Pirates Back In Action On Saturday At Providence - Seton Hall University Athletics
Coming off of its first BIG EAST victory of the season on Wednesday, the Seton Hall men's basketball team travels to Providence to take on the Friars at 5 p....
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Saturday, Jan. 11 • 5 p.m. Eastern
Site: Providence, R.I. • Amica Mutual Pavilion (12,410)
TV: CBS Sports Network • Jordan Kent & Michael O'Donnell
Online: cbssports.com/watch/cbs-sports-network
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 392 | SXM App 982
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Providence: 56-58
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Coming off of its first BIG EAST victory of the season on Wednesday, the Seton Hall men's basketball team travels to Providence to take on the Friars at 5 p.m. on Saturday on CBS Sports Network.
- Saturday's game will be the 115th all-time meeting between Seton Hall and Providence.
- A fellow charter member of the BIG EAST Conference, Providence is Seton Hall's third-most common opponent.
- The two teams have split the last six meetings and four of those contests were decided by single digits.
- Providence is 29-6 in regular season home games at Amica Mutual Pavilion the last two seasons and two of those losses have come against Seton Hall.
- The first was an 82-58 drubbing of the Friars in head coach Shaheen Holloway's first season on 3/4/23 and the second came last season, a 61-57 Pirates victory on 1/3/24.
- The Hall trails the all-time series against Providence, 56-58, but its 39-35 against the Friars in BIG EAST regular season games.
- With its win over DePaul on Wednesday, head coach Shaheen Holloway improves to 60-27 (.690) from January to March the last four full seasons, including a 23-11 mark in the month of January.
- 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: 23-11*
February: 19-12
March: 18-4
Nov.-Dec.: 27-33 (.450) Jan.-March: 60-27 (.690)
* includes this season
- The overtime win over the Blue Demons improved Holloway's coaching record in overtime games to 9-3, including a 3-1 mark as head coach of the Pirates.
- Dylan Addae-Wusu scored 24 points and dished out seven assists, both personal bests in his Seton Hall career, against DePaul.
- Addae-Wusu is five assists away from 400 career assists and one steal shy of 200 career steals.
- Addae-Wusu and Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner share the lead among active players with 82 career BIG EAST games played.
- Isaiah Coleman also scored 24 points against the Blue Demons, making him the first Pirate since Myles Powell in 2019-20 to score at least 15 points in The Hall's first four BIG EAST games of the season.
- Coleman has scored in double-figures in seven of his last eight games including three consecutive 20-point performances against BIG EAST teams.
- Over his last six games, Coleman is averaging 20.5 points, 6.2 rebounds and 2.0 steals per game.
- Trailing only Villanova's Eric Dixon, Coleman ranks second in the BIG EAST averaging 22.5 points per contest in four conference games.
- 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 71 percent (89-of-126) 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 74th in KenPom defensive efficiency and 40th in scoring defense (64.9 ppg).
- Seton Hall ranks seventh in Div. I in non-steal turnover percentage by KenPom, a metric that measures turnovers such as traveling, offensive fouls and shot clock violations.
- After grabbing a season-high 22 offensive rebounds against the Georgetown, Seton Hall now ranks third in the BIG EAST averaging 12.1 offensive rebounds per game.
- The Pirates rank third in the BIG EAST in bench points averaging 23.1 points per contest.
- The Pirates are 4-1 on the season when Chaunce Jenkins is their leading scorer.
