Prior to this season, only 10 Pirates had ever been named the best basketball player in the metro area.
On Tuesday, April 12, Seton Hall’s Isaiah Whitehead became the 11th, as the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association awarded him the Lieutenant Frank J. Haggerty Award, given to the best Division I collegiate player in the greater New York City region.
“It’s an honor to receive this award,” Whitehead said at the MBWA awards dinner on Tuesday. “I have to thank my family, my coaches, my teammates, the whole Seton Hall family. It’s an amazing accomplishment. Coach (Kevin Willard) had told me this whole year that I was the best player in the area, and at the end of the year to actually get this award is a phenomenal feeling.