So Timme is making more $$$ in college vs NBA, wonder how many Bunny autograph type sessions that takes

what kind of deals are these guys getting? Do any of our players have individual deals?


Drew Timme told @John_Fanta he will make more money through NIL than he would have in the NBA.

That's big news for college basketball:

NEW YORK – Seton Hall's Andrea Borg (Sliema, Malta) was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll, the conference announced on Monday.

Borg scored the game-winning goal in Saturday night's 2-1 win over St. John's. Borg received a pass from Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France) at the top of the penalty area, found space from his defender, and struck one with his left foot into the back of the net in the 85th minute. The goal was Borg's third of the season, and was his second game-winning goal of the year.

The Pirates remain home on Wednesday as BIG EAST play continues, with DePaul coming to Owen T. Carroll Field for a 6:56 p.m. kickoff.

HAMPDEN, MASS. – Despite high wind conditions, junior Wanxi Sun (Danville, Calif.) shot an even-par, 72, on Sunday and paced the Seton Hall men's golf team to a third-place standing after round one of the UConn Invitational.

The field of 14 teams were dealing with gale-force winds due to the remnants of Hurricane Ian making its way up the east coast. Scores were up across the board as a result.

Sun managed to play well despite the difficult conditions. The junior had four birdies and an eagle on the par-5, No. 8 hole to fuel an even-par, 72. Sun trails Rhode Island's Brandon Gillis and Rider's Rick Van Der Nat by only one stroke for the individual lead with 36 holes remaining.

As a team, the Pirates shot a 17-over-par, 305, on Sunday. Host Connecticut is just one stroke ahead of The Hall at 16-over-par. St. John's currently leads the field after round one at 13-over-par.

One additional BIG EAST team, Xavier, is currently 29-over-par.

Freshman George Fricker (Woodbridge, England) had two birdies and 11 pars in route to a 4-over-par, 76, in round one. He's currently tied for 18th among 78 individual golfers.

Sophomore Angus O'Brien (Barwon Heads, Australia) is currently tied for 30th after a 6-over-par, 78. Meanwhile, only one stroke behind him is teammate Wenliang Xie (Zhaoqing, China). Xie had three birdies in route to a 7-over-par, 79.

Jack Bosworth (Simsbury, Conn.) had a brutal stretch in which he was 9-over-par through holes No. 6-9, but showed maturity beyond that of a freshman and bounced back. He was 3-under-par in holes No. 10-14. For round one, Bosworth shot an 8-over-par, 80.

Tournament Details:
UCONN INVITATIONAL
Host: University of Connecticut
Location: Hampden, Mass.
Course: The GreatHorse
Course Vitals: Par-72, 7,093 yards
Dates: October 2-4, 2022


THE COURSE:
From the elevated tee boxes to the lush fairways, our thoroughly re-imagined and redesigned world-class course traverses breathtaking terrain. Brian Silva's par-72 layout incorporates natural wetlands, mountainous views and over 207 bunkers. The real championship tees offer golfers over 7,600 yards of pristine golf action.

THE FIELD:
In addition to Seton Hall and host UConn, the field includes 12 other schools: Bryant, Fairleigh Dickinson, Hartford, Iona, Lafayette, Long Island, Rider, Siena, Saint Joseph's and Rhode Island. St. John's and Xavier are also in the field making the BIG EAST's presence in this tournament four schools.

THE FORMAT:
Teams will play five golfers and count the four lowest scores per round.

THE SCHEDULE:
The teams will play 18 holes over three days, Sunday through Tuesday.

THE RESULTS:
Live scoring will be available throughout the tournament via Golfstat.com. Complete results of each day's events will also be available following competition at SHUpirates.com.

Having a fencing team? Was cleaning the garage and found my long lost Sr yr SH yearbook. Bousikaris still had if going in 75. Dont remember when we stopped fielding a team.

DeSantis and Rubio voted against Sandy relief

During the upcoming weeks I will post a series of pressing questions as pertains to the program.

