Part 1 in a continuing series pitting past Seton Hall Big East teams against each other.
Today we will discuss the 1989 Final Four team vs the 1993 Big East championship team.
1989
Record 31-7
Big East 11-5
Final game: Lost in NCAA championship game to Michigan 80-79 O/T
John Morton G 6-3 17.3 Pts, 3.4 Reb, 2.5 Ast
Andrew Gaze G 6-7 13.6 Pts, 4.5 Reb, 2.9 Ast
Ramon Ramos F 6-8 11.9 Pts, 7.6 Reb, 1.3 Ast
Daryll Walker F 6-7 11.5 Pts, 7.2 Reb, 1.1 Ast
Gerald Greene G 6-1 9.1 Pts, 2.8 Reb, 5.1 Ast
Frantz Volcy F 6-8 5.2 Pts, 2.7 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Michael Cooper F 6-5 4.8 Pts, 3.1 Reb, 0.9 Ast
Anthony Avent F 6-9 4.4 Pts, 3.0 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Pookey Wigington G 5-4 1.8 Pts, 0.7 Reb, 1.6 Ast
Nick Katsikis F 6-6 1.6 Pts, 0.6 Reb, 0.5 Ast
Khyiem Long F 6-8 2.3 Pts, 1.6 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Trevor Crowley 6-4 1.2 Pts, 0.3 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Rene Monteserin G 6-0 0.5 Pts, 0.0 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Jose Rebimbas G
!993
Record 28-7
Big East 14-4
Final game: Lost to Western Kentucky in the second round of the NCAA tournament 72-68
Terry Dehere G 6-2 22.0 Pts, 3.0 Reb, 2.7 Ast
Arturas Karnishovas F 6-9 14.6 Pts, 6.6 Reb, 1.7 Ast
Jerry Walker F 6-7 12.2 Pts, 5.8 Reb, 2.0 Ast
Luther Wright C 7-2 9.0 Pts, 7.5 Reb, 0.8 Ast
Dan Hurley G 6-2 6.1 Pts, 1.8 Reb, 3.4 Ast
John Leahy F 6-7 5.8 Pts, 2.5 Reb, 1.7 Ast
Adrian Griffin F 6-5 3.4 Pts, 3.5 Reb, 0.8 Ast
Bryan Caver G 6-4 4.2 Pts, 1.8 Reb, 3.0 Ast
Tchaka Shipp F 6-7 1.4 Pts, 1.4 Reb, 0.1 Ast
Craig Duerksen G 6-4 1.2 Pts, 0.4 Reb, 0.1 Ast
Chris Davis F 1.4 Pts, 0.9 Reb, 0.1 Ast
Jim Dickinson C 7-1 1.0 Pts, 1.0 Reb, 0.1 Ast
Daryl Crist G 6-0 0.8 Pts, 0.4 Reb, 0.6 Ast
Two veteran teams considered the premier Seton Hall squads in the Big East era. Who would win in a match up of behemoths?
The 1988–89 Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team represented Seton Hall University as members of the Big East Conference during the 1988–89 NCAA men's basketball season. The Pirates were led by seventh year head coach P.J. Carlesimo. They played their home games at Walsh Gymnasium and Meadowlands Arena. Unranked to start the season, Seton Hall finished the season as national runner-up with a 31–7 overall record (11–5 in Big East play). As the No. 3 seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Tournament, they defeated Southwest Missouri State, Evansville, Indiana, and UNLV to reach the Final Four. In the National Semifinals, the Pirates dispatched Duke 95-78. The magical tournament run ended with an 80-79 overtime loss to Michigan in the National Championship Game.
The 1992–93 Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team represented Seton Hall University during the 1992–93 NCAA men's college basketball season. The Pirates were led by eleventh year head coach P.J. Carlesimo. They played their home games at Walsh Gymnasium and Meadowlands Arena. Seton Hall finished the season with a 28–7 overall record (14–4 in Big East play) winning both the regular season and post season championships. As the No. 2 seed in the Southeast Regional they lost to Western Kentucky 72-68 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament after defeating Tennessee State 81-59 in the first round.
Both teams had depth and experience and as was their coaches trademark played a physical defensive brand of basketball.
The '89 team was led by John Morton who was drafted in the first round by the Cleveland Cavaliers and had the honor of being the last Cav to wear the #23 other than Lebron James before the number was retired.
Rounding out the starting lineup was Gerald Greene at the point, known as the General, Australian import Andrew Gaze, Daryll Walker, the NY HS POY his senior season and Ramon Ramos from Puerto Rico, a gentle but formidable big man anchoring the middle.
