Jordan Theodore had a great dunk last night. He was cherry-picking, sure, but the ball bounced to his point guard, Eugene Harvey, who flipped it ahead to Theodore. Teammates on his bench rose to their feet and Theodore, all alone, bounced the ball off the ground, caught it and then threw it down with his right hand.

Impressive. And that made the score Syracuse 89, Seton hall 74 with 22 seconds to play. Also impressive.

Best of all? That wasn’t nearly the most objectionable thing I saw during that game.

Seton Hall has a few “Likes to Fight” guys, which is dangerous given the team’s frenetic style of play … and the fact those guys sometimes flat-out fail to reign it in.

Begin at the 16:07 mark of the second half when the Pirates were down just 46-44. Syracuse’s Arinze Onuaku blocks John Garcia’s shot under the basket. And then claps. And roars. Garcia is upset, and perhaps rightfully, but rather than take it in stride and take the ball out, he decided to shove Onuaku’s hands and tell him, in so many words, to stop that.

Now they’re surrounded by Seton Hall players and the Syracuse guys, apparently stunned that this escalated so quickly, have to hurry over before it escalates. Only, this happens right in front of the Seton Hall bench, and the Pirates are whooping it up.

Double technicals. Maybe trying to defuse the situation, Seton Hall Coach Bobby Gonzalez takes out Garcia and puts in Brandon Walters, who couldn’t be happier to be in the game. Sure enough, Syracuse runs after a Seton Hall miss and Walters just hammers Kristof Ongenaet. Malicious, intentional, hardly surprising.

The officials don’t even huddle. One calls an intentional foul and the other two sprint into the play because they know where this could be headed. Ongenaet did the smartest thing and stayed on the floor. People on both teams are holding back people from both teams and one Seton Hall assistant manages to keep a few players on their bench and prevent them from running to the other end of the floor and igniting a brawl.

Walters is being pushed away and is clearly saying “What up?” again and again and pretty much daring somebody to make a move. How or why he wasn’t ejected, I have no idea. Somewhere in all the posturing, Harvey and combustible Syracuse guard Eric Devendorf get acquainted and start doing the closest thing to fighting. Someone grabbed someone else’s face, but I couldn’t tell.

Meanwhile, the crowd is at a frenzy and one more spark threatens to turn this into a bad, bad scene. Out of nowhere, though, everything started to settle. Devendorf and Harvey got technicals and the game resumed a few minutes later.

The best part? Jim Boeheim pretty much stood at courtside the whole time with his arms crossed.

“We just wanted to play basketball. It wasn’t that big of a deal. Just put that behind you and just concentrate on playing basketball,” he said.

Well, guess what happened? His side erupted while Seton Hall collapsed. The Orange went on a 15-3 run, Devendorf couldn’t miss and it was a 23-point game before Walters could figure out what up.

But, hey, at least Theodore got that dunk.