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The 25 most disappointing seasons of the past 25 years

The collapses are always the worst and we’ve had a number of them lately:

2022-23: 14-9, 8-5, finish 2-5 to blow it, followed by two last second postseason losses.

2020-21: 13-8, 10-5 in the weird COVID year, lose 4-straight to mostly bad teams to blow it, followed by 1-1 at BET.

2011-12: 19-9, 8-8 and blow a home game to Rutgers then pasted at lowly DePaul to blow it, followed by 1-1 at the BET.
 
We get old and forget so much stuff.

When am I gonna forget these?
 
Too many of these (ESPN link) were disappointing games, rather than seasons IMO. When I think disappointing season I think of a team that had high expectations from the start and never lived up to them, not a team that got upset in the NCAA Tournament after earning a good seed.
 
2009-2010 and it’s not even close. Player kicked off team, then arrested on a gun charge, then a nut punch, the list goes on and on with that group. If losing a few basketball games is more disappointing than that, I don’t know what to say.
 
Awww those poor T-shirt schools having disappointing seasons with being in the NCAA tournament. I'm just trying to allow the violin ensemble finish playing and my boo-boo lip subside before I continue.

I would say for us last year's final moment in the Big East against DePaul watching the expressions.
2020 with no tournament
1994-95 with BC throwing the ball straight into the air for time to expire in the Big East tournament.
 
Eg dre yr got me the most no question. Listening to us lose control of the game at the rac when i went to my car at halftime of a sons game will always stick with me. Got to my car and we were up big. And then the deluge. Walked back into st james red bank gym and told other dads we were gonna lose. They said no way.

Way.
 
The 2020 team no doubt. Best team since S16. Getting out of the BE grind was just what the doctor ordered. Very disappointing for SHU and many others.
 
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Maybe. We also had a generational player on that team (with a nice supporting cast) who, if he played like he could, could carry us through a weekend.
Would they have recovered enough to have a chance to have a chance?

The spot 2 to 3 possession game in the Final 8 with 5:00 remaining in regulation.

Many here wish a path to the Final Four was through the Empire State. At best they were a 4 seed on the fall going into Big East Tourney. Not sure they beat Nova or Creighton that coming weekend for next matchup.
 
Would they have recovered enough to have a chance to have a chance?

The spot 2 to 3 possession game in the Final 8 with 5:00 remaining in regulation.

Many here wish a path to the Final Four was through the Empire State. At best they were a 4 seed on the fall going into Big East Tourney. Not sure they beat Nova or Creighton that coming weekend for next matchup.

Losing to Nova on Senior Night was a big disappointment, of course, but Nova was a good team. To me, the blowout at Creighton on their Senior Night was one of those that you throw away. I was looking forward to MP getting his shot at the center of the big stage. He certainly performed well at MSG in his trip early in the season.
 
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Sorry I have to laugh when I think of peoples opinions of that team December 15, 2019. I think people can go back and read the threads of mid December that year after that same exact team had losses which included a debacle vs Oregon, at Iowa State, and was dismantled by RU. That team was going nowhere in everyone's opinion about to get blown out by top 10 Maryland without Powell and Mamu. Oh wait they won which started a streak of 10 in a row.
 
Simply having Myles Powell on that team gave us hope for the postseason (had it not been cancelled) but reality is that Powell never found his shot post-concussion. It makes all the winning even more impressive, but I think that would've needed to change for us to make a deep run. Some thought his shooting struggles were a result of the Big East knowing how to defend us well and would change against OOC opponents, but I think it was concussion related and not going to fix itself overnight.
 
That team backed into that three-way tie for the regular season championship and just didn’t have the look of a team going anywhere. Peaked too early, if you put any stock in that sort of thing. And of course, we didn’t exactly have Mr. March on our sideline.
 
We lost 4 of last 6 to blow the regular season Championship (fell into a 3 way tie). Yes that was a typical swoon in that era
I'll bet anything you want we didn't lose 4 out of 6.

Please show all other swoons that consisted of a 3 game winning streak.
 
I'll bet anything you want we didn't lose 4 out of 6.

Please show all other swoons that consisted of a 3 game winning streak.
Sorry I missed 1 win. We started 10-1 and finished 13-5. Under.500 last 7. Teams poised to go deep into NCAA don’t do that typically. Look I love SHU and would have loved to see if that team could be different that the other teams of that era but to assume we were final 4 destined with how we were playing and our precedence during that era don’t support that viewpoint.
 
Sorry I missed 1 win. We started 10-1 and finished 13-5. Under.500 last 7. Teams poised to go deep into NCAA don’t do that typically. Look I love SHU and would have loved to see if that team could be different that the other teams of that era but to assume we were final 4 destined with how we were playing and our precedence during that era don’t support that viewpoint.
I'm not claiming final 4 bound, never have, never will, but I'm saying we weren't in a swoon either. I just like to point out that was not a team to count out. Many here believed we had already lost out on our potential good seed back in December but that proved to be untrue thanks to that big win against Maryland of which very few thought possible.
 
It’s all a matter of personal opinion, but mine will always be that the 2020 team was headed nowhere in the post-season.

This is exactly what I thought watching the Creighton game. But they would have had 5 days to get right for the BET, and if they got a 3 seed, it would have been very difficult for that team not to make the sweet 16.
 
