Yes we have looked bad but this is where Sha finds out what he has to work with and who can be the players he needs to start and finish games. There is a lot to be optimistic about. The defense has been great. That is something that Sha works at and is his priority. All of this kids can score the ball. No doubt that once they get more games and practices in the offense will run better.

No I don't see this as an NCAA tourney team but I see them getting better as the season goes on and actually not being as bad as they look now. Just get the offense going and we will be Okay. We will be competitive and we will surprise some teams and naysayers!

Myron Medcalf, ESPN Staff Writer

After a home loss to a Columbia team that had won just seven Ivy League games over the past three seasons, Villanova coach Kyle Neptune said he would have to watch the film to understand what went wrong.

The Lions' 90-80 victory Wednesday night at Villanova's Finneran Pavilion was their first against a Big East opponent since 2012. Neptune, meanwhile, suffered his second consecutive loss to an Ivy team, after Villanova fell 76-72 at Penn last year.

Neptune, who enters a crucial season after failing to reach the NCAA tournament in his first two campaigns leading the Wildcats, suffered his sixth loss to a team that entered the game with a sub-100 ranking on KenPom.

"If we had won that game, we would still have to get a lot better," he said. "We're just not where we need to be right now. We've got to go back, watch this film, learn from it and move onto the next game and get better."

Columbia, picked to finish fifth in the Ivy League preseason poll, entered the game as 17.5-point underdogs on ESPN BET. Guard Geronimo Rubio De La Rosa had a team-high 22 points for the Lions, who connected on 53.7% of their field goal attempts (29-of-54) and 92.3% of their free throw tries (24-of-26).

Columbia (2-0) never has had a winning season under coach Jim Engles, who was hired in 2016.

"I don't think offense was the issue," Neptune said. "We shot 45% [overall]. ... I thought we just couldn't get stops. And I think we turned the ball over. And we just have to get better defensively. They scored 90 points. It's going to be tough when teams score 90 points against you."

In 2022, Jay Wright abruptly retired after winning a pair of national championships with the Wildcats, whom he turned into one of the most respected programs in America. Villanova then hired Neptune, a former assistant under Wright, to lead the program after one year as Fordham's head coach.

Neptune is now 35-34 at Villanova, which was ranked 31st on KenPom entering Wednesday's game. With the return of star Eric Dixon (33 points versus Columbia), the Wildcats were projected to finish seventh in the Big East preseason poll and expected to compete for a first NCAA tournament appearance under Neptune. While both remain possible, Neptune said his team has serious challenges to address before it hosts NJIT on Friday.

"They just executed us ... outexecuted us, I should say, offensively," Neptune said of the Lions.

"It is what it is. We're human beings. You don't want to come in and lose. Everybody wants to win. So, we've got a little bit to think about that and accept the fact that it happened. And now we've got to move on from it. We've got to go and get ready for the next game. We've got to get better."

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If Joe decided not to run, I wonder if how his primary would have turned out. He did have much more effective messaging than Harris.

I know folks like to bicker back and forth here and all. And differ on matters of policy.

But I also know there are a lot of conservatives, republicans, and self-identified independents who presumably love the Constitution, representative democracy, and the rule of law. And surely none of them would vote for a demonstrated enemy of all those things. Because that would be debasing and shameful.

Cool.

SETON HALL PIRATES (1-2) vs. WAGNER SEAHAWKS (1-2)

GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Saturday, Nov. 16 • 12 p.m. Eastern
Site: South Orange, N.J. • Walsh Gymnasium (1,316)
TV: FS2 • Dave Sims & Tarik Turner
Online: FOX Sports App
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin • SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Wagner: 29-6
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW

• The Seton Hall men’s basketball team returns to the friendly confines of historic Walsh Gymnasium on Saturday as the Pirates host local foe Wagner at 12 p.m.
• Saturday’s matchup pits two former Seton Hall point guards against one another in Shaheen Holloway and Donald Copeland.
• Holloway and Copeland both led the Pirates to NCAA Tournament appearances as seniors; Holloway in 2000 when The Hall went to the Sweet 16, Copeland in 2006 when he led that team with 16.1 ppg.
• Seton Hall boasts five alumni in the head coaching ranks of Division I men’s basketball, the second-most in the country behind Duke (6); Grant Billmeier (NJIT), Donald Copeland (Wagner), Shaheen Holloway (Seton Hall), Dan Hurley (Connecticut), Levell Sanders (Binghamton).
• Copeland has three Seton Hall alums on his staff, including two assistant coaches
• Kevin Lynch was a walk-on at The Hall for one season in 2013-14 before serving under Willard and Holloway in various roles for nine seasons.
• Kyle Smyth was on the 2012-13 squad and later became a valued staffer for Willard for 10 years as coordinator and director of basketball operations.
• Tim Rodriguez, Wagner’s director of basketball operations, was a four-year manager at The Hall for both Willard and Holloway.
• With the Pirates entering Wednesday’s game at 1-2, Holloway has stated that his team’s get better as the season goes along and the numbers back that up:

Holloway Record By Month, Last 4 Full Seasons (excluding 2020-21)
November: 11-11
December: 11-13
January: 22-11
February: 19-12
March: 18-4
Nov.-Dec.: 22-24 (.478) Jan.-March: 59-27 (.686)

• Chaunce Jenkins went over the 1,000-point threshold for his career on Wednesday vs. Hofstra as he scored a game-high 18 points on 4-of-7 shooting from deep.
• Godswill Erheriene has started the first three games at center for The Hall and finished with six points, six rebounds and a team-best +/- of +10 in 25 minutes against Hofstra.
• Seton Hall has proved itself to be one of the best defensive teams in the country through three games as the Pirates rank 27th in KenPom defensive efficiency and ninth nationally in scoring defense allowing just 53 points per game.
• Among active players in Div. I, Dylan Addae-Wusu ranks 27th in games played (131), 17th in steals (183) and 46th in assists (364).
• Similar to last season where the Pirates were picked to finish ninth in the BIG EAST preseason coaches poll but went on to finish fourth, Seton Hall was picked to finish 10th in the 11-team BIG EAST in this year’s poll.
• Seton Hall’s 25 wins last season tied for the fourth-most victories in program history and were the most wins for the Pirates since 2015-16 when they also won 25 games.
• Seton Hall’s 13 BIG EAST wins tied for the second-most conference victories in program history with the 2019-20 squad and was one victory shy from tying the 1992-93 team’s 14 BIG EAST wins.
• After finishing with 13 BIG EAST victories last season, Seton Hall has won 10 or more BIG EAST games eight times since the league realigned in 2013-14, which is tied for the third most in the conference.
• The Pirates last season were the first BIG EAST team to ever finish at least five games over .500 in conference play and not make the NCAA Tournament.
• Holloway’s teams have finished below .500 in conference play just once in six seasons when his first Saint Peter’s team went 6-12.

Prospects for non-conference play:
- This is trending towards a 4-7 record
- When the competition steps up a level the Hall could be the underdog in all 5 of those games. In the MTE only Drake is ranked lower in Ken Pom by 3 spots.

Prospects for BE play:
- This could be a 4-16 type season. So far feels like the bottom tier could be Nova / Butler / DePaul / Gtown / SHU. Our play easily puts at the bottom of that list. So splitting with those 4 teams seems generous.

Roster Construction:
- You get what you pay for.
Sha is trying to compete with major power house programs like UConn, Marquette, and Creighton. Finishing 4th wasn’t even good enough last year.
So he is trying to catch lightning in a bottle with high upside guys based on measurables and potential.
Guess what is most likely to happen…you are going to end up missing on many of them. People wanted the Romaro Gill / Jaden Bediako stories to be the norm. They are the exception. Wusu tested the portal and no one wanted him. Dual was still available after the NBA combine invite…hmm. Middleton shot under 35% from two point range last year and it’s a shock he can’t score beyond spotting up for 3? Aligbe was an inefficient bench player for a team that finished 11th in the ACC. Are we surprised he is shooting 25% when asked to play a larger role? Toumi is struggling to stay out of foul trouble now, what happens in the BE.
I can go on and on.

