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Pirates Throw It Back to the 80s Saturday Night Against Georgetown

Georgetown (13-10, 6-4 BIG EAST) at Seton Hall (16-6, 6-4 BIG EAST)

Feb. 6 · Prudential Center (Newark, N.J.) · 9 p.m., ET

TV: CBS Sports Network with Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas & Lauren Gardner

Radio: AM970 The Answer, Sirius 113 and XM 201 with Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin



*Saturday is 80s Night – Watch this video to see if Seton Hall student-athletes can identify popular 1980s Hip-Hop songs*



What to Know About The Hall:

• A three-point Seton Hall lead at the half ballooned to as large as 18 down the stretch as sophomores Isaiah Whitehead (14), Khadeen Carrington (11) and Angel Delgado (11) combined to out-score Marquette, 36-to-31, in the final period and help the Pirates cruise to a 79-62 victory. With the win, The Hall completed its first-ever season sweep of the Golden Eagles and has now won three-straight BIG EAST games for the first time since 2011-12. SHU is also now 6-4 through its first 10 BIG EAST games for the first time since 2005-06.
• Whitehead has been on a tear in the Pirates’ last five games - finishing with 20+ points three times during the stretch. Overall, the Brooklyn native is averaging 20.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 5.4 apg and 3.0 3FGM while shooting 41.3 percent from deep (15-of-37) and 90.5 percent from the foul line (19-of-21) in the last five outings. The recent surge has helped him solidify a spot among the top-five in the BIG EAST in both scoring (16.2 ppg, 5th) and assists (4.7 apg, 3rd). for the season. Across the six power basketball conferences, Whitehead is one of 11 players who stands among the top-five in their respective league in both categories - an elite group in which the only other underclassman is LSU’s Ben Simmons
  • POWER CONFERENCE PLAYERS WHO RANK IN THE TOP-FIVE IN PTS/AST
  • BIG EAST (3): Kris Dunn - Providence, Jr. D’Vauntes Smith-Rivera - Georgetown, Sr. ISAIAH WHITEHEAD - SETON HALL, SO.
  • ACC (1): Anthony “Cat” Barber - NC State, Jr.
  • Big Ten (2): Denzel Valentine - Michigan State, Sr. Yogi Ferrell - Indiana, Sr.
  • Big 12 (1): Isaiah Taylor - Texas, Jr.
  • Pac-12 (2): Bryce Alford - UCLA, Jr. Andrew Andrews - Washington, Sr.
  • SEC (2): Kareem Canty - Auburn, Jr. Ben Simmons - LSU, Fr.
• A threat to get to this basket or pull up from the perimeter, Whitehead has found the range from beyond the arc during the current three-game winning streak, shooting 11-of-21 (.524) from behind the line during that span. The sophomore has knocked down at least three triples in each; pushing his total to eight such games for the year. The Pirates have posted a 6-2 record in those games. On the defensive end, he swatted 3 shots - his fourth game with 3+ blocks this season - and enters Saturday ranked 10th among Division I guards with 1.14 blocks/game. As a team, the Pirates rejected a season-high nine shots against the Golden Eagles - the team’s highest total in a BIG EAST game since recording nine blocks in a 90-68 win at No. 9 Syracuse on January 25, 2011 - Kevin Willard’s first season in charge.
• Delgado continued his stellar run of play as well, connecting on 8-of-9 shots en route to his third-straight double-double. Earlier this season, he rattled off a career-best string of seven double-doubles in a row that coincided with a seven-game winning streak for The Hall (12/5-1/2). Now with 21 career double-doubles, Delgado has 11 this season which is good enough for second in the BIG EAST behind Marquette’s Henry Ellenson (14). Delgado and Ellenson are locked in a battle for the BIG EAST rebounding title with the SHU sophomore holding a slim advantage in average for the season but trailing Ellenson by a single board through 10 conference games. Delgado captured the BIG EAST rebounding crown last year as a rookie, becoming the first freshman to do so since Notre Dame’s Troy Murphy in 1998-99 and would be the first Pirate ever to repeat as rebounding champion
• Seton Hall continued to control the glass against Marquette with Delgado’s 13 boards pacing a 40-rebound effort that saw SHU finish with a +9 advantage. The Pirates have now posted 40+ rebounds in four-straight games and lead the BIG EAST with an average of 42.5 rebounds per contest in league play entering Saturday. The Hall recently turned in monster performances in wins against Creighton and St. John’s, finishing with a 102-to-67 advantage on the glass over the two-game stretch. The +19 differential against the Bluejays (46/27) was the Pirates’ highest in a BIG EAST game this season - topping the +16 mark The Hall registered against both St. John’s (56/40) and Marquette (49/33). Prior to this season, SHU had not posted an advantage as high as +15 on the boards against a BIG EAST opponent since out-rebounding Rutgers, 56-to- 41, in an 85-74 win on March 4, 2010.
• Saturday will mark the 100th all-time meeting between the Pirates and Hoyas with Seton Hall holding a 24-22 advantage in the 46 games it has hosted in the series. In over a century of Seton Hall basketball, Georgetown becomes just the second opponent that The Hall has played as many as 100 times, joining Villanova (109). SHU has defeated a ranked Georgetown team eight times over the course of the long-standing rivalry, four of which have been against a Hoyas squad rated inside the AP top-10.
• Georgetown ranks first in the BIG EAST with 8.5 3FGM per game and a 38.1 percent connect rate from downtown during conference play but the Pirates have limited their opponents to 30 percent or lower from long range six times in 10 BIG EAST games - including three of the last four. To this point in the league schedule, SHU is only allowing the opposition to shoot 31.1 percent on 3-pointers, the third-best mark in the conference.
• With a win last Saturday at Creighton, the Pirates reached the 15-win plateau for the fifth consecutive season. This marks the first time since 1990-95 that The Hall has posted 15+ victories in five-straight years. SHU Athletics Hall of Famer PJ Carlesimo led the Pirates for the first four years of the stretch while George Blaney took over prior to the 1994-95 campaign. Sixth-year head coach Kevin Willard is the first Seton Hall coach to be at the helm for five consecutive 15+ win seasons in the BIG EAST era and is the first SHU head man to accomplish the feat since Bill Raftery did so in six-straight years from 1973-79. Including Raftery and Willard, eight different coaches have led SHU during that span.
• With 79 points in the win over Marquette, Seton Hall has scored 70+ points in six-straight BIG EAST games during the same season for the first time ever. SHU is 12-3 when scoring 70 or more this season and 21-5 when doing so over the last two years.
• Seton Hall Athletics announced last week that in the fall, student-athlete academic performance reached a new all-time high for the 11th-straight semester. Head coach Kevin Willard’s squad boasts six Dean’s List honorees from the fall (Angel Delgado, Derrick Gordon, Michael Nzei, Desi Rodriguez, Veer Singh, Isaiah Whitehead) and increased its cumulative GPA to 3.18. The Willard-led Pirates earned an NCAA Public Recognition Award over the summer for posting a multiyear APR that ranks among the top-10 percent among all men’s basketball teams and are part of a collection of 14 varsity programs at The Hall that all own a cumulative GPA over 3.1.

Tweetables:

• .@SetonHallMBB’s @desirodriguez6 is the only player in the @BIGEAST shooting better than 50% from the floor and 35% from deep on the season
• Current 5-game stretch for @SetonHallMBB star @IsaiahW_15: 20.0 ppg, 4.0 rpg, 5.4 apg, and 3.0 3FGM
• .@SetonHallMBB is 12-0 when ahead at the half this season and 5-1 at home when winning the battle on the glass

 

[RPCity]

Oh man....

"Is this Run-DMC?"

 

[Bluebeard]

Last bullet point under what to know regarding the GPA is such a great thing to read about this team and the coach.

 

[Marc1996]

Am I old? Watched that hilarious 80s rap video; these guys were BORN during my Junior and Senior years at SHU.