Dan Murphy
ESPN Staff Writer

A pair of veteran college basketball players plan to use Wednesday night's game between Pittsburgh and No. 20 Michigan to start publicly campaigning for the NCAA and its schools to share revenue with athletes.

Michigan's Hunter Dickinson and Pitt's Jamarius Burton are among a group of athletes who will be writing the letter S on their hands during games this season to draw attention to their attempt to advocate for a new business model in college sports. The S, according to the players, stands for share.

They are hoping to amplify calls for the NCAA to change its rules in a way that allows the association and its school to distribute more of its resources to athletes.

Their efforts are the latest addition to widespread efforts among athletes, advocates and politicians to expand the benefits college athletes receive -- a list that includes expanded education-related benefits and the relatively new ability to make money by selling the rights to their name, image or likeness.

"NIL opened the floodgates for stuff like this," Dickinson said. "It's easier to see now how the idea of amateurism in sports is misleading. ... Seeing the money athletes are getting goes to show how much is in college sports and how much some are hoarding it."

Dickinson said he and Burton are part of a group of players who connected via conference calls in the past several weeks to discuss the campaign. He said he plans to draw an S on his hand for Wednesday night's game and then determine other steps that he and others might take during what might be his final season in the NCAA.

Their campaign is being organized in part by the National College Players Association, an advocacy group that has tried to change college sports through legislation, legal action and public pressure during the past several tumultuous years for the NCAA.

Along with asking for a share of profits, the players said in a news release they want to find ways to protect the existence of non-revenue sports, enforce Title IX rules, improve safety and medical care, ensure that Congress does not create any federal laws that would walk back the newly established NIL rules, and open the door for scholarship money in the Ivy League.

The Ivy League does not offer athletic scholarships. The group of prestigious universities previously had a Congressional antitrust exemption to allow that to happen, but that expired earlier this year. Now, some players say the policy is violating the law and limiting their options. Dickinson said that issue is important to him because of friends he has playing in the Ivy League.

Brown basketball player Grace Kirk said in a news release that limiting the ways in which athletes can receive financial aid prevents some high-level athletes from exploring the possibility of getting an Ivy League education.

"We work just as hard as any other D-I team," Kirk said. "Doing it without scholarship opportunities adds another element of difficulty to our intense combination of training and studying. Unfortunately, some high-level athletes cannot make the financial sacrifice to play for Ivy League schools without scholarship money."


NCPA leader Ramogi Huma, a former UCLA football player, said that the group plans to engage lawmakers and other enforcement agencies to try to reach these goals. Huma filed a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board last year in an effort to give college athletes the ability to unionize. That case is pending. He and the NCPA also recently filed a complaint asking the Department of Justice.

Huma said they are proposing that a portion of the revenue from football and basketball programs should be split equally among all players on the team. The NCPA previously helped college basketball players organize a social media protest during the 2021 March Madness tournament among other efforts. Some of Dickinson's former teammates were leaders in that push.

"It was kind of my duty to agree this time because of the guys who stepped up earlier," he said.

Dickinson said he does not expect the changes for which he's advocating to be put in place during his time as a college athlete, but he said he wants future athletes to get a fair share of the value they help create. He said he has no plans to protest in ways other than showing public support for the campaign.

Interesting

Durham, N.H. – The Pirates had their season come to an end in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday night, falling to New Hampshire by a score of 2-1.

How it Happened
There was no shortage of offense out of the gates of this one. UNH put up the first two goals of the match, as Eli Goldman scored in the fourth minute and Bilal Kamal added another in the ninth minute.

Finding themselves down two goals early, the Pirates would counter quickly. Off a corner swung in by Johannes Pex (Stephansposching, Germany), freshman Konstantin Donalies (Bremen, Germany) headed one home for his first career goal. The 12th minute tally cut the Pirate deficit to 2-1.

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Goldman nearly added another goal to his line in the 15th minute, as the ball fell to his foot inside the penalty area. His shot was turned away on a diving stop by Hannes Ronnholmen (Stockholm, Sweden).

UNH controlled possession for much of the second half, however the Pirates were able to put multiple looks together late as they looked for an equalizer. In the 86th minute, as the Pirates were sending more numbers forward, James Boote (Southampton, England) sent in a shot from about 30 yards out that was stopped by Wildcat keeper Jassem Koleilat. Seton Hall was awarded a corner, which ended up with another look from Luca Dahn (Kahl, Germany) whose shot went high.

News & Notes

• Seton Hall closes the 2022 season with a record of 7-4-7.
• Donalies' goal was the first of his career, and he finishes his freshman season by starting all 17 of the matches he appeared in. Fellow freshman Liam Guske (St. John's, Fla.) also started all 17 of his matches.
• Pex's assist was his fourth of the season, tying him with Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France) for the team lead.
• Dahn played all 90 minutes on the back line for the 47th time out of his 50 career matches.
• The two NCAA Tournament trips in three seasons is a first for the program since making five straight trips from 2001-2005

As much as we want to complain about the lopsided foul calls in Iowa’s favor, Iowa looked like a team with a lot of balance and another potential superstar in the younger Murray brother (who looks almost identical to the older brother). They took it to the basket at will, knocked down both mid range and behind the arc shots when they needed, and took advantage of the imbalance in FTs. Pretty solid team. I’d be surprised if they are not back in the Top 25 soon and in that top third of the B1G.

They were clearly the better team; both from a talent and coaching perspective as tough as it is to admit.

