Pirates Head To Xavier for New Year's Eve Matchup - Seton Hall University Athletics
Seton Hall will wrap up the 2024 calendar year on Tuesday when it heads to Cincinnati to take on Xavier inside Cintas Center at 2 p.m. on Peacock.
SETON HALL PIRATES (5-8, 0-2 BIG EAST) vs. XAVIER MUSKETEERS (8-5, 0-2 BIG EAST)
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Tuesday, Dec. 31 • 2 p.m. Eastern
Site: Cincinnati, Ohio • Cintas Center (10,224)
TV: Peacock • Justin Kutcher & Robbie Hummel
Online: PeacockTV.com
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Dave Popkin • SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 389 | SXM App 979
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Xavier: 16-13
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Seton Hall will wrap up the 2024 calendar year on Tuesday when it heads to Cincinnati to take on Xavier inside Cintas Center at 2 p.m. on Peacock.
- After winning five of seven against the Musketeers between 2019 and 2022, Seton Hall had lost three straight in the season series before beating Xavier, 88-70, at Prudential Center on Feb. 14.
- Seton Hall assistant coach Rasheen Davis spent two years as an assistant at Xavier under Chris Mack and he helped guide the Musketeers to two NCAA Tournaments in 2011 and 2012.
- Xavier head coach Sean Miller's father, John, was the head coach of the East squad that featured Shaheen Holloway at the 1996 McDonald's All-American Game that was held in Pittsburgh.
- The Pirates have won four of their last six games against the Musketeers at Cintas Center but they've dropped the last two meetings.
- Isaiah Coleman had one of his three double-digit scoring performances in BIG EAST play last season against Xavier at Prudential Center when he scored 14 points on 4-of-6 shooting in 27 minutes off the bench.
- Coleman continues to show growth coming off an All-BIG EAST Freshman Team campaign last season as he dropped a career-high 25 points with nine rebounds in the Pirates' 61-60 loss to Georgetown.
- Coleman has scored in double-figures in five of his last six games including back-to-back 20-point performances.
- He's the first Pirate to have consecutive 20-point games this season and he's the first Pirate since Al-Amir Dawes finished last season with three straight
- Over the last four games, Coleman is averaging 20.0 points, 6.5 rebounds and 2.5 steals per game.
- Among active players in Div. I, Dylan Addae-Wusu ranks 26th in games played (140), 19th in steals (196) and 48th in assists (385).
- Addae-Wusu and Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner share the lead among active players with 80 career BIG EAST games played.
- While the Pirates have been on the winning side of a couple of one-possession games this season, their 61-60 loss to Georgetown was The Hall's third defeat by one point this season.
- Seton Hall has held eight opponents under 65 points this season.
- The Pirates boast one of the top defenses in Div. I, ranking 35th in KenPom defensive efficiency and 15th in scoring defense (61.5 ppg).
- Seton Hall ranks ninth 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 Hoyas, Seton Hall now ranks second in the BIG EAST averaging 12.1 offensive rebounds per game.
- The Pirates are 4-1 on the season when Chaunce Jenkins is their leading scorer.
- Jenkins has scored in double-figures in six of Seton Hall's 11 games this season and he went over 1,000 career points on Nov. 13 against Hofstra.
