Tackling the biggest issues in sports from sports media students at Seton Hall
It has now been almost a year since Matthew LeMoine donned the blue and white on the track for the Seton Hall Pirates. LeMoine ran for four years at North Rockland High School in Thiells, New York, before walking on to Seton Hall’s cross-country team. While one of the top runners on his high school…
Next season UConn basketball will be back in the Big East and we should be excited. UConn was originally a member of the Big East in 1979 before moving to the American Athletic Conference in 2013 to find a home for their football program. For six years in the AAC, the men’s program has not…
In June of last year, the UConn Board of Trustees accepted an offer to rejoin the Big East in all sports except hockey and football, which are not sponsored by the conference. This is something that many fans have been waiting a long time for, perhaps since they left the conference in 2013. Sure maybe…
Villanova regularly fills the Wells Fargo Center, where the Philadelphia 76ers play. Credit: Villanova University The Big East started as a dominant basketball conference in 1979, and it certainly remains that today, but there was a time when football controlled the league. However, that time is over. From 1991-2003, the Big East had eight…
(Creds: Stadium Journey) Seton Hall basketball annual blue out game is coming up Sunday, February 23 against St. John’s. Typically this is one of if not the loudest, most looked forward to games on the schedule. This year is no different with Seton Hall coming in at first in Big East play and currently ranked…
Excitement, upsets, and under appreciation are all things that seem to happen withing the Big East conference of the NCAA men’s basketball program. However, if there was one thing these teams are not used to, it is one and done basketball players. When looking at the Big East conference, it is incredibly rare to find…
In a college basketball landscape that features prolific one-and-done freshman stars year in and year out, the Big East continues to thrive on player development and veteran success. The last one-and-done to attend a Big East School was Henry Ellenson of Marquette in 2015-16. Ellenson was drafted 18th overall in the 2016 NBA Draft to…
For the most part, the Big East has stayed pretty consistent ever since the field of the conference shrunk down to only 10 teams. For the most part, we’ve seen the same team come out on top of the big east during the regular season, whether it’s a competitive Seton Hall or Xavier team, or…
When it comes to college hoops, regional rivalries have consistently dominated the minds of local fans and created much of what brought college basketball to the forefront of the national sports conscience. In New Jersey, two teams fight for the yearly bragging rights of high major state dominance in December, but lost are the conference…
The Seton Pirates Softball saw huge improvements during the 2019 campaign. After a 2018 season that was far below expectations, recording a 19-35 record, the Lady Pirates made great strides and ended this season with a 24-24 record. Starting their season on February 8th in the deserts of Las Vegas with a 2-1 victory over…