The Seton Hall Classic will feature two matches each day, Friday through Sunday at Walsh Gym.

SEPTEMBER 6-8, 2024
SETON HALL CLASSIC
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – WALSH GYMNASIUM

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 2024 at 3:00 PM
SETON HALL (0-3) vs. SACRED HEART (2-1)
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 7, 2024 at 3:00 PM
SETON HALL (0-3) vs. NJIT (1-4)
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SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 8, 2024 at 11:00 AM
SETON HALL (0-3) vs. KENT STATE (0-3)
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WEEKLY STATS REPORT: SETON HALL
2024 BIG EAST STANDINGS
2024 BIG EAST STATISTICAL LEADERS

PREVIEW
The Pirates return to action this weekend and will make their 2024 Walsh Gymnasium debut when they host the Seton Hall Classic. The Pirates will face Sacred Heart on Friday at 3:00 p.m. On Saturday, The Hall will take on local rival NJIT at 3:00 p.m. Seton Hall will conclude the event with a match against Kent State on Sunday at 11:00 a.m.

MEDIA
All three contests will be broadcast by the Pirate Sports Network and will be available for FloSports subscribers. All three matches will also have Live Stats available.

TOURNAMENT SCHEDULE
Friday, Sept. 6
NJIT vs. Kent State at Noon
Sacred Heart at SETON HALL at 3:00 p.m.

Saturday, Sept. 7
Kent State vs. Sacred Heart at Noon
NJIT at SETON HALL at 3:00 p.m.

Sunday, Sept. 8
Kent State at SETON HALL at 11:00 a.m.
Sacred Heart at NJIT at 1:00 p.m.

PROMOTION
For Saturday's contest against NJIT, we will be giving away free schedule posters!! There will also be autograph opportunities postgame!!

SCOUTING SACRED HEART
Seton Hall and Sacred Heart will meet for the seventh time in history on Friday. The Pirates have never lost to the Pioneers, and in fact, have lost only two sets in six prior meetings. Most recently, the teams met at the Sacred Heart Invitational in 2022, a Seton Hall sweep.

The Pioneers are coming off a 12-15 record in 2023, but finished with an impressive 11-3 mark in Northeast Conference play. The top-seeded Pioneers, however, were upset by LIU in the NEC Tournament semifinals, which ended their season. Gaby Zovko was named NEC Setter and Rookie of the Year. Dominique Felix earned NEC First Team honors.

This season, Sacred Heart was picked to finish third in the 12-team NEC according to the 2024 Preseason Coaches Poll. Zovko comes back as a sophomore, while All-NEC Second Teamer Camryn Luginbuhl will be back as a senior captain. The incoming class features 11 newcomers, which includes three transfers.

Sacred Heart had a strong opening weekend, winning two of three matches at the UConn Invitational. The Pioneers swept Youngstown State in the season opener before outlasting LIU in five sets. They're coming off a three-set loss to host UConn on Sunday. Luginbuhl leads the team with 3.82 kills per set.

SCOUTING NJIT
Seton Hall will face local rival NJIT for a fourth consecutive season. The Pirates are 8-1 all-time against the Highlanders and have won seven straight in the series. Last season, The Hall swept NJIT in Walsh Gym. The Pirates' only loss in the series came in 2008.

The Highlanders are coming off a 9-17 record in 2023 which included a 1-9 mark in the America East Conference. NJIT closed the regular season with four straight losses.

NJIT is picked to finish last in the six-team America East in 2024, according to its preseason coaches' poll. Eleven student-athletes return from last year's team which picked up nine wins on the season. The seniors feature team captains Ines Varela and Campbell Walker, as well as Cami Augustine.

NJIT went 1-3 at the Salt City Classic in Syracuse, N.Y. in its opening weekend. The Highlanders lost the season-opener to host Syracuse in straight sets before falling to Cansius in four sets on Friday. On Saturday, NJIT fell in five sets to Lafayette before sweeping Le Moyne for its first win of the season.

SCOUTING KENT STATE
Seton Hall will face Kent State for only the third time ever on Sunday. The teams split the prior to meetings with the Golden Flashes sweeping the Pirates in 1997, and The Hall sweeping Kent State in 2021.

Kent State is coming off a rough 2023 season with a final record of 6-23, which included a 2-16 mark in Mid-American Conference play. Their season came to an end with five straight losses. Logan Henderson was named to the MAC All-Freshman Team.

Kent State was picked to finish last this season, according to the 12-team MAC preseason coaches' poll. Only five student-athletes on this season's 17-member roster were part of the program last season. The Golden Flashes return the top four pin hitters, led by outside hitter Mackenzie McGuire.

Kent State dropped all three of its matches last weekend at the Michigan Nike Classic to open the season. The Golden Flashes were swept by Delaware in the season-opener on Saturday, and then lost in four sets and three sets respectively in a pair of contests against Michigan. McGuire currently leads the team with 1.89 kills per set.

