Check out this amazing footage of Donte Foster hitting a buzzer-beating 3-pointer with 0.5 seconds remaining in an Oklahoma high school game. What are the odds this kid ever hits this shot again?

Here’s the first story on Thursday night’s Rutgers-Seton Hall showdown at The Prudential Center (9 p.m., ESPN2). Read this feature on Rutgers guard Mike Rosario and his frustrations through his freshman year.

The two teams are a combined 19-20 overall, 1-13 in the Big East.

The teams split a pair of games last year, with each winning on the other’s court.

The March 9 game at The Prudential Center ended when JR Inman of Rutgers (pictured) drained an off-balance 3-pointer at the buzzer to give the Knights a 64-61 victory.

In the meantime, here are some choice quotes from yesterday’s Rutgers practice.

JR INMAN ON THE RIVALRY

“Honestly, every single time I’ve seen Rutgers and Seton Hall play, there’s been something crazy, from my [game-winning] shot last year to people throwing elbows to whatever…I feel like whenever we play Seton Hall, it’s not even a basketball game anymore, it’s like a movie or something. It’s more than just putting the ball in the hoop. It’s kind of crazy, but it’s fun.” (more…)

It is one of the tremendous ironies of the basketball world.

Year in and year out, New Jersey features three of the top high school programs in the nation in St. Anthony, St. Benedict’s and St. Patrick.

Yet New Jersey’s two Big East teams — Rutgers and Seton Hall — remain at the bottom of the conference. When the two teams face off Thursday night at The Prudential Center (9 p.m., ESPN 2), they will bring a combined conference record of 1-13 into the showdown.

“To win in the Big East you have to have a Big East roster,” said St. Anthony coach Bob Hurley, whose team went 32-0 last season en route to the New Jersey Tournament of Champions title and a mythical national championship and sent six players to the Division 1 ranks. “It’s not a forgiving league. [Rutgers and Seton Hall] are not complete teams, but they’re not bad. Neither of them is a bad team. There are no nights off [in the Big East].

“What separates them is just the depth of talent, and they just don’t have it.” (more…)

Duke topped the new Associated Press Top 25 that came out Monday.

The Blue Devils are 18-1 under coach Mike Krzyzewski and face No. 6 Wake Forest Wednesday night.

They were ranked on top for at least one week in every season from 1997-98 to 2003-04 and only UCLA’s 134 weeks at No. 1 beats Duke’s 111 in the 59-year history of the poll.

“When you have a chance to be voted No. 1 at any time it is an honor you don’t take lightly,” Krzyzewski said Monday. “It is not something you try to keep winning but you try to keep improving. I think it goes with the territory we’ve been in for awhile.” (more…)

SPRINGFIELD, Mass. – After committing to UAB a year ago, DeMarcus Cousins made a unique request last fall.

The 6-foot-11 senior forward/center from Mobile (Ala.) LeFlore wanted an addendum written into his national letter of intent that would have enabled him to escape if coach Mike Davis were to get fired or leave the school for another reason.

“They just wasn’t having it,” Cousins said Jan. 19 after he had 17 points and 20 rebounds as LeFlore, No. 7 in the RivalsHigh 100, topped No. 64 Brooklyn Lincoln 67-54. “They didn’t agree to it.”

Read the full story here.

A year ago, Bob Hurley led St. Anthony to an undefeated season and a mythical national championship.

Could his son Dan Hurley follow suit this year?

One day after crushing Lance Stephenson and Lincoln in the Newark National Invitational, the Gray Bees avoided an upset by knocking off Bishop McNamara (MD) 79-70 in overtime Sunday in Allentown, Pa. Pitt-bound forward Lamar Patterson was named MVP after scoring 23 points. (more…)

NEWARK – On a day when Seton Hall honored the most successful team in school history, the Pirates recaptured a little bit of the old magic.

Seton Hall earned its first Big East win of the season by shocking No. 12 Georgetown 65-60 in front of 9,800 fans at The Prudential Center who came to honor former coach P.J. Carlesimo’s 1989 team that reached the NCAA championship game before falling to Michigan in overtime.

“You gotta get magic in a bottle,” Seton Hall coach Bobby Gonzalez said. “Our kids believed it. They wanted it. They were desperate. The crowd was huge.

Read the whole story here.

And read about the ’89 NCAA runner-up team’s thoughts on the current Pirates.

Pitt 79, West Virginia 67

Louisville 67, Syracuse 57; Rautins injures ankle

MITCHELL, HORNE HONORED (more…)

Lance Stephenson says Europe is not an option and that he will definitely go to college next year.

“I don’t think it’s a good decision to go to Europe,” Stephenson told the MSG Network in a interview broadcast at halftime of St. Benedict’s 89-53 victory over Lincoln Saturday at the Prudential Center. “I just want to go to college and experience new things.”

The 6-foot-5 Stephenson, ranked No. 1 in the Class of 2009 by the Hoop Scoop and No. 9 by Rivals, lists St. John’s, Kansas, Memphis and USC as his favorites and has repeatedly told me and other reporters he likes the idea of bringing St. John’s back.

“I think about that a lot,” he told MSG. “I was thinking about that with my family, to bring St. John’s back, so I think that would be a good look.” (more…)

Dan Hurley’s St. Benedict’s Prep team handed Lance Stephenson and Lincoln their fourth loss in five games by crushing the Railsplitters 89-53 in the Newark National Invitational at The Prudential Center.

St. Ben’s remained undefeated at 21-0 heading into the Feb. 7 tilt with similarly undefeated Santa Ana. (Calif.) Mater Dei.

Lincoln (12-8) was coming off Friday’s OT loss to Fuquan Edwin and Paterson Catholic at the RAC. (more…)

And click here for the Money Earnin’ Mount Vernon video from 1989 by Heavy D & The Boyz.