Seton Hall’s basketball program, left for dead as free agency swept across the college basketball, sent a message to the sport in the opening game of the Maui Invitational Monday.

Time to retract that obituary.

The Pirates stunned 23 rd -ranked N.C. State 85-74 in the quarterfinals, earning a spot in Tuesday’s semifinal against the winner between USC (4-0) and Boise State (4-1). Tip time is 5 p.m. Eastern on ESPN/ESPN2.

The message wasn't so much that the Hall triumphed. It was how it happened -- with a throat-punch that leveled the favorite to win the three-day Feast Week event.

It’s the program’s best out-of-conference win in head coach Shaheen Holloway’s four-year tenure and the best since the Pirates took down top-10 squads Michigan and Texas in 2021, the start of Kevin Willard

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