeeville, S.C., April 27-29. In its first year at this location, The Hall placed third in the 10-team league at 21-over-par. Fricker tied for ninth overall at 3-over-par. The Hall last won the BIG EAST title in 2022.

Women's Golf Releases Spring Schedule

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The Hall will play five tournaments this spring.


SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Seton Hall Head Coach Natalie Desjardins announced the 2024 Seton Hall women's golf spring schedule on Wednesday. The Pirates will participate in five tournaments this fall.

Seton Hall will open the spring season with the Columbia Classic for a second straight year. The three-day, three-round event will be held at Duran Golf Club in Melbourne, Fla, February 10-12. Last season, the Pirates placed eighth. Returning Pirates Ginevra Zavagli (Rome, Italy) and Ana Sarrias Pro (Cadiz, Spain) tied as the top Seton Hall performer at 11-over-par.

Two weeks later, The Hall will participate in a new tournament, the Grand Canyon Invitational, hosted by Grand Canyon University. The three-round event will take place, Feb. 27-28, at GCU's Golf Course in Phoenix, Ariz.

The Pirates will return to the Georgia State Invitational, March 25-26, at Rivermont Golf Course in Johns Creek, Ga. It will be the fourth year in a row competing at Rivermont with the Pirates placing eighth among 16 teams last spring. The Hall's best finish with a fifth place showing in 2022.

Seton Hall will return to the Rutgers Invitational for the first time since 2016. The Pirates will play three rounds at Rutgers University's course, April 6-7, in Piscataway, N.J. The Hall tied for sixth in 2016, played during the fall season.

Finally, The Hall will face its five fellow conference members at the BIG EAST Championship, April 19-21. The tournament returns to Callawassie Island Golf Club in Okatie, S.C. for the first time since 2019. The Pirates won the title the first time Callawassie hosted, in 2016. Last spring, Seton Hall placed fifth at Riverton Pointe Country Club.

Regroup Real Fast

That was one frustrating night at Prudential Center. This loss bothered me way more than the Creighton loss. The atmosphere was luke warm, the students were not at their best and the team absolutely screwed up. Wusu had an abortion of a game on the offensive side. Whatever the opposite of Max focus is, we watched that. He's a better player than that. He is in an awful slump scoring 6 points in two important games. Hopefully, he gets it corrected.

Obviously, missing Richmond cast a mini dark cloud over the operation. His physical presence was missed in a big way. I thought Coleman stepped up and played his best BigEast game to date. That bodes well. I thought Brown played a respectable few minutes and did not hurt the team. So that's good too. I'm not sure why Sha did not play EHE in either game late with Bediako logging so many minutes. It looked like he had a breakout game vs SJU. He may add an extra or different component. If he's out there he may have drawn Oduro out of the paint and allowed Dawes and Davis more room going to the basket. Sha needs to coach every possession down the stretch. On this night Coleman and EHE may have been better alternatives to Wusu and a tired Bediako?? Anyway, we could go on and on. The bottom line is you would expect a loss at Marquette with or probably without Richmond. So, Sha has to zero in on the DePaul game next week. The team needs 7 more wins I believe by Selection Sunday. They better beat "" "" DePaul!!!
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Pirates Open Midwest Road Swing At No. 14 Marquette


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Game 21: No. 14 Marquette Golden Eagles (14-5, 5-3 BIG EAST) vs. Seton Hall Pirates (13-7, 6-3 BIG EAST)
Saturday, Jan. 27 • Milwaukee, Wis. • Fiserv Forum (17,341) • 1 p.m.
TV: FS1 • Matt Schumacker & Kim Adams
Web: FOXSports.com/Live
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App / Pirate Sports Network / SiriusXM 389 / SXM app 979 / Dave Popkin
Game Notes: Seton Hall | Marquette
Follow Along: Instagram | X | Live Stats


NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
  • Winners of eight of its last 11 games going back to Dec. 12, the Seton Hall men's basketball team will look to bounce back following back-to-back losses on Saturday when they face No. 14 Marquette at Fiserv Forum.
  • Picked to finish ninth out of 11 teams in the BIG EAST preseason poll, the Pirates are tied for second in the BIG EAST standings with Creighton at 6-3.
  • After dropping its league road opener at Xavier on Dec. 23, the Pirates have won their last three BIG EAST games as the road team including Quad 1 wins at then-No. 23 Providence and Butler.
  • The Hall had a tough end to its homestand as it dropped consecutive games to No. 18 Creighton and Providence by a combined seven points.
  • The Pirates will look to take the season series from Marquette for the first time since winning both regular season meetings in 2019-20.
  • The Pirates are 14-23 all-time against Marquette and they're 12-12 against the Golden Eagles since the BIG EAST's reconfiguration in 2013-14.
  • The Pirates have won seven of the last 11 meetings dating back to the final regular season meeting of the 2018-19 season.
  • Shaheen Holloway and Marquette head coach Shaka Smart both took double-digit seeded teams to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament with Holloway guiding 15th seeded Saint Peter's to the Elite Eight in 2021-22 and Smart leading 11th seeded VCU to the Final Four in 2011.
  • Seton Hall is one of 11 teams in Division I with at least four Quad 1 wins (Purdue, Boise State, Arizona, Houston, Kansas, UConn, Villanova, North Carolina, Wisconsin, Texas A&M.)
  • The Pirates' 4-3 record against Q1 opponents ranks 19th in the country.
  • Seton Hall received votes this week in the AP Top 25 for the third consecutive week, checking in at the 26th slot in the poll with 84 votes.
  • Seton Hall is one of seven teams in the country with multiple wins over top 10 teams along with Purdue (4), Kansas (2), UConn (2), Kentucky (2), TCU (2) and North Carolina (2).
  • Of the Pirates' six wins in BIG EAST play, three have come against ranked opponents (No. 5 UConn, No. 23 Providence, No. 7 Marquette).
  • This season marks the 12th time in program history that the Pirates have beaten at least three ranked opponents; nine of those squads reached the NCAA Tournament.
  • Kadary Richmond has paced Seton Hall early on in BIG EAST play as he ranks in the top 10 in scoring (4th, 18.8 ppg), rebounding (6th, 8.1 rpg), assists (t-2nd, 5.8 apg), free throw pct (6th, .854) and steals (2nd, 2.5 spg) against league opponents.
  • Richmond earned his league-best fifth BIG EAST weekly honor of the season on Monday after averaging 16.5 points, 10.0 rebounds, 7.5 assists and. 2.5 steals per game in a 1-1 week.
  • Five of Richmond's eight career 20-point games have come in BIG EAST play this season.
  • Seton Hall ranks 10th in KenPom's DI experience metric (3.05 years) and that experience has been proven to be valuable in tight games.
  • The Pirates are 4-2 this season in games decided by five points or less and 6-4 in games decided by 10 or less.
  • The Hall is 12-1 this season when leading at halftime.
  • The Pirates are shooting 78 percent as a team from the free throw line, a clip that ranks third in the BIG EAST and 12th in the country.
  • The Pirates are 12-3 this season when Al-Amir Dawes scores in double figures and 6-1 when he's the team's leading scorer.
  • Jaden Bediako ranks leads the BIG EAST and ranks sixth in Division I averaging 4.2 offensive rebounds per game.
  • Dre Davis has scored in double-figures in each of the last 10 games and he's averaging 15.2 ppg in that span.

