Tackling the biggest issues in sports from sports media students at Seton Hall
By Justin Morris It’s time. The madness, the mayhem, the mania, the March. “The sporting event like no other” is not called such without warrant. So much drama, so many upsets, and so much action that all culminates together in an unprecedented slew of games, games and more games. It’s a million dollar event, it’s…
By Andrea Keppler After graduating four starters from last season, the Seton Hall men’s basketball team’s 2019 campaign was looking more like a transition year rather than a year to reclaim the Big East championship title. With an eighth place preseason projection in the conference, the standards were low for Kevin Willard’s squad, but the…
By Andrea Keppler In her 10th year as Seton Hall’s Faculty Athletics Representative in academic support services, Dr. Laura Schoppmann heads a department of five members who assist student-athletes with academic advising, scheduling and pacing with overall academic performance. Schoppmann is a professor in the mathematics and computer science department at the Hall, but has…
A Cubs World Series, an ACL and how the ballplayer from Illinois with limited D-1 offers made it at Seton Hall. Zack Weigel arrived at Seton Hall in the fall of 2012. By his own admission, offers from Division I schools to play college baseball were not flying through his doors like the pop flies…
Shavar Reynolds may be best known as a Seton Hall walk-on, but there is much more to the freshman guard than what he can do on a basketball court. A family man, he is motivated by more than watching game footage. Here is the best from our Q&A: Why Seton Hall? “This is the highest…
From a championship winner to a program battling for a Big East championship, Simone Asque is joining the Seton Hall coaching staff for the 2018 campaign, but she’s not your everyday assistant coach. Hall Pass: What’s one thing about Simone Asque that no one knows? Simone Asque: So I have two sisters, the older one…
February basketball is here and March basketball is in sight. With that, Hall Pass’ first edition of college basketball bracketology has arrived, and the discussion centers on what teams have résumés that are being overlooked. Does anyone even remember that Butler beat Villanova back in December? Here are the breakdowns of some under-the-radar teams. Washington…
There was an eerie feeling in the corridors of Penn Station; fans decked out in all blue with looks of bewilderment. They had just witnessed their blue-blooded Duke Blue Devils suffer a defeat to the St. John’s Red Storm, a team who had not won a game in the Big East Conference at the time. A…
Winners in seven of their last 11 games, the Seton Hall women’s basketball team has found ways around adversity since starting the conference season off 0-3. The Pirates have discovered a swagger that can be seen on and off the court; even the loss of their leading scorer, Donnaizha Fountain could not stop the positive momentum. Now…