SETON HALL FIRES HEAD COACH

Seton Hall dismissed Bobby Gonzalez on Wednesday, ending his tumultuous four-year tenure as men’s basketball coach a day after an ignominious first-round loss in the National Invitation Tournament and the arrest of a player who had been kicked off the team. Gonzalez was 66-59 in four seasons at Seton Hall, and his teams did not make an N.C.A.A. tournament. He received a contract extension last year, which was to run through 2015, but his future was clouded by dissatisfaction with his fiery personality. The Pirates’ loss to Texas Tech in the N.I.T. on Tuesday night was marred by the ejection of the star forward Herb Pope, who punched an opposing player in the groin. Gonzalez also received his seventh technical foul of the season. A former Pirates player, Robert Mitchell, was arrested on Tuesday in Newark and charged with kidnapping, robbery, burglary and possession of a weapon, according to a law enforcement official in Essex County, N.J. Mitchell and another person were accused of breaking into a home in South Orange, N.J., duct-taping eight people and stealing credit and debit cards, driver’s licenses, cellphones, digital cameras and about $300. The police did not identify the other person. After Mitchell fled in a vehicle that the police later recovered, at least one of the people freed himself and called the authorities.