btw their endowment is about 64x ours

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.

https://nypost.com/2022/09/20/record-number-of-new-yorkers-swap-to-florida-licenses/

This is telling as these are the people that will work 6 months and a day minimum in FL at minimum. Heard an interview today: 50% of NYC office employees are now WFH; only 9% go to the office 5 days a week; international travel is down overall but hurting NYC more because they depend more on it; Broadway attendance is still way down. Facing multi-billion dollar deficits over the next three years.

By Matt Norlander

Tigers coach Penny Hardaway avoids punishment, as the IARP hands down light punishments on Memphis basketball​

Thirty-four months after an investigation began, the Independent Accountability Resolution Process (IARP), finally ruled on Memphis' case involving NCAA rules violations in the recruitment of James Wiseman.

The verdict: Memphis' punishment isn't major. In fact, it's just the opposite. The IARP ruled Tuesday that the university must pay a $5,000 fine, in addition to "0.25% of its average men's basketball budget based on the average of the men's basketball program's previous three total budgets."

The program will go on probation, effective immediately, until Sept. 26, 2025. The school also has to vacate the two wins and all Wiseman-related stats from the three games he participated in back in November 2019.

Tigers coach Penny Hardaway was not directly assessed any penalties, and biggest of all, Memphis avoided a postseason ban.

"We have finally arrived at the end of an extremely challenging period, and I could not be more grateful," Hardaway said in a statement. "Our university and athletic department leadership worked tirelessly to help present the facts of our case. I am thankful to the IARP for allowing us to present those facts and making its decision based on the facts. It's now time to put all of this behind us. Brighter days are ahead, and we cannot wait to share in future successes as one Memphis."

The university initially was levied with seven total violations (four Level I), three of which were tied to Hardaway -- one Level I and two Level II infractions. The notice of allegations accused Hardaway of not establishing a "culture of compliance" as head coach of the men's basketball program.

But in Tuesday's ruling, the IARP stated that Hardaway's "long-standing philanthropic commitment, particularly to youth in the economically disadvantaged Memphis community, even prior to becoming an athletics booster" was a factor in its decision-making on this matter.

The penalties stem from a violation that occurred when Wiseman was in high school. Before Penny Hardaway became Memphis' men's basketball coach -- before he was employed by the university -- Hardaway paid $11,500 to help Wiseman's family cover moving expenses from Nashville in order for the Wiseman family to relocate to Memphis. Wiseman finished his high school career at Memphis East High School.

Given that Hardaway is a prominent Memphis alumnus, he was deemed a booster at the time. This triggered a rule violation.

Wiseman opted to play three games to start the 2019-20 season, in defiance of the NCAA's ruling, before turning course. After initially fighting the NCAA, Wiseman and his representatives withdrew the suit. The NCAA ruled he would have to sit for 12 games. Wiseman left Memphis' program in December 2019. He was the No. 2 overall pick in the 2020 NBA Draft by the Golden State Warriors.

The IARP "concluded that Memphis failed to monitor the education and activities of the head coach by not providing sufficient education to him regarding permissible activities for boosters and failing to ask the head coach about any financial contributions he had made to prospective student-athletes and their families in the Memphis community or any other relationships he may have developed with the high school or AAU players he had coached.

"The hearing panel also concluded that the institution's leadership allowed [Wiseman] to participate in a November 5, 2019, basketball contest without informing the head coach until after the contest that [Wiseman] had been determined to be ineligible to play," the IARP's press release states.

Being that this is an IARP case, there are no appeals allowed. This ruling is final and the case matter is complete.

"This investigation has been a cloud over the men's basketball program for three years, and we are happy to have the process concluded," Memphis president Bill Hardgrave said in a statement. "I would like to express sincere gratitude to members of our university staff, athletic department staff and legal team who devoted significant time to preparing the facts of our case, as well as the IARP for attentively listening to those facts and thoughtfully rendering its decision. We respect and will fully comply with the IARP's decision."

The IARP, which formed in 2019 as a 15-person panel and will dissolve in the coming months, took on Memphis' case on March 4, 2020. The IARP was created at the suggestion of the Rice Commission on College Basketball. That commission formed after the federal government's sting operation into bribery and fraud in college basketball became public.

This IARP ruling against Memphis comes five years and one day after that FBI case went public.

Tuesday's ruling marks the first in what will be the five final cases the IARP takes on. Louisville, Arizona, Kansas and LSU all still await their fates, and unlike Memphis, those four schools' cases are tied to the FBI probe.

Colin and Zack have agreed to cover all the away/neutral games for the Trove. They will rotate games.

That will provide the site with coverage of every single game, home and away, as I will cover the home games.

Won in 5. Great resilliancy by the Pirates as they won the first 2 but dropped the next 2 sets, and then came out on top in the 3rd.

UConn picked 4th in the Big East Coaches Preseason Poll (SHU picked last).

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Saw this on Wiki. We're not the poorest? Hooray!?
Ivy excluded from this but someone broke it down in the comments.

I would not waste a ship on a Top 75 - 150 recruit.....maybe not even on a Top 50 - 150. High School recruiting is a waste of time.

They would only see limited minutes as a freshman. Great example is our Freshman - Tae and the JaQuan's.

It is better to go through the portal and get a proven Soph or Junior that can give you quality 10-30 minutes in year one.

For example, if you have 2 scholarships, do you give them both to High School Seniors? I would hold both to the end of the year for transfers.

The game and rules have changed. I am glad that Holloway has no HS commits. Only the top 1-50 recruits play in year 1 and some of that group only receive limited minutes and some are a bust.

High School Recruiting Does not Matter

NEW YORK – Seton Hall's Bianca Bucciarelli (Carate Brianza, Italy) was named to the BIG EAST Women's Volleyball Weekly Honor Roll on Monday.

Bucciarelli was instrumental in The Hall's 2-0 start to BIG EAST play. The junior transfer led the Pirates in both kills per set and digs per set in a pair of thrilling five-set victories. Against Connecticut on Friday, Bucciarelli had a career-high 18 kills to lead all players along with a career-high 13 digs and three blocks. The next night against Providence, she tied for the team lead with 13 kills and collected a new career-best 18 digs to go with four blocks.

The matches were the first two double-doubles in Bucciarelli's career.

Marquette's Yadhira Anchante was named BIG EAST Offensive Player of the Week, while St. John's Rachele Rastelli earned Defensive Player of the Week. Creighton's Ava Martin earned Freshman of the Week honors. Joining Bucciarelli on the Weekly Honor Roll are Butler's Amina Shakelford, Creighton's Allison Whitten, St. John's Giorgia Walther and Xavier's Brooklyn Cink.

Seton Hall will return to action when it heads to Washington, D.C. for a match with Georgetown on Friday, September 30. Match time is scheduled for 5:00 p.m.