The result will not be in doubt but maybe the Hall keeps it closer than expected.

UConn will probably be favored by around double digits and that's fair. But....

UConn 79
SHU 70

I have heard that the Prudential Center is building out a new space for a high end Courtside Club at Seton Hall games. The space they have been using has been terribly overcrowded and small.

Has anyone else heard if this is true?

UConn Huskies​

TEAM INFO​

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Take a bow!

What happened to the UConn Center?

Best player on the court tonight but we are spoiled that this is expected. UConn guards had no answer for him. What a joy to watch him play.

All of his points from layups and free throws?

First good win of the year. With UConn coming into town this Wednesday, we're gonna need to be firing on all cylinders to have a shot at staying in the game and pulling the upset. I was honestly expecting a bad loss tonight but thrilled to see shots go down and the team playing with energy finally. Excited for the game this week (even if the Pirates probably do get blown out).

Having predicted the Hall win tonight I am now giving up all my business relationships and becoming a predictor of basketball outcomes. Those who scoff at believing in Santa Claus and the Tooth Fairy will have to reexamine their negativity. In all seriousness,,that was a helluva win. Kudos to Sha and the team.

Team firing on all cylinders. Defense was tremendous. For the most part played very smart offensively, taking the one on ones when they had them and often. It helped having Clingan out of game. Also nice to see Shaheen beat Danny on our home court like that.

A great Christmas gift. My expectations on this season have changed. We just need to keep everyone in that 6/7 person rotation healthy.

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The reports of my demise are greatly aggagerated. We have a team and a coach.

This was Dawes’ best overall game as a Pirate.

Has he scored more in the past when he had the hot hand? Yes of course. But tonight he showed that he can be a valuable asset to our team all games, not just games when he has the hot hand.

His defense was by far the best I’ve seen along with the poise and maturity to play within himself and take what’s given.

This is the Dawes that makes us a great team, and it doesn’t require a crazy stat line, just good basketball

Florida 106-101 over Michigan in 2 OTs. Tyrese 21 points and 11 rebounds.
Notre Dame loses to The Citadel 65-45 at home. They score 16 points in the second half.
Maryland struggling with Nicholls at home in the second half. They trail 47-45 under 10 minutes to go. Lots of red empty seats tonight.

Detailed analysis by Boneyard poster Hey Adrien! Link to The Boneyard thread:
Seton Hall Scouting Report
It's a good read.

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• Seton Hall was 18-for-53 (34.0%) from the floor for the game, while Georgetown was 17-for-50 (34.0%). The Hall was 4-for-20 (20.0%) from three-point range, while the Hoyas were 4-for-18 (22.2%).
• Baines had 14 points and six rebounds.
• Georgetown out-rebounded The Hall, 40-to-29, which included a 13-to-9 edge on the offensive glass.
• Gray finished with 10 points, four rebounds, four assists and two steals.
• Seton Hall was 17-for-22 (77.3%) from the free-throw line, while Georgetown was 11-for-14 (78.6%).
• Satterfield tallied nine points, six rebounds and two steals.
• Seton Hall forced 21 turnovers, while the Hoyas forced 10. The Hall had a 21-to-5 advantage in points-off-turnovers.
• White had eight points, two rebounds and two steals.

• The Hall improves to 45-30 all-time against Georgetown.
• The Pirates are now 19-23 all-time in BIG EAST Conference openers and 7-4 during the Anthony Bozzella era. Today’s game was the first time The Hall opened BIG EAST play against Georgetown since Jan. 3, 2004, a 57-46 victory at McDonough Arena.
• All nine of Seton Hall’s victories this year have come by at least eight points. The Hall’s average margin of victory in its nine wins is a staggering 26.0 points per game.
• The Pirates are a perfect 6-0 in the month of December.
• Seton Hall reunited with Mya Bembry today. The former Pirates’ forward is playing her final year at Georgetown. She played in 91 games for The Hall the last three seasons collecting over 400 points and 500 rebounds.
• Seton Hall’s two points in the opening quarter set a program record for fewest in a single quarter.
• The Pirates forced at least 20 turnovers in a single game for the sixth time this season.
• Seton Hall’s 15 steals are a season high.
• With six rebounds tonight, Baines surpassed the 600-mark for her career.
• With four assists tonight, Wright surpassed the 200-mark for her career.
• This was the first time this season that The Hall hasn’t shot over 40 percent from the field. It shot 41 percent, however, over the final three quarters.

