Pirates Set For Road Contest At No. 16 Marquette - Seton Hall University Athletics
GAME INFORMATION
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Tuesday, Feb. 18 • 9 p.m. Eastern
Site: Milwaukee, Wis. • Fiserv Forum (17,341)
TV: CBS Sports Network • Andrew Catalon, Steve Lappas & Evan Washburn
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Dave Popkin
SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 380 | SXM App 970
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Marquette: 14-25
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The Seton Hall men's basketball team will hop on a plane for the final time this season as it heads to Milwaukee to take on Marquette at 9 p.m. on Tuesday.
- The Pirates are coming off arguably its most significant win of the season as they defeated two-time defending national champion UConn, 69-68, in overtime on Saturday at Prudential Center.
- The win was Seton Hall's fourth consecutive win against UConn at Prudential Center.
- 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.
- 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, who had been hit with the injury bug for most of the conference season, saw the return of Scotty Middleton and Dylan Addae-Wusu against UConn on Saturday.
- Addae-Wusu scored the game-tying three-point field goal in regulation and Middleton scored the game-winning bucket off his own missed layup in overtime.
- In eight BIG EAST games this season, Addae-Wusu is averaging 12.4 points, 3.0 rebounds and 2.9 assists per game.
- Jenkins (knee), who has led the Pirates in scoring six times this season and The Hall is 4-2 in those games, has missed seven straight games.
- Isaiah Coleman was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll for the third time this season on Monday after scoring a game-high 23 points and grabbing eight rebounds in the win over UConn.
- Coleman is one of the top scorers in the BIG EAST in conference play where he ranks fifth in scoring averaging 17.7 points per game.
- He also ranks 10th in league in rebounding averaging 6.3 boards per contest.
- Coleman, St. John's RJ Luis, Jr., Xavier's Zach Freemantle, Georgetown's Micah Peavy and Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner are the only BIG EAST players to rank in the top 10 in scoring and rebounding in league play.
- 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 14 of his last 17 games and seven 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 win over the Huskies.
- Erheriene is averaging 10.0 points, 8.5 rebounds and 32.6 minutes over the last two games.
- Seton Hall ranks second in the BIG EAST averaging 11.8 offensive rebounds per game
- According to KenPom, the Pirates rank eighth in Div. I in bench minutes (43.1 pct.).
- Seton Hall ranks fourth in the BIG EAST in bench scoring averaging 21.2 points per game.
- Saturday's win over the Huskies was a return to form game defensively for the Pirates as they held UConn to a season-worst 37 percent from the field and just 68 points in 45 minutes.
- Addae-Wusu trails only Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner for the most career BIG EAST games played among active players with 85.
- The Pirates are 14-25 all-time against Marquette and they're 12-14 against the Golden Eagles since the BIG EAST's reconfiguration in 2013-14.
- The Pirates have won seven of the last 13 meetings against Marquette dating back to the final regular season meeting of the 2018-19 season.
- Shaheen Holloway and Marquette head coach Shaka Smart both took double-digit seeded teams to the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament with Holloway guiding 15th seeded Saint Peter's to the Elite Eight in 2021-22 and Smart leading 11th seeded VCU to the Final Four in 2011.
