Pirates Travel to UConn for Saturday Night Showdown - Seton Hall University Athletics
South Orange, N.J. – Seton Hall men's soccer hits the road this weekend as they travel to Storrs to face UConn. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. on Saturday night, ...
South Orange, N.J. – Seton Hall men's soccer hits the road this weekend as they travel to Storrs to face UConn. Kickoff is set for 7 p.m. on Saturday night, with live coverage on the BIG EAST Digital Network on FloFC.
LAST TIME OUT
The Pirates played DePaul to a scoreless draw at home on a rainy Wednesday night at Owen T. Carroll Field. The Hall had no shortage of chances, as it outshot the Blue Demons 20-6 on the night. Hannes Ronnholmen (Stockholm, Sweden) picked up his fourth shutout of the season, making a pair of saves.
SCOUTING UCONN (3-5-1, 1-2-1)
- The Huskies picked up their first BIG EAST win of the season on Wednesday, taking down Providence at home, 3-2.
- Frantz Pierrot leads the team with three goals on the season, while Mateo Leveque has a team-high nine points.
- UConn is allowing 2.22 goals per game, the most among BIG EAST teams this season.
- Chris Gbandi is in his first season as head coach for UConn and was a member of the Huskies' national title winning team in 2000.
- UConn leads the all-time series 15-14-4, and won last year, 1-0, in South Orange on a goal scored by Ben Awashie with 16 seconds remaining.
- Seton Hall has not won at UConn since a 3-2 overtime win in the semifinals of the 2000 BIG EAST Tournament.
- The Pirates are unbeaten through four BIG EAST games for the first time since 2003. The only time Seton Hall was unbeaten through five conference games was 1991.
- Seton Hall is riding a six-game unbeaten streak, marking the third consecutive season in which the program has accomplished that feat.
- Seton Hall is one of only two teams in the BIG EAST with one or fewer losses so far this season (Xavier).
- Wednesday's tie against DePaul was the Pirates' fifth of the season, tying the single-season program record which has been done twice before (2014, 1979).
- The Hall had an 11-2 edge in corner kicks on Wednesday against DePaul, their largest advantage in that category since owning a 10-0 margin in corners on Sep. 27, 2014, also against DePaul.
- Borg's goal against St. John's was the latest regulation game-winning goal for the Pirates since CJ Tibbling's 89th minute goal against Air Force in the opening round of the 2020 NCAA Tournament.
- Johannes Pex's penalty kick goal against Xavier was the latest game-tying goal scored by the Pirates since Spencer Burkhardt netted an equalizer at 89:58 in an eventual Pirate overtime win at Princeton on Sep. 7, 2017.
- The Pirates scored a goal in each of their first nine matches of this season, doing so for the first time since 1999 when they scored in their first 11 matches.
- Seton Hall has won its last six matches, and 15 of its last 16, when scoring the first goal.
- The win over Oregon State was the Pirates' first over a top-10 team in the United Soccer Coaches rankings since beating No. 2 Georgetown to win the BIG EAST title on Apr. 17, 2021. The win also marked the first time Seton Hall has defeated a top-10 non-conference foe since winning at No. 3 Virginia in the 2001 NCAA Tournament.
- The Pirates conceded just one goal through its first three matches of the season, the program's best defensive start to a season since 2005.
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