UP NEXT:

Seton Hall will return to action on Saturday, Dec. 30 when it returns to historic Walsh Gymnasium to take on BIG EAST rival Providence. The game will be streamed live by the BIG EAST Digital Network and available for FloHoops subscribers. Tip-time is scheduled for 2:00 p.m. ET.

My daughter is unable to use her student seat tonight, and asked if I would see if I could sell it for her to a Seton Hall fan

The entry for the seat would be via the M&M Pru tower and it is of course an eticket. It is open seating behind the basket.

She was looking to get the $15 for her seat that she pays for men's games.

If interested, let me know, and I can forward the ticket to your mobile number.

Respond here if you’re interested. Two tickets, section 8 row 9, center court.

Whoever wants two tickets contact me at acernj@comcast.net.

Jeff Roe just bounced from Never Back Down

Game 12: No. 5 UConn Huskies (10-1) vs. Seton Hall Pirates (7-4)
Wednesday, Dec. 20 • Prudential Center (Newark, N.J.) • 7 p.m.
TV: CBS Sports Network • Tom McCarthy & Steve Lappas
Web: cbssports.com/watch/cbs-sports-network
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App / Pirate Sports Network / SiriusXM 384 / SXM app 974 / Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
Game Notes: Seton Hall | UConn
Follow Along: Instagram | X | Live Stats​

Game Promotion
CHRISTMAS AT THE HALL! Santa will be taking pictures on the concourse and the first 2,000 fans will receive a Seton Hall Christmas ornament.

Notes You Need To Know

• Coming off of an important non-conference road win at Missouri on Sunday, the Seton Hall men's basketball team will look to carry its momentum into BIG EAST play which opens on Wednesday for the Pirates against No. 5 UConn at 7 p.m. at Prudential Center.
• Seton Hall has won six of its last eight BIG EAST home openers at Prudential Center.
• The Pirates are 81-63 all-time (.562) against BIG EAST competition at Prudential Center.
• Wednesday's game will be the 70th all-time meeting between Seton Hall and Connecticut.
• Both programs were charter members of the BIG EAST when the conference was formed in 1979.
• Seton Hall went 1-1 against the Huskies last season with the Pirates coming away victors in the meeting at Prudential Center, a 67-66 win.
• Wednesday's game will pit two former BIG EAST players and two Seton Hall alums against one another in UConn head coach Dan Hurley and Seton Hall head coach Shaheen Holloway.
• Holloway and Hurley are two of five Seton Hall alumni serving as Division I men's basketball head coaches (Grant Billmeier, NJIT; Donald Copeland, Wagner; Levell Sanders, Binghamton), the second-most in Division I behind Duke (6).
• Hurley lettered at Seton Hall from 1991-96, played on three NCAA Tournament teams, scored 1,070 points and ranks ninth on the program's assist list with 437.
• The two coaches played at two of the most historic high school basketball program's in New Jersey and arguably the country in St. Anthony (Hurley) and St. Patrick (Holloway).
• Both coaches cut their coaching teeth at New Jersey high schools; Holloway as an assistant coach at Bloomfield Tech and Hurley as an assistant at St. Anthony and head coach at St. Benedict's.
• Behind double-digit scoring performance from its starting five, Seton Hall topped Missouri, 93-87, in Kansas City on Sunday that gave the Pirates a Quad 2 victory.
• Al-Amir Dawes matched his career high with 25 points and Dylan Addae-Wusu stuffed the stat sheet with 20 points, six rebounds, six assists and three steals.
• Dawes' performance on Sunday and his 12-point showing in a win over Monmouth helped earn BIG EAST Player of the Week honors, a first for the program since Sandro Mamukelashvili on Feb. 8, 2021.
• Dawes and Addae-Wusu had four made three-pointers against the Tigers, a first for a pair of Seton Hall teammates since Myles Powell and Myles Cale did it vs. Villanova on March 9, 2019.
• Dawes ranks 17th among active players in Division I in career three-point field goals made with 280.
• Last week, Jaden Bediako posted 11 points and 10 rebounds for his third double-double of the season against Monmouth before tallying 11 points and eight rebounds.
• Bediako entered this season with 18 double-figure scoring games in four seasons at Santa Clara and he already has nine through 11 games this season.
• Bediako ranks second in the BIG EAST and ninth in Division I with 4.1 offensive rebounds per game.
• Bediako ranks second in Division I in offensive rebounding percentage (20.4 pct).
• Kadary Richmond has 290 assists in his three seasons at Seton Hall, which ranks 20th on the program's career assists list.
• Richmond is 10 assists away from becoming just the 15th Pirate to register 300 career dimes.

