I post this because there has been chatter here about where does all the money go at colleges. At ru and probably at almost all schools half is for compensation.

Interesting from the article:
“The average salary for the 17 Scarlet Knights head coaches in non-revenue sports is $191,172, while the median salary for the 4,276 full-time, salaried professors is $189,462.”

Gives you an idea why professors arent big fans of athletics.


“https://www.nj.com/education/2024/0...-earn-at-least-1m-in-2024-heres-the-list.html

Tso,I would like to thank you, and compliment you, on your coverage of the Portal; please keep up the good work!

Oh, and by the way, really liked hearing that Rafael Castro has entered the portal. He's physical, plays hard, hustles, and certainly fills a need here.

Just hope there is interest here and that is reciprocated by Rafael. Local guy. Wishing for this to materialize

Has anyone seen them play? I haven’t. But they beat two teams who had been playing fairly well to get here, Wake Forest (72-66) and Ohio State (79-77). Not sure the details though.

**Overall 20-16, went just 6-12 in the SEC regular season.Currently KP #78, finished with NET #100 and only 1-9 Q1, 2-6 Q2.
**105th in OE, 51st in DE, 109th in tempo.
**65th in bench minutes (maybe a key?), but 282nd in minutes continuity.
**Average height 31st.

Nothing too much stood out in their profile. They are just 239th in 2P% offensively, 103rd in 3PA:FGA, 74th in FTA:FGA so they get to the line pretty well but are only average FT shooting team. Defensively just 240th in turnover %, 239th in OR% allowed, 151st in 2PTD.

I'm driving out to Indy this afternoon and hope to see many Pirate faithful at Hinkle Fieldhouse tomorrow night.

GO PIRATES!!!

Seton Hall (23-12) vs. Georgia Bulldogs (20-16)
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 2 • 9:30 p.m. Eastern

Site: Indianapolis, Ind. • Hinkle Fieldhouse (9,100)

TV: ESPN2 • Mike Corey & Fran Fraschilla

Online: WatchESPN.com

Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Dave Popkin

SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App

Satellite: SiriusXM 84 / SXM App

Seton Hall All-Time vs. Georgia: 1-1

• Making its first appearance in the semifinals of the NIT since 1953, top-seeded Seton Hall is set to take on fourth-seeded Georgia inside Hinkle Fieldhouse on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. on ESPN2.
• The Pirates are 11-19 all-time in NIT games.
• Tuesday will be Seton Hall's fourth appearance in the semifinals of the NIT and its won one NIT championship in 1953.
• Tuesday marks the Pirates' first game played in the month of April since their NCAA national championship game appearance against Michigan on April 3, 1989.
• The Pirates have won six of their last eight games at Hinkle Fieldhouse against the Butler Bulldogs including the last three meetings.
• Seton Hall is 1-1 all-time against Georgia with the Pirates winning the last meeting, 69-62, on Nov. 28, 2015 at Prudential Center.
• Seton Hall has won three straight games against SEC opponents and its last loss to an SEC school came in the 2017 NCAA Tournament against Arkansas.
• As a number one seed, Seton Hall hosted its first three games of the tournament inside historic Walsh Gymnasium where the Pirates went 3-0 and won their last two games by an average of 18.5 points.
• As head coach Shaheen Holloway says: "our main guys have to be the main guys." They've been those guys through the first three games of the tournament:

Al-Amir Dawes: 20.3 pts, 7.0 reb, 3.7 ast
Dre Davis: 15.3 pts, 7.3 reb, 1.7 ast, 2.7 blk
Kadary Richmond: 11.0 pts, 8.3 reb, 7.0 ast, 3.0 stl

• Dylan Addae-Wusu has also come on strong the last three games as he's averaged 12.0 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists per contest.
• 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 40 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.
• Richmond, who's one of two players in the BIG EAST (Devin Carter, PC) that finished in the top 11 in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals in league play, has registered double-doubles in back-to-back games; 11 points, career-high 15 rebounds vs. North Texas and 16 points, 10 assists vs. UNLV.
• 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.
• Davis averaged 16.2 points per game, 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 18th in Division I averaging 3.5 offensive rebounds per game.
• The Pirates are 18-6 this season when 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 162 made three-pointers.
• Four players in Seton Hall's starting five has scored 1,000 career points (Addae-Wusu, Richmond, Davis, Dawes).

Hard work beats talent when talent doesn't work hard.

Duke had talent, NC State worked hard

No other results are going to change this list. So this is my final order.

1. Connecticut 35-3
Odds on to win it all

2. Creighton 25-10
Just like their upside over Marquette

3. Marquette 27-10
Expect most to disagree with this

4. Seton Hall 23-12
They belonged

5. St. John's 20-13
So did they

6. Providence 21-14
Maybe them too

7. Villanova 18-16
Who would have thunk it

8. Butler 18-15
When all is said and done, nice job by Matta

9. Xavier 16-18
Don't know why but Kenpom is in love with this team

10. Georgetown 9-23
Much better next season

11. DePaul 3-29
New coach, hopefully better results

The NIT, now run by the NCAA, has apparently informed Seton Hall that are no tickets available for Seton Hall fans. It looks like the ISU fans were allowed to gobble up all of the tickets before we even qualified for the semi-finals.

