Seton Hall Set For Friday Night Clash With Creighton in Newark - Seton Hall University Athletics
Game 21: Seton Hall Pirates (13-7, 4-6 BIG EAST) vs. Creighton (13-7, 5-4 BIG EAST)
Game 21: Seton Hall Pirates (13-7, 4-6 BIG EAST) vs. Creighton (13-7, 5-4 BIG EAST)
Friday, Feb. 4 • Prudential Center (Newark, N.J.) • 7 p.m.
TV: FS1 with Dave Sims & Donny Marshall
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Game Notes: Seton Hall | Creighton
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Game Sponsor: JAG-One Physical Therapy
Game Promotion: Black Fives Night/Faculty & Staff Ticket Offer/Game Presented by JAG-ONE Physical Therapy - PURCHASE TICKETS TO FEB. 4 GAME
- To open Black History Month, Seton Hall, in a BIG EAST-wide initiative, is partnering with the Black Fives Foundation to preserve, celebrate and honor the pre-NBA history of African Americans in basketball. Both teams will be wearing shooting shirts with the logos of their local Black Fives team, and coaches will be wearing lapel pins that say "Make History Now." Seton Hall's team is the Owl Field Club, an All-Black athletic association founded in Newark in 1908.
- The Owl Field Club, an all-Black athletic association, was founded in Newark, New Jersey in 1908. The organization held track and field events at Morris Park in Newark and managed a heavyweight basketball team that played against top squads from the East Coast. "The Owls played rings around their white opponents throughout the entire game," said the New York Age, after one contest against the Columbia Strollers in 1911. "Smith of the Owls was the star of the game, bringing shots from all over the court." Also known as the Owls of Newark, they played home games at Pierson Hall, the Palace Lucille, and the Gordon Hippodrome in Newark. Their games were always followed by music and dancing. In 1912, the club defeated the New York All Stars, the first African American pay-for-play basketball team in the history of the game. The Owls also traveled to Washington, DC in 1912 to take on Howard University, the reigning Colored Basketball World Champions. Their lineup included "Kirk" Marrow, who would become a plainclothes detective with the Elizabeth, NJ police force, Jim Fultz, known as the "Czar of Newark" for his community leadership, and the VanDevere brothers, Clifford, and Arthur. The squad was "one of the fastest colored aggregations to be found in the State," the Bridgewater Courier-News reported in 1917, adding that opponents "will have a big task on their hands to defeat the Newarkers." The Owl Field Club put Newark on the Black basketball map and helped inspire interest in the game in African American communities throughout New Jersey by continually expanding their competitive horizons beyond city and state lines.
- Seton Hall faculty & staff can receive 25 percent off the single-game price to this game and receive a FREE Seton Hall branded notebook using a special link that was sent to their shu.edu email address on Jan. 24.
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ENTRY POLICY
The review the updated Prudential Center policy.
MOBILE TICKETING
Moving forward all tickets to gain entry into men's and women's basketball home games will be fully digital, which will help to make entry to Prudential Center and Walsh Gymnasium safer and easier for fans.
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CASHLESS POLICY
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Pay with a debit or credit card using tap to pay, chip or swipe, or mobile payment, including Apple Pay and Google Pay. For guests needing to convert cash to a card, Reverse ATMs are available with no fees by sections 1, 14, 125 and inside the Box Office Lobby.
NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- Following a much-needed victory at Georgetown on Tuesday, Seton Hall returns to the Prudential Center to take on Creighton on Friday evening at 7 p.m. on FS1.
- The last time the Pirates had started 3-6 in the BIG EAST was in 2016-17, when the Pirates went on to win seven of their next nine to finish 10-8 while also reaching the BIG EAST Tournament semifinals. The team earned a No. 9 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
- Coincidentally, the Pirates got out of their 3-6 slump that season with a 68-66 overtime win at Georgetown on Feb. 4.
- Junior Tray Jackson (Detroit, Mich.) made his sixth start of the season on Tuesday and he posted a game-high 21 points on 5-of-9 shooting from three-point range against the Hoyas.
- Jackson is the eighth different Pirate to lead the team in scoring this season.
- Over the last three games, graduate student Jamir Harris (North Brunswick, N.J.) is averaging 11.3 points and is making 47.4 percent of his three-pointers (9-of-19).
- The Pirates are 7-2 at Prudential Center this season and 151-69 all-time (.686).
- Against BIG EAST competition, the Pirates are 71-58 all-time at the Prudential Center and 1-2 this season.
- February has been a good month for the Pirates in recent years as they've gone 28-17 since 2015-16 in the calendar's second month.
- Seton Hall is currently 42nd in the NET and 44th in KenPom.
- Seton Hall is 5-6 this season against Q1 and Q2 competition.
- Outside of the loss to St. John's on Jan. 24 at Walsh Gymnasium, Seton Hall's other five losses in conference play were by a combined 26 points and its average margin of defeat was 5.2 points.
- Two of those defeats (at No. 21 Providence Dec. 29, vs. No. 22 Villanova Jan. 1) came without two critical interior pieces in 7-2 graduate student Ike Obiagu and 6-10 junior Tyrese Samuel.
- The win over Georgetown on Feb. 1 marked the 10th time this season that The Hall held its opponent to 65 points or less.
- Seton Hall is 11-0 this season when it holds its opponents to 69 points or less and 10-0 when its either leading or tied at halftime.
- This is the first season in program history where the Pirates defeated two top 10 non-conference opponents in the regular season.
- The Hall is one of seven programs in the country with multiple wins over top 10 teams this season (Baylor, Duke, Gonzaga, Oregon, UCLA, Alabama).
- The Pirates are one of only two teams in college basketball, along with Kentucky (at No. 5 Kansas, 80-62) that secured a true top five road win in the non-conference (at No. 4 Michigan, 67-65).
- The Pirates are 107-20 (.843) since 2016-17 when they attempt more free throws than their opponent.
- This season, Seton Hall leads the BIG EAST in free throws made (329) and free throw attempts (429) and its 76.7 percent clip from the free-throw line ranks 28th in Division I.
- The Hall is 125-18 (.874) since 2015-16 when its lead gets to seven points.
- Under Kevin Willard, the Pirates are 88-10 (.898) when they score 80 points or more.
- Graduate student Ike Obiagu (Abuja, Nigeria) has registered a block in 28 consecutive games going back to last season, the longest active streak in the country, and leads the BIG EAST and ranks fourth nationally with 3.6 blocks per game.
- Handling point guard responsibilities over the last two weeks, sophomore Kadary Richmond (Brooklyn, N.Y.) ranks seventh in the BIG EAST with 4.3 assists per game and first with 2.3 steals per game in conference games.