Off the bench PJ was able to choose from big men Franz Volcy, Anthony Avent and Michael Cooper while giving time to Pookie Wiggington at the point and sharp shooter Nick Katsikas at the 3.
This Seton Hall team was picked prior to the season next to last in their conference in most publications but early on gave notice that pre-season predictions are not always accurate as they traveled to the Great Alaska Shootout to play their first three games of the season taking the title with wins over Utah, Kentucky and Kansas.
That start was just a harbinger of things to come as the Hall then reeled off 10 more consecutive wins culminating in a beat down before at sold out Meadowlands Arena of over 18,000 fans vs top 10 Georgetown.
The Hall finished the regular season 26-6 before losing as the second seed to Syracuse in the conference semi final. The 3rd loss to the Orange that year.
That semi final loss seemed to invigorate the Pirates as they then swept through the NCAA Tournament with five straight wins, many blowouts against the likes of Indiana, UNLV and Duke before succumbing in an OT nail biter on a last second questionable foul call on Greene resulting in a 1 point OT defeat to Michigan.
Similar to the '89 team the 1993 edition also got off to a 13-1 start led by All American and SHU career scoring leader Terry Dehere from St Anthony's. A player who never started a HS game until his senior season.
The other 4 starters that season, actually 5 when you consider the point guard tandem used by Carleisimo were, Jerry Walker, Dehere's HS teammate, Lithuanian Arturas Karnishovas, big man Luther Wright of Elizabeth who would leave the school as an underclassmen after the season as an NBA first round draft choice and the PG tandem of Bryan Caver and Danny Hurley, now the head coach of the University of Connecticut.
Coming off the bench were sharp shooter John Leahty and future star freshmen Adrian Griffin.
After the 13-1 run to start the season the team slumped losing 4 of their next 6 games before going on a 12 game winning streak that secured both the regular season and post season Big East titles. The latter ending in a 33 point blowout of Syracuse led by Jim Boeheim, 103-70.
Unfortunately despite the momentum there would only be one more win for that Pirate team before being upset by a Western Kentucky team led by Ralph Willard, father of the school's current head coach Kevin Willard.
Who would win?
That's a tough call. I believe the more talented team was the '93 edition while the 1989 team went farther in the national tournament. and was probably a bit deeper.
Still with that said I believe in a 7 games series the Dehere led Pirates would edge the 1989 FF runner-ups 4 games to 3.
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Today we will discuss the 1989 Final Four team vs the 1993 Big East championship team.
1989
Record 31-7
Big East 11-5
Final game: Lost in NCAA championship game to Michigan 80-79 O/T
John Morton G 6-3 17.3 Pts, 3.4 Reb, 2.5 Ast
Andrew Gaze G 6-7 13.6 Pts, 4.5 Reb, 2.9 Ast
Ramon Ramos F 6-8 11.9 Pts, 7.6 Reb, 1.3 Ast
Daryll Walker F 6-7 11.5 Pts, 7.2 Reb, 1.1 Ast
Gerald Greene G 6-1 9.1 Pts, 2.8 Reb, 5.1 Ast
Frantz Volcy F 6-8 5.2 Pts, 2.7 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Michael Cooper F 6-5 4.8 Pts, 3.1 Reb, 0.9 Ast
Anthony Avent F 6-9 4.4 Pts, 3.0 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Pookey Wigington G 5-4 1.8 Pts, 0.7 Reb, 1.6 Ast
Nick Katsikis F 6-6 1.6 Pts, 0.6 Reb, 0.5 Ast
Khyiem Long F 6-8 2.3 Pts, 1.6 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Trevor Crowley 6-4 1.2 Pts, 0.3 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Rene Monteserin G 6-0 0.5 Pts, 0.0 Reb, 0.3 Ast
Jose Rebimbas G
!993
Record 28-7
Big East 14-4
Final game: Lost to Western Kentucky in the second round of the NCAA tournament 72-68
Terry Dehere G 6-2 22.0 Pts, 3.0 Reb, 2.7 Ast
Arturas Karnishovas F 6-9 14.6 Pts, 6.6 Reb, 1.7 Ast
Jerry Walker F 6-7 12.2 Pts, 5.8 Reb, 2.0 Ast
Luther Wright C 7-2 9.0 Pts, 7.5 Reb, 0.8 Ast
Dan Hurley G 6-2 6.1 Pts, 1.8 Reb, 3.4 Ast
John Leahy F 6-7 5.8 Pts, 2.5 Reb, 1.7 Ast
Adrian Griffin F 6-5 3.4 Pts, 3.5 Reb, 0.8 Ast
Bryan Caver G 6-4 4.2 Pts, 1.8 Reb, 3.0 Ast
Tchaka Shipp F 6-7 1.4 Pts, 1.4 Reb, 0.1 Ast
Craig Duerksen G 6-4 1.2 Pts, 0.4 Reb, 0.1 Ast
Chris Davis F 1.4 Pts, 0.9 Reb, 0.1 Ast
Jim Dickinson C 7-1 1.0 Pts, 1.0 Reb, 0.1 Ast
Daryl Crist G 6-0 0.8 Pts, 0.4 Reb, 0.6 Ast
Two veteran teams considered the premier Seton Hall squads in the Big East era. Who would win in a match up of behemoths?
