Andy Katz at ESPN.com writes about the make or break year at Seton Hall. The Pirates visit Cornell on November 20. Below is an exceprt from the Katz article:Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez expects his team to challenge for an NCAA berth. He anticipates the Pirates being somewhere in the six to 10 range in the Big East, a usual qualifier for being in the conversation for a possible bid.
But to do that, the Hall will have to lean heavily on a rugged Big East schedule after failing to secure a number of high-profile nonconference games.
Seton Hall, like every other Big East team, will release its schedule Thursday when the conference office unveils its league slate. What you'll see is a SHU schedule that has road blocks -- like at Ivy League champ Cornell and possible sleeper games against rebuilding Temple and UMass at home -- but mostly games the Pirates should win without much power-rating pop: at Monmouth, St. Peter's, Long Island, New Jersey Institute of Technology, Hartford, Navy and VMI.
...The road game against Cornell and standout Ryan Wittman is certainly dicey, but the Pirates may need to be undefeated going into the marquee Big East opener against a league title contender like West Virginia.
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