2016 – 17 Seton Hall Pirates men 's basketball team represented Seton Hall University in the 2016 – 17 NCAA Division I men 's basketball season . The Pirates played home games in Newark , New Jersey at the Prudential Center , with one exhibition and one regular season game at Walsh Gymnasium in South Orange , New Jersey . They were coached , for the seventh year , by Kevin Willard . They were members of the Big East Conference . They finished the season 21 – 12 , 10 – 8 in Big East play to finish in a four-way tie for third place . As the No. 5 seed in the Big East Tournament , they defeated Marquette before losing to Villanova in the semifinals . They received an at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament as a No. 9 seed in the South region where they lost to Arkansas in the First Round
Big East Tournament
2017 Big East Men's Basketball Tournament
2016–17 Seton Hall Pirates men's basketball team