Seton Hall Takes On UNLV Wednesday In NIT Quarterfinal - Seton Hall University Athletics
Making its first appearance in the quarterfinals of the NIT since 1956, Seton Hall will be back inside historic Walsh Gymnasium on Wednesday at 7 p.m. when t...
Seton Hall (22-12) vs. UNLV Runnin' Rebels (21-12)
Date/Time: Wednesday, March 27 • 7 p.m. Eastern
Site: South Orange, N.J. • Walsh Gymnasium (1,316)
TV: ESPN2 • Derek Jones & Perry Clark
Online: WatchESPN.com
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin • SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 381 / SXM App
Seton Hall All-Time vs. UNLV: 2-3
- Making its first appearance in the quarterfinals of the NIT since 1956, Seton Hall will be back inside historic Walsh Gymnasium on Wednesday at 7 p.m. when the Pirates host UNLV on ESPN2.
- The Pirates are 10-19 all-time in NIT games and they won the NIT championship in 1953.
- This is Seton Hall's fifth NIT quarterfinals appearance after reaching the final eight in 1941, 1951, 1953 and 1956.
- Seton Hall is 2-3 all-time against UNLV including a 1-1 mark in the NCAA Tournament.
- The Pirates defeated the Runnin' Rebels in the 1989 NCAA West Regional Final, 84-61, in Denver that sent The Hall to the Final Four in Seattle.
- The two teams met in the NCAA Tournament again in the 1991 Elite Eight in Seattle where top-seeded UNLV defeated Seton Hall, 77-65.
- The last meeting was a 99-79 Seton Hall victory at Brendan Byrne Arena on Dec. 11, 1994; George Blaney's first season as Seton Hall head coach.
- Seton Hall is coming off of one of its most complete games of the season as the Pirates shot 48 percent from the floor and held North Texas to 34 percent shooting from the field in a 72-58 victory.
- In The Hall's first round overtime win over Saint Joe's, Al-Amir Dawes turned in one of the best performances of his career as he tied career highs in points (26) and made threes (6), including the game-tying trey at the end of regulation and the go-ahead three-pointer in overtime that helped seal the win.
- The Pirates are 3-0 in Walsh Gym this season and 16-3 overall as the home team.
- The Pirates are 431-143 all-time inside Walsh Gym and have won 32 of their last 33 games against non-conference opponents dating back to 1989.
- Seton Hall has played in a national postseason tournament in seven of the last eight seasons (five NCAA, two NIT).
- Head coach Shaheen Holloway is the first Seton Hall head coach to win a national postseason tournament game within his first two seasons.
- Holloway's 38 wins as Seton Hall head coach is most of any coach in program history through two seasons.
- Picked to finish ninth out of 11 teams in the BIG EAST preseason poll, head coach Shaheen Holloway led the Pirates to a fourth place finish and a 13-7 record in league play, tied for the second-most BIG EAST wins in program history.
- Holloway is the first Seton Hall head coach to lead the Pirates to postseason appearances in each of his first two seasons.
- Kadary Richmond, who's one of two players in the BIG EAST (Devin Carter, PC) to rank in the top 11 in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals in league play, is one of 40 players named on the Oscar Robertson Trophy and All-America Watch List.
- Richmond is tied for second in Division I with eight 20 point, 5 assist, 5 rebound games this season.
- Richmond is one of six Pirates all-time (Terry Dehere, Shaheen Holloway, Andre Barrett, Khadeen Carrington, Myles Powell) to score 1,000 points, collect 400 rebounds and tally 300 assists in a career.
- Dre Davis averaged 16.2 points per game and shot 52 percent from the floor and 86 percent from the free-throw line in BIG EAST play, becoming the first BIG EAST player to average 16 pts, shoot 50% FG and 80% FT in league since Mikal Bridges for Villanova in 2017-18.
- Jaden Bediako ranks third in the BIG EAST and 16th in Division I averaging 3.6 offensive rebounds per game.
- The Pirates are 18-6 this season when Al-Amir Dawes scores in double figures and 8-3 when he's the team's leading scorer.
- In just two seasons in South Orange, Dawes ranks 14th in school history with 156 made three-pointers.
- Dylan Addae-Wusu scored his 1,000th career point on March 9 against DePaul, giving Seton Hall four 1,000 point scorers in its starting five (Richmond, Davis, Dawes).
