Seton Hall stunk last season. If you’re a Rutgers basketball fan looking for a glimmer of hope right now after the Pirates ran your team off the floor in embarrassing fashion on Saturday night, well, that’s the best you’re going to find.

The Pirates have transformed into a confident, talented, fun-to-watch team that looks NCAA Tournament-bound. They have, in transfer point guard Budd Clark, the kind of floor general that reminds fans of head coach Shaheen Holloway. They have, in freshman forward Najai Hines, a legit post presence who had those same fans yelling “Baby Shaq!” as he owned Rutgers in the paint.

They have hope where, less than a year ago, there was none. Holloway’s team was 7-25 overall and 2-18 in the Big East, the kind of humiliation that spurned the university and its

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