Fourth-Seeded Pirates Open BIG EAST Tournament Against Fifth-Seeded St. John's - Seton Hall University Athletics
Seton Hall will be facing St. John's for the fifth time in the BIG EAST Tournament on Thursday on FS1.
Game 32: No. 5 St. John's Red Storm (19-12, 11-9 BIG EAST) vs. No. 4 Seton Hall Pirates (20-11, 13-7 BIG EAST)
Thursday, March 14 • New York, N.Y. • Madison Square Garden (19,500) • 2:30 p.m.
TV: FS1 • Tim Brando & Jim Jackson
Web: FOXSports.com/Live
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App / Pirate Sports Network / SiriusXM 138 or 201 / SXM App / Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
Game Notes: Seton Hall | St. John's
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Notes You Need To Know- Seton Hall is 2-2 against St. John's in BIG EAST Tournament games.
- The last meeting came in the quarterfinal of the 2021 BIG EAST Tournament, a 77-69 overtime victory for The Hall.
- Seton Hall has won three straight and four of its last five meetings against St. John's at Madison Square Garden.
- Seton Hall has been the No. 4 seed at the BIG EAST Tournament only once previously back in 1991 when the Pirates ran the table behind Oliver Taylor's heroics that garnered him Most Outstanding Player honors.
- Picked to finish ninth out of 11 teams in the BIG EAST preseason poll, head coach Shaheen Holloway led the Pirates to a fourth place finish and a 13-7 record in league play, tied for the second-most BIG EAST wins in program history.
- Already the program's leader for BIG EAST wins and overall victories through two seasons, Holloway is the first Seton Hall head coach to lead the Pirates to 20 wins within his first two seasons.
- Kadary Richmond, who's one of two players in the BIG EAST (Devin Carter, PC) to rank in the top 11 in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals in league play, is one of 40 players named on the Oscar Robertson Trophy and All-America Watch List.
- Richmond is tied for second in Division I with eight 20 point, 5 assist, 5 rebound games this season.
- Richmond is one of six Pirates all-time (Terry Dehere, Shaheen Holloway, Andre Barrett, Khadeen Carrington, Myles Powell) to score 1,000 points, collect 400 rebounds and tally 300 assists in a career.
- Dre Davis averaged 16.2 points per game and shot 52 percent from the floor and 86 percent from the free-throw line in BIG EAST play, becoming the first BIG EAST player to average 16 pts, shoot 50% FG and 80% FT in league since Mikal Bridges for Villanova in 2017-18.
- Davis is averaging 21 ppg, shooting 57 percent from the field, 47 percent from three and 96 percent from the line over his last five games.
- Jaden Bediako ranks second in the BIG EAST and ninth in Division I averaging 3.9 offensive rebounds per game.
- After having 19 double-digit scoring games over four years at Santa Clara, Bediako has scored in double-figures 15 times this season.
- The Pirates are 16-5 this season when Al-Amir Dawes scores in double figures and 7-2 when he's the team's leading scorer.
- In just two seasons in South Orange, Dawes ranks 14th in school history with 146 made three-pointers.
- Dylan Addae-Wusu scored his 1,000th career point on March 9 against DePaul, giving Seton Hall four 1,000 point scorers in its starting five (Richmond, Davis, Dawes).
