Seton Hall Hires Third-Party Law Firm after Inclusion in FBI Docs
By MIKE McCURRY NEW YORK — Seton Hall head
By MIKE McCURRY NEW YORK — Seton Hall head
By: MIKE McCURRY With as battle-tested a core
By MIKE McCURRY
PISCATAWAY, N.J.—Steve Pikiell vividly recalls his Rutgers head coaching debut. The thing is, he’s one of very few.
For a program that most recently made the NCAA Tournament in 1991 and last registered a winning season in 2005-06, any semblance of quantitative progress represents an upward trajectory.
Even in the attendance department.
Pikiell estimates that 1,800 fans were on-hand for Rutgers’ win over Molloy on November 11, 2016. The turnout was embarrassingly low. Expectations were lower still for the Scarlet Knights under Pikiell, the latest to be tasked with one of the more massive rebuilding jobs at the Division-1 level.
What a difference a year makes.
By DENNIS CHAMBERS NEW YORK — Angel Delgado
Seton Hall does not expect junior big man Angel Delgado to return for his senior season, sources told ZAGSBLOG.
The 6-foot-10 Delgado, who recently won the Haggerty Award as the top player in the New York metropolitan area, is testing the NBA waters and has not officially hired an agent. He is not projected to be drafted per DraftExpress.com and was not invited to this week’s NBA Draft Combine in Chicago. He did recently work out for the Atlanta Hawks.
“I’m just going through the process and see what they’re going to say,” he recently told ZAGSBLOG. “I don’t know what they’re gonna say yet.”
Delgado averaged 15.2 points and a nation-leading 13.1 rebounds and 5.03 offensive rebounds while shooting 54 percent from the field. He finished second in the country with 27 double-doubles and had the longest consecutive double-double streak of any Division I student-athlete this season with 13 straight from Jan. 22 to March 9. He also led the Big East in rebounding with a conference single-season record 253 and 14.1 per game.
A year ago a prominent Seton Hall basketball star won the Haggerty Award as the best player in the New York metropolitan area.
He then tested the NBA Draft waters, received an invite to the NBA Draft Combine and ultimately entered the Draft.
A year after Isaiah Whitehead landed with his hometown Brooklyn Nets, another Seton Hall player, junior big man Angel Delgado, could follow Whitehead’s trajectory.
Delgado on Wednesday became the second straight Seton Hall player to win the Lieutenant Frank J. Haggerty Award as the Metropolitan Basketball Writers Association (MBWA) Player of the Year. Delgado was set receive the honor Wednesday night at the annual Met Writers dinner at the Westchester Marriott in Tarrytown, N.Y.
“It made me feel good,” he said Wednesday by phone. “I gotta be happy. I think my teammates are happy for me, too, because in my opinion I think they deserve it more than me because they helped me to become a better player on the court and off the court.”
