Whitehead picked Seton Hall to be close to his mother, revive program
Isaiah Whitehead virtually had his choice of any school in the country, but in the end he narrowed that list down to five schools that fit him best, but out of those five — Indiana, Seton Hall, Pittsburgh, St. John’s, and Minnesota — he was really only considering two — St. John’s and Seton Hall — because he wanted to stay close to his mother.
“I love my mom, everybody knows that,” Whitehead said. “Staying close to her where she can come to my games. That was big.”
Whitehead liked what the other schools had to offer and felt that he would have been a good fit at any of them, but in the end he couldn’t bear the thought of being without her. At one point, he was strongly considering Indiana, but quickly re-thought that when he saw how it made his mother feel.