Today we'll discuss the team's X factor


Simply put the X factor is defined as a circumstance, quality, or person that has a strong but unpredictable influence. It is not the best player. It is not someone whose impact is considered a certainty.

So with that said and knowing that there are many candidates that would fit the above description but only being able to choose one my pick came down to returning 6-10 players Tyrese Samuel or Tray Jackson. With my eventual choice being Jackson.

Why? Simple. Last year's staff as well as this year's staff believe that Jackson is the most physical gifted athlete on the team. And at 6-10 the tallest as well. That combination, especially when you add long range shooting accuracy to the puzzle should be a player vying for All Big East honors and not one fighting for minutes and a starting position. Yet that is where Jackson is at right now.

His impact on the team is a question mark. But a question mark with a ridiculously high ceiling.

When Jackson first transferred to the Hall he initially had to sit out his first year here. But COVID changed that and halfway through the season he was deemed eligible. Yet despite that he barely played with the explanation from his head coach being he lacked confidence in his game and had to find out where he fit in.

Now it's two seasons later. The experience he garnered last year under Willard and now all summer long playing for Holloway should serve him well. But will it?

Word is that Jackson is still an enigma. There are days, as there were last year, when he's the best player in the gym. But those days are often followed by his disappearing on the court mainly due to his proclivity to wandering on the perimeter looking to shoot from distance and not using his size and athletic ability to maximize his impact.

Jackson is my X factor because of his potential. But that potential could result in his positive contributions or it could result in it being unfulfilled.

I have no feel for what lies ahead for Tray Jackson and I hear that the staff feels the same. That to me is the epitome of what an X factor is.

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Last month, the professional organization representing FBS athletic directors issued what amounted to a veiled ultimatum. The "overwhelming majority" of those ADs at a Lead1 Association meeting in Washington D.C. had a "strong preference" the NCAA continue running major-college football if the association "can be more streamlined and less bureaucratic."

Or else … what?

The answer has opened the door to perhaps not a breakaway of major college football and basketball but at least a forming picture of what a new structure would look like. A growing number of those ADs believe they have a unique and powerful hammer as leverage if the NCAA doesn't clean up its act.

"If not," a Lead1 executive said. "We would explore other options."

Among those implied options, CBS Sports has learned, is leveraging schools' participation in the NCAA Tournament. While a separate basketball tournament operated outside of the NCAA isn't likely anytime soon, the ADs' realization they could create such an event provides a picture as to how the NCAA's two biggest sports will be run in the future.

A football breakaway has long been discussed -- it is more likely than one in basketball -- as the NCAA's power diminishes as membership has demanded a reorganization of the 117-year-old organization.

Approximately 80 FBS ADs traveled to Lead1's mid-September meeting in person. Another 20 participated virtually, putting 100 out of 131 total in attendance. They saw two compelling presentations made by former West Virginia AD and NCAA executive Oliver Luck and North Carolina associate professor of sports administration Erianne Weight.

One presentation was a model with college football continuing to operate inside the NCAA. The other showed the FBS going "completely independent" of the NCAA, according to a source.

"It was about as unanimous as it could get," Lead1 CEO Tom McMillen said of his membership's reaction to football governance. "It was, 'Fix it or we will seriously consider move options.'"......................

Cincinnati, Ohio -- Senior goalkeeper Grace Gordon (Chester Springs, Pa.) made multiple acrobatic saves and tallied a career best 14 saves but her efforts wasn't enough as Xavier proved to be too much for the Seton Hall women's soccer team as the Pirates fell to the Musketeers, 2-0, on Sunday afternoon.

How It Happened

Gordon made seven stops in the first half, withstanding significant pressure from the home side through the first 30 minutes of the game. However, the Musketeers broke through in the 31st minute with a goal to take a 1-0 lead.

The Pirates came out more organized after halftime as Caroline Lipton (Alexandria, Va.) put a shot on goal in the 46th minute. In the 51st minute, the Musketeers drew a penalty and converted the penalty kick to take a 2-0 lead. Despite shots on goal by sophomore Rachel Gerrie (Litleton, Colo.) and junior Skyler Matusz (Kearny, N.J.), the Pirates couldn't add a tally of their own as Xaver powered its way to a 2-0 win at home.

