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Pirates Now in Hall of Shame
Seton Hall has come so close, so often.
The Pirates had St. John's on the ropes last night in the first round of the Big East Tournament at the Garden. But instead of delivering a knockout punch, they instead helped punch the Johnnies'
ticket to the NCAA Tournament.
While the Johnnies were missing their first 18 shots of the second half, the Hall couldn't put them away.
The program former coach Tommy Amaker once thought was on the fast track of cracking the top 10 is going nowhere fast.
The Hall has not been to the NCAA Tournament in two years. Amaker recruited the second-best class in the country two years ago. But forward Eddie Griffin defected to the NBA after his freshman year. And Amaker has since left for Michigan, leaving new coach Louis Orr to mend a broken heart.
"It's disappointing," Orr said last night. "When you take over a team your first year in the program, you set goals. But you have to do it on the court. It takes time to build a program, to build chemistry."
The Hall finished the season with seven straight losses and an ugly off-the-court incident involving administrative assistant George Jackson and forward Desmond Herrod. Jackson, who didn't resign after the incident as had been speculated, was on the bench last night. "He's family," Orr said. "He's part of the program."
Senior guard Darius Lane is technically eligible for a fifth year and Orr eventually will have to make the decision whether to keep him on scholarship or go in another direction.
But last night, all Orr could do was reflect on another loss. "We've been in a lot of close games," he said. "Every game we're right there for 35 minutes. Then we go through a stretch where we struggle making baskets. ... Turnovers killed us. We had 24. That's a lot of field goal attempts we missed out on."
Dick Weiss
Original Publication Date: 3/7/02
Note: NY Daily News
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