Has anyone seen them play? Seems like maybe people watched their game with BC?

They’re 65th in OE, 85th in DE, 305th in tempo. They’re just 298th in defensive rebound % and 338th in defensive FTA:FGA (bodes well for us). Average at best across the board in other areas, including bench minutes, and don’t seem to rely on the 3-ball despite somehow beating Creighton by 15 in December in a game they shot 10/22 from 3 and 22/39 from 2PT.

Went 12-6 in the much-loved MWC.

Took care of Princeton at Jadwin and Boston College at home to get to South Orange.

The Seton Hall Pirates are playing tonight and it's late March! Cant wait!!!

Proving a point for the future......... BIG EAST

FAU coach headed to Michigan. Louisville the other big job opening out there which will be interesting to track.

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Does anybody have any insight into what these NIT tournament games will produce for the school? Revenue of tickets sales can't be great playing in Walsh but I am assuming the TV deals must pay the teams.


Does anybody have a breakdown of what NIT money looks like and how does that compare to the NCAA tournament?

Will the son rebuild the program that his father destroyed? Why would Louisville want him?

Jeff Goodman reports

Our guy is staying. The university should be working on an extension as mentioned in Carino's article yesterday

UNLV Runnin’ Rebels​

TEAM INFO​

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff Writer

Despite another early exit from the NCAA tournament, Kentucky men's basketball coach John Calipari will return for his 16th season in 2024-25, according to athletic director Mitch Barnhart.

Calipari's future seemed cloudy following the Wildcats' first-round loss to Oakland, a 14-seed, in the NCAA tournament last week. It was the latest upset on the program's résumé; two years ago, Kentucky was a 2-seed when it lost to 15-seed Saint Peter's in the opening round of the 2022 tournament.

"As we normally do at the end of every season, Coach Calipari and I have had conversations about the direction of our men's basketball program and I can confirm that he will return for his 16th season as our head coach," Barnhart wrote Tuesday on X, formerly Twitter.

Calipari, speaking Monday on his season-ending radio show, said he understood that the standard at Kentucky -- the winningest program in men's college basketball history and an eight-time national champion -- is to cut down the nets in the final game of the year, and acknowledged that his team had fallen short of that goal.

"I talked again about the standard ... that I believe in, that I think we can do," Calipari said. "But that standard of national titles has been here from Coach [Adolph] Rupp on, and the only thing I'm saying to all our fans is you know I'm going to work -- work in our state, work on this program, this university. ... That's my commitment. I'm not changing, 24/7, let's go -- whether it's recruiting, all the stuff that we have to do."

Calipari has one national title (2012) and his most recent Final Four appearance was in 2015. The past few years had been rough for the Wildcats' devoted fans, as Kentucky finished 9-16 in 2020-21, the program's worst record in 100 years, and suffered early postseason exits in 2022 and 2023.

But the emergence of Reed Sheppard and Rob Dillingham, projected top-10 picks in the NBA draft, and the return of veteran Antonio Reeves suggested this season could be different for the Wildcats. Then, Oakland reserve Jack Gohlke hit 10 3-pointers in an 80-76 upset win over Kentucky, a result that prompted buzz about Calipari's future.


It seems clear to all that Calipari -- who would have been owed a $33 million buyout if the school elected to fire him now -- will face intense pressure to make a deep run in the NCAA tournament next season and rebuild a team that finished 111th in adjusted defensive efficiency, per KenPom.

Kentucky's 2024 recruiting class includes three of the top 25 prospects in ESPN's rankings, including four-star recruit Karter Knox and a pair of five-star talents in Jayden Quaintance and Johnuel Fland.

Calipari has faced criticism for relying too heavily on youth when most teams are getting older through the transfer portal. But he said Monday on his radio show that he will continue to recruit freshman talent and balance his team with veterans from the portal.

"This is like wearing a coat: It never goes away," Calipari said. "But I love it. This is what I want. This is what I wanted. This is why I never left. This is it. And now it's let's come together and let's do something. Let's do something special. We've done it. Let's do it again."

I think this proves to be one of the more objective ways to measure which Power conferences reign. By my count:

ACC (4) - conference has been knocked in recent years, but you tend to see teams continue to do well in Tourney

Big East (3) - Creighton and Marquette survive and advance in Round 2, UConn appears to still be the favorite, but I get the feeling this year could be the year where we see all 1 seeds make the Final 4, so no easy path To repeat

B1G, SEC, Big 12 - (2) each.

