Pirates Take On UConn Saturday Afternoon In Newark - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's basketball team returns to Prudential Center on Saturday afternoon when it takes on UConn at 2:30 p.m. on FOX.
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Saturday, Feb. 15 • 2:30 p.m. Eastern
Site: Newark, N.J. • Prudential Center (10,481)
TV: FOX • Tim Brando & Donny Marshall
Online: FOXSports.com/Live
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 381 | SXM App 971
Seton Hall All-Time vs. UConn: 23-49
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The Seton Hall men's basketball team returns to Prudential Center on Saturday afternoon when it takes on UConn at 2:30 p.m. on FOX.
- Saturday's game will be the 73rd all-time meeting between Seton Hall and Connecticut.
- Both programs were charter members of the BIG EAST when the conference was formed in 1979.
- The two teams have split the last two meetings.
- The Pirates' last win over the Huskies was 75-60 victory on Dec. 20, 2024 at Prudential Center.
- The win marked the Pirates' largest margin of victory in the all-time series with UConn and against an AP top five team in program history.
- Seton Hall is 3-1 at Prudential Center against UConn since the Huskies rejoined the BIG EAST entering the 2020-21 season and the Pirates have won the last three meetings in Newark.
- Sunday'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.
- The Pirates have been hit with the injury bug as Scotty Middleton, Dylan Addae-Wusu and Chaunce Jenkins have all missed the last two games with injuries.
- Middleton, who's averaging 25.5 minutes per game in league play, went down with an ankle injury in the first half against the Blue Demons and did not return.
- Addae-Wusu, who's battling foot and ankle injuries, is averaging 12.3 points, 3.0 assists and 2.4 steals per game in league play but he's missed six of the last eight games.
- Jenkins (knee), who has led the Pirates in scoring six times this season and The Hall is 4-2 in those games, has missed six straight games.
- Isaiah Coleman is one of the top scorer in the BIG EAST in conference play where he ranks fifth in scoring averaging 17.3 points per game against league foes.
- 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 also ranks 14th in the conference averaging 5.8 rebounds per game and eighth shooting 78 percent from the line against BIG EAST foes.
- Coleman has scored in double-figures in 13 of his last 16 games and six of those outputs were 20-point performances against BIG EAST teams.
- Seton Hall ranks second in the BIG EAST averaging 11.7 offensive rebounds per game.
- According to KenPom, the Pirates rank eighth in Div. I in bench minutes (43.1 pct.).
