Brooklyn natives each go for 20+ points as Hall improves to 5-1 with third-straight victory
Nov. 28, 2015
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NEWARK, N.J. - The second-year backcourt tandem of Isaiah Whitehead (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Khadeen Carrington (Brooklyn, N.Y.) combined for 42 points; including 25 in the second half as the Seton Hall men’s basketball team pulled away from Georgia to score a 69-62 victory on Saturday night at the Prudential Center.
The win is the third-straight for The Hall (5-1) after the team closed a trip to the Gildan Charleston Classic by downing Bradley and Ole Miss. With successive triumphs over SEC opponents in the Rebels and the Bulldogs, the Pirates have now knocked off two Power 5 foes in-a-row during the regular season for the first time since besting Tennessee and UCLA as part of the 1992 Preseason NIT.
Whitehead finished with 22 points, his second 20-point performance of the young season, while Carrington matched a career-high with 20 of his own to go with six rebounds and a game-high three assists.
Despite being limited to 18 minutes due to foul trouble, fellow sophomore Desi Rodriguez (Bronx, N.Y.) added 11 points to extend his streak to six consecutive double-digit scoring performances.
Seton Hall trailed by as many as seven in the first half and did not lead in the final 10 minutes of the period but Whitehead buried one of his three 3-pointers on the final possession prior to the break to level the score at 30-30 heading into the intermission.
Carrington shouldered the load for much of the second half and The Hall was able to hold off an attempted Georgia rally by scoring nine of the final 12 points down the stretch.
Turning Point
Georgia’s Kenny Paul Geno knocked down a trey to cut the Seton Hall lead to 42-40 with 12:19 to play but the Pirates responded by rattling off seven unanswered points, a stretch capped by a long-range connection from Gordon that opened a 49-40 edge for The Hall.
The Bulldogs managed just one field goal and six total points over the next 5:10 and a steal followed by an old-fashioned three-point play from Gordon gave SHU its first double-digit advantage of the night at 56-46.
UGA did not pull back to within one possession until the 4:24 mark of the second half and was never able to move back in front. The Hall led for the final 15:25 of the contest.
Coach Willard on halftime adjustments:
“Usually we try to watch film during halftime and try to make some corrections, but with this team sometimes you just have to get them out of their own way. I just didn’t like the way we were reacting to the way they were scoring. Good teams are going to score against you. I didn’t like our body language. I didn’t like our facial expressions more or less when someone scored against us. It was really hurting us on the offensive end, so we had a really polite conversation about that.”
Inside the Numbers
- Carrington and Whitehead each topped the 20-point plateau in the same game for the first time in their careers. Saturday marked Carrington’s first 20-point performance in a game which Whitehead was active. The Brooklyn native twice scored 20+ points as a freshman, doing so against Butler and at Marquette with Whitehead sidelined
- Whitehead has now led The Hall in scoring in five of the first six games
- After allowing Georgia to shoot 56.0 percent from the floor in the first half (14-of-25), The Hall limited UGA to 8-of-22 shooting (.364) in the final 20 minutes
- Seton Hall out-scored the Bulldogs 30-to-20 in the paint for the game; powered by a 14-to-6 advantage in the second half
- The Pirates recorded just 10 giveaways in the game; marking their fourth-straight game with 12 or less turnovers after totaling 43 over the first two games of the season
- Carrington scored Seton Hall’s first 10 points of the second half; out-scoring Georgia, 10-to-7, over the opening 7:27 of the final frame
- The outburst came after Carrington and Rodriguez combined to account for six of the Pirates’ first seven field goals in the first half, each starting 3-of-5 from the field in the opening 15 minutes
- Whitehead (10), Rodriguez (9) and Carrington (7) tallied 26 of the Pirates’ 30 first half points and were responsible for all but one of Seton Hall’s 12 field goals in the period
- The Hall has held its opponent to 33 points or less in the first half of five of its first six games
- Angel Delgado (Bajos De Haina, Dominican Republic) led all players with 11 rebounds - eight of which were recorded in the second half - notching the 18th double-digit rebounding performance of his career
- Ismael Sanogo (Newark, N.J.) hauled down eight boards in a game-high 35 minutes, reaching the eight-rebound mark for the fourth time in six games
News & Notes
- The Hall has defeated at least one Power 5 opponent during its non-conference schedule in all six seasons under Kevin Willard and with the victories over Ole Miss and Georgia, SHU has now bested at least two Power 5 foes for the second time in Willard’s tenure and the first since a 21-win 2011-12 campaign (Auburn, Wake Forest)
- Whitehead returned to complete an all-sophomore Seton Hall starting five for the fifth time in six outings after coming off the bench against Ole Miss
- The all-sophomore starting lineup registered 58 of the team’s 69 points against the Bulldogs and has scored over 77 percent (340/441) of the team’s points through six games
- SHU improves to 31-4 (.885) against non-conference opponents at the Prudential Center under Willard
- The all-time series between the Pirates and Bulldogs is now even at 1-1
Up Next
The Hall will hit the road for the first of two games away from home next week, traveling to the nation’s capital to meet George Washington on Wednesday, December 2. The contest will be televised on the American Sports Network with start time scheduled for 7:00 p.m. The Seton Hall radio team of Gary Cohen and Dave Popkin will be on the call for AM970 The Answer (WNYM) with a simulcast available nationally on www.PirateSportsNet.tv
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Nov. 28, 2015
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NEWARK, N.J. - The second-year backcourt tandem of Isaiah Whitehead (Brooklyn, N.Y.) and Khadeen Carrington (Brooklyn, N.Y.) combined for 42 points; including 25 in the second half as the Seton Hall men’s basketball team pulled away from Georgia to score a 69-62 victory on Saturday night at the Prudential Center.