PAC 10 - (1)

MTN West - (1) The Big East bid stealing conference

WCC - (1) Gonzaga having a nice Tourney

No doubt, we got screwed being excluded from Tourney.

Interesting:

Seton Hall (22-12) vs. UNLV Runnin' Rebels (21-12)
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 27 • 7 p.m. Eastern
Site: South Orange, N.J. • Walsh Gymnasium (1,316)
TV: ESPN2 • Derek Jones & Perry Clark
Online: WatchESPN.com
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin • SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 381 / SXM App
Seton Hall All-Time vs. UNLV: 2-3

• Making its first appearance in the quarterfinals of the NIT since 1956, Seton Hall will be back inside historic Walsh Gymnasium on Wednesday at 7 p.m. when the Pirates host UNLV on ESPN2.
• The Pirates are 10-19 all-time in NIT games and they won the NIT championship in 1953.
• This is Seton Hall's fifth NIT quarterfinals appearance after reaching the final eight in 1941, 1951, 1953 and 1956.
• Seton Hall is 2-3 all-time against UNLV including a 1-1 mark in the NCAA Tournament.
• The Pirates defeated the Runnin' Rebels in the 1989 NCAA West Regional Final, 84-61, in Denver that sent The Hall to the Final Four in Seattle.
• The two teams met in the NCAA Tournament again in the 1991 Elite Eight in Seattle where top-seeded UNLV defeated Seton Hall, 77-65.
• The last meeting was a 99-79 Seton Hall victory at Brendan Byrne Arena on Dec. 11, 1994; George Blaney's first season as Seton Hall head coach.
• Seton Hall is coming off of one of its most complete games of the season as the Pirates shot 48 percent from the floor and held North Texas to 34 percent shooting from the field in a 72-58 victory.
• In The Hall's first round overtime win over Saint Joe's, Al-Amir Dawes turned in one of the best performances of his career as he tied career highs in points (26) and made threes (6), including the game-tying trey at the end of regulation and the go-ahead three-pointer in overtime that helped seal the win.
• The Pirates are 3-0 in Walsh Gym this season and 16-3 overall as the home team.
• The Pirates are 431-143 all-time inside Walsh Gym and have won 32 of their last 33 games against non-conference opponents dating back to 1989.
• Seton Hall has played in a national postseason tournament in seven of the last eight seasons (five NCAA, two NIT).
• Head coach Shaheen Holloway is the first Seton Hall head coach to win a national postseason tournament game within his first two seasons.
• Holloway's 38 wins as Seton Hall head coach is most of any coach in program history through two seasons.
• Picked to finish ninth out of 11 teams in the BIG EAST preseason poll, head coach Shaheen Holloway led the Pirates to a fourth place finish and a 13-7 record in league play, tied for the second-most BIG EAST wins in program history.
• Holloway is the first Seton Hall head coach to lead the Pirates to postseason appearances in each of his first two seasons.
• Kadary Richmond, who's one of two players in the BIG EAST (Devin Carter, PC) to rank in the top 11 in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals in league play, is one of 40 players named on the Oscar Robertson Trophy and All-America Watch List.
• Richmond is tied for second in Division I with eight 20 point, 5 assist, 5 rebound games this season.
• Richmond is one of six Pirates all-time (Terry Dehere, Shaheen Holloway, Andre Barrett, Khadeen Carrington, Myles Powell) to score 1,000 points, collect 400 rebounds and tally 300 assists in a career.
• Dre Davis averaged 16.2 points per game and shot 52 percent from the floor and 86 percent from the free-throw line in BIG EAST play, becoming the first BIG EAST player to average 16 pts, shoot 50% FG and 80% FT in league since Mikal Bridges for Villanova in 2017-18.
• Jaden Bediako ranks third in the BIG EAST and 16th in Division I averaging 3.6 offensive rebounds per game.
• The Pirates are 18-6 this season when Al-Amir Dawes scores in double figures and 8-3 when he's the team's leading scorer.
• In just two seasons in South Orange, Dawes ranks 14th in school history with 156 made three-pointers.
• Dylan Addae-Wusu scored his 1,000th career point on March 9 against DePaul, giving Seton Hall four 1,000 point scorers in its starting five (Richmond, Davis, Dawes).

