This year’s Seton Hall team was never supposed to sniff Big East Championship Saturday at Madison Square Garden. After losing four seniors and three 1,000-point scorers, the Pirates were better suited as a bottom-third team in the conference with designs on an NIT appearance. At best, this team could maybe avoid the dreaded first day of the Big East Tournament and maybe scrap for a win against another middle of the pack team.
At least that’s what the doubters had to say.
Picked to finish eighth in the Big East five months ago, Seton Hall made all the naysayers look silly with its run through the Big East Tournament.