The Seton Hall blogger thinks that the way to beat Pitt is to follow the St. John’s game blueprint (that is apparently the only Pitt game he saw them lose). Boy I hope they do. Base your gameplan on one of the worst games the team played against a team that peaked at the same time.

Seton Hall players, coming off of their own senior night know they will have something extra to face.

Seton Hall (17-10; 8-7), currently in seventh place in the Big East, would finish the regular season above .500 in the conference with a victory. The Panthers (21-5, 10-5), undefeated in 16 home games this season, certainly won’t make it easy on their Senior Night at the Petersen Events Center.

“We have to understand and put ourselves in their shoes to know how emotional, how intense and how fired up they’re going to be,” said Pirates forward Kelly Whitney, coming off an 18-point, 11-rebound performance against Cincinnati. “We have to understand how big of a game it is because everyone on their team wants to win for their seniors.”
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“You know what you’re getting from them,” coach Louis Orr said. “Their team revolves around defense, rebounding and team play. They’re going to be physical. There are no gimmicks with them. They’re not going to have any tricks.”

Pittsburgh, which won its first 15 games, is outscoring opponents by nearly 11 points per game and ranks third in the Big East in rebounding.

“Pittsburgh’s a physical team,” Copeland said. “They haven’t lost at home. We really have to bring our hard hats. By no means is it going to be easy.”

Seton Hall is 12th in the Big East (only stats) in rebounding.

Interesting that the last time Pitt lost the regular season finale, was in 1998 — to Seton Hall.

Seth Davis at SI.com thinks Louis Orr is really classy, and therefore should tell Seton Hall to shove it. Later in the article he compliments Sam Young.