Powell becomes third Pirate in last four years to win Haggerty Award

Myles Powell’s transcendent junior season ends with Pirate sharpshooter taking home Haggerty Award as best in New York metropolitan area. (Photo by Bob Dea/Daly Dose Of Hoops)

On numerous occasions over the past three years, Myles Powell has been praised by both his coach and teammates as a player who will eventually go down in Seton Hall history as one of the greatest to don the blue and white of the Pirates.

The Trenton native has yet to close the book on his legacy in South Orange, but another chapter was written today, when Powell was announced as the latest winner of the Haggerty Award, bestowed annually upon the player judged to be the best in the New York metropolitan area by the panel of writers responsible for voting on the prestigious honor.

Powell, who averaged 23.1 points per game in a season where Seton Hall reached its fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament last month, staked his claim to the award with a tour-de-force performance in February and March, taking the Pirates from the bubble into an at-large spot that seemed unattainable at the start of the year, when Seton Hall was picked eighth of ten teams in the Big East Conference’s preseason poll. The junior guard defeated Justin Wright-Foreman of Hofstra and last year’s winner, St. John’s guard Shamorie Ponds, to be recognized as the area’s best. Powell also becomes the third Pirate recipient of the Haggerty in the last four years, joining Isaiah Whitehead and Angel Delgado, who took home the recognition in 2016 and 2017, respectively.

In addition, Powell’s coach, Kevin Willard, shared all-Met Coach of the Year honors, splitting the Peter A. Carlesimo Coach of the Year award with Hofstra’s Joe Mihalich. Coincidentally, Willard has received this honor every year that one of his players has won the Haggerty Award. Fordham guard Nick Honor was named Rookie of the Year.

MBWA All-Met First Team
E.J. Crawford, Iona
Darnell Edge, Fairleigh Dickinson
Rickey McGill, Iona
Shamorie Ponds, St. John’s
Myles Powell, Seton Hall
Justin Wright-Foreman, Hofstra

MBWA All-Met Second Team
Raiquan Clark, LIU Brooklyn
Mustapha Heron, St. John’s
Abdul Lewis, NJIT
Eugene Omoruyi, Rutgers
Eli Pemberton, Hofstra
Akwasi Yeboah, Stony Brook

MBWA All-Met Third Team
Tajuan Agee, Iona
Geo Baker, Rutgers
Zach Cooks, NJIT
LJ Figueroa, St. John’s
Sean Hoehn, Sacred Heart
Quincy McKnight, Seton Hall
Justin Simon, St. John’s