News & Notes

• Gerrie, Gordon, sophomore Natalie Tavana (Middletown, Conn.) and sophomore Chiara Pucci (Munich, Germany) played the full 90 minutes.
• The Pirates faced 29 shots and Gordon made 14 saves.
• All four of Seton Hall's shots came in the second half.
• Lipton now has six shots and four shots on goal this season.

Up Next

Seton Hall returns to Owen T. Carroll Field on Thursday when the Pirates welcome Marquette for a 6 p.m. contest.

Princeton, N.J. - Senior Arina Gumerova won four singles matches in three days at the ITA Regional Championship held at Princeton's Lenz Tennis Center, including three wins over seeded opponents, to advance to the ITA Super Regional. Gumerova will move on to compete in the quarterfinals of the tournament Oct. 21-24 at Yale.

Gumerova, one of 95 players competing in singles, toppled a pair of players ranked in the [17-32] range and one player in the [9-16] range to ensure she is one of the final eight women in the tournament. She was one of five Pirates who competed on the weekend. Senior Aina Plana Ventosa and junior Oliwia Kempinski each advanced to the second round of the singles tournament, and Gumerova teamed with sophomore Arabella Moen to advance to the second round of the doubles tournament.

Gumerova, who has been a stalwart at No. 1 singles for the Pirates, competed against Lalita Devarakonda of St. John's in the first round and overcame a first set loss to take set two and the tiebreaker. She moved on to face [17-32] ranked Arina Valitova of Rutgers, who had a first-round bye. Gumerova again lost the first set, 6-2, but then won the second set 6-1 and took the tiebreaker to get into the third round.

Next up was [9-16] ranked Veronika Kulhava from Temple, and Gumerova went up 3-0 before Kulhava had to retire. Then in the fourth round, she went up against Princeton's Grace Joyce, ranked [16-32] and came away with a straight sets, 6-3, 6-1 victory, to clinch her spot in the final eight.

Gumerova is now 9-2 in fall competition, including an A singles championship at Siena.

Seton Hall is next scheduled to head to the Fordham Invitational in the Bronx, Oct. 22-23, and Gumerova will head to New Haven, Conn., Oct. 21-24, where she will compete against Princeton's Zoe Howard in the ITA Super Regional quarterfinals.

RESULTS

Singles First Round
Arina Gumerova (SHU) def. Lalita Devarakonda (STJ), 3-6, 6-2, 1-0(8)
Aina Plana Ventosa (SHU) def. Amelia Haley (SBO), 7-6(3), 4-6, 1-0(6)
Bente Vandeputte (STF) def. Arabella Moen (SHU), 6-1, 6-3
Oliwia Kempinski (SHU) def. Anastasia Gubanova (SBO), 6-2, 6-2

Singles Second Round
Arina Gumerova (SHU) def. [17-32] Arina Valitova (RU), 2-6, 6-1, 1-0(8)
[17-32] Jayden Nielsen (STJ) def. Aina Plana Ventosa (SHU), 6-3, 6-4
[17-32] Shivani Ingle (NJIT) def. Oliwia Kempinski (SHU)

Singles Third Round
Arina Gumerova (SHU) def. [9-16] Veronika Kulhava (TEM), 3-0 ret.

Singles Fourth Round
Arina Gumerova (SHU) def. [17-32] Grace Joyce (PRIN), 6-3, 6-1 (Gumerova advances to ITA Super Regionals)

Doubles First Round
Kelly Dowouna/Anoek Pruijmboom (STF) def. Aina Plana Ventosa/Chloe Hamlin (SHU)
Arina Gumerova/Arabella Moen (SHU) def. Ananyaa Bhargava/Kaitlyn Ferguson (HOF)

Doubles Second Round
Elinor Storkaas/Leopoldine Boisseau (LIU) def. Arina Gumerova/Arabella Moen (SHU)

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PREVIEW
Seton Hall will return to action this weekend when it continues BIG EAST play on the road. The Hall will head to Washington, D.C. for a contest at Georgetown on Friday before traveling to Villanova on Saturday. Both contests are scheduled to begin at 5:00 p.m.

