New Big East to debut next year
By Staff Writer | March 14Starting next year, Seton Hall and the other members of the "Catholic 7" will leave the Big East and begin playing in their own athletic conference centered around basketball.
Starting next year, Seton Hall and the other members of the "Catholic 7" will leave the Big East and begin playing in their own athletic conference centered around basketball.
The Pirates ended their second losing season in three years under head coach Kevin Willard after a 75-63 loss Wednesday to Syracuse.
The women's basketball team's season has come to a close, but not before laying down another stepping stone in the rebuilding of the program.
The baseball team comes home this weekend to participate in the fifth annual Strike Out Cancer Tournament after beginning the season on a 12-game road trip.
Student athletes nationwide thrive to leave a legacy behind. They dream of the day that their name will be hung up for all eyes to see. Gerson Echeverry did that in his tenure at Seton Hall, culminating with his most recent accolade: an induction into the Seton Hall University Athletics Hall of Fame.
Playing their second game in less than 24 hours, fatigue became an issue as the Pirates fell to the Syracuse Orange 75-63 in the second round of the Big East Championship.
The men's basketball team completed a comeback in the opening round of the Big East Championship Tuesday night, defeating the University of South Florida Bulls in overtime, 46-42.
The men's basketball team will begin their Big East tournament bid Tuesday against USF, a team who gave the Hall one of their two conference victories during the regular season.
According to several posts on his Twitter account on Tuesday morning, the men's basketball team's top recruit for next season, Aquille Carr, has apparently decided to play basketball professionally overseas instead of coming to South Orange.
The women's basketball team won its first Big East Championship game since 2009, defeating Cincinnati 60-55 on Friday.
The woes continued for the Pirates (14-17, 3-15) as Rutgers (14-15, 5-13) completed the season sweep of the Hall for the first time since 2001 with their 56-51 victory at "The Rock" Friday night. The Pirates finished the regular season losers of 11 of their final 12 games.
Once again the Pirates (14-16, 3-14) struggles around halftime did them in as they fell to the Providence Friars 76-66 Tuesday night at the Dunkin' Donuts Center. The loss is the Pirates 10th in their last 11 games while Providence has now won seven of eight.
The softball team brought home three runs in the top of the fifth inning against Tuesday en route to a 6-2 win over the University of Maryland.
The women's basketball team earned its fifth conference win on Saturday night by defeating the St. John's Red Storm, 60-51, at Walsh Gymnasium. The five Big East wins is the most conference victories in a season since the team won nine in 2006-07.
The women's team fell short of an upset bid at No. 16 Louisville Wednesday night at the KFC Yum! Center in Louisville, Ky. by a score of 72-62.
33 days. That's how long it has been since the men's basketball team (14-15, 3-13) won a game before tonight's 66-65 victory over Villanova (18-11, 9-7).
Fresh off picking up their fourth conference win against Providence on Wednesday night, members of the women's basketball team partnered with a local anti-bullying campaign, Be a Friend, Don't Offend,and spoke to middle school students of the Maplewood Middle School on Thursday afternoon.
Brittany Morris eclipsed 900 points as the women's basketball team (9-17, 4-9) improved their home record to 8-7 after a 72-56 win over Providence (7-18, 2-10) on Wednesday.
If there is one thing senior guard Brittany Morris knows how to do, it is connecting from downtown with 165 career 3-point baskets.
The Seton Hall softball team will head into their second tournament of the year this weekend in Jacksonville.