UP NEXT
After the Seton Hall Classic, the Pirates head to Towson, Md. For three matches at the Towson Invitational, Sept. 13-14. The Hall will face Coppin State on Friday, Sept. 13 at 1:00 p.m. The Pirates will then take on Loyola (Md.) on Saturday, Sept. 14 at 11:00 a.m. before playing host Towson at 4:00 p.m.

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Getting pumped for the release of the schedule. Being in CT.. I'm hoping for a lot of Saturday day games and also favorable dates for Providence and St. John's games. I start planning away trips the day the schedule drops. Any news or insights on when we might expect to see the announcement? None of the OOC games seems to work from a timing or interest perspective. Might go to the Island to see the Hofstra game.

Looks pretty athletic, good handle for his size as I draw conclusions from an 18-second video.

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Personally I think it’s possible there is more to this story but I don’t really want to air out Pat on free board. I’ll share what Trilly Donovan posted on his discord today:

“So after digging today I have multiple sources saying Rutgers’ AD resignation is allegedly to get ahead of an upcoming report about the gymnastics team.”

Per wagner ooc

Knew this was coming eventually. Personally, I thought it would be to the ACC as a replacement for Clemson, Florida State, etc. They were never committed to this conference.

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Jerry celebrated his 30th anniversary recently.

He posted this on Facebook.


To celebrate 30 years as a couple, Diana and I took the kids to Ocean City. During our first summer together, Di wanted to ride the giant Ferris wheel at Gillian's Wonderland, and I did it without telling her that I was terrified of heights. (I guess love conquers all?)

Sufficiently traumatized, and having successfully wooed the girl, I refused to ride it every subsequent summer -- until this weekend.

With Gillian's closing for good this fall, I decided it was time to close the loop. It was not easy, but to quote Ferris Bueller, “Life moves pretty fast. If you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.”

There was one more shot at this, kids included this time, and I did not want to miss it.

Actually, I suspect there may have been other games that might make this list since it seems like January 15 is the last game.

In any event, I thought this was interesting information because it shows how Big East teams can draw if you put them on a major linear network. When they do comparisons of ratings between conferences, the Big East numbers are suppressed by the fact that we have so many games on FS1 and FS2.

Also, it reminded me of what a great game the Marquette Purdue game was last year. Marquette came with a bucket of knocking off the number two team in the nation in an early season game.

(For what it's worth the Big East Tournament championship game had 1.68 million viewers.)

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At least he sampled the pork chops

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NEW YORK - After scoring the lone goal to help the Seton Hall men's soccer team defeat Manhattan, 1-0, freshman Til Kauschke (Hamburg, Germany) has been named the BIG EAST Freshman of the Week, the league office announced Tuesday. This is the second straight week that the Pirates have earned one of the conference's top weekly honors.

In addition, sophomore Jon Vigunr Pétursson (Selfoss, Iceland) was recognized on the BIG EAST's weekly honor roll for his part in helping the Pirates beat UAlbany and complete a shutout against Manhattan.

Kauschke has been aggressive in his shot taking so far this season, and it paid dividends this past Sunday when he one-timed a pass from Jared Smith (Longfellow, Mass.) in the box, blasting it past the Jaspers goalkeeper in the 68th minute. It was his first career goal.

Pétursson was solid as a defensive midfielder centerback in both the Manhattan game and the 2-1 win over UAlbany. After Sam Bjork was tripped in the box with 48 seconds remaining in the second half of a 1-1 match with the Great Danes, it was Pétursson's name that was called to take the penalty kick, and he converted to give the Pirates the 2-1 win.

Kauschke, Pétursson and the Pirates have started 3-0-0 for the second straight season and look to start 4-0-0 for the first time since 2008 when they host Columbia Friday at Owen T. Carroll Field at 6:56 p.m. The game is free for all to attend.

Major changes to longstanding NCAA protocols surrounding eligibility and amateurism are proposed​

By David Cobb

A modified version of the NCAA rule allowing football players to compete in up to four regular-season games during their redshirt year could be coming to other sports. The concept is part of several potential changes to NCAA eligibility rules that may be implemented as part of the historic House vs. NCAA settlement, according to documents obtained by Yahoo Sports.

It's become commonplace in college football for players to appear in four games — or 33% of a team's regular-season contests — during their freshman season and then be considered redshirt freshmen the following season. If the 33% mark were applied to basketball, that would allow players to participate in roughly 10 games without losing a season of eligibility.

If the NCAA chooses to adopt the principle for other sports, sport-specific groups would set the exact threshold of game participation, according to Yahoo. In theory, however, it would afford basketball coaches the chance to give freshmen in-game reps during nonconference action in November or in blowouts without blowing an entire season worth of eligibility for the player.

The potential change is among several alterations to eligibility standards that could be coming in the wake of the House settlement. Among the other proposals addressed in the documents would be a measure allowing athletes to retain their eligibility even if they were paid for competing outside of college sports before enrolling.

An elimination of the National Letter of Intent is also being proposed with a new model that brings a player's recruitment to an end, according to multiple reports. Under that new proposed model, the "core benefits" of the NLI will be instead incorporated into financial aid and scholarship agreements.

The NCAA Division I Council is set to review the documents during a call this week.