Pirates Open BIG EAST Play Against No. 5 UConn Wednesday At Prudential Center - Seton Hall University Athletics
Coming off of an important non-conference road win at Missouri on Sunday, the Seton Hall men's basketball team will look to carry its momentum into BIG EAST ...
Game 12: No. 5 UConn Huskies (10-1) vs. Seton Hall Pirates (7-4)
Wednesday, Dec. 20 • Prudential Center (Newark, N.J.) • 7 p.m.
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CHRISTMAS AT THE HALL! Santa will be taking pictures on the concourse and the first 2,000 fans will receive a Seton Hall Christmas ornament.
Notes You Need To Know
- Coming off of an important non-conference road win at Missouri on Sunday, the Seton Hall men's basketball team will look to carry its momentum into BIG EAST play which opens on Wednesday for the Pirates against No. 5 UConn at 7 p.m. at Prudential Center.
- Seton Hall has won six of its last eight BIG EAST home openers at Prudential Center.
- The Pirates are 81-63 all-time (.562) against BIG EAST competition at Prudential Center.
- Wednesday's game will be the 70th all-time meeting between Seton Hall and Connecticut.
- Both programs were charter members of the BIG EAST when the conference was formed in 1979.
- Seton Hall went 1-1 against the Huskies last season with the Pirates coming away victors in the meeting at Prudential Center, a 67-66 win.
- Wednesday's game will pit two former BIG EAST players and 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), the second-most in Division I behind Duke (6).
- 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.
- Behind double-digit scoring performance from its starting five, Seton Hall topped Missouri, 93-87, in Kansas City on Sunday that gave the Pirates a Quad 2 victory.
- Al-Amir Dawes matched his career high with 25 points and Dylan Addae-Wusu stuffed the stat sheet with 20 points, six rebounds, six assists and three steals.
- Dawes' performance on Sunday and his 12-point showing in a win over Monmouth helped earn BIG EAST Player of the Week honors, a first for the program since Sandro Mamukelashvili on Feb. 8, 2021.
- Dawes and Addae-Wusu had four made three-pointers against the Tigers, a first for a pair of Seton Hall teammates since Myles Powell and Myles Cale did it vs. Villanova on March 9, 2019.
- Dawes ranks 17th among active players in Division I in career three-point field goals made with 280.
- Last week, Jaden Bediako posted 11 points and 10 rebounds for his third double-double of the season against Monmouth before tallying 11 points and eight rebounds.
- Bediako entered this season with 18 double-figure scoring games in four seasons at Santa Clara and he already has nine through 11 games this season.
- Bediako ranks second in the BIG EAST and ninth in Division I with 4.1 offensive rebounds per game.
- Bediako ranks second in Division I in offensive rebounding percentage (20.4 pct).
- Kadary Richmond has 290 assists in his three seasons at Seton Hall, which ranks 20th on the program's career assists list.
- Richmond is 10 assists away from becoming just the 15th Pirate to register 300 career dimes.
