Pirates Welcome No. 10 Marquette To Prudential Center - Seton Hall University Athletics
Marquette arrives in Newark as a top 10 team for the second consecutive season as the Seton Hall men's basketball team hosts the Golden Eagles on Tuesday at ...
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Tuesday, Jan. 21 • 8 p.m. Eastern
Site: Newark, N.J. • Prudential Center (10,481)
TV: : Peacock • John Fanta & Donny Marshall
Online: Peacocktv.com/
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 388 | SXM App 978
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Marquette: 14-24
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Marquette arrives in Newark as a top 10 team for the second consecutive season as the Seton Hall men's basketball team hosts the Golden Eagles on Tuesday at 8 p.m.
- Prior to Saturday's loss against St. John's, the Pirates suffered their sixth single-digit loss of the season last Wednesday at Butler.
- The Hall's offense had been clicking as of late averaging 82.3 points per game, shooting 49 percent from the floor, 45 percent from three and 75 percent from the free throw line the last three games before Saturday's defeat.
- Seton Hall has been without its second-leading scorer in BIG EAST play (13.6 ppg) in veteran Dylan Addae-Wusu, who has missed the last two games with a foot injury.
- Prior to missing the two games, Dylan Addae-Wusu scored 24 points and dished out seven assists, both personal bests in his Seton Hall career, against DePaul.
- The Pirates are 14-24 all-time against Marquette and they're 12-13 against the Golden Eagles since the BIG EAST's reconfiguration in 2013-14.
- The Pirates have won seven of the last 12 meetings against Marquette dating back to the final regular season meeting of the 2018-19 season.
- Marquette had won four consecutive games in the series before Seton Hall's 78-75 victory last season at Prudential Center on Jan. 6.
- The Golden Eagles were ranked seventh in the AP poll heading into last year's meeting in Newark and they enter Tuesday's contests ranked 10th in the country.
- 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.
- Seton Hall is 2-0 in overtime games this season and Holloway's career record in overtime games is 9-3, including a 3-1 mark as head coach of the Pirates.
- Sophomore Isaiah Coleman is off to a scorching start in conference play where he trails only Villanova's Eric Dixon averaging 19.7 points per game against BIG EAST foes.
- Coleman also ranks 13th in the conference averaging 5.8 rebounds per game and second averaging 3.0 offensive boards per contest..
- Coleman is one of only four Pirates since 1988 to score at least 15 points in the first five BIG EAST games of the season joining Mark Bryant (1987-88), Terry Dehere (1992-93) and Myles Powell (2019-20).
- Coleman has scored in double-figures in 10 of his last 11 games and four of those outputs were 20-point performances against BIG EAST teams.
- Addae-Wusu is two assists away from 400 career assists and went over 200 career steals at Providence.
- Addae-Wusu trails only Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner for the most career BIG EAST games played among active players with 83.
- After struggling from the free throw line through the first month of the season, Seton Hall has bounced back since the start of conference play shooting 73 percent (117-of-161) from the stripe, good enough for fifth in the BIG EAST.
- Seton Hall ranks second in the BIG EAST in bench scoring averaging 23.1 points per game.
- The Pirates are 4-2 on the season when Chaunce Jenkins is their leading scorer.
