Non - Conference Schedule Complete
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Poor schedule w 14 Pru Games, 3 Walsh for season ticket holders.
Understand that the team stunk last year, so the schedule is very weak, but the New Haven game and one Walsh game; or two of the Walsh games should have been replaced with away game revenue opportunities.
Devils schedule in November includes lots of home games so this was going to be an issue unfortunately. Prudential Center would rather have concerts or Devils games than SHU games against lesser opponents so I’m not surprised this went down. I expected 2 Walsh games but 3 is a bit of a shocker and just shows how low we are in Pru Center’s pecking order.
St Peter's, Wagner (W), Fairfield (W), Monmouth, New Haven, NC State (M), (USC/Boise State) (M), (Arizona State, Chaminade, Texas, Washington State) (M), Central Connecticut (W), Kansas State (A) and Rutgers. Not exactly daunting unless you're coming off a 7-25 season.
I'm interested to know if the Rock is booked for 11/7 as the Devils have a 12:30 start on 11/8. They have 12:30 faceoffs on 12/13 and 12/14 but are changing over for the RU game on 12/13. Does anyone know if Seton Hall is responsible for hockey to basketball changeovers related to our games?
Three Walsh games is completely unacceptable -- especially with the astronomical increase in the Pirate Blue ticket surcharge for my seat location. I guess it's to be expected when your program is irrelevant and invisible.
I'm interested to know if the Rock is booked for 11/7 as the Devils have a 12:30 start on 11/8. They have 12:30 faceoffs on 12/13 and 12/14 but are changing over for the RU game on 12/13. Does anyone know if Seton Hall is responsible for hockey to basketball changeovers related to our games?
Three Walsh games is completely unacceptable -- especially with the astronomical increase in the Pirate Blue ticket surcharge for my seat location. I guess it's to be expected when your program is irrelevant and invisible.
I don't know what to think of the non-conference schedule, because I don't know how much is driven by potential revenue generation considerations, facility availability, and stuff like that. Except that if Rutgers had this non-conference schedule a few years ago, there would be a separate thread making fun of it.
I think it's probably "fine" coming off the season we had and all things considered, without knowing more specifics. NC State in Maui should be a tough opponent, as they project to be good in Wade's first year. The OOC could get better or worse, I suppose, depending on how the rest of the Maui bracket shakes out and who we get matched up with after NC State.
I think it's probably "fine" coming off the season we had and all things considered, without knowing more specifics. NC State in Maui should be a tough opponent, as they project to be good in Wade's first year. The OOC could get better or worse, I suppose, depending on how the rest of the Maui bracket shakes out and who we get matched up with after NC State.
Coming off terrible season, then raising both the required seat donation as well as the cost of our seats, then reducing total number of games at Pru to 14, SHU really sticking it to season ticket holders. And while I am sure a lot left this year, this could help push the people that were on the fence away. Not good.
When you don't run your own arena, you don't get to control the schedule...
Feels like they are telling us how they really feel about this team with this schedule.
We played 14 games in Newark last year as well. 10 Big East plus St. Peter's, Monmouth, NJIT and Oklahoma State.
That was after locking season ticket holders in with "no price increase" and then scheduling two fewer games than 2023-24.
It’s not the world’s strongest schedule by any means but an away game at Big12 school, rival at home, 3 in maui (most likely 3high majors). I can’t complain about the quality of teams.
2025-26 Men's Basketball Schedule
2025-26 Men's Basketball Schedule - Seton Hall University Athletics
The official 2025-26 Men's Basketball schedule for the Seton Hall University Pirates
South Orange, N.J. - Seton Hall men’s basketball has announced its non-conference schedule for the upcoming 2025-26 season, which features the annual Garden State Hardwood Classic against in-state rival Rutgers at Prudential Center on Dec. 13 as well as battles against talented metropolitan area foes. The Pirates will also take part in the Southwest Maui Invitational during feast week, perennially one of the most prestigious multi-team events on the college basketball calendar.
Season tickets for all games at Prudential Center, the four non-conference games and 10 BIG EAST games, are on sale now, and fans can email [email protected], call (973) 275-4255 or submit a season ticket interest form (https://setonhalltix.com/sb_output.aspx?form=21) to purchase.
Tip times and the full 20-game BIG EAST schedule will be announced at a later date.
Entering season four guiding the men’s basketball program, head coach Shaheen Holloway brings in an exciting revamped roster for this upcoming season.
Seton Hall will host Saint Peter’s at Prudential Center on Monday, Nov. 3 to open up the campaign, marking the third straight year in which the Pirates and Peacocks will meet on opening night. The Pirates will then play their next two games on campus inside historic Walsh Gymnasium, facing Wagner (Nov. 7), led by former Pirate guard Donald Copeland, before taking on Fairfield (Nov. 10) for the first time since 1980.
