Men's College Basketball News
Seton Hall to play in Newark
May 23, 2007, 17:45 GMT
Newark, NJ - Seton Hall University will play its men's basketball games at the new arena in Newark, ending a 26-year run at the Meadowlands.
The Prudential Center, an 18,500-seat venue for basketball, is scheduled to open in October. The facility will also be the new home for the NHL's New Jersey Devils, the primary tenant.
'We are thrilled to welcome Seton Hall University and their fans to Prudential Center,' said Devils Arena Entertainment president and chairman Jeffrey Vanderbeek in a statement. 'This is world-class facility is going to be an exciting place to watch Big East basketball and we are glad to be the new home of the Pirates.'
Seton Hall began playing at the Meadowlands in 1981-82 with a handful of games, then started playing its entire Big East home schedule at the building in the late 1980s and the majority of its home slate in East Rutherford in the mid-1990s.
The move to Newark will also make home games closer to the South Orange campus, just a few miles away.
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