Seton Hall Welcomes Butler To Prudential Center Saturday Night - Seton Hall University Athletics
The Seton Hall men's basketball team returns to the friendly confines of the Prudential Center for a Saturday showdown against Butler at 8:30 p.m. on FS1.
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Game 17: Butler Bulldogs (10-6, 2-3 BIG EAST) at Seton Hall Pirates (8-8, 1-4 BIG EAST)
Saturday, Jan. 7 • 8:30 p.m. • Prudential Center (Newark, N.J.)
TV: FS1 • John Fanta & Tarik Turner
Web: FOX Sports Live
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App / Pirate Sports Network / SXM 204, SXM app 964 / Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
Game Notes: Seton Hall | Butler
Follow Along: Instagram | Twitter | Live Stats
MOBILE TICKETING
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.
This transition to digital ticketing through a smartphone will also help to make ticket transactions more secure while reducing fraud and counterfeiting. Tickets are accessible through the SHU Pirates Mobile App, available to all iOS and Android devices. For more information and to watch an informational video, click here.
CASHLESS POLICY
Cash will NOT be accepted at concession stands, retail locations or the Box Office.
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
- The Seton Hall men's basketball team returns to the friendly confines of the Prudential Center for a Saturday showdown against Butler at 8:30 p.m. on FS1.
- Of the 20 all-time meetings between Seton Hall and Butler, 17 of them have been decided by single digits, including all nine meetings at The Rock.
- The Hall has already played the top four teams in the BIG EAST through five games of league play with three of those contests coming on the road at Xavier (Dec. 20), at Marquette (Dec. 27) and at Creighton (Jan. 3).
- Seton Hall is 1-1 at Prudential Center in BIG EAST play this season; an 88-66 win over St. John's (Dec. 31) and a 71-67 loss to Providence (Dec. 17) where they led by nine points at halftime.
- The 22-point margin of victory was the Pirates' largest in league play since a 31-point dispatching of DePaul, 87-56, on Jan. 7, 2017.
- The Pirates are 77-59 (.567) all-time at Prudential Center against BIG EAST competition.
- The Pirates are 5-2 at Prudential Center this season and their average margin of victory in Newark is 26 points.
- The Pirates are 8-1 this season when they hold their opponents to under 70 points.
- Through five BIG EAST games, junior Kadary Richmond is averaging 15.4 points on 53 percent shooting from the floor, 5.4 rebounds and 4.4 assists per game.
- Richmond ranks in the top 10 in the BIG EAST in scoring, assists and steals (1.8 spg) against conference opponents.
- Richmond has dished out at least five assists in four of the last five games.
- Richmond was high school teammates with junior Femi Odukale (Brooklyn, N.Y.) at South Shore High School in Brooklyn.
- In four BIG EAST games, Odukale is averaging 10 points, 5.8 rebounds, 1.8 assists and two steals per game.
- Senior Tyrese Samuel (Montreal, Quebec) was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll on Jan. 2 after averaging 13.5 points, 7.5 rebounds and making 64.3 percent from the field in a 1-1 week.
- The Pirates' 65.2 point per game allowed ranks second in the BIG EAST.
- The Pirates rank 33rd in KenPom's adjusted defensive efficiency.
- Seton Hall ranks second in the BIG EAST in both field goal percentage defense (41 percent) and three-point field goal defense (29 percent).
- In Holloway's last 27 games as a head coach, his teams have allowed just 62.2 points per game and only eight opponents have scored more than 70 points.
- Graduate student KC Ndefo (Elmont, N.Y.) is the NCAA's active career leader in blocks with 347.
- After starting the season off slow from a blocks standpoint, Ndefo now leads the BIG EAST and ranks 19th in the country with 2.3 blocks per game.
- The Hall is 140-22 (.864) since 2015-16 when its lead gets to seven points.
- The Pirates look to generate offense at the free throw line and they rank 17th in the country in free throw attempts per game (24.5 FTA pg) and rank 20th nationally in free throw makes per contest (16.6 FTM pg).
- The Pirates lead the BIG EAST in bench points, averaging 25.2 points per game.
- Seton Hall's bench has outscored its opponent's reserves in 12 of its 16 games this season.
- Al-Amir Dawes passed the 1,000 career point threshold at Xavier on Dec. 20, becoming the second active Pirate to surpass 1,000 points (KC Ndefo, 1,296).
