Pirates Conclude Regular Season At UConn Saturday - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's basketball team will wrap up its regular season on Saturday at UConn as the Pirates take on the Huskies at 2:30 p.m. on FOX.
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Saturday, March 8 • 2:30 p.m. Eastern
Site: Storrs, Conn. • Gampel Pavilion (9,882)
TV: FOX • Tim Brando & Donny Marshall
Online: FOXSports.com
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 387 | SXM App 977
Seton Hall All-Time vs. UConn: 24-49
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The Seton Hall men's basketball team will wrap up its regular season on Saturday at UConn as the Pirates take on the Huskies at 2:30 p.m. on FOX.
- Saturday's game will be the 74th all-time meeting between Seton Hall and Connecticut.
- The two teams have split the last six meetings with all three of Seton Hall's victories coming at Prudential Center.
- The Pirates have won four straight over UConn at Prudential Center but their last win at Gampel Pavilion came during the "COVID Season", an 80-73 win on 2/6/21.
- The first meeting this season a 69-68 win for the Pirates over the Huskies on Feb. 15.
- The Pirates came back from a seven-point deficit with 45 seconds left in regulation to force overtime and a five point deficit to with just over a minute left in the extra session.
- With the win, Seton Hall improved to 3-0 on the season in overtime games and head coach Shaheen Holloway moved to 10-3 all-time in overtime games as a head coach.
- The Pirates held UConn to a season-worst 37 percent shooting from the field in the win on Feb. 15.
- Saturday's game will pit two Seton Hall alums against one another in UConn head coach Dan Hurley and Seton Hall head coach Shaheen Holloway.
- Holloway and Hurley are two of five Seton Hall alumni serving as Division I men's basketball head coaches (Grant Billmeier, NJIT; Donald Copeland, Wagner; Levell Sanders, Binghamton), tied for the second-most in Division I with Indiana (5) and behind only Duke (8).
- Hurley lettered at Seton Hall from 1991-96, played on three NCAA Tournament teams, scored 1,070 points and ranks ninth on the program's assist list with 437.
- The two coaches played at two of the most historic high school basketball program's in New Jersey and arguably the country in St. Anthony (Hurley) and St. Patrick (Holloway).
- Both coaches cut their coaching teeth at New Jersey high schools; Holloway as an assistant coach at Bloomfield Tech and Hurley as an assistant at St. Anthony and head coach at St. Benedict's.
- Isaiah Coleman is one of the top scorers in the BIG EAST in conference play where he ranks sixth in scoring averaging 17.4 points per game.
- He's tied for 10th in in rebounding averaging 6.1 boards per contest.
- Coleman, Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner, Georgetown's Micah Peavy and St. John's RJ Luis are the only BIG EAST players averaging at least 17 points and six rebounds in conference play.
- Coleman has scored 433 points entering Saturday, the seventh-most points for a Seton Hall sophomore in the last 25 years.
- Coming into his own is freshman center Godswill Erheriene who registered his first career double-double (10 points, 12 rebounds) in the overtime win over UConn on 2/15.
- Erheriene is averaging 6.2 points, 5.5 rebounds and 24.2 minutes over the last five games.
- Seton Hall has forced 15 or more turnovers in four of its last six games and at least 14 turnovers in nine of its last 10, thanks in large part to its diamond full court press.
- The Hall ranks third in the BIG EAST and 35th in the country forcing 14.4 turnovers per game.
- Seton Hall is third in the BIG EAST and 63rd nationally in turnover margin (+2.0).
- Seton Hall also ranks 14th in Div. I in non-steal turnover percentage by KenPom.
- The Pirates have held four of its last six opponents under 70 points and they've crept back into the top 100 of KenPom's defensive efficiency ranking at No. 91.
- Seton Hall ranks second in the BIG EAST averaging 11.3 offensive rebounds per game
- According to KenPom, the Pirates rank 12th in Div. I in bench minutes (41.9 pct.).
