Seton Hall Readies For BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle At No. 6 Baylor - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's basketball team will play its first true road game of the season on Tuesday as the Pirates travel to No. 6 Baylor in a BIG EAST-Big 12 B...
Game 8: No. 6 Baylor Bears (8-0) vs. Seton Hall Pirates (5-2)
Tuessday, Dec. 5 • Ferrell Center (Waco, Texas) • 9 p.m.
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Notes You Need To Know- The Seton Hall men's basketball team will play its first true road game of the season on Tuesday as the Pirates travel to No. 6 Baylor in a BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle contest on ESPN2.
- These two teams were originally scheduled to play a BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle game on Nov. 29, 2020 at Prudential Center in Newark before both teams mutually agreed to cancel the game amidst the unpredictable 2020-21 college basketball season.
- The Pirates are 1-2 all-time in BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle games, which features a win vs. No. 7 Texas at Prudential Center in 2022-23.
- After Tuesday, the Pirates will have been the road team in three of their four BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle games and they will have played three top 10 teams.
- The Pirates' last trip to Lonestar State came during the 2002-03 season when The Hall faced Texas in the Space City Basketball Classic in Houston on Nov. 20, 2002.
- This will be Seton Hall's first-ever true road game in the state of Texas.
- The Hall is 10-5 all-time against opponents from the state of Texas.
- Seton Hall has split its last two road games against non-conference opponents ranked in the top 10; a loss at No. 9 Kansas last season (91-65) and win at No. 4 Michigan on Nov. 16, 2021 (67-65).
- Seton Hall has won three of its last five games against non-conference opponents ranked in the top 10 going back to 2019-20.
- Tuesday will be the first-ever meeting between Seton Hall and Baylor.
- Both head coaches graduated from BIG EAST schools; Shaheen Holloway went to Seton Hall and Scott Drew attended Butler.
- The Pirates scored 85 points or more for the third time this season in an 88-75 win over Northeastern on Nov. 29.
- Seton Hall was bolstered by 46 combined points from Kadary Richmond (21 points) and Al-Amir Dawes (career-high 25 points).
- It marked the first time that Seton Hall teammates scored 20-plus points in the same game since Jared Rhoden and Bryce Aiken on Jan. 13, 2022 at DePaul.
- Dawes was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll on Monday after his career-high 25-point performance against Northeastern where he also grabbed five rebounds and dished out five assists.
- Dawes ranks 17th in Division I among active players in career three-point field goals made.
- Isaiah Coleman was named BIG EAST Freshman of the Week for the second time this season after scoring 11 points, grabbing three rebounds and tallying three steals.
- After his initial BIG EAST Freshman of the Week on Nov. 20, Coleman continued to be a key contributor off the bench for the Pirates in San Diego where he averaged 21 minutes, 5.0 points, 3.0 boards, 2.5 steals and 1.5 assists per contest.
- Jaden Bediako has two double-doubles so far this season and has scored in double-figures in six of Seton Hall's first seven games, his most through seven games in his four-year career.
- Bediako leads the BIG EAST and ranks 10th in the country with 4.0 offensive rebounds per game and he ranks sixth nationally in offensive rebounding percentage (19.4 percent).
- The Pirates lead the BIG EAST and rank 38th nationally in steals per game (9.1 spg) and they're paced by Dylan Addae-Wusu, whose 16 steals leads the conference.
- Seton Hall has been highly efficient from the free throw line through six games where they've shot 79 percent (103-of-130), a clip that ranks second in the BIG EAST and 12th nationally.
- Dre Davis' 91 percent clip (19-of-21) paces the Pirates from the charity stripe.
