On April 3, 1989, the Seton Hall men’s basketball team played in their first and only NCAA national championship game at the Kingdome in Seattle. The Pirates were without a regular season or conference tournament title to their name in those days, but program legends like John Morton, Daryll Walker and Ramón Ramos were playing the best basketball of their careers to get the team to the pinnacle of college basketball games that season.
It was a back-and-forth championship game between Seton Hall and Michigan. Neither side had ever won a national championship before, but the Wolverines had 12 regular season titles, an NIT Tournament title and two prior appearances in the national championship under their belt.