So maybe Sha could have recruited more well rounded ball players that would have won these first three games, but they would have been ill equipped to compete in the rigors of a 20 game BE season.

The combination of NIL and the Portal rule changes are a death blow for Seton Hall.

Take a deep breath and realize this could be the norm unless the landscape of college athletics greatly changes. But you can’t put the genie back in the bottle. So I don’t know what is next for the program.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 16, 2024
BRYANT (3-0) at SETON HALL (2-0)
SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Walsh Gymnasium
4:30 p.m. ET

LIVE VIDEO: Pirate Sports Network on FloCollege
(Ryan Johnston & Phil Stern)
LIVE AUDIO: 89.5 FM WSOU or WSOU.net
(CJ Weipz & Nick DiBlasi)
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GAME NOTES: SETON HALL | BRYANT

THE GAME
Seton Hall will return to action on Saturday, November 16 when it hosts non-conference rival Bryant. Tip time is scheduled for 4:30 p.m.

MEDIA
The game will be streamed live by the Pirate Sports Network and will be available for FloCollege subscribers with Ryan Johnston and Phil Stern on the call. As usual, the game will also be available over the airwaves at 89.5 FM WSOU or wsou.net. CJ Weipz and Nick DiBlasi will describe the action on the radio. Live stats will also be available.

WSOU is also airing a postgame "Hall Line" show following its women's basketball games. Be sure to tune in after the final buzzer.

STREAM INFORMATION
The contest will streamed on FloCollege, 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 an .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 FloCollege is normally $29.99 per month.

LAST GAME
Graduate students Yaya Lops (Stamford, Conn.) and Faith Masonius (Spring Lake, N.J.) each scored 17 points as the Pirates picked up its second lop-sided victory to start the season, 67-44, over Fordham in Walsh Gym on Tuesday.

The Hall trailed for only the first 1:47 of the contest despite not having a great shooting night. Seton Hall shot only 35.5 percent from the floor, compared to Fordham's 39.5 percent. The Pirates, however, forced 24 turnovers, and committed only 11.

Masonius, the reigning BIG EAST Player of the Week, flirted with a triple-double, finishing with 17 points, six rebounds and six assists. Lops had 17 points, four rebounds and drilled a pair of three-pointers. Although she didn't have a great shooting night, sophomore Savannah Catalon (Mansfield, Texas) drew six charges defensively. Another defensive star, Amari Wright (Jacksonville, Fla.) had five steals.

Seton Hall All-Time vs. the Bulldogs: Seton Hall leads, 2-0
Last Meeting:
Seton Hall 73, Bryant 45 (F) – November 12, 2023 (Walsh Gym)

AGAINST BRYANT
Seton Hall and Bryant will meet for the third time in history on Saturday with the Pirates having won the first two meetings by an average margin of victory of 32.0 points per game. Most recently, The Hall routed the Bulldogs, 73-45, on November 12 of last season in Walsh Gym.

SCOUTING BRYANT
Bryant is coming off a 15-15 season a year ago, which included an 8-8 mark in America East Conference play. The Bulldogs won three of their final four regular season games, but saw its campaign come to an end with a 56-51 loss to Binghamton in the America East Tournament quarterfinals.

Mia Mancini was named the 2023-24 America East Rookie of the Year and also made the All-America East Rookie and Third Teams. Mariona Planes Fortuny earned a spot on the All-America East First Team, and Nia Scott made the All-America East Rookie Team.

This year, the Bulldogs were picked to finish fourth in the nine-team league according to the preseason coaches' poll. Mancini was named a Preseason All-Conference selection.

Bryant enters Saturday's contest with a perfect 3-0 record having defeated Merrimack, Bridgewater State and Central Connecticut State by an average margin of victory of 16.3 points per game. Most recently, the Bulldogs defeated CCSU, 59-48 on the road on Tuesday. Brigham currently leads Bryant with 18.0 points and 9.0 rebounds per game.

