PirateCrew: Seton Hall Pirates Football & Basketball Recruiting
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By Colin Rajala
Nationally ranked Marquette (20-6, 11-4) handled Seton Hall (7-19,2-13) in a 17-point road win last month at the Prudential Center and Tuesday evening’s matchup at the Fiserv Forum was not much different as the Golden Eagles cruised to a 80-56 victory with their offense and defense being entirely too much for the Pirates to handle.
Marquette entered the game losers of three of their last four games, but held Seton Hall scoreless for two extended periods in the first half to build a double-digit halftime lead before opening the second half on a 10-3 run to blow the game wide open.
The Golden Eagles were led by Kam Jones, who recorded a game high 14 points, including seven of the team’s first nine points and 12 before halftime, to go along with five assists, four rebounds and a steal, while Chase Ross tallied 11 points, five assists, two rebounds, two steals and a block and Ben Gold recorded 10 points and six rebounds.
Eleven Marquette players scored in the game, seven of which made a shot from long distance, as the 16th-ranked team in the country saw its bench score 36 points. Not to be outdone by the offense, Marquette’s defense outrebounded Seton Hall 40-24 and held the advantage on the offensive glass 13-9.
Pacing Seton Hall was Isaiah Coleman with 13 points, four rebounds, three assists and three steals, while Scotty Middleton finished with nine points and four rebounds off the bench after his game-winning tip-in versus Connecticut Saturday afternoon.
Coleman got the Pirates on the board first with a corner three off an inbounds pass from Garwey Dual and gave Seton Hall the early 5-3 advantage with a mid range pull up, but would go on to miss his next eight shots from the field before finally connecting on a layup off the feed from Dual with less than 10 minutes to go in the game, when it was far out of reach.
A layup from Prince Aligbe gave Seton Hall the 7-5 lead less than four minutes into the game, which would be the last lead for the visitors as Jones connected on back-to-back layups for Marquette as part of a 7-0 run for the 12-7 edge.
Marquette held Seton Hall scoreless for nearly five minutes to take a 25-16 lead with less than seven minutes remaining in the half. The Golden Eagles took their largest lead of the first half, 39-19, on a bucket from Jones in the lane with under two minutes to go as part of a 15-3 run before entering the half up 40-23.
In the second half, Marquette started on a 10-3 run capped by a layup from Jones for the 50-26 lead, which ballooned to 64-33 with just over 10 minutes to go on a tip-in from Stevie Mitchell.
Seton Hall went on an 8-0 run over a two-minute span later in the second half, including an and-one jump shot from Coleman and tip-ins from Yacine Toume and Godswill Erheriene, but it was only a minor dent in the cushion Marquette built over the first 30 minutes of the game on their way to victory.
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