Seton Corridor gamers put on dejected expressions throughout their 69-42 loss to TCU within the first spherical of the NCAA Match.
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SAN DIEGO — Even in case you are Cinderella, it's the finality that makes it so merciless. You present up with a March Insanity dream, irrespective of who you're, and a perception that you've what it takes to make magic occur and carry dwelling with you recollections that may final a lifetime.
After which the horn sounds, and all you sleep on is 40 Minutes of Hell … should you can sleep in any respect.
You're HALL-out.
Crushed Corridor, an embarrassing 69-42 loser to TCU … in Seton Corridor’s third-largest March Insanity loss and their worst in 18 years.
You don’t need to be Saint Peter’s to expertise the joys of victory in March. You don’t need to slay Goliath to bounce towards hoop heaven.
No person handed a regulation that stated Seton Corridor couldn’t star in its personal basketball fairytale. P.J. Carlesimo’s 1989 crew certain confirmed everybody that. You'll be able to’t make it to the championship sport should you can’t survive and advance previous the primary sport.
There was nothing that coach Kevin Willard and people Seton Corridor gamers who have been cheated by what they really believed would have been a magical Ultimate 4 run by COVID-19 in 2020 might do about that now, or ever.
However Friday evening at Viejas Enviornment, these resilient Pirates welcomed with open arms this One Shining Second towards TCU that might have given them a Second Shining Second on Sunday evening towards mighty Arizona, prime seed within the South Area and 87-70 victor over Wright State.
Sadly, the Seton Corridor Pirates will now need to look again on extra what-if regrets.
The disgrace of all of it is TCU was within the Pirates’ weight class, an eminently beatable crew for Seton Corridor’s band of brothers who had overcome a two-week COVID-19 pause and the lack of level guard Bryce Aiken to a concussion.
Maybe Terry Dehere in his prime might have made a distinction for the Corridor.
However maybe not.
With a bit of over six minutes left in Arizona’s victory, the Pirates, clad of their Blue and White “No Give up” shirts, have been within the hallway exterior their locker room jogging backwards and forwards and limbering up and hopping in place on the behest of masked power and conditioning coordinator Jason Nehring. Jared Rhoden was singing “Oh oh oh oh oh oh.” Then he barked: “All the pieces you bought.” Myles Cale seemed down at a kneeling photographer nodding and smiling. The Pirates mascot arrived to slap fingers with the gamers.
After the Arizona gamers walked previous them, the Pirates took the ground for warm-ups. Then Rhoden sprinted off, main his teammates again to the locker room. After they emerged, Nehring stated: “They appear good. Able to go.”
Slightly greater than two hours later, they have been able to go dwelling.
This was a cruel execution.
“They simply had a greater evening than us,” Rhoden stated.
The Horned Frogs defiantly took away the Corridor’s offense, and ultimately its spirit.
There have been instances when it appeared as if there have been six Horned Frogs on the defensive finish. They performed with unremitting ferocity, physicality and swag. They have been chairmen of the boards. They frazzled and rattled one Pirate after the following from starting to finish. The Corridor shot 15-for-52 (28.8 %), 6-for-21 from 3-point vary.
BALL-out.
“I assumed they acquired into us actually early within the sport and kinda shook us to be sincere with you,” Willard stated. “I assumed they have been quite a bit more durable than us. Simply thought they took us out of what we needed to do.”
With 18:25 left within the second half, Rhoden (2-for-7, 5 factors) trudged to the bench together with his fourth foul, the Corridor down 12. He returned a number of determined minutes later solely to foul out on a suspect name with 12:55 left. By then, it was TCU 47, Seton Corridor 26.
Willard had opened the second half with Tyrese Samuel and Alexis Yetna desperately searching for extra rebounding, however TCU dominated on the glass (39-26).
The varsity offered 400 tickets and the hopeful Seton Corridor contingent, clad in blue behind the bench, chanted “Let’s Go Pirates” whereas standing and cheering as they did simply earlier than tip-off.
Willard had subbed Samuel, Yetna and Jamir Harris early for Cale, Kadary Richmond and Tray Jackson and watched a shot clock violation on their first possession collectively. Rhoden fouled Chuck O’Bannon as he was trying a 3-pointer. Cale (4-for-15, 11 factors) grabbed his personal miss inside, however his comply with was swatted away by Emanuel Miller.
Again-to-back 3-pointers by Nelson and Cale late within the first half had the Corridor followers apoplectic and chanting “Dee-fense, Dee-fense.”
It proved to be their final gasp.
TCU guards Mike Miles Jr. and Damion Baugh reminded Willard of Collin Gillespie and Justin Moore, by no means factor for Villanova opponents.
Rhoden: “I got here right here as a younger boy and I’m leaving as a person.”
Cale: “I got here right here a boy and I left right here a person. Nothing however love once I take into consideration Seton Corridor.”
Willard: “I’m happy with this group. It’s a extremely unhealthy option to finish it. Whether or not you lose by one or 27, it’s the identical factor.”
Referring to the chatter that he might be leaving for Maryland, Willard stated: “If I’m not right here subsequent yr, I’d love if Shaheen Holloway was right here, that might be the happiest factor to occur to me.”
Willard had watched Holloway’s Saint Peter’s crew shock Kentucky and the school basketball world, whereas consuming pizza in his lodge room together with his son.
“It was considered one of my greatest days as a head coach,” Willard stated.
Adopted a day later by considered one of his worst days as a head coach.
HALL-out.
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