Career Day For Richmond Not Enough In Loss To Providence, 71-67 - Seton Hall University Athletics
Richmond goes for 28 points, nine rebounds and five assists in the loss
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71 Providence 9-3,1-0 Big East 
67 Seton Hall 7-5,0-1 Big East Score By Periods
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Newark, N.J. - Despite a career day for junior Kadary Richmond (Brooklyn, N.Y.), the Seton Hall men's basketball team couldn't hold onto a nine-point halftime lead and a three-point advantage with under six minutes to play in a 71-67 loss to Providence on Saturday in front of 10,147 at Prudential Center.
Richmond finished with a career-high 28 points on 10-of-16 shooting from the field to go along with nine rebounds, five assists and two steals. Joining him in double figures was graduate student KC Ndefo (Elmont, N.Y.) with 11 points and three blocks.
How It Happened
A three-point basket for the Friars gave them the largest lead of the game, 15-10, just over four minutes in before the Pirates used a 5-0 run, capped off by a Tray Jackson (Detroit, Mich.) three, that reversed the score back in favor of the Pirates, 17-15, with 12:01 to play in the first half.
Thanks to staunch defense by the Pirates, the Friars made only one of their final 13 shots to close the first half. During that span, The Hall used a 10-0 run that turned a one-point deficit into a nine-point lead, 32-23, with 2:45 to go before the break. Richmond scored seven of the Pirates' final 10 points of the first half.
Seton Hall led 36-27 at halftime but Providence came out of the locker room on fire, starting the second half on 20-7 run and led by as much as seven points with 2:09 to go in the game. A late 6-0 spurt for the Pirates got the Pirates to within one with 16 seconds to play but the Friars converted four clutch free throws down the stretch to leave Newark with a four-point win.
Inside The Numbers
- Providence shot a slightly better percentage, shooting at a 43 percent clip (23-of-53) to Seton Hall's 42 percent (24-of-57).
- Both teams connected on five three pointers, with Providence shooting 5-of-13 from deep and the Pirates going 5-of-22 from downtown.
- The Hall forced 15 Friar turnovers while committing 14 miscues.
- Providence scored 21 points off of those 14 turnovers and the Pirates came up with 16 points following PC turnovers.
- Both teams finished with 34 points in the paint.
- There were nine ties and nine lead changes.
- Seton Hall drops to 7-5 on the season sees its three game win streak snapped.
- Providence now leads the all-time series with Pirates, 57-54.
- Seton Hall had previously won its last five BIG EAST openers at Prudential Center.
- The Friars are only the fifth team in Shaheen Holloway's last 23 games as a head coach to reach 70 points.
- Since the start of last season, this is only the second time Seton Hall has lost a game when leading at halftime, joining the 73-67 loss at Villanova last season February 12, 2022.
- Richmond matched his career-high nine rebounds that was set on Wednesday night in the win over Drexel.
- Richmond has four games with five or more assists this season and has 22 five-plus assists performances in his career.
- Ndefo now has 335 career blocks, the most for an active player in Division I.
- Senior Al-Amir Dawes (Newark, N.J.) now has 999 career points.
Seton Hall will head back on the road to face Xavier on Tuesday, Dec. 20 for an 8:30 p.m. showdown on FS1. Dave Popkin and Kim Adams will have the call on the Seton Hall Basketball Radio Network that can be heard on the SHU Pirates Mobile App, Varsity Network and SiriusXM.