MEDIA
Both matches this weekend will be streamed live and available for subscribers of FloSports. Live Stats will also be available.

LAST WEEK
Seton Hall opened BIG EAST play in impressive fashion last weekend with a pair of five-set victories. Bianca Bucciarelli (Carate Brinza, Italy), Anna Holland (Waukesha, Wis.) and Taylor Jakubowski (Lake in the Hills, Ill.) all had double-doubles as the Pirates held off Connecticut, 3-2 (25-23, 26-24, 15-25, 20-25, 15-12), in the BIG EAST opener for both teams on Friday. The Hall looked strong through two sets, taking a 2-0 lead, but UConn bounced back by winning sets three and four. The Pirates never trailed in set five thanks to 10 kills and only one attack error in a thrilling 15-12 victory.

On Saturday, the Pirates rallied from a 2-1 set deficit, and for the second straight night, three Pirates recorded double-doubles. The Hall outlasted Providence, 3-2 (17-25, 25-14, 19-25, 25-17, 15-7). After dropping the third set, the Pirates never trailed in sets four or five in route to the thrilling five-set victory. The Hall is now 2-0 in BIG EAST play for the first time since 2014.

Bucciarelli finished with 13 kills, a career-high 18 digs and four blocks. Jakubowski had a match-high 21 assists to go with 11 digs and three aces, while Jenna Walsh (Foothill Ranch, Calif.) notched 13 kills, 13 digs and three assists.

WHO'S IN THE TOP-5

• As a team, Seton Hall leads the BIG EAST with a .164 opponent hitting percentage.
• The Pirates rank second in the conference with 1.81 service aces per set.
• Freshman Asli Subasili (Tekirdag, Turkey) currently ranks second in the BIG EAST with 24 service aces and 58 total blocks.
• Junior Laila Wallace (Munster, Ind.) ranks fourth in the BIG EAST with a .343 hitting percentage.
• Holland ranks fifth in the BIG EAST with 4.26 digs per set.

SCOUTING GEORGETOWN
Seton Hall and Georgetown will meet for the 45th time in history on Friday. The Hoyas own a slim 23-21 lead in the all-time series, but the Pirates have dominated in recent years. The Hall has won the last four matches against the Hoyas and 12 of the last 14 contests. Most recently, the Pirates defeated the Hoyas in four sets in Washington on Oct. 30 last year.

Georgetown struggled in 2021, finishing with a 7-22 final record and a 3-15 mark in BIG EAST play. The Hoyas finished last in the conference, three games behind the Pirates.

This year, Georgetown was picked to finish in a tie for ninth place in the 11-team BIG EAST Conference according to the preseason coaches' poll. The Hoyas returned 18 letterwinners from 2021 including three Hoyas who averaged at least two kills per set last season, Giselle Williams, Mary Grace Goyena and Peyton Wilhite.

A full slate of returnees hasn't yet led to success in 2022. The Hoyas enter the weekend just 2-11 overall and are coming off a weekend that saw them start 0-2 in BIG EAST play. Georgetown was swept at Xavier on Sunday and at Creighton on Friday. In fact, the Hoyas haven't won a set in their last four matches. Goyena currently ranks fourth in the BIG EAST with 3.51 kills per set.

SCOUTING VILLANOVA
Seton Hall and Villanova will meet for the 50th time in history on Saturday. The Wildcats owns a 32-17 all-time series lead. Last season, Villanova defeated the Pirates in their only meeting in four sets in Pennsylvania.

Villanova is coming off a 15-15 season last year, which featured a 7-11 mark in BIG EAST play. The Wildcats finished one game ahead of the Pirates in the final standings. They were in contention for the BIG EAST tournament until they finished the season with a three-match losing streak.

