Pirates Return To MSG To Face No. 7 St. John's - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's basketball team makes its return to Madison Square Garden on Saturday when it takes on seventh-ranked St. John's at 2:15 p.m. on CBS.
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Saturday, March 1 • 2:15 p.m. Eastern
Site: New York, N.Y. • Madison Square Garden (19,812)
TV: CBS • Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery & Jon Rothstein
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. St. John's: 50-64
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The Seton Hall men's basketball team makes its return to Madison Square Garden on Saturday when it takes on seventh-ranked St. John's at 2:15 p.m. on CBS.
- While the Pirates faced the Red Storm at MSG last season in the BIG EAST Tournament, the last regular season meeting between the two programs at MSG was in 2021-22 when The Hall defeated St. John's, 66-60, on 1/22/22.
- Seton Hall has won its last three regular season games against St. John's at MSG dating back to 2019-20.
- The last time St. John's won both regular season meetings against Seton Hall was the 2013-14 season.
- Seton Hall trails the all-time series with St. John's, 50-64, but the Pirates lead the all-time series in BIG EAST regular season games, 40-37.
- The Pirates have won six of the last nine meetings against the Red Storm.
- Located in the Jamaica section of Queens, N.Y., the St. John's campus is a stones throw away from where Seton Hall head coach Shaheen Holloway grew up in South Jamaica.
- Holloway is 2-4 in his career against Rick Pitino; four meetings at their current schools and two meetings when they were at Saint Peter's and Iona, respectively.
- Seton Hall is 3-0 on the season in overtime games this season and head coach Shaheen Holloway is 10-3 all-time in overtime games as a head coach.
- In 11 BIG EAST games this season, Dylan Addae-Wusu is averaging 12.1 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game.
- Addae-Wusu trails only Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner for the most career BIG EAST games played among active players with 88.
- Chaunce Jenkins (knee), who has led the Pirates in scoring six times this season and The Hall is 4-2 in those games, has missed 10 straight games.
- Isaiah Coleman posted his ninth 20-point game of the season with his 23-point performance on Sunday against Xavier.
- Coleman is one of the top scorers in the BIG EAST in conference play where he ranks sixth in scoring averaging 17.5 points per game.
- He also ranks 14th in league in rebounding averaging 6.0 boards per contest.
- Coleman posted his second double-double of the season and his career at Georgetown on Feb. 8 where he scored 21 points and grabbed 10 boards.
- Coleman has scored in double-figures in 17 of his last 20 games and eight of those outputs were 20-point performances against BIG EAST teams.
- Also 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 7.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 28.1 minutes over the last four games.
- Seton Hall has forced 14 or more turnovers in seven of its last 11 games thanks in large part to its diamond full court press.
- The Hall ranks third in the BIG EAST and 41st in the country forcing 14.3 turnovers per game.
- Seton Hall is third in the BIG EAST and 80th nationally in turnover margin (+1.8).
- Seton Hall also ranks 16th in Div. I in non-steal turnover percentage by KenPom.
- The Pirates have held four of its last five opponents under 70 points and they've crept back into the top 100 of KenPom's defensive efficiency ranking at No. 86.
- Seton Hall ranks second in the BIG EAST averaging 11.5 offensive rebounds per game
- According to KenPom, the Pirates rank 12th in Div. I in bench minutes (41.9 pct.).
