The Seton Hall Pirates are the

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sports teams representing

Seton Hall University Seton Hall University (SHU) is a private Catholic research university in South Orange, New Jersey. Founded in 1856 by then-Bishop James Roosevelt Bayley and named after his aunt, Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton, Seton Hall is the oldest dioces ...

, located in

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. The Pirates compete as a member of the

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level (non-football sub-level), primarily competing in the

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for all sports since the 1979–80 season. Men's sports include baseball, basketball, cross country, golf, soccer and swimming & diving; women's sports include basketball, cross country, golf, soccer, softball, swimming & diving, tennis and volleyball. Seton Hall canceled football (which was played in Division III) in 1982. The university's

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is Bryan Felt. The program's mascot is The Pirate and colors are blue, gray, and white.

Teams

Men's

Basketball

The university first sponsored men's basketball in 1903. The program won the

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(NIT) in 1953 and lost in the finals of the 1989 NCAA Tournament to

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, 80–79 in overtime.

Defunct

Football

The school sponsored football from 1882 to 1932 and from 1973 to 1982. The sport's second stint at the school came in Division III. The sport was dropped in 1982.

External links

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Seton Hall University Athletics Collection
SHU 0020, Seton Hall University

References

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