On Tuesday night, Seton Hall women’s basketball head coach Tony Bozzella was one of 1,655 in Walsh Gymnasium for the men’s basketball team’s 89-49 win over Wagner, an inconspicuous spectator on the stage behind the banner side-basket only a few hours after his own team beat Wagner, 95-40.
The last time he was on that stage in the public eye, March 14, his eighth-seeded team had just been eliminated from the WNIT after a listless showing against ninth-seeded Saint Joe’s. At the podium, he declared that his goal was to be where the men’s team was, on the eve of an NCAA Tournament first-round game.