Midweek Showdown At Butler Awaits Seton Hall - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's basketball team will look to bounce back on Wednesday when it heads to Indianapolis to take on Butler at 7 p.m. inside Hinkle Fieldhouse.
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Wednesday, Jan. 15 • 7 p.m. Eastern
Site: Indianapolis, Ind. • Hinkle Fieldhouse (9,100)
TV: : FS1 • Chris Vosters & Tre Demps
Online: FOXSports.com/Live
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Dave Popkin
SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 387 | SXM App 977
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Butler: 14-10
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The Seton Hall men's basketball team will look to bounce back on Wednesday when it heads to Indianapolis to take on Butler at 7 p.m. inside Hinkle Fieldhouse.
- Seton Hall leads the all-time series with Butler, 14-10.
- The Pirates have swept the season series against the Bulldogs the last three seasons.
- The Pirates have won six straight against the Bulldogs and six of their last eight meetings inside Hinkle Fieldhouse.
- When including last year's run to the NIT title, Seton Hall has won five straight games inside Hinkle Fieldhouse including eight of its last 10 contests.
- Head coach Shaheen Holloway is 6-0 all-time in the city Indianapolis with wins over Kentucky and Murray State in the 2022 NCAA Tournament, two road wins over Butler and two wins in last season's NIT over Georgia and Indiana State.
- Holloway has stated that his team's get better as the season goes along and the numbers back that up:
Holloway Record By Month, Last 4 Full Seasons (excluding 2020-21)
November: 15-15*
December: 12-18*
January: 23-12*
February: 19-12
March: 18-4
Nov.-Dec.: 27-33 (.450) Jan.-March: 60-28 (.682)
* includes this season
- Seton Hall is 2-0 in overtime games this season and Holloway's career record in overtime games is 9-3, including a 3-1 mark as head coach of the Pirates.
- Super sophomore Isaiah Coleman was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll for the second time this season on Monday after averaging 25.0 points, 5.0 assists and 3.5 assists in two games last week for the Pirates.
- Coleman is off to a scorching start in conference play where he trails only Villanova's Eric Dixon averaging 23.2 points per game.
- Coleman also ranks ninth in the conference averaging 6.6 rebounds per game in league contests and he ranks 12th shooting 83 percent from the free throw line.
- Coleman is one of only four Pirates since 1988 to score at least 15 points in the first five BIG EAST games of the season joining Mark Bryant (1987-88), Terry Dehere (1992-93) and Myles Powell (2019-20).
- Coleman has scored in double-figures in eight of his last nine games including four consecutive 20-point performances against BIG EAST teams.
- Dylan Addae-Wusu scored 24 points and dished out seven assists, both personal bests in his Seton Hall career, against DePaul.
- Addae-Wusu is two assists away from 400 career assists and went over 200 career steals at Providence.
- Addae-Wusu and Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner share the lead among active players with 83 career BIG EAST games played.
- After struggling from the free-throw line through the first month of the season, Seton Hall has bounced back in its last six games shooting 72 percent (105-of-146) from the stripe.
- The Hall ranks fifth in the BIG EAST shooting 76 percent from the line in conference games.
- Seton Hall has held eight opponents under 65 points this season.
- The Pirates rank third in the BIG EAST and 55th in Div. 1 in scoring defense (66.6 ppg).
- Seton Hall ranks 13th in Div. I in non-steal turnover percentage by KenPom, a metric that measures turnovers such as traveling, offensive fouls and shot clock violations.
- The Pirates rank fifth in the BIG EAST in bench points averaging 23.0 points per contest.
- The Pirates are 4-1 on the season when Chaunce Jenkins is their leading scorer.