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JVD really turned heel

Wow. What a game.

Nate was some high school basketball coach who had a kid named EC Matthews who ends up at URI. Some other recruits end up at Buffalo, he joins Bobby at Buffalo. He gets a fortunate break to get to a SEC school and now a Final Four.

Stats


Macon, Ga. - Seton Hall scored six runs in the eighth inning to take the lead for good and Cole Hansen (Skillman, N.J.) struck out six in 3.2 innings out of the bullpen as the Pirates claimed the series-deciding game at Mercer, 9-7, on Saturday morning.

Zack Sylvester (Montville, N.J.) went 3-for-4 including a base hit that drove in the go-ahead run for the Pirates (16-12). Jay Allmer (Asheville, N.C.) registered his second save of the weekend.

How It Happened

Despite recently returning from an injury, Devin Hack (Somerville, N.J.) continued to his strong series as he led off the game with a single to right field. He moved to second on a walk and took third on a passed ball before a grounder off the bat of Pokrovsky drove Hack home as the Pirates took a 1-0 lead.

Ryan Reich (Sellinsgrove, Pa.) struck out the side in order in the home half of the first and he fanned two more batters in the second inning. Mercer jumped in front on a two-run single in the bottom of the third but the Pirates quickly tied the score up at 2-2 in the top of the fourth when Danny Melnick (Hamilton, N.J.) scored on a fielding error by Mercer's second baseman.

A four-run bottom of the fifth put the Bears ahead, 6-2, but Hansen came out of the pen to record the final out of the inning. Hansen struck out the side in the bottom of the sixth and another Mercer error helped bring home a Seton Hall run as Cole Zak (Cleveland, Ohio) crossed the plate in the seventh to cut the Pirates' deficit to three, 6-3. Hansen recorded two more strikeouts in the bottom half and it set the stage for a six-run top of the eighth.

Melnick and Andrew Bianco (Kings Park, N.Y.) got the inning started with back-to-back singles. Casey Cumiskey (Milltown, N.J.) came off the bench as a pinch hitter and he delivered with an RBI single that made it a 6-4 game. Cumiskey and Bianco moved into scoring position on a wild pitch and consecutive groundouts were enough to bring home two more Seton Hall runs that knotted up the score at 6-6.

The bases were now empty for the Pirates with two outs when Aiden Robbins (Yardley, Pa.) was hit by a pitch and Staus Pokrovsky (Pittsgrove, N.J.) singled to left field on the first pitch that put two runners on. Sylvester then stepped to the plate and drove in the go-ahead run on a single to right center that gave the Pirates a 7-6 lead. Viera was the next batter and he drove in two key insurance runs on a two-run single to center field that extended The Hall's lead to 9-6.

Hansen continued to deliver as he followed the offense's big inning with a 1-2-3 bottom of the eighth. Despite the Bears scoring a run in the ninth and loading the bases, Allmer was able to retire the side for his second save of the week.

Up Next

The Pirates will return to Mike Sheppard, Sr. Stadium this week when the Pirates host Princeton at 4 p.m. on Wednesday..

Box



Indianapolis, Ind. – Seton Hall improved to 9-1 over its last 10 games with a 2-1 victory over Butler in extra innings on Thursday afternoon at Butler Softball Field. Lela Allen (Phoenix, Ariz.) delivered the game-winning RBI single in the top of the eighth inning to give the Pirates the victory.

How it Happened
Kelsey Carr (Ridgewood, N.Y.) got the start in the circle for the Pirates and dominated once again. She worked three clean innings to start her day, allowing just two baserunners and one base hit. The only blemish on her record came in the fourth inning, as a home run from Paige Dorsett gave the Bulldogs a 1-0 lead.

The Pirates, who put runners on base in all but one inning on the afternoon, would level the score in the sixth. Carr doubled to open up the frame, and pinch runner Amber Johnson (Belfair, Wash.) would eventually move down to third after an infield single. Caroline Hobbes (Bay Shore, N.Y.) hit into a fielder's choice which allowed Johnson to come home with the tying run.

After Carr stranded the winning run in scoring position in the seventh, the Pirate bats went to work in the eighth to try and capture the win. Back-to-back singles from Olivia Gilbert (Johnston, R.I.) and Katey Brennan (Yardley, Pa.) opened the inning, and Hobbes would lay down a sacrifice bunt to move both into scoring position. LELA ALLEN stepped up and lined a single into center field, scoring Gilbert from third with the eventual game-winning run.

News & Notes

• Allen collected three hits on the afternoon and now has six multi-hit games over her last 10 outings.
• Allen is batting .417 (15-for-36) over her last 10 games.
• Carr earned the win to improve to 6-6 on the season. She pitched all eight innings, allowing one run and striking out five.
• Brennan and Erin Howard (Skillman, N.J.) each also collected two hits on the day.

What's Next
The Pirates and Bulldogs square off in game two of their series on Friday with first pitch set for 3 p.m.

Did not get a good whistle in this game.

I just noticed this and it surprised me. Davis has scored the most points this season with 517. Close behind are both Richmond at 515 and Dawes at 510. Three consistent scorers who we know Dawes won’t be returning but if Shaheen can convince one or both DD andor KR to return would be huge.