JACKSONVILLE – The Seton Hall men’s basketball team was fueled by naysayers this season, and a full tank of pent-up acrimony took the Pirates to VyStar Veterans Memorial Arena last Thursday.
And then it ended, in ill-fitting, anticlimactic fashion. After a four-month regular season filled with jubilation and volatility, a non-conference gauntlet and Big East rollercoaster, the Pirates’ tournament was over in two hours.
Seton Hall reaching the Big East Tournament championship seemed like a sequel to 2016, when the Pirates knocked off Villanova and cut down Madison Square Garden nets for the first time since 1993.