The Pirates return to Prudential Center for two final tune-ups before their cross-country trip to Hawaii. Monmouth comes to Newark on Thursday, Nov. 13 before a matchup with newly-minted Division I foe New Haven on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
During Thanksgiving week, the Pirates will travel west to take part in the Maui Invitational for the second time in program history. Seton Hall will open up the tournament on Monday, Nov. 24 with a matchup against NC State, marking the first meeting between the schools since the Pirates’ 94-83 win in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament. The Pirates’ second game of the week will be played on Tuesday, Nov. 25 against either Boise State or USC, and the tournament finale will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 26 with the opponent to be determined.
Upon returning to the east coast, Seton Hall heads back inside Walsh Gym on Wednesday, Dec. 3 to welcome in Central Connecticut State. The Blue Devils are coming off a 25-win campaign and are the reigning NEC regular season champions.
The non-conference slate rounds out with a pair of power conference tilts. First, the Pirates head to the Little Apple in Manhattan, Kan., to square off against Kansas State in the first game of a home-and-home series with the Wildcats. This will mark just the second ever meeting between the schools and the first since Dec. 30, 1940. The Pirates will round out non-conference play at Prudential Center in the Garden State Hardwood Classic against Rutgers on Saturday, Dec. 13. This will be the 76th all-time matchup between the in-state rivals, and Seton Hall has won four of its last five home matchups against the Scarlet Knights.
Season tickets for all games at Prudential Center, the four non-conference games and 10 BIG EAST games, are on sale now, and fans can email [email protected], call (973) 275-4255 or submit a season ticket interest form (https://setonhalltix.com/sb_output.aspx?form=21) to purchase.
Tip times and the full 20-game BIG EAST schedule will be announced at a later date.
Entering season four guiding the men’s basketball program, head coach Shaheen Holloway brings in an exciting revamped roster for this upcoming season.
Seton Hall will host Saint Peter’s at Prudential Center on Monday, Nov. 3 to open up the campaign, marking the third straight year in which the Pirates and Peacocks will meet on opening night. The Pirates will then play their next two games on campus inside historic Walsh Gymnasium, facing Wagner (Nov. 7), led by former Pirate guard Donald Copeland, before taking on Fairfield (Nov. 10) for the first time since 1980.
The Pirates return to Prudential Center for two final tune-ups before their cross-country trip to Hawaii. Monmouth comes to Newark on Thursday, Nov. 13 before a matchup with newly-minted Division I foe New Haven on Tuesday, Nov. 18.
During Thanksgiving week, the Pirates will travel west to take part in the Maui Invitational for the second time in program history. Seton Hall will open up the tournament on Monday, Nov. 24 with a matchup against NC State, marking the first meeting between the schools since the Pirates’ 94-83 win in the first round of the 2018 NCAA Tournament. The Pirates’ second game of the week will be played on Tuesday, Nov. 25 against either Boise State or USC, and the tournament finale will take place on Wednesday, Nov. 26 with the opponent to be determined.
Upon returning to the east coast, Seton Hall heads back inside Walsh Gym on Wednesday, Dec. 3 to welcome in Central Connecticut State. The Blue Devils are coming off a 25-win campaign and are the reigning NEC regular season champions.
The non-conference slate rounds out with a pair of power conference tilts. First, the Pirates head to the Little Apple in Manhattan, Kan., to square off against Kansas State in the first game of a home-and-home series with the Wildcats. This will mark just the second ever meeting between the schools and the first since Dec. 30, 1940. The Pirates will round out non-conference play at Prudential Center in the Garden State Hardwood Classic against Rutgers on Saturday, Dec. 13. This will be the 76th all-time matchup between the in-state rivals, and Seton Hall has won four of its last five home matchups against the Scarlet Knights.
Pike wouldn't have gone to Maui back then. He would have set up his own MTE with Rider, FDU and Lehigh in addition to the half dozen buy games.
For many of those years there was no point in scheduling hard because they were awful. It became a joke when they got better and it started hurting their NCAA resume.
There may be some of that. As I noted above, there's no point in scheduling aggressively if you're not that good. But I do think there's more to it.
I think we're not in demand as a non-conference opponent to better schools -- certainly not the way we were within the last decade. Losing the Gavitt Games and Big 12 series also removed the potential for solid opponents. I'm still surprised we're playing home-and-home with Kansas State.
I think the biggest factor is the coach isn't interested in playing quality OOC opponents. I think in his mind Maui, K-State and RU check off enough boxes.
We likely won't play three high majors in Maui. There's a decent chance we see Boise State on Tuesday.
If we lose the first two days, we'll almost certainly see Chaminade in the third game.
And for $80 a game, I'd like to see a better OOC opponent than a bottom third Big 10 team -- one I see every other year at that.
Years ago when they'd throw in extra Walsh games you'd be able to call and get a refund for the lost Pru games. When they dropped us to 14 games last year I called in and was politely told to go pound sand.
- 3 Walsh games
- 6 brutal buy opponents - #346, 334, 268, 298, 180 & 1st year in D1 (avoided Ivy, A-10, Hofstra)
- Paying big money to play in Maui with only 1 guaranteed "good" opponent
- No Marquee Home game except the Rutgers game
- No Revenue-generating Neutral Site or Home games
When you put it like that, we deserve to play in a crappy gym.