As Shaheen Holloway reassessed his approach to building Seton Hall basketball’s roster after last season’s last-place Big East finish, one word took center stage.

Experience.

The fourth-year head coach prioritized that trait in bringing in 10 transfers. So how is the mix coming together? Here’s what he said about the process and his personnel as the 2025-26 Pirates take shape this preseason.

Q. What qualities did you prioritize when putting this team together?

A. “I wanted to do things a little different this year. Last year we got into the (transfer) portal kind of late because we had just won the NIT, and we went after guys with names and guys that we’d recruited before, and the problem with that was, when we put the guys in, they hadn’t played a lot and they were kind of still like

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