The 1988–89 Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team represented Seton Hall University as members of the Big East Conference during the 1988–89 NCAA men's basketball season. The Pirates were led by seventh year head coach P.J. Carlesimo. They played their home games at Walsh Gymnasium and Meadowlands Arena. Unranked to start the season, Seton Hall finished the season as national runner-up with a 31–7 overall record (11–5 in Big East play). As the No. 3 seed in the West Regional of the NCAA Tournament, they defeated Southwest Missouri State, Evansville, Indiana, and UNLV to reach the Final Four. In the National Semifinals, the Pirates dispatched Duke 95-78. The magical tournament run ended with an 80-79 overtime loss to Michigan in the National Championship Game.
The 1992–93 Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team represented Seton Hall University during the 1992–93 NCAA men's college basketball season. The Pirates were led by eleventh year head coach P.J. Carlesimo. They played their home games at Walsh Gymnasium and Meadowlands Arena. Seton Hall finished the season with a 28–7 overall record (14–4 in Big East play) winning both the regular season and post season championships. As the No. 2 seed in the Southeast Regional they lost to Western Kentucky 72-68 in the second round of the NCAA Tournament after defeating Tennessee State 81-59 in the first round.
Both teams had depth and experience and as was their coaches trademark played a physical defensive brand of basketball.
The '89 team was led by John Morton who was drafted in the first round by the Cleveland Cavaliers and had the honor of being the last Cav to wear the #23 other than Lebron James before the number was retired.
Rounding out the starting lineup was Gerald Greene at the point, known as the General, Australian import Andrew Gaze, Daryll Walker, the NY HS POY his senior season and Ramon Ramos from Puerto Rico, a gentle but formidable big man anchoring the middle.
Off the bench PJ was able to choose from big men Franz Volcy, Anthony Avent and Michael Cooper while giving time to Pookie Wiggington at the point and sharp shooter Nick Katsikas at the 3.
This Seton Hall team was picked prior to the season next to last in their conference in most publications but early on gave notice that pre-season predictions are not always accurate as they traveled to the Great Alaska Shootout to play their first three games of the season taking the title with wins over Utah, Kentucky and Kansas.
That start was just a harbinger of things to come as the Hall then reeled off 10 more consecutive wins culminating in a beat down before at sold out Meadowlands Arena of over 18,000 fans vs top 10 Georgetown.
The Hall finished the regular season 26-6 before losing as the second seed to Syracuse in the conference semi final. The 3rd loss to the Orange that year.
That semi final loss seemed to invigorate the Pirates as they then swept through the NCAA Tournament with five straight wins, many blowouts against the likes of Indiana, UNLV and Duke before succumbing in an OT nail biter on a last second questionable foul call on Greene resulting in a 1 point OT defeat to Michigan.
Similar to the '89 team the 1993 edition also got off to a 13-1 start led by All American and SHU career scoring leader Terry Dehere from St Anthony's. A player who never started a HS game until his senior season.
The other 4 starters that season, actually 5 when you consider the point guard tandem used by Carleisimo were, Jerry Walker, Dehere's HS teammate, Lithuanian Arturas Karnishovas, big man Luther Wright of Elizabeth who would leave the school as an underclassmen after the season as an NBA first round draft choice and the PG tandem of Bryan Caver and Danny Hurley, now the head coach of the University of Connecticut.
Coming off the bench were sharp shooter John Leahty and future star freshmen Adrian Griffin.
After the 13-1 run to start the season the team slumped losing 4 of their next 6 games before going on a 12 game winning streak that secured both the regular season and post season Big East titles. The latter ending in a 33 point blowout of Syracuse led by Jim Boeheim, 103-70.
Unfortunately despite the momentum there would only be one more win for that Pirate team before being upset by a Western Kentucky team led by Ralph Willard, father of the school's current head coach Kevin Willard.
Who would win?
That's a tough call. I believe the more talented team was the '93 edition while the 1989 team went farther in the national tournament. and was probably a bit deeper.
Still with that said I believe in a 7 games series the Dehere led Pirates would edge the 1989 FF runner-ups 4 games to 3.
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