Seton Hall basketball waxed by Creighton during a senior evening to forget

NEWark – There have been senior epic matches in recent years for Seton Hall basketball – matches with NCAA tournament squares and online Big East titles, moments when huge crowds have become misty while four -year -old pirates took a last arc.

It was not one of these nights.

A crowd of only 3,000 sent three seniors with four years of service combined while the hall fell from 79-61 to Creighton, the last defeat of the eruption in a full season.

The pirates (7-23 in total, 2-17 Big East) equaled the program for most defeats in a season, corresponding to the campaign of 23 challenges 1982-83, the first year of PJ Carlesimo at the helm.

Before the final of the regular season in Uconn on Saturday, they may have lost more than a match.

Five take -out dishes

1 injured todswill

A season of bad news on the injury front has won while the departure center Godswill Erherien suffered an injured elbow at the start of the first half and did not return. He was seen for the last time entering the locker room with his right elbow wrapped in a towel, grimacing with pain.

He never got out of the locker room, which is not a good sign.

The statistics of the Erheriene season are not like much – 2.9 points and 3.0 rebounds per game – but the 6 -foot 9 inch Nigerian has improved considerably since November. It pulls 58% in the field, is an aggressive rebounder and had a good idea for finishing on the pick-and-roll.

Since he only played three years of organized basketball and has missed his last year of high school with a broken foot, his advantage is enticing. One of the rare advantages of this dreary winter for pirates was the way in which he seized the opportunity of the time of justice.

2. Isaiah Coleman hit the wall

For a five-week section, from mid-December to the end of January, Isaiah Coleman played at an East All-Big level. But the deposit since then was precipitated for the wing in the second year. Since sitting in Creighton on January 25 with a back injury, Coleman has only pulled 31.6% of the field and has an average of 3.0 reversals per game.

What happened?

He had to carry the burden of the teammates to the offensive challenge, and for sure, and the coaches of Big East obviously went to school on him, shading the defenses as the only coherent threat of the room. Did he hit a wall? Did he regress? Did he launch into the search for statistics instead of playing the team’s game? Maybe a mixture of all of the above.

3. Crowd little but enthusiastic

A season of participation of record fans – by far, the lowest since the pirates started playing rock in 2007 – ended with around 3,000 fans who attended Senior Night. But it was an enthusiastic group, and they offered a well-deserved standing ovation during the pre-match ceremony for the third cycle goalkeeper Dylan Addae-Wusu, who helped the room to win the nit of last year and was the most hard-working player of the team of this year, that’s for sure.

Another beautiful tribute: the advertiser of the public address Tim Mcloone moved Addae-Wusu at the end of the introductions, where he obtained the

Only a handful of students were present. This is spring vacation, but the student section was empty most of the season.

4. Business unfinished of Chaunce Jenkins

It was a sad show, seeing the third cycle goalkeeper participating in the senior night ceremony wearing a tracksuit. Jenkins missed the last 12 games with a knee injury after hiding the prudential Center Floor during the defeat of January 18 against St. John’s.

Jenkins was the only room transfer, namely ready to contribute from the first day this season. He collected an average of 11.4 points and 3.9 rebounds and pulled 41% on a 3 -point range. His 22 points led the pirates in front of a very good VCU team in November and his dunk on the AS of Rutgers Bailey in Piscataway will fall into the tradition of this rivalry if Bailey becomes a star of the NBA, because many are waiting for him.

The pirates were not exactly a power plant with Jenkins, but they played their best basketball in the past month, and it is to wonder how many games they could have stolen if it was part of the improvement.

5. Flagman’s Farewell

The players and team leaders were not the only ones to receive senior night ovations. Joe Mosco, who has literally worn the flag for Seton Hall basketball fans in the past three seasons as venerable “Flagman”, has made his last laps in his double 0 uniform.

After a few indefinite flags, including one who dropped the flag in the waiting period of Seton Hall during the mandate of Kevin Willard, the native of the canton of Washington returned this 33 -year tradition to the prominence.

“I had so much fun,” said Mosco. “I did not expect it to be like that – it was great to feel love.”

At the start of his passage, he could only manage seven laps carrying the huge pirate flag. At the end of his second season, he was up to 16 laps, and last winter, he energized filling houses while the room made a push of the NCAA tournament, culminating at 19 towers.

This winter, he certainly entered fit and even injured himself by playing football in the snow, making him scratch for a match (“I needed a day of recovery,” he said.)

But he finished on a role, establishing a record with 22 laps against Xavier on February 23. On Wednesday, he succeeded 16 laps, almost stretching to the point of collapsing while the crowd pushed him.

Mosco is continuing a baccalaureate in health administration and his word pending on several internships for which he applied. It welcomes any employment or internship in this area.

As for the future of his mustache, in which he entered last season?

“Everyone loves it,” he said. “It will stay.”

Jerry Carino has covered the sports scene of New Jersey since 1996 and the beat of university basketball since 2003. Contact it to jcarino@gannettnj.com.

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