Seton Hall Set To Face St. John's At Carnesecca Wednesday - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's basketball team is in search of its fourth consecutive BIG EAST road win as the Pirates travel to Queens for a midweek showdown against ...
Game 23: St. John's Red Storm (14-8, 4-7 BIG EAST) vs. Seton Hall Pirates (13-9, 6-5 BIG EAST)
Wednesday, Feb. 1 • 8:30 p.m. • Queens, N.Y. • Carnesecca Arena (5,602)
TV: CBS Sports Network • Andrew Catalon & Steve Lappas
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Game Notes: Seton Hall | St. John's
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NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW
- The Seton Hall men's basketball team is in search of its fourth consecutive BIG EAST road win as the Pirates travel to Queens for a midweek showdown against St. John's at 8:30 p.m. on Wednesday on CBS Sports Network.
- Wednesday's game will be a homecoming for multiple players and coaches, most notably head coach Shaheen Holloway, who grew up in the South Jamaica section of Queens located five miles from the St. John's campus:
0 Kadary Richmond (Brooklyn)
21 Jaquan Sanders (Queens)
22 Femi Odukale (Brooklyn)
43 Jorge Mercado (The Bronx)
50 Elijah Muhammad (Queens)
Shaheen Holloway (Queens)
Rasheen Davis (The Bronx)
Sean Crawford (Queens)
Steven Cruz (Manhattan)
Marcus Matthews (Brooklyn)
- Graduate student KC Ndefo (Elmont, N.Y.) also played high school ball in Brooklyn at Abraham Lincoln.
- This will be the Pirates' first game at Carnesecca Arena with fans in attendance since the 2014-15 season when St. John's defeated The Hall, 85-72.
- Seton Hall has won six of its last eight games after starting off 0-3 in BIG EAST play.
- Seton Hall's strong play recently has been sparked by its defense, which leads the BIG EAST in field goal percentage defense (40.4 pct), scoring defense (63.7 ppg) and ranks second in three-point defense (29 pct).
- The Pirates' three-point defense ranks 15th in the country and their opponent's field goal percentage ranks 40th.
- The Hall is allowing a league-low 33.3 points in the second half of BIG EAST games this season.
- Seton Hall has held five opponents to under 50 points this season, the most since 1951-52 (7).
- The Pirates are 13-1 this season when they hold their opponents to under 70 points.
- The Pirates rank 14th in KenPom adjusted defensive efficiency.
- In Holloway's last 33 games as a head coach, his teams have allowed just 61.8 points per game and only nine opponents have scored more than 70 points.
- Seton Hall has played one of the most difficult schedules in the country as both KenPom ranks the Pirates' slate as the sixth toughest in Division I and the Pirates' NET SOS ranks 11th.
- The Pirates are one of only five teams in the BIG EAST with at least three Q1 wins
Xavier 6-4
UConn 4-5
Marquette 4-3
Seton Hall 3-5
Providence 3-4
- KC Ndefo ranks second in the BIG EAST and 23rd nationally with 43 total blocks.
- Ndefo is averaging 11 points, seven rebounds, and two assists over the last four games.
- Junior Kadary Richmond (Brooklyn, N.Y.) leads the Pirates in scoring (12.8 ppg), rebounding (5.8 rpg) and assists (4.7) in BIG EAST play.
- Richmond was high school teammates with junior Femi Odukale (Brooklyn, N.Y.) at South Shore High School in Brooklyn.
- Odukale has provided shutdown defense as a 6-5 guard and is averaging eight points, five rebounds, 1.8 assists and 1.4 steals in BIG EAST play.
- The Pirates rank 18th in the country in free throw attempts per game (23.2 FTA pg) and rank 29th nationally in free throw makes per contest (15.8 FTM pg).
- The Hall is 144-22 (.867) since 2015-16 when its lead gets to seven points.
