Seton Hall's Seniors Shine as Pirates Defeat DePaul for 20th Win - Seton Hall University Athletics
On Senior Night, Seton Hall men's basketball's five seniors who were honored pregame combined for 73 points as the Pirates defeated DePaul, 86-62, to close o...
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Newark, N.J. - On Senior Night, Seton Hall men's basketball's five seniors who were honored pregame combined for 73 points as the Pirates defeated DePaul, 86-62, to close out the regular season with the team's 20th overall and 13th BIG EAST win, Saturday night at Prudential Center. Dre Davis (Indianapolis, Ind.) led all scorers with a career-high 28 points on 10-of-15 shooting, and Dylan Addae-Wusu (Bronx, N.Y.) added 19 points and scored his 1,000th career point in the second half.
Picked by the BIG EAST coaches to finish ninth in the conference in preseason, Seton Hall, under head coach Shaheen Holloway, instead finished in fourth place with 13 wins, which are tied for second-most in program history. The Pirates will open the BIG EAST Tournament on Thursday as the No. 4 seed and will face No. 5 seed St. John's in Madison Square Garden at 2:30 p.m.
How It Happened
It was a sluggish first four-plus minutes and change for both sides. With the score knotted up at 10-10, the Pirates jumped out to a four-point lead, 14-10, following two made free throws by Dawes and a layup by Bediako off of an offensive rebound.
The Pirates' largest lead in the first half was nine when Addae-Wusu scored five straight Seton Hall points that made it 26-17 with 4:38 left before halftime. Seton Hall scored the first four points of the second half that extended the Pirates' lead to 40-26. With The Hall leading by 11, 40-29, Davis scored six points in a 15-4 run that ballooned its lead to 22, 55-33, with 12:59 left.
A DePaul three-pointer with 6:10 to play made it an 18-point game, 69-51, but Seton Hall put the game away using an 8-0 run that pushed its lead to 26, 77-51.
Inside The Box Score
- Seton Hall turned in one of its best shooting performances of the season, shooting 50 percent from both the field (30-of-60) and the three-point line (12-of-24).
- The Pirates shot 87 percent from the free throw line (14-of-16).
- The Pirates went plus-11 on the glass, 33-22, and plus-six on the offensive boards, 11-5.
- Seton Hall scored 19 points off of 15 DePaul turnovers and scored 17 second chance points.
- DePaul had 16 points off the bench and the Pirates' bench scored 13 points.
- This is Seton Hall's seventh 20-win season since 2015-16.
- Seton Hall's 13 BIG EAST victories is tied for the second-most in program history with the 2019-20 Pirates and one shy of matching the 1992-93 Pirates' 14 league wins.
- Holloway and Kevin Willard are the only two Seton Hall head coaches to have won 20 games in their second season.
- Seton Hall's 13 wins at Prudential Center this season ties the most wins in the building's history, matching 2017-18, 2011-12 and 2009-10.
- The Pirates' eight wins at The Rock are the most in the history of the building.
- Addae-Wusu is the fourth current Pirate to register 1,000 career points joining Dre Davis, Al-Amir Dawes and Kadary Richmond.
- Dawes' nine assists set a new career high.
- Seton Hall's 50 percent clip from three was a season high.
- With three steals Saturday night, Richmond moves into a tie with Myles Powell for 13th on the program's all-time steals list with 166.
- Richmond is tied with Greg Tynes for 15th all-time at Seton Hall with 379 career assists.
- Seton Hall is 18-1 this season when leading at halftime.
The Pirates will be the No. 4 seed in the 2024 BIG EAST Men's Basketball Tournament and they will face fifth-seeded St. John's on Thursday at 2:30 p.m. at Madison Square Garden. The game will be broadcast on FS1 and on the Seton Hall Basketball Radio Network.