This year, Villanova was picked to finish sixth in the 11-team BIG EAST Conference according to the preseason coaches' poll. Junior Riley Homer was named to the Preseason All-BIG EAST Team. In addition to Homer, the Wildcats return middle blocker Kiera Booth who led the team in blocks last year. Villanova did lose, however, its starting libero, Averi Salvador.

Villanova has won just four of their first 14 games this season and is also coming off a winless start to BIG EAST play last weekend. Like Georgetown, the Wildcats were swept at both Xavier and Creighton last weekend. They've lost eight of their last nine matches overall with their lone victory over that span a four-set win against Fordham on Sept. 17.

UP NEXT
Next weekend, Seton Hall will return home to Walsh Gymnasium for a pair of matches. The Hall will host DePaul on Friday for a 7:00 p.m. match and Marquette on Saturday for a match that begins at 4:00 p.m. Both matches will streamed live by the Pirate Sports Network and available for FloSports subscribers.

South Orange, N.J. – Seton Hall men's soccer returns to Owen T. Carroll Field on Saturday night as they host St. John's. Kickoff is slated for 6:56 p.m.

LAST TIME OUT
For the second consecutive game, the Pirates finished in a 2-2 draw on the road, this time against Providence on Saturday night. Quenzi Huerman (Vannes, France) netted a pair of goals in the match to take the team lead in that category with five on the campaign. The Pirates generated the bulk of the chances, outshooting the Friars 11-8, including an 8-5 edge in shots on target.

SCOUTING ST. JOHN'S (3-5-1, 1-1-0)

• St. John's was selected third in the BIG EAST Preseason Coaches' Poll, one season removed from reaching the second round of the NCAA Tournament.
• Brandon Knapp was named to the All-BIG EAST team before the season, and was ranked No. 55 in the TopDrawerSoccer Preseason Top 100.
• Fell to Villanova, 4-0, on Saturday for the program's first multi-goal loss since 2019.
• Opened BIG EAST play with a 3-1 win over Georgetown, which at the time handed the Hoyas just their second multi-goal defeat since 2017.
• The Red Storm lead the all-time series 25-14-5, however Seton Hall is 2-0-2 over their last four meetings.
• Each of the last nine meetings between the two teams have been decided by one goal or less, dating back to 2014.
• Head Coach Dr. Dave Masur is in his 32nd year leading St. John's and has the third most wins among active coaches with 441.

NEWS & NOTES

• Huerman has five goals and 12 points through his team's first eight matches, the first Pirate since Andres Arclia to do so. Arcila accomplished the feat in the first seven game of the 2016 season.
• The Pirates' last three matches have each finished in a tie. The last time the Pirates were tied after 90 minutes in four straight matches was 1990.
• Pex's penalty kick goal against Xavier was the latest game-tying goal scored by the Pirates since Spencer Burkhardt netted an equalizer at 89:58 in an eventual Pirate overtime win at Princeton on Sep. 7, 2017.
• The Pirates have scored a goal in each of their first eight matches of a season for the first time since 1999, when they scored in their first 11 matches.
• Seton Hall has won its last five matches, and 14 of its last 15, when scoring the first goal.
• The Pirates' first three wins of the season have all been shutouts, the second time in three seasons that has occurred. Seton Hall has only had its first four wins of a season all be shutouts twice (2020 and 2014).
• The win over Oregon State was the Pirates' first over a top-10 team in the United Soccer Coaches rankings since beating No. 2 Georgetown to win the BIG EAST title on Apr. 17, 2021. The win also marked the first time Seton Hall has defeated a top-10 non-conference foe since winning at No. 3 Virginia in the 2001 NCAA Tournament.
• The Pirates conceded just one goal through its first three matches of the season, the program's best defensive start to a season since 2005.

WATCH
All BEDN events can be seen on FloSports, one of the leading streaming services in the world. Special Seton Hall pricing is available only through this link for fans who want to subscribe to watch Seton Hall events, home and away, as well as all other live events on the FloSports platform. Fans with a .edu school address can purchase a subscription for $6.99 per month, and all other fans can purchase a subscription for $12.50 per month. The non-Seton Hall pricing on FloSports is normally $29.99 per month.
The link to watch all Seton Hall Men's Soccer games can be found here.