UP NEXT
Seton Hall will return to action on Monday, November 18 when it plays its first true road contest of the year at Cincinnati. Tip time is scheduled for 6:30 p.m. The contest will be streamed live by ESPN+. 89.5 FM WSOU or wsou.net will also carry the game.

https://www.axios.com/2024/11/14/maha-movement-federal-health-agencies

Areas surfacing where RFK will focus. Much of which that has been discussed here. Agree with much of this but he will face headwinds from food and Pharma lobbies.

MSM will continue to paint him as an “anti-vaxer”.

Vowing to even fight round up of criminal illegals voters be dammed.I realize Biden believed in open borders but when pols showed he would lose he publically issued executive order limiting immigration even though he said many times he didn’t have authority to do.Many Democratic mayors are going to resist deporting these criminals overlooking their crimes including murder and cost of caring fior them seemingly hoping they will become citizens and vote democratic and if no voter ID vote illegally.As for 300,000 plus missing children collateral damage in their mind

I don’t know what was worse, our horrible display or the incompetent broadcast. Andy Katz was probably the worst I have ever heard on a tv game. Ten wins will be an upset.

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LOCATION
Hempstead, NY

CONFERENCE
Coastal Athletic Association

LAST SEASON
20-13 (.606)

CONFERENCE RECORD
12-6 (t-3rd)

STARTERS RETURNING/LOST
1/4

NICKNAME
Pride Blue

COLORS
White & Gold

HOMECOURT
Mack Sports Complex (5,023)

OFFICIAL WEBSITE
GoHofstra.com

COACH
Speedy Claxton (Hofstra ’00)

RECORD AT SCHOOL
66-34 (3 years)

CAREER RECORD
66-34 (3 years)

ASSISTANTS
Tom Parrotta (Fordham ’91)
Mmike DePaoli (The College of Saint Rose ’07)
Antwon Portley (Fordham ’19)

WINS (LAST 5 YRS.)
26-13-21-25-20

KENPOM RATING (LAST 5 YRS.)
108-190-120-89-113 2023-24

FINISH
Lost in CAA semifinals.

We score 57, 56, and 48 against St. Peter’s, Fordham, and Hofstra and lose 2.

Wow. Awful. Not sure I’ve seen a team this clueless here. The amount of empty possessions is stunning.

Defense has been good. We forget what it's like to have no PG. This is what it looks like. Shaheen probably the best option even with a bum wrist.

It’s been stated before, and I will stated again. The downfall, and we are witnessing the downfall of a legendary basketball program, of Seton Hall basketball lies at the feet of Lyons.

His lack of vision or lack of willingness to be ahead of the curve like the rest of the universities, put us in a bad spot then and now there is no path to recovery. This will also lead to the departure of our coach in the next year or so.

Hopefully our new president has great visions for the university from academic perspective as the athletic program will no longer be the focal point

We can all talk about go support that NIL with bake sales and car washes and buy some bad beer and hang out at bunnies but I’ll leave that to the Boy Scouts for their fundraising.

I see that the game is on MSG. That's great for the NY/NJ area but not for those of us living elsewhere in the US.

Is it being carried on any other channel/network outside the MSG scope?

Kadary came off the bench for the Johnnie’s. No idea why, but his last two games he’s combined for:


29 min / 2pt / 4reb / 7 ast
30 min / 3pt / 6 reb / 6 ast

Yes we have looked bad but this is where Sha finds out what he has to work with and who can be the players he needs to start and finish games. There is a lot to be optimistic about. The defense has been great. That is something that Sha works at and is his priority. All of his kids can score the ball. No doubt that once they get more games and practices in the offense will run better.

wow. Just wow. Likely to see 100k before the January 20th

we played poorly. the game stunk. We lost. The tv production was as bad as you will see. the announcers sucked.

And i just checked the box score on this site. toumi was 2 for 2 from the line and gus didnt shoot any threes.

(and my phone stopped capitalizing the first word of a sentense lol.)