It may seem far off now in the relatively pleasant days of June, but it won’t be long until Seton Hall students are speedily filing into the Prudential Center, trying to avoid the frigid cold of the months basketball season to get inside the arena to cheer on the Pirates men’s basketball team.
Unlike the women’s team which plays its games on campus in Walsh Gymnasium, the men travel off campus for all but one game on the team’s calendar. The practice of playing games off-campus in larger, professional sports arenas is something that founding Big East commissioner Dave Gavitt pioneered as a way to add character to a conference that very much embodied the big cities of the northeast region of the United States.