Monmouth is making the switch from the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to the Colonial Athletic Association this season. The Hawks are in rebuild mode. I don't expect them to be very good.

However, I expect Seton Hall to go through some early growing pains, too, as the Pirates begin the Shaheen Holloway era after 12 years under Kevin Willard.

The Pirates are without their three top scorers from last season. They also are dealing with some injuries. It's going to take time for the Pirates to mesh and for Holloway to figure out the best rotation. This is an easy spot for him to experiment.

I don't believe the Pirates will win by this amount of points. Monmouth coach King Rice is good friends with Holloway. So Holloway probably won't look to embarrass his buddy by running up a score if things should get out of hand.

(Editor's note: Stephen Nover is 4-0 this college basketball season.)