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And we wonder why people question politicians and the money that gets appropriated. This ran in our local paper. Is this really in the spirit of what the stimulus money was intended?

Give us your wax eloquent on this one please.

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From a few weeks back. https://theathletic.com/3578111/2022/09/09/giannis-antetokounmpo-eurobasket-2022/ Copy-paste of paywalled preview.

Bucks’ Giannis Antetokounmpo and Sandro Mamukelashvili star at EuroBasket 2022​

By Eric Nehm
Sep 9, 2022

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With a little more than a minute left in the first quarter of the final game of Group C action of EuroBasket 2022, Greece opted to let Giannis Antetokounmpo bring the ball up the floor as its point guard, even with Nick Calathes on the floor. Antetokounmpo already had 11 points, so Estonia decided to try something different. They pressured Antetokounmpo the length of the floor as the two-time NBA MVP brought the ball up the floor.

It did not go well.

Antetokounmpo’s ridiculous one-handed dunk in traffic from just inside the free-throw line was not a surprise though; it was simply the most recent highlight play from a dominant run thus far at EuroBasket 2022. In group play, Antetokounmpo averaged 29.5 points per game, the highest per-game average in the tournament, as well as 9.0 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game, as he led Greece to a perfect 5-0 record in Group C.

The Milwaukee Bucks star has been unstoppable thus far in the tournament. The only players capable of matching his output up to this point is reigning back-to-back NBA MVP Nikola Jokić with Serbia and Mavericks star Luka Dončić with Slovenia and even Dončić is betting on Antetokounmpo putting up the biggest numbers.

For Bucks fans though, the tough part of watching Antetokounmpo dominate EuroBasket 2022 competition is knowing that it does carry some risk, which was at least partially realized against Estonia on Thursday.

Dan Murphy
ESPN Staff Writer

Congress has allowed another layer of legal antitrust protection related to college athletics to expire this Friday.

The law, which is officially removed at the end of the day Friday, previously granted an exemption to Ivy League schools that allowed them to prohibit merit-based scholarships to all students, including their athletes. Without that Congressional protection, the league becomes more vulnerable to lawsuits that claim schools are colluding with one another in order to avoid competing for the most talented students.

Officials from the Ivy League did not respond to multiple questions about whether they plan to change their policies in the absence of a Congressional exemption.

The college sports business model has been reformed and regularly threatened by antitrust lawsuits throughout the past decade. Most notably, the Supreme Court voted unanimously in June 2021 to uphold a ruling that stated that members of the NCAA could not collude to limit the academic-based compensation they provide to athletes. A concurring opinion from Justice Brett Kavanaugh suggested that the court system ought to reconsider allowing the NCAA to limit any type of compensation for athletes -- a shift that if it happened would open the door for schools paying their athletes directly.

"Nowhere else in America can businesses get away with agreeing not to pay their workers a fair market rate on the theory that their product is defined by not paying their workers a fair market rate," Kavanaugh wrote.

The NCAA and college sports leaders from conferences and schools responded by asking members of Congress to draft new legislation that would include, in part, an antitrust exemption to make it easier for the NCAA members to regulate how athletes are compensated. After multiple years of lobbying and roughly a dozen proposed bills related to the future of college sports, the idea of an antitrust exemption remains unpopular among lawmakers on Capitol Hill. The decision to allow the Ivy League exemption to expire does not bode well for any remaining hopes among college sports leaders that the NCAA might receive any type of similar exemption.

The Ivy League exemption was first signed into law in 1994 and was renewed three times in the past three decades. While no hearings were held on the potential for extending it a fourth time, Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) and Mike Lee (R-UT) spoke out against the exemption.

"[A]nticompetitive agreements, often between Ivy league universities, have impeded hundreds of thousands of students' ability to receive competitive financial awards while faced with skyrocketing education costs," Rubio and Lee wrote in a letter published in August.