Seton Hall at Marquette

#4 MARQUETTE

LOCATION Milwaukee, WI

CONFERENCE Big East

LAST SEASON 29-7 (.806)

CONFERENCE RECORD 17-3 (1st)

STARTERS RETURNING/LOST 4/1

NICKNAME Golden Eagles

COLORS Blue & Gold

HOMECOURT Fiserv Forum (17,500)

OFFICIAL WEBSITE GoMarquette.com

COACH Shaka Smart (Kenyon ’99)

RECORD AT SCHOOL 48-20 (2 years)

CAREER RECORD 320-162 (14 years)

ASSISTANTS Neill Berry (SE Louisiana ’03)

Cody Hatt (VCU ’15)

DeAndre Haynes (Kent State ’06)

WINS (LAST 5 YRS.) 24-18-13-19-29

KENPOM RATING (LAST 5 YRS.) 33-31-83-56-10

2022-23 FINISH Lost in NCAA second round.

Punches thrown during Maryland-Michigan women’s basketball game


The Michigan-Maryland women’s basketball game was paused when a fight over a loose ball turned into an on-court brawl Wednesday night.

Michigan’s Lauren Hansen and Maryland’s Bri McDaniel got tangled up while battling for a loose ball with less than four minutes left in the third quarter — when the Terrapins led the Wolverines, 52-44, at the Crisler Center in Ann Arbor.

Things turned physical and it appeared punches were thrown, as shown in a video of the scuffle, which was posted by Women Hooping on YouTube.

The referee blew the whistle, but Hansen and McDaniel continued going at it.

Players from both teams attempted to separate the two, and a referee was seen escorting McDaniel to the sideline.

“Some hands were kind of thrown,” one of the broadcasters said when a replay video showed a different angle of the scuffle.

Both McDaniel and Hansen were given technical fouls and ejected after a review.

Hansen, who had played for most of the game up to that point, had 10 points on 4-of-5 shooting when she was ejected.

Michigan went on to beat Maryland, 79-77, in overtime.

Michigan rallied and came back to force overtime after Maryland went cold offensively — attempting only nine shots in the fourth quarter.

A failed inbounds play that led to a turnover ruined Maryland’s chances of winning the game in extra minutes.

Maryland coach Brenda Frese was surprised the skirmish didn’t inspire her squad.

“I thought [the ejection] was going to motivate us,” Frese said. “But it didn’t really rally us in any way. I thought Michigan was just a lot more inspired [after the ejections].”

Chyra Evans led the Wolverines with 17 points, eight rebounds and five assists, while Jakia Brown-Turner recorded 12 points, six and seven for the Terrapins.

Maryland (12-7) will travel to State College to face Penn State (14-5) on Sunday at 1 p.m. ET.

The Wolverines (14-6) visit Michigan State (14-5) on Saturday at 12 p.m. ET.

Godswill Injury Update

So, WPIX News did a feature on the Long Island Lutheran Basketball Team. They interviewed the coach, VJ Edgecombe and Seton Hall recruit Godswill Erheriene. Edgecome is a Top 5 recruit who committed to Baylor earlier in the month. Godswill has a broken foot and is in a walking boot. He would like to return to play for his team's post season run. That may or may not be realistic. They mentioned that he is a Seton Hall recruit and showed a photo of him wearing a Seton Hall uniform. Not sure if that is old news, but that is the latest update.

I see 6 more wins for Regular season…..

I see maybe 6 more conference wins tops:

Gtown @ home
2 Ws against DePaul
Hopefully Ws at home against both Butler and Xavier (although no guarantees)
Split against Villanova

Have to assume we lose road games against UConn, Marquette, St. John’s

This all assumes we can keep our starters healthy.

I think that would get us to 19 regular season wins going into BET, 12 Conference wins.

That should be good enough for at worst a play in game into NCAAs, although at least a win or 2 in BET would likely position us as no worse then a 11 seed.

Who wants to sign up for this now?

Seton Hall Basketball Predictions Update Jan 25, 2024

After losing to Providence 67-63 yesterday, Seton Hall is now projected to finish the regular season 18-13 (11-9 Big East).
The odds that the Pirates make the NCAA tournament are down to 29%, a decrease of 12% since yesterday.
We currently rank Seton Hall as the #62 team in the country, and the #8 team in the Big East.
Next game: Sat, Jan 27 at #16 Marquette. Our power ratings give the Pirates a 18% chance to win.
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