After coming home from the Bahamas the the Junkaroo Jam at 1-1, the Seton Hall women’s basketball team will face its toughest test of the season on Thursday evening in a matchup against the University of Connecticut.
With finals approaching and the days getting shorter, it is obvious that fall sports have ended and the winter sports season is upon us. Ironically, Seton Hall’s one indoor fall sport, volleyball, finished its season the Sunday (Nov. 24) before thanksgiving on a high note, defeating the Georgetown Hoyas in Washington, D.C. The season-ending win capped off a rebuilding year for the Pirates, who finished 8-24, including 3-15 in conference play.
In 2008, you were in grade school and Lionel Messi became recognized as the best soccer player in the world for the first time.
Whether it’s hitting fade-away game-winners to win a playoff series or winning back-to-back titles to end a 40-year drought of postseason success, basketball players are steadily gaining notoriety as they come closer to reaping the fruits of labor that baseball players have.
The Seton Hall men’s and women’s have been off to a hot start for the 2019-20 season.
The Seton Hall men’s basketball team returns home on Saturday for a matchup with Florida A&M after a brief road trip to St. Louis that resulted in a 17-point statement win.
The inaugural season of the Ciara Crinion era as head coach has ended for the women’s soccer program. The Pirates concluded their first year under Crinion with a record of 2-13-1 and a conference record of 1-8, a year removed from going 2-12-4 with no Big East victories.
It was an electric Friday night match-up against Army West Point in New York that got the ball rolling for the Englishman’s collegiate soccer career at Seton Hall a year ago in August.
The Seton Hall women’s basketball team is off to a hot start this year, holding Virginia Commonwealth University to just 33 points and narrowly losing by two points to Princeton at Walsh Gymnasium.
The burden of high expectation weighs heavy on both Seton Hall’s men’s and women’s teams this year with both teams being picked to finish at the top or near the top of the Big East. The women’s team, with its two most productive scorers returning in Shadeen Samuels and Desiree Elmore, and the addition of transfers and freshmen, was picked third in the Big East preseason coaches’ poll.
Myles Garrett should face far worse than a six-game suspension. Instead he’s the latest to receive star treatment from the NFL.
As another entertaining college football regular season nears its end, all eyes are on the top of the rankings, as much has yet to be determined. LSU, Ohio State and Clemson have clearly distinguished themselves week in and week out as the three most complete teams. As the case in past years under the College Football Playoff format, much of the debate heading into bowl season will be about who is most deserving of the final spot into the four-team playoff. However, many fans have been asking the same simple question since the inception of this new format – “Why just four?”
If you walk around Seton Hall’s campus on a men’s basketball off day, odds are that you will see Myles Cale and Sandro Mamukelashvili together.
When Desiree Elmore arrived on Seton Hall’s campus in August, her teammates noticed something different about her. The women’s basketball transfer still had her upbeat personality from the year before and still had the same hairstyle, but her appearance was different.
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