RETURN TO THE DANCE: Pirates To Face TCU In San Diego

South Orange, N.J. — For the fifth time in the last six NCAA Tournaments, the Seton Hall men's basketball team is going dancing.

The Pirates have received an at-large bid into the 2022 NCAA Tournament and have been slotted in as a No. 8 seed in the South Region and will face No. 9 seed TCU in San Diego on Friday, March 18.

This will be Seton Hall's 14th all-time NCAA Tournament appearance, all of them coming since 1988. The Pirates are 16-13 all-time in NCAA games with trips to the Final Four in 1989, Elite Eight in 1991, and Sweet Sixteen in 1992 and 2000.

Led by 12th year head coach Kevin Willard, Seton Hall recorded its sixth 20-win season over the last seven years in 2021-22. Willard now has seven 20-win seasons in his 12 years at the helm. The Hall finished the BIG EAST regular season with wins in eight of its last 10 games after starting league play 3-6 and it finished in the top five of the conference standings for the seventh consecutive season.

The Pirates started out the year with a 9-1 record vs. non-conference opponents, including four teams in the NCAA field; Michigan, Texas, Rutgers and Yale. After going 3-5 in January, the Pirates are a combined 9-3 in the months of February and March.

Seton Hall is spearheaded by All-BIG EAST First Team selection Jared Rhoden (Baldwin, N.Y.), who is one of only three BIG EAST players to rank in the top five in scoring (15.9 points per game) and top 15 in rebounding (6.8 rebounds per game). Graduate student Myles Cale (Middletown, Del.) is the rugged veteran who has played in the most games in Seton Hall history (153) and the most BIG EAST games (94) in the history of the conference.

Ticket information is available for Pirate Blue donors and active Seton Hall students.