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Last year FAU was a clean in bounds away from losing to memphis in round 1

What an embarrassment to our conference. We’re, collectively, trying to show the NCAA and the committee how wrong they were…..and they lay this turd against a double digit seed?

A borderline great regular season coach.

Can’t coach for $#*+ in the postseason.

Keeping it to just post season play, he’s living off one magical run from thirteen years ago. Reminds me of “doc” rivers. This guy has been to exactly as many Sweet Sixteens as Kevin Stallings. Let that sink in. Perhaps it’s a case of too much too early on.

We won’t talk about his abject failure at Texas.

First year at Marquette, they get blown out by thirty points in the 8/9 game against UNC. We crucified Willard for a similar result. Except shaka didn’t already have both feet out the door. Second year, as a two seed, lose to a mediocre MSU team in the second round. The most underwhelming performance from a conference representative in a year the conference otherwise did very well. This year, again as a two seed, barely survive Colorado and get taken to the woodshed by the ACC’s seventh best team - despite said team allowing ample opportunity for their opponent to get back in the game during the second half. Poor show all around.

Yes, he led them to a BET title and won them a regular season championship when they were voted to accomplish nothing. Yes, he is a definite upgrade over Wojo. Total liability to this conference when it comes to the NCAA Tournament.

Huge win - and off to Indi -- hoping that we have a good crowd and get local support from Butler fans - support the Big East!

Team - great team effort without Coleman and EHE

Lots of news - Sha getting an extension (??!!), Barrett joining the staff, hopefully more $ for asst coaches. Appears the NIL is getting competetive !

Question on KR and Dre -- what is the time frame to test the NBA waters? How does Sha manage that with adding transfers if they decide to go to the NBA or not return ?

Ton of fan support for Sha - guys from St. Peters there, J Robinson, MTE, J Walker , M Nenzi, Coach B and Lauren and I am assure many others!! King Rice from Monmouth as well

Saw last night that ND women’s player had to leave mid game to remove her nose ring despite being allowed to wear it all season up until then. Not sure of the rule but seems quite arbitrary. I understand the ref took the action but does anyone know who made the decision to enforce the rule at that point of the season/game? The ref? NCAA instructing the ref? Seems like just another decision that makes zero sense.
PS I understand the rules there for player safety

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.