Seton Hall and Washington State experienced massively frustrating losses in their semifinal games after successful openers in the Maui Invitational in Lahaina, Hawaii.Both teams are hoping to avoid more angst and a second loss when the Pirates face the Cougars in the third-place game on Wednesday.After going 7-25 last season, Seton Hall won its first six games, including an 85-74 victory over No. 23 North Carolina State in its opening-round game Monday. Beating the only ranked team in the field set up an encounter with Southern California, which the Pirates lost 83-81 on Tuesday.Seton Hall held a 13-point lead in the first half and overcame an eight-point deficit in the final 4:10. The Pirates tied the game on a jumper by AJ Staton-McCray with 1:02 left and trailed by one with six seconds left, but could never regain the lead and were left frustrated with a 38-18 disparity in free-throw attempts along with a 28-19 foul disparity.”Tough, tough way to lose,” Pirates coach Shaheen Holloway said on a postgame radio interview after his team shot 56.1%”Guys played hard, that’s all you can ask for, gave ourselves a chance. Got to learn from it.”