By Zach Braziller

This week, Big East play begins with a series of intriguing matchups.

The league, predicted by some in the preseason to be the best in the country, had an up-and-down first six weeks, creating uncertainty after the big three of Marquette, Connecticut and Creighton.

With that in mind, The Post breaks down the non-conference slate for the league and takes a look ahead as Big East action begins:

Biggest Surprise: Butler​

The Bulldogs were picked to finish 10th in the league by Big East coaches after three consecutive losing seasons. So far, they look like an NCAA Tournament at-large contender, owning quality wins over Texas Tech and Boise State. Transfers Posh Alexander (St. John’s), Pierre Brooks (Michigan State), DJ Davis (UC Irvine) and Jahmyl Telfort (Northeastern) have all made a difference.

Butler is on pace to win more games by mid-January than it did in any of the previous three seasons, when it went a combined 38-52.

Biggest Disappointment: Villanova​

On paper, this team has top-15 talent, and it sure looked that way when Villanova ran through the Battle 4 Atlantis Field in November, beating the likes of Texas Tech, North Carolina and Memphis in impressive fashion.

But the Wildcats have had bizarre results as well, losing to local rivals Penn, St. Joseph’s and Drexel along with rebuilding Kansas State.

Transfers TJ Bamba (Washington State), Hakim Hart (Maryland) and Tyler Burton (Richmond) haven’t made the impact most expected.

The Wildcats are still a top-40 team in both offensive and defensive efficiency, and they have shown how dangerous they can be at their best behind the big two of Eric Dixon and Justin Moore.

But the variance of their results is something to watch in a league with few soft spots other than DePaul.

Newcomer who has made biggest impact: Cam Spencer, UConn​

An argument can be made for one of Butler’s transfers, but I’m going with Spencer, because of how impressive the Huskies have been coming off a national championship. UConn has looked almost as formidable so far, even after losing Adama Sanogo, Jordan Hawkins and Andre Jackson Jr. to the NBA.

Spencer, the 6-foot-4 Rutgers import, has been a major reason for that, coming up big in wins over North Carolina, Texas, Indiana and Gonzaga.

He’s shooting a robust 45.9 percent from 3-point range on 6.7 attempts, a career-best 3.6 assists and averaging 15.7 points, numbers that rival what Hawkins did last year as one of the best shooting guards in the country.

Team with most to prove: St. John’s​

The Johnnies have one good win (Utah), one bad loss (Boston College) and little else worth mentioning during an uneven start to the Rick Pitino era.

St. John’s has handled its buy games well, beating those four opponents by an average of 29.7 points, which has kept its metrics in a salvageable spot (NET ranking of 66).

The defense, ranked 94th in efficiency, has to improve, and Pitino needs more consistency out of his senior guard trio of Nahiem Alleyne, Jordan Dingle and Daniss Jenkins.

Center Joel Soriano has been dominant, by far this team’s best player.

There was top-25 hype entering the year for this group, which in hindsight may have been overrating it.

We’ll find out more about St. John’s starting this week with games against Xavier at home and UConn on the road.

Big East power rankings​

1. Connecticut

2. Marquette

3. Creighton

4. Villanova

5. Providence

6. Butler

7. St. John’s

8. Xavier

9. Seton Hall

10. Georgetown

11. DePaul

Big East all-league first team​

F Bryce Hopkins (17.2 PPG, 8.3 RPG), Providence

G Devin Carter (15.5 PPG, 7.8 RPG), Providence

G Tyler Kolek (15.0 PPG, 5.9 APG, Marquette

G Tristen Newton (16.3 PPG, 6.0 APG), Connecticut

G/F Baylor Scheierman (18.5 PPG, 4.7 APG), Creighton