Fountain Leads The Hall Past Providence

Friday, January 5

South Orange, N.J.

7 p.m.

Seton Hall University

9-6, 1-3BE

Providence

8-8, 1-3BE

Providence

Seton Hall

1/5/2018 10:02:00 PM | Women's Basketball

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SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – Donnaizha Fountain (Roxbury, Mass.) had a huge day to lead the Seton Hall women's basketball team (9-6, 1-3 BIG EAST) to its first conference victory with a 65-56 triumph over Providence (8-8, 1-3 BIG EAST) on Friday night at Walsh Gymnasium. Fountain led all players with 20 points and 12 rebounds in the win, scoring the 1,000^th point of her career in the process.

The win for The Hall snapped a three-game skid to open conference play and saw the Pirates improve to 7-3 in the friendly confines of Walsh Gymnasium. Joining Fountain in double-figures was JaQuan Jackson (Killeen, Texas) with 15 points, while Inja Butina (Zagreb, Croatia) added eight points and five assists. For the Friars, Chanell Williams had team-highs of 16 points and six rebounds.

Turning Points
The Hall led by three after a quarter, but used a big 13-2 run early in the second quarter to stretch their lead out to 15. Jackson got the run started with a 3-pointer at 6:34 of the frame before triples followed from Nicole Jimenez (Miