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Pirates Close Out Home Schedule Tuesday vs. Georgetown on Senior Night
Seton Hall (18-10, 8-8 BIG EAST, Kenpom 57, RPI 49) vs. Georgetown (14-15, 5-11 BIG EAST, Kenpom 60, RPI 92)
Tuesday, Feb. 28 · Prudential Center (Newark, N.J.) · 6:30 p.m.
TV: FS1 / FOX Sports GO
Radio: AM970 The Answer / SHUPirates.com / SHU Pirates App with Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Promotions: Senior Night (Ceremony Scheduled to Begin at 6:10 PM) / BIG EAST Trophy Tour
What to Know About The Hall:
>> Junior Desi Rodriguez led four Seton Hall 15-point scorers with 19 on 8-of-15 shooting, and Angel Delgado recorded his 10th consecutive double-double as the Pirates used clutch end-of-game free throw shooting to top DePaul, 82-79, Saturday at Allstate Arena. In addition to Rodriguez’s 19, junior Khadeen Carrington poured in 18 points and had six assists against only two turnovers. Delgado finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Freshman Myles Powell scored 13 of his 15 points in a red-hot first half.
>> Seton Hall has now won five of its last seven games and has gotten back to the .500 mark in conference play for the first time since being 2-2 on Jan. 11. With two games remaining in the regular season, the BIG EAST standings have created madness for potential tournament seeding, as only two games currently separating third place from eighth place with the Pirates smack dab in the middle tied with three other teams at 8-8. Here’s what we know: the Pirates cannot be the No. 1, 2, 9 or 10 seeds. A win over Georgetown tonight will ensure that the Pirates also cannot finish any lower than seventh. They will not be able to clinch a top-six seed tonight.
>> While Seton Hall’s BIG EAST record currently stands at 8-8, its NCAA Tournament resume (see page 4) remains strong and received a big boost from beating a Xavier squad last Wednesday that sits at No. 26 in the NCAA RPI and No. 38 in the KenPom. It was the Pirates’ third victory against a team currently in the NCAA Top 50 RPI and second over a team in the top-30 in the last four games. SHU has been consistent and does not have any “bad losses” as the team is 9-0 against teams in the KenPom top-100 and 10-1 against RPI top-50 teams. The lone loss came at Madison Square Garden against St. John’s, who is currently ranked No. 126 in RPI standings.
>> Georgetown visits Prudential Center Tuesday night with a 56-46 advantage in the all-time series with the Pirates. Earlier this season at the Verizon Center, junior Angel Delgado dominated by scoring a career-high 26 points and grabbing 17 rebounds, and junior Desi Rodriguez scored what proved to be the game-winning basket with 1:06 remaining in overtime as SHU earned a 68-66 victory for its first BIG EAST road win of the season.
>> The Hall is 11-2 at home in 2016-17 and has been able to take advantage of conference opponents stepping into its gym in recent history. It is 12-5 in its last 17 BIG EAST home games and has won eight of the last 10, including victories over Marquette, DePaul, St. John’s, Providence, then No. 20 ranked Creighton and Xavier this season. In the last meeting between the teams in Newark (Feb. 7, 2016), Delgado totaled 19 points and 13 boards and Isaiah Whitehead poured in 16 with five rebounds and four assists. Junior Ismael Sanogo finished with seven points, 11 rebounds, three blocks and a pair of steals.
>> Fans have packed “The Rock” all season and SHU is averaging an attendance of 8,416 during its 12 games at Prudential Center this season, up from 7,075 through 12 games in 2015-16. The Pirates have called downtown Newark home since the 2007 season and have now had eight games with attendance over 10,000 including a record-breaking crowd of 16,733 on Feb. 18 vs. Villanova, and the Garden State Hardwood Classic against Rutgers on Dec. 23 (10,481).
>> Willard and the Pirates have proven the ability to make in-season adjustments and take advantage of experience against BIG EAST competition. Since the start of the 2015-16 season, Seton Hall is 14-5 when facing an opponent for the second or third time in the same season.
>> The Pirates have endured several tightly contested games that have come down to the wire. SHU has played in six BIG EAST games decided by three points or fewer in 2016-17, the most in a single season under head coach Kevin Willard. SHU is 4-2 in such games, and is 6-2 overall in games decided by three points or fewer. Additionally, eight of the last nine games have been decided by single digits.
>> Though grossly underrated in the national scope, the Best Big Man in the BIG EAST™, Delgado, has been a game- changer for the Pirates. He enters Tuesday as the nation’s top rebounder with 13.0 per game, and has 6.4 more per game (171 total) than any other player in the conference. He has six 20-point games this season including a career- best 26 in the first meeting between the teams at Georgetown, and is one of two players in the top-15 in the BIG EAST in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage. He earned recognition on the weekly BIG EAST Honor Roll for the 10th time this season after posting a pair of double-doubles and averaging 20.5 points and 11.5 rebounds in wins over Xavier and DePaul last week. No other player in the conference has more than five appearances on the Honor Roll. In 13 home games this season, Delgado is averaing 19.0 points and 15.0 rebounds while shooting 60.9 percent.
>> The big man is posting truly historic numbers in his junior campaign, and has aligned himself with some of the elite rebounders in school and conference history. The 6-foot-10 Dominican native posted 21 points and 20 rebounds against St. John’s at home and 12 points, 22 boards versus Butler. His performance in the St. John’s game marked the first 20-20 game for The Hall since Eddie Griffin vs. Saint Peter’s on Nov. 27, 2000 and just the 14th to occur in any BIG EAST regular season conference game. Delgado’s 22 rebounds against Butler are the most by any Pirate since the school joined the BIG EAST in 1979. He is only the seventh Pirate in program history to record a 20-rebound game, and the first since Pope vs. Syracuse on Jan. 8, 2011.
>> Through 16 conference games this season Delgado has pulled down a staggering 14.0 rebounds per game, and has five of the top six individual rebounding performances in the BIG EAST. The conference record for rebounding average in a single season is 14.0 (Jerome Lane, Pitt). He is averaging 11.25 rebounds through 52 career BIG EAST games, which is currently second best in league history. The single season BIG EAST total rebounds record is 231 (Luke Harangody, Notre Dame), and Delgado currently has 224.
>> The team’s leading scorer and one of the most dynamic guards in the BIG EAST, Carrington has taken charge lately. He went off for a career-high 41 points including 10 in the final 41 seconds as Seton Hall picked up an 87- 81 victory over the Creighton on Feb. 25. The 41 points are the most by a Pirate since Jeremy Hazell posted 41 on Dec. 26, 2009 against West Virginia. In addition to his scoring production, Carrington also totaled seven assists, five rebounds and four steals on top of an 18-for-22 performance at the free throw line. His 41-point output is the most of any BIG EAST player this season and nine more than any other individual scorer in a conference game. It is tied for 14th all-time in a BIG EAST conference game, and is only the 26th time in league history that anyone has scored 40 or more in a conference game. It is furthermore the first 40-point game for a Pirate since Sterling Gibbs scored 40 against Illinois State on Nov. 24, 2014. It is tied for the most points in a BIG EAST game in school history.
Pirates Close Out Home Schedule Tuesday vs. Georgetown on Senior Night
Seton Hall (18-10, 8-8 BIG EAST, Kenpom 57, RPI 49) vs. Georgetown (14-15, 5-11 BIG EAST, Kenpom 60, RPI 92)
Tuesday, Feb. 28 · Prudential Center (Newark, N.J.) · 6:30 p.m.
TV: FS1 / FOX Sports GO
Radio: AM970 The Answer / SHUPirates.com / SHU Pirates App with Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
Live Stats: StatBroadcast
Promotions: Senior Night (Ceremony Scheduled to Begin at 6:10 PM) / BIG EAST Trophy Tour
What to Know About The Hall:
>> Junior Desi Rodriguez led four Seton Hall 15-point scorers with 19 on 8-of-15 shooting, and Angel Delgado recorded his 10th consecutive double-double as the Pirates used clutch end-of-game free throw shooting to top DePaul, 82-79, Saturday at Allstate Arena. In addition to Rodriguez’s 19, junior Khadeen Carrington poured in 18 points and had six assists against only two turnovers. Delgado finished with 16 points and 10 rebounds. Freshman Myles Powell scored 13 of his 15 points in a red-hot first half.
>> Seton Hall has now won five of its last seven games and has gotten back to the .500 mark in conference play for the first time since being 2-2 on Jan. 11. With two games remaining in the regular season, the BIG EAST standings have created madness for potential tournament seeding, as only two games currently separating third place from eighth place with the Pirates smack dab in the middle tied with three other teams at 8-8. Here’s what we know: the Pirates cannot be the No. 1, 2, 9 or 10 seeds. A win over Georgetown tonight will ensure that the Pirates also cannot finish any lower than seventh. They will not be able to clinch a top-six seed tonight.
>> While Seton Hall’s BIG EAST record currently stands at 8-8, its NCAA Tournament resume (see page 4) remains strong and received a big boost from beating a Xavier squad last Wednesday that sits at No. 26 in the NCAA RPI and No. 38 in the KenPom. It was the Pirates’ third victory against a team currently in the NCAA Top 50 RPI and second over a team in the top-30 in the last four games. SHU has been consistent and does not have any “bad losses” as the team is 9-0 against teams in the KenPom top-100 and 10-1 against RPI top-50 teams. The lone loss came at Madison Square Garden against St. John’s, who is currently ranked No. 126 in RPI standings.
>> Georgetown visits Prudential Center Tuesday night with a 56-46 advantage in the all-time series with the Pirates. Earlier this season at the Verizon Center, junior Angel Delgado dominated by scoring a career-high 26 points and grabbing 17 rebounds, and junior Desi Rodriguez scored what proved to be the game-winning basket with 1:06 remaining in overtime as SHU earned a 68-66 victory for its first BIG EAST road win of the season.
>> The Hall is 11-2 at home in 2016-17 and has been able to take advantage of conference opponents stepping into its gym in recent history. It is 12-5 in its last 17 BIG EAST home games and has won eight of the last 10, including victories over Marquette, DePaul, St. John’s, Providence, then No. 20 ranked Creighton and Xavier this season. In the last meeting between the teams in Newark (Feb. 7, 2016), Delgado totaled 19 points and 13 boards and Isaiah Whitehead poured in 16 with five rebounds and four assists. Junior Ismael Sanogo finished with seven points, 11 rebounds, three blocks and a pair of steals.
>> Fans have packed “The Rock” all season and SHU is averaging an attendance of 8,416 during its 12 games at Prudential Center this season, up from 7,075 through 12 games in 2015-16. The Pirates have called downtown Newark home since the 2007 season and have now had eight games with attendance over 10,000 including a record-breaking crowd of 16,733 on Feb. 18 vs. Villanova, and the Garden State Hardwood Classic against Rutgers on Dec. 23 (10,481).
>> Willard and the Pirates have proven the ability to make in-season adjustments and take advantage of experience against BIG EAST competition. Since the start of the 2015-16 season, Seton Hall is 14-5 when facing an opponent for the second or third time in the same season.
>> The Pirates have endured several tightly contested games that have come down to the wire. SHU has played in six BIG EAST games decided by three points or fewer in 2016-17, the most in a single season under head coach Kevin Willard. SHU is 4-2 in such games, and is 6-2 overall in games decided by three points or fewer. Additionally, eight of the last nine games have been decided by single digits.
>> Though grossly underrated in the national scope, the Best Big Man in the BIG EAST™, Delgado, has been a game- changer for the Pirates. He enters Tuesday as the nation’s top rebounder with 13.0 per game, and has 6.4 more per game (171 total) than any other player in the conference. He has six 20-point games this season including a career- best 26 in the first meeting between the teams at Georgetown, and is one of two players in the top-15 in the BIG EAST in scoring, rebounding and field goal percentage. He earned recognition on the weekly BIG EAST Honor Roll for the 10th time this season after posting a pair of double-doubles and averaging 20.5 points and 11.5 rebounds in wins over Xavier and DePaul last week. No other player in the conference has more than five appearances on the Honor Roll. In 13 home games this season, Delgado is averaing 19.0 points and 15.0 rebounds while shooting 60.9 percent.
>> The big man is posting truly historic numbers in his junior campaign, and has aligned himself with some of the elite rebounders in school and conference history. The 6-foot-10 Dominican native posted 21 points and 20 rebounds against St. John’s at home and 12 points, 22 boards versus Butler. His performance in the St. John’s game marked the first 20-20 game for The Hall since Eddie Griffin vs. Saint Peter’s on Nov. 27, 2000 and just the 14th to occur in any BIG EAST regular season conference game. Delgado’s 22 rebounds against Butler are the most by any Pirate since the school joined the BIG EAST in 1979. He is only the seventh Pirate in program history to record a 20-rebound game, and the first since Pope vs. Syracuse on Jan. 8, 2011.
>> Through 16 conference games this season Delgado has pulled down a staggering 14.0 rebounds per game, and has five of the top six individual rebounding performances in the BIG EAST. The conference record for rebounding average in a single season is 14.0 (Jerome Lane, Pitt). He is averaging 11.25 rebounds through 52 career BIG EAST games, which is currently second best in league history. The single season BIG EAST total rebounds record is 231 (Luke Harangody, Notre Dame), and Delgado currently has 224.
>> The team’s leading scorer and one of the most dynamic guards in the BIG EAST, Carrington has taken charge lately. He went off for a career-high 41 points including 10 in the final 41 seconds as Seton Hall picked up an 87- 81 victory over the Creighton on Feb. 25. The 41 points are the most by a Pirate since Jeremy Hazell posted 41 on Dec. 26, 2009 against West Virginia. In addition to his scoring production, Carrington also totaled seven assists, five rebounds and four steals on top of an 18-for-22 performance at the free throw line. His 41-point output is the most of any BIG EAST player this season and nine more than any other individual scorer in a conference game. It is tied for 14th all-time in a BIG EAST conference game, and is only the 26th time in league history that anyone has scored 40 or more in a conference game. It is furthermore the first 40-point game for a Pirate since Sterling Gibbs scored 40 against Illinois State on Nov. 24, 2014. It is tied for the most points in a BIG EAST game in school history.
