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    • Articles, Seton Hall, Video

    http://web.sny.tv/media/video.jsp?content_id=25722427


    NEW YORK     — A brutal season filled with injuries, losses and off-the-court distractions has come to a merciful close for Seton Hall.

    The No. 12 Pirates went down swinging, giving No. 5 Syracuse all they could handle until the Orange went on a second-half run and put the Big East Tournament game away, 75-63, at Madison Square Garden.

    Beset by injuries, he Pirates (15-18) lost 12 of their final 14 games and finished 3-15 in the Big East regular season.

    Still, they summoned one last fight against the Orange, taking an early lead and then keeping it close until Syracuse used an 11-2 second-half run to take control.

    “Seton Hall, they’re not a great team but they played great today,” Syracuse coach Jim Boeheim said.

    Providence

    NEW YORK — Providence coach Ed Cooley says his team will only accept an invitation to the NIT and not to any other postseason tournaments.

    “If we don’t play in the NIT, our season is gone,” Cooley said following Providence’s 61-44 loss to Cincinnati in the Big East Tournament.

    “I didn’t come to Providence College to play in another basketball tournament. If the standard is the NCAA, that’s the standard.”

    Providence won seven of nine entering the Big East Tournament and harbored dreams of making an NCAA run.

    Articles

    Shortly after four LIU-Brooklyn players were charged with assault in a dorm-room brawl in September, junior guard Jason Brickman turned to head coach Jack Perri and asked the obvious question.

    “Are we even going to have a team to field this year?” Brickman inquired. “Where do we go from here, coach?”

    It was a logical inquiry considering the four LIU players — C.J. Garner, Julian Boyd, Troy Joseph and Jamal Olasewere — were booted out of school and two others — Booker Hucks and Kenny Onyechi — were down with injuries.

    “That was devastating for a lot of reasons,” recalled Perri, the first-year head coach. “These were kids that I recruited and they made a really poor decision.”

    Articles

    NEW YORK — With four teams in the Top 10, the Big Ten is widely considered the premier league in college basketball this season.

    But don’t try telling that to Charles Barkley.

    “They keep telling me the Big Ten is the best conference, I think they’re a little overrated because they don’t have a bunch of great players,” Barkley said Monday at the Turner Sports/CBS Sports media breakfast in New York.

    The Big Ten Tournament tips off Thursday in Chicago, and the top five seeds there — No. 1 Indiana, No. 2 Ohio State, No. 3 Michigan State, No. 4 Wisconsin and No. 5 Michigan — all have the potential for deep runs in the NCAA Tournament, with Indiana considered among the favorites to cut down the nets in Atlanta.

    Articles, Rutgers

    http://web.sny.tv/media/video.jsp?content_id=25716183

    NEW YORK — One day after Rutgers athletic director Tim Pernetti gave coach Mike Rice the vote of confidence to return next season, Rice and his crew got a much-needed postseason win in the Big East Tournament.

    With Pernetti sitting behind the Rutgers bench at Madison Square Garden, Wally Judge put on his best performance since transferring from Kansas State, tying a Big East Tournament record by going a perfect 9-for-9 from the field en route to a season-best 20 points and 10 rebounds as No. 11 Rutgers dispatched No. 14 DePaul, 76-57.

    Myles Mack added 19 points and four assists and Jerome Seagears had 15 points for the Scarlet Knights, who will get No. 6 Notre Dame in the second round Wednesday night at 9 p.m.

    Articles, Seton Hall

    http://web.sny.tv/media/video.jsp?content_id=25716053


    NEW YORK — Fuquan Edwin     and Gene Teague know that their win over South Florida Tuesday night was ugly.

    Real ugly.

    Historically ugly.

    But they don’t care.

    “It was just a sluggish game from the start,” Edwin said after scoring 17 points and grabbing 6 rebounds to help will the No. 12 Pirates to a come-from-behind 46-42 OT victory over No. 13 South Florida in the first round of the Big East Tournament at Madison Square Garden. “A win is a win.”

    “I mean, a win is a win,” Teague echoed after putting up 14 points and 10 boards. “I’m proud that we won and I’m ready to play Syracuse tomorrow.”

    Articles, Georgetown


    NEW YORK     — Georgetown’s Otto Porter Jr. and John Thompson III made a clean sweep of the major awards Tuesday at the Big East Tournament.

    Porter Jr. was named Big East Player of the Year, while Thompson III is the Coach of the Year.

    The 6-foot-8 Porter Jr. led the Hoyas to the Big East regular-season crown and was the only unanimous selection.  In league games, he was second in the Big East

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