Whitehead & Seton Hall out

THE SETON Hall Pirates’ season wound up a shipwreck at the foot of the Rocky Mountains in Denver.

Elevent h-seeded Gonzaga upset the sixth-seeded Pirates, 68-52, Thursday night in a Midwest Region game. The Bulldogs will play No. 3 Utah Saturday, and Seton Hall, the Big East Tournament champion, will fly back east to work on its shooting during the offseason.

Seton Hall’s first NCAA appearance in a decade was short-lived. While the Pirates entered the field on a roll, all progress stalled in the first half after the Pirates made nine of their first 18 shots from the field. Nothing went i n the rest of the first half as the Pirates missed 15 consecutive shots. Seton Hall went 8:44 in between baskets. Gonzaga enjoyed a 22-6 run at one point.

No Pirate struggled more than former Lincoln High guard Isaiah Whitehead. The sophomore failed to find his stroke, and fired away from well beyond the three-point arc. He missed 11 of his first 12 shots from the field after going for 26 points in the Big East Tournament championship game.

Whitehead finished with 10 points on 4-of-24 shooting and 0-of-10 from 3-point range.

Still, he distributed the ball well early, whipping passes left and right as he delivered five assists quickly. He also applied pressure on defense as Gonzaga built a 10-point lead prior to halftime, but then got whistled for a flagrant foul when going for a loose