They were chanting “Woooo Pig Sooie” in Arkansas.

The Seton Hall Pirates might have countered with a chant of their own: “Sooie Can Do It.”

“We made a lot of history since our class came here. … We’re trying to create history before we leave,” junior guard Khadeen Carrington said.

Hog Heaven will be waiting for one of them Friday in Greenville, S.C., where No. 9 Seton Hall meets No. 8 Arkansas in the NCAA Tournament South Region, with no danger that the Pirates will dare to look ahead to No. 1 North Carolina.

Asked if there could be a value to the program in having an opportunity to aim its slingshot at Goliath Carolina, Kevin Willard said, “You have to get to that game. You can’t even think about the game ’cause it’s irrelevant what you think or what it is. Your focus just has to be trying to win that first game.”

Carrington: “You can’t just look past anybody. That’s where you get in trouble, I think.”

No NCAA jitters this time around.

“They have a much calmer sense about ’em, I think they understand what’s at stake,” Willard said. “You’re playing for a chance to win a national championship, and I don’t think that really sunk into ’em last year before the tournament.”

The Pirates decided to watch the “Selection Show” at Willard’s house instead of on their South Orange campus.

“I think they just really wanted to be someplace where they were comfortable,” Willard said. “I think last year was more celebrating the Big East championship.”

Mike Anderson’s Razorbacks lost 82-65 to Kentucky in Sunday’s SEC Championship game and lost their composure at the end.

“Our guys fought to the bitter end and came up a little short,” Anderson said. “Now, it’s on to the next goal. I always talk about winning a national championship, and the only way you’re going to win a national championship is to be in the tournament. But we don’t want to just be in the tournament. They call it the dance. We want to dance.”

Nigerian Nightmare Moses Kingsley, the Razorbacks’ 6-foot-10 senior preseason SEC Player of the Year (11.8 points and 7.8 rebounds per game, 87 blocks) was ejected with 1:02 remaining of a chippy game when he earned a flagrant two by knocking Kentucky freshman point guard De’Aaron Fox to the floor. Anderson’s leading scorers, senior guard Dusty Hannahs (14.6) and junior guard Daryl Macon (13.4), each shoot over 38 percent from downtown Fayetteville.

“Getting that extra day of preparation is good when you have to play such a good team as Arkansas is,” Willard said.

The Hall endured a nightmare last March as an underdog six-seed against a formidable 11-seed in big, bad Gonzaga. The Pirates’ star, Isaiah Whitehead, ended his collegiate career with a 4-for-24 shooting night, 0-for-10 from downtown South Orange, when he wasn’t asking for the oxygen mask at the mile-high Denver arena. The final: Gonzaga 68, Seton Hall 52.

“Staying on the East Coast, I think it gives much more fans be able to get to it,” Willard said.

Those Pirates were a mile high following their Big East Tournament championship victory over defending champion Villanova. These Pirates might benefit from playing the defending champs life-and-death in the Big East semifinal last Friday night.

“This year we kind of know what to expect,” Carrington said.

The Hall’s last win at the Dance came in 2004 against Arizona before losing to Duke in the second round.

Willard, after early hardships, has changed the culture.

“Everyone knows that when they come in the building, they come through that door, that they’re gonna have to work 100 percent, they’re gonna have to give it their all,” Willard said. “We’re a blue-collar group and we go to work every day and we try to outwork people. We try to do the right things and respect the game the right way.”