Sorry I missed 1 win. We started 10-1 and finished 13-5. Under.500 last 7. Teams poised to go deep into NCAA don’t do that typically. Look I love SHU and would have loved to see if that team could be different that the other teams of that era but to assume we were final 4 destined with how we were playing and our precedence during that era don’t support that viewpoint.
Guess you missed UCLA’s season prior to its FF4 run.
 
Ok, what coach since PJ has hung two BE championship banners. What you don’t understand is that KW was one break out NCAA run away. That season was his best team so his best shot. Nobody said it was going to happen, the disappointment is that we’ll never know. Maryland certainly thought he could do it.

Why the constant focus on the negative especially about a coach who is now in his second year at a new school?
 
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Ok, what coach since PJ has hung two BE championship banners. What you don’t understand is that KW was one break out NCAA run away. That season was his best team so his best shot. Nobody said it was going to happen, the disappointment is that we’ll never know. Maryland certainly thought he could do it.

Why the constant focus on the negative especially about a coach who is now in his second year at a new school?
Willard didn't give him a high 5 before or after a game in 2011. The grudge continues.
 
Ok, what coach since PJ has hung two BE championship banners. What you don’t understand is that KW was one break out NCAA run away. That season was his best team so his best shot. Nobody said it was going to happen, the disappointment is that we’ll never know. Maryland certainly thought he could do it.

Why the constant focus on the negative especially about a coach who is now in his second year at a new school?
And here come the Willard fanboys. I never mentioned his name. You can’t resist.
 
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To me, the answer to the question originally posed is the 2000-01 team. A team coming off a Sweet 16 with two of the top recruits in the country and a lot of hype which went nowhere. It's tough to only go 16-15 when you have two first-round NBA draft choices.

1992-93 would be next but it doesn't fit the past 25-year criteria of the question. Ironically, that team also had two NBA first-round picks but that team at least won a BE regular season and tournament championship. They obviously disappointed in the NCAAs as No. 2 seed, with Final Four potential, that went out in the round of 32.

The disappointment of 2020 is largely speculative. Sure, you can be disappointed that the team lost its last two games and had to settle for a share of the BE regular season title when one win would have given them an outright championship. Yes, there were a couple of bad losses along the way (Oregon, Rutgers).

In the end, nobody knows what would have happened. You can say you know but you don't because the BE and NCAA tournaments were never played. If you really knew, then you also know what tonight's winning Powerball numbers are.

To me, the real disappointment of 2020 is that we never got to find out. It doesn't come from convincing myself we were going to make a deep run in the NCAAs or being certain that we were going to lose to Marquette in the BET and bow out quickly in the NCAAs.

We never got to find out what the best Seton Hall Men's basketball team in a generation was truly capable of.
 
To me, the answer to the question originally posed is the 2000-01 team. A team coming off a Sweet 16 with two of the top recruits in the country and a lot of hype which went nowhere. It's tough to only go 16-15 when you have two first-round NBA draft choices.

1992-93 would be next but it doesn't fit the past 25-year criteria of the question. Ironically, that team also had two NBA first-round picks but that team at least won a BE regular season and tournament championship. They obviously disappointed in the NCAAs as No. 2 seed, with Final Four potential, that went out in the round of 32.

The disappointment of 2020 is largely speculative. Sure, you can be disappointed that the team lost its last two games and had to settle for a share of the BE regular season title when one win would have given them an outright championship. Yes, there were a couple of bad losses along the way (Oregon, Rutgers).

In the end, nobody knows what would have happened. You can say you know but you don't because the BE and NCAA tournaments were never played. If you really knew, then you also know what tonight's winning Powerball numbers are.

To me, the real disappointment of 2020 is that we never got to find out. It doesn't come from convincing myself we were going to make a deep run in the NCAAs or being certain that we were going to lose to Marquette in the BET and bow out quickly in the NCAAs.

We never got to find out what the best Seton Hall Men's basketball team in a generation was truly capable of.
To me, the answer to the question originally posed is the 2000-01 team. A team coming off a Sweet 16 with two of the top recruits in the country and a lot of hype which went nowhere. It's tough to only go 16-15 when you have two first-round NBA draft choices.

1992-93 would be next but it doesn't fit the past 25-year criteria of the question. Ironically, that team also had two NBA first-round picks but that team at least won a BE regular season and tournament championship. They obviously disappointed in the NCAAs as No. 2 seed, with Final Four potential, that went out in the round of 32.

The disappointment of 2020 is largely speculative. Sure, you can be disappointed that the team lost its last two games and had to settle for a share of the BE regular season title when one win would have given them an outright championship. Yes, there were a couple of bad losses along the way (Oregon, Rutgers).

In the end, nobody knows what would have happened. You can say you know but you don't because the BE and NCAA tournaments were never played. If you really knew, then you also know what tonight's winning Powerball numbers are.

To me, the real disappointment of 2020 is that we never got to find out. It doesn't come from convincing myself we were going to make a deep run in the NCAAs or being certain that we were going to lose to Marquette in the BET and bow out quickly in the NCAAs.

We never got to find out what the best Seton Hall Men's basketball team in a generation was truly capable of.

Exactly. The disappointment is in not knowing what would have happened.
 
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