Goodman, Dauster, Ogelsby just spent about 5 minutes taking about how Sha is a great fit for Louisville and that’s who they should turn their attention to since Dusty May is going to Michigan…They said he will never have the NIL to succeed at SHU. Goodman said SHU was ahead of DePaul and maybe Butler in terms of NIL last year. They also said L’Ville has tons of money to make an unbelievable offer to who they want to hire.

Time to worry ?

Stats



South Orange, N.J. – Kelsey Carr (Ridgewood, N.Y.) took a perfect game into the sixth inning and struck out 12 for the second consecutive start as the Pirates took game one of their doubleheader against Creighton on Friday afternoon. The Bluejays were able to capture a closely fought second game, 3-2.

Game 1: Seton Hall 4, Creighton 3
How it Happened

• Both offenses remained quiet until the third inning, when Taylor Hill (Little Falls, N.J.) launched a home run over the wall in left center to give the Pirates a 1-0 lead.
• In the fifth, The Hall would plate two more runs. Olivia Gilbert (Johnston, R.I.) would lace a single to left field, scoring Hill from third. Next, Katey Brennan (Yardley, Pa.) would bring home Carr with a sacrifice fly to left.
• Carr retired the first 15 batters she faced, allowing her first baserunner of the game after a leadoff single to Sydra Seville in the sixth. The Bluejays would eventually knot things up in that frame, as Madeline Vejvoda cleared the bases with a three-run double to make it a 3-3 game.
• After bouncing back and working a clean seventh, Carr and the Pirates went to work in the bottom half of the inning to earn the win.
• Hill opened the inning with a single to left, followed by Carr doubling down the right field line. Hill advanced to third, but was able to come across and score the winning run after an errant throw from right field.

News & Notes

• Carr has struck out 12 batters in back-to-back starts after setting her career-high with that mark on Tuesday at Rider.
• Hill finished 2-for-3 with three runs scored, reaching base in all four of her plate appearances.
• Carr and Lela Allen (Phoenix, Ariz.) each also collected multiple hits on the game.
• The win extended Seton Hall's winning streak to six.

Game 2: Creighton 3, Seton Hall 2
How it Happened

• While both offenses took a few innings to get going in game one, they came out of the gates hot in game two. Creighton put two runs up in the top of the first inning on a two-run single by Emma Rosonke.
• The Pirates would get one run back in the bottom of the first as Carr hooked a home run inside the left field foul pole.
• Two innings later, Hill would tie things up with her second home run of the doubleheader.
• The Bluejays would take the lead for good in the sixth, as Cayla Nielsen singled to center to give Creighton a 3-2 advantage.

News & Notes

• Hill's two-homer day moves her total up to five on the season.
• Carr's home run gives her a team-leading six so far this season as well as a club-best 18 RBI.
• Kyra Kreuscher (Great River, N.Y.) was saddled with her first loss of the season, moving her record to 5-1.

What's Next
The Pirates and Bluejays will play the rubber match on Sunday afternoon with first pitch slated for noon at Mike Sheppard Sr. Field.

1. Connecticut 23-3
Repeat?

2. Marquette 27-9
All year trading places with Creighton

3. Creighton 25-9
Harder path to the Elite 8 than Marquette

4. Seton Hall 22-12
Screwed

5. St. John's 20-13
Late push too late

6. Providence 21-14
Nice first year for English

7. Villanova 18-16
Guess they're better than Butler. But who knows

8. Butler 18-15
Matta didn't have a lot to work with

9. Xavier 16-18
Season was in the toilet before it began

10. Georgetown 9-23
Better get your jollies this year

11. DePaul 3-29
What else is there to say? The worst team in the history of the conference

beings we can’t count on winning 14 games or more in the conference to secure a bid what is our best method going forward. Especially if we heaven forbid only win 9 or 10 conference games.

Do we:

A- schedule a bunch of patsies and hopefully steamroll them all?

B- schedule a bunch of top programs and hopefully steal a few and play tight games?

I suggest B, however, the problem with tht nowadays is that a program may be great in 2024 when you agree to scheduling but in 2026 or 2027 when you play them they may stink due to portal and nil

I’m not saying we have to schedule UNC and Kansas. But there’s no reason we can’t get Virginia, Penn St, Maryland, etc on the schedule for winnable quad 1/2 games..

But I don’t wanna see more than 1 game a year against our usual suspects: fdu, spu, rider, Monmouth, Wagner, etc. we have to do something to stand out, scheduling them for multiple games every year is pointless.

-- On Shaheen Holloway and Seton Hall's NIT run
-- Rutgers, Princeton and the portal
-- March Madness thoughts


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