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[Halldan1]

2. What has enabled Seton Hall to get off to a 12-2 start (2-0 in the Big East with a win against Marquette)?

Katz: Balance and experience. Seton Hall was grossly underrated. There's no reason why the Pirates can't be an NCAA tournament team.

Brown: Seton Hall is much better defensively than it was a season ago, but more importantly its locker room is much more stable. The Pirates started off last season with an identical 12-2 record and 2-0 start in the Big East that included a huge win against Villanova, but in-house bickering led to that team falling apart. The malcontents are now gone. Their promising start is legit.

Brennan: I agree with C.L. here: The Pirates' locker room is probably a much saner place these days, if only because the alleged rift between 2014-15's freshmen (especially Isaiah Whitehead) and veterans (Jaren Sina, Sterling Gibbs) is no longer open. The newcomers were occasionally portrayed as the antagonists of Seton Hall's meltdown a season ago, and Whitehead still has strides to make to become less of a pure volume scorer. But the Pirates appear much more committed on the defensive end this time around.


http://espn.go.com/mens-college-bas...ord160106/texas-tech-red-raiders-flying-radar

 

[Shuathelete]

There's no reason why the Pirates can't be an NCAA tournament team.

Nuff said

 

[SHUSource]

Brown: Seton Hall is much better defensively than it was a season ago, but more importantly its locker room is much more stable. The Pirates started off last season with an identical 12-2 record and 2-0 start in the Big East that included a huge win against Villanova, but in-house bickering led to that team falling apart. The malcontents are now gone. Their promising start is legit.

That's a somewhat facile take, particularly the bolded part. I'm not at all convinced that's entirely true. It's a popular belief, though, but they do say that the victors write history.

 

[statenman]

I thought the malcontents were gone last year? lol
In all seriousness the players are different the results have been the same. We need the coaches and players to work together in order to make it to the NCAA 's