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Sucks to lose but saw some things for us to build on:

1. We actually fed the post. It has been 10+ years since we did this. It actually worked a few times where the post player didn't score but made the right pass and we either got a layup or hit the open shot. Our post players except for Tyrese looked overmatched against the Iowa frontline but it gives me hope. We saw this in the first two games and we overwhelmed those teams which was something Willard never did. During the Big East schedule this will work better along with the players getting comfortable with spacing and movement.
2. Sha will get better with rotations and which combinations of players work well together. It is obvious the team is still figuring this out
3. As roles get sorted my hope is that some players (e.g., Ndefo) start realizing they don't have to do so much. He is playing like he is still on St. Peters and has to be the leader which so far has resulted in far too many turnovers. Once the players start settling into roles I think some of these unnecessary TOs will go away
4. We didn't quit and the team fought hard for most of the game
5. I strongly suspect our defensive foul situation will work itself out during the course of the season. It seems like every year the first few games we get the heavy points of emphasis which once again are hands on a player and off the ball. By the middle of the BE season our aggressive style won't be whistled for so many fouls.
6. Yetna might return - we miss him

Things will not only get better from here I think our curve for improvement is much higher than some others. There are a lot of puzzle pieces here and I'm hopeful they will figure it out. Onwards we go.

I past seasons when we made the NCAA, we had a go to player like Whitehead, Powell, MAMu or Rhoden. I don't see one on this team. We also had a defensive stopper like Cale who we put on the other tams beat player. I do not see that eieter. We will go no where unless we have both. Holloway has to learn this.

From poster metalpirate07

Good first effort

Maybe we should make this a running thread for...

Seton Hall Falls To Iowa At Prudential Center, 83-67​

Newark, N.J. — Early foul trouble plagued the Seton Hall men's basketball team in an 83-67 loss to Iowa in a Gavitt Tipoff Games contest at Prudential Center on Wednesday evening.

Junior Dre Davis (Indianapolis, Ind.) led the Pirates (2-1) in scoring with 13 points on 5-of-10 shooting from the floor. Senior Tyrese Samuel (Montreal, Quebec) nearly registered a double-double with nine points and eight rebounds in 13 minutes of action.

Iowa's Kris Murray finished with a game-high 29 points on 10-of-20 shooting from the field and seemed to respond every time the Pirates made a run. Both teams shot 85 percent from the free throw line and Iowa tallied 33 attempts at the charity stripe to Seton Hall's 13.

How It Happened

Seton Hall started the game hot as Samuel started off with four quick points and junior Kadary Richmond (Brooklyn, N.Y.) nailed three-point basket that gave the Pirates a 10-2 lead. A layup by Murray with 12:26 to play in the first half tied up the score at 13-13 and, following a defensive stop hit a three-pointer, that gave the Hawkeyes their first lead of the game, 16-13.

Trailing by 12 at halftime, 34-22, the Pirates used a 6-0 run at the start of the second half, capped off by a fast break layup by junior Femi Odukale (Brooklyn, N.Y.), that made it 34-28, forcing Iowa to call a timeout. With The Hall trailing by 11 with 15:22 to go, back-to-back treys by Davis and Harris cut the deficit to five, 46-41, with 13:41 to play before a layup by Murray pushed the Iowa lead back to seven.

The Pirates were down 10 at the 10:35 mark but refused to go away as a three by senior Al-Amir Dawes (Newark, N.J.) and a layup by Davis once against trimmed Iowa's lead to five, 55-50, with 9:36 to play. However, trading baskets with Iowa proved to be dangerous as the Hawkeyes eventually pulled away with the 83-67 victory.

Inside The Numbers

• Seton Hall attempted 13 free throws to Iowa's 33.
• Both teams shot 85 percent from the free throw line.
• Iowa won the turnover battle, forcing 16 Pirates miscues to their eight.
• The Hawkeyes shot 31 percent from three-point range (5-of-16) and Seton Hall shot 36 percent from distance (8-of-22).
• Pirates finished plus-two on the boards and had the upperhand on the offensive glass, 18-13.

News & Notes

• The loss snaps Seton Hall's 13-game non-conference winning streak at Prudential Center dating back to Nov. 14, 2019.
• The Pirates are now 82-12 all-time at Prudential Center.
• Seton Hall falls to 1-2 all-time against Iowa and 3-3 all-time against teams in the Gavitt Games.
• Dawes is now four points shy of 900 for his career.

Up Next

The Pirates will welcome Wagner to Prudential Center on Sunday, Nov. 20, for a 3 p.m. contest. The game will air on FS1 and Gary Cohen and Dave Popkin will have the call on the SHU Pirates mobile app, SHUPirates.com, Varsity mobile app and SiriusXM 989 on the app.

That was rough, iowa had keegan's bro getting anything he wanted...offense is anemic here, rotation patterns bizarre

To date the competition has offered no challenge and thus no definitive projection of the quality of this Pirate team. That will now change.

Iowa is in the same boat with two blowouts over outmatched opponents. This will be a challenge for both teams.

The difference will be the location.

Seton Hall 72
Iowa 71

Random question after watching Opening Nights around the country: Is Seton Hall planning to put up a banner for the 2020 BE RS title at The Rock?

I know they did for the 2016 BET title, but maybe I missed this somewhere during the insanity of the pandemic.

Checked in all the kids that transferred out, and it’s early but the only two getting any kind of minutes and contributing are Jo Smith and Jahari Long. Powell, Conway, Weston barely getting any time.

Would we be better off taking fund raising...

Their soccer program will play in the BE. Guess they are a good soccer program?

Long playing extended mins up 25. He’s faster than ever at Seton Hall, playing very good D and making nice passes.

Any NIL money to keep them going??

My friends who were going to use my tickets got called into work tonight and I’m working too late to make the long drive so I have 2 tickets available in Section 14. Offering them up here for Hall fans to get first crack.