Hall In Indy: Pirates Ready For NIT Semifinal Against Georgia - Seton Hall University Athletics
Making its first appearance in the semifinals of the NIT since 1953, top-seeded Seton Hall is set to take on fourth-seeded Georgia inside Hinkle Fieldhouse o...
Seton Hall (23-12) vs. Georgia Bulldogs (20-16)
Date/Time: Tuesday, April 2 • 9:30 p.m. Eastern
Site: Indianapolis, Ind. • Hinkle Fieldhouse (9,100)
TV: ESPN2 • Mike Corey & Fran Fraschilla
Online: WatchESPN.com
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Dave Popkin
SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 84 / SXM App
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Georgia: 1-1
- Making its first appearance in the semifinals of the NIT since 1953, top-seeded Seton Hall is set to take on fourth-seeded Georgia inside Hinkle Fieldhouse on Tuesday at 9:30 p.m. on ESPN2.
- The Pirates are 11-19 all-time in NIT games.
- Tuesday will be Seton Hall's fourth appearance in the semifinals of the NIT and its won one NIT championship in 1953.
- Tuesday marks the Pirates' first game played in the month of April since their NCAA national championship game appearance against Michigan on April 3, 1989.
- The Pirates have won six of their last eight games at Hinkle Fieldhouse against the Butler Bulldogs including the last three meetings.
- Seton Hall is 1-1 all-time against Georgia with the Pirates winning the last meeting, 69-62, on Nov. 28, 2015 at Prudential Center.
- Seton Hall has won three straight games against SEC opponents and its last loss to an SEC school came in the 2017 NCAA Tournament against Arkansas.
- As a number one seed, Seton Hall hosted its first three games of the tournament inside historic Walsh Gymnasium where the Pirates went 3-0 and won their last two games by an average of 18.5 points.
- As head coach Shaheen Holloway says: "our main guys have to be the main guys." They've been those guys through the first three games of the tournament:
Dre Davis: 15.3 pts, 7.3 reb, 1.7 ast, 2.7 blk
Kadary Richmond: 11.0 pts, 8.3 reb, 7.0 ast, 3.0 stl
- Dylan Addae-Wusu has also come on strong the last three games as he's averaged 12.0 points, 5.7 rebounds and 2.3 assists per contest.
- Seton Hall has played in a national postseason tournament in seven of the last eight seasons (five NCAA, two NIT).
- Head coach Shaheen Holloway is the first Seton Hall head coach to win a national postseason tournament game within his first two seasons.
- Holloway's 40 wins as Seton Hall head coach is most of any coach in program history through two seasons.
- 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.
- Holloway is the first Seton Hall head coach to lead the Pirates to postseason appearances in each of his first two seasons.
- Richmond, who's one of two players in the BIG EAST (Devin Carter, PC) that finished in the top 11 in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals in league play, has registered double-doubles in back-to-back games; 11 points, career-high 15 rebounds vs. North Texas and 16 points, 10 assists vs. UNLV.
- 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.
- Davis averaged 16.2 points per game, 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.
- Jaden Bediako ranks third in the BIG EAST and 18th in Division I averaging 3.5 offensive rebounds per game.
- The Pirates are 18-6 this season when Dawes scores in double figures and 8-3 when he's the team's leading scorer.
- In just two seasons in South Orange, Dawes ranks 14th in school history with 162 made three-pointers.
- Four players in Seton Hall's starting five has scored 1,000 career points (Addae-Wusu, Richmond, Davis, Dawes).
