Seton Hall Welcomes Wagner To Walsh On Saturday - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's basketball team returns to the friendly confines of historic Walsh Gymnasium on Saturday as the Pirates host local foe Wagner at 12 p.m.
SETON HALL PIRATES (1-2) vs. WAGNER SEAHAWKS (1-2)
GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Saturday, Nov. 16 • 12 p.m. Eastern
Site: South Orange, N.J. • Walsh Gymnasium (1,316)
TV: FS2 • Dave Sims & Tarik Turner
Online: FOX Sports App
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin • SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Wagner: 29-6
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The Seton Hall men’s basketball team returns to the friendly confines of historic Walsh Gymnasium on Saturday as the Pirates host local foe Wagner at 12 p.m.
- Saturday’s matchup pits two former Seton Hall point guards against one another in Shaheen Holloway and Donald Copeland.
- Holloway and Copeland both led the Pirates to NCAA Tournament appearances as seniors; Holloway in 2000 when The Hall went to the Sweet 16, Copeland in 2006 when he led that team with 16.1 ppg.
- Seton Hall boasts five alumni in the head coaching ranks of Division I men’s basketball, the second-most in the country behind Duke (6); Grant Billmeier (NJIT), Donald Copeland (Wagner), Shaheen Holloway (Seton Hall), Dan Hurley (Connecticut), Levell Sanders (Binghamton).
- Copeland has three Seton Hall alums on his staff, including two assistant coaches
- Kevin Lynch was a walk-on at The Hall for one season in 2013-14 before serving under Willard and Holloway in various roles for nine seasons.
- Kyle Smyth was on the 2012-13 squad and later became a valued staffer for Willard for 10 years as coordinator and director of basketball operations.
- Tim Rodriguez, Wagner’s director of basketball operations, was a four-year manager at The Hall for both Willard and Holloway.
- With the Pirates entering Wednesday’s game at 1-2, Holloway has stated that his team’s get better as the season goes along and the numbers back that up:
November: 11-11
December: 11-13
January: 22-11
February: 19-12
March: 18-4
Nov.-Dec.: 22-24 (.478) Jan.-March: 59-27 (.686)
- Chaunce Jenkins went over the 1,000-point threshold for his career on Wednesday vs. Hofstra as he scored a game-high 18 points on 4-of-7 shooting from deep.
- Godswill Erheriene has started the first three games at center for The Hall and finished with six points, six rebounds and a team-best +/- of +10 in 25 minutes against Hofstra.
- Seton Hall has proved itself to be one of the best defensive teams in the country through three games as the Pirates rank 27th in KenPom defensive efficiency and ninth nationally in scoring defense allowing just 53 points per game.
- Among active players in Div. I, Dylan Addae-Wusu ranks 27th in games played (131), 17th in steals (183) and 46th in assists (364).
- Similar to last season where the Pirates were picked to finish ninth in the BIG EAST preseason coaches poll but went on to finish fourth, Seton Hall was picked to finish 10th in the 11-team BIG EAST in this year’s poll.
- Seton Hall’s 25 wins last season tied for the fourth-most victories in program history and were the most wins for the Pirates since 2015-16 when they also won 25 games.
- Seton Hall’s 13 BIG EAST wins tied for the second-most conference victories in program history with the 2019-20 squad and was one victory shy from tying the 1992-93 team’s 14 BIG EAST wins.
- After finishing with 13 BIG EAST victories last season, Seton Hall has won 10 or more BIG EAST games eight times since the league realigned in 2013-14, which is tied for the third most in the conference.
- The Pirates last season were the first BIG EAST team to ever finish at least five games over .500 in conference play and not make the NCAA Tournament.
- Holloway’s teams have finished below .500 in conference play just once in six seasons when his first Saint Peter’s team went 6-12.
