The Setonian · Mar 28, 2019
For the Pirates, falling short is relative, but still hurts
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. In many ways, it was, but for the ending.