The win is the third-straight for The Hall (5-1) after the team closed a trip to the Gildan Charleston Classic by downing Bradley and Ole Miss. With successive triumphs over SEC opponents in the Rebels and the Bulldogs, the Pirates have now knocked off two Power 5 foes in-a-row during the regular season for the first time since besting Tennessee and UCLA as part of the 1992 Preseason NIT.
Whitehead finished with 22 points, his second 20-point performance of the young season, while Carrington matched a career-high with 20 of his own to go with six rebounds and a game-high three assists.
Despite being limited to 18 minutes due to foul trouble, fellow sophomore Desi Rodriguez (Bronx, N.Y.) added 11 points to extend his streak to six consecutive double-digit scoring performances.
Seton Hall trailed by as many as seven in the first half and did not lead in the final 10 minutes of the period but Whitehead buried one of his three 3-pointers on the final possession prior to the break to level the score at 30-30 heading into the intermission.
Carrington shouldered the load for much of the second half and The Hall was able to hold off an attempted Georgia rally by scoring nine of the final 12 points down the stretch.
Turning Point
Georgia’s Kenny Paul Geno knocked down a trey to cut the Seton Hall lead to 42-40 with 12:19 to play but the Pirates responded by rattling off seven unanswered points, a stretch capped by a long-range connection from Gordon that opened a 49-40 edge for The Hall.
The Bulldogs managed just one field goal and six total points over the next 5:10 and a steal followed by an old-fashioned three-point play from Gordon gave SHU its first double-digit advantage of the night at 56-46.
UGA did not pull back to within one possession until the 4:24 mark of the second half and was never able to move back in front. The Hall led for the final 15:25 of the contest.
Coach Willard on halftime adjustments:
“Usually we try to watch film during halftime and try to make some corrections, but with this team sometimes you just have to get them out of their own way. I just didn’t like the way we were reacting to the way they were scoring. Good teams are going to score against you. I didn’t like our body language. I didn’t like our facial expressions more or less when someone scored against us. It was really hurting us on the offensive end, so we had a really polite conversation about that.”
Inside the Numbers
- Carrington and Whitehead each topped the 20-point plateau in the same game for the first time in their careers. Saturday marked Carrington’s first 20-point performance in a game which Whitehead was active. The Brooklyn native twice scored 20+ points as a freshman, doing so against Butler and at Marquette with Whitehead sidelined
- Whitehead has now led The Hall in scoring in five of the first six games
- After allowing Georgia to shoot 56.0 percent from the floor in the first half (14-of-25), The Hall limited UGA to 8-of-22 shooting (.364) in the final 20 minutes
- Seton Hall out-scored the Bulldogs 30-to-20 in the paint for the game; powered by a 14-to-6 advantage in the second half
- The Pirates recorded just 10 giveaways in the game; marking their fourth-straight game with 12 or less turnovers after totaling 43 over the first two games of the season
- Carrington scored Seton Hall’s first 10 points of the second half; out-scoring Georgia, 10-to-7, over the opening 7:27 of the final frame
- The outburst came after Carrington and Rodriguez combined to account for six of the Pirates’ first seven field goals in the first half, each starting 3-of-5 from the field in the opening 15 minutes
- Whitehead (10), Rodriguez (9) and Carrington (7) tallied 26 of the Pirates’ 30 first half points and were responsible for all but one of Seton Hall’s 12 field goals in the period
- The Hall has held its opponent to 33 points or less in the first half of five of its first six games
- Angel Delgado (Bajos De Haina, Dominican Republic) led all players with 11 rebounds - eight of which were recorded in the second half - notching the 18th double-digit rebounding performance of his career
- Ismael Sanogo (Newark, N.J.) hauled down eight boards in a game-high 35 minutes, reaching the eight-rebound mark for the fourth time in six games
News & Notes
- The Hall has defeated at least one Power 5 opponent during its non-conference schedule in all six seasons under Kevin Willard and with the victories over Ole Miss and Georgia, SHU has now bested at least two Power 5 foes for the second time in Willard’s tenure and the first since a 21-win 2011-12 campaign (Auburn, Wake Forest)
- Whitehead returned to complete an all-sophomore Seton Hall starting five for the fifth time in six outings after coming off the bench against Ole Miss
- The all-sophomore starting lineup registered 58 of the team’s 69 points against the Bulldogs and has scored over 77 percent (340/441) of the team’s points through six games
- SHU improves to 31-4 (.885) against non-conference opponents at the Prudential Center under Willard
- The all-time series between the Pirates and Bulldogs is now even at 1-1
Up Next
The Hall will hit the road for the first of two games away from home next week, traveling to the nation’s capital to meet George Washington on Wednesday, December 2. The contest will be televised on the American Sports Network with start time scheduled for 7:00 p.m. The Seton Hall radio team of Gary Cohen and Dave Popkin will be on the call for AM970 The Answer (WNYM) with a simulcast available nationally on www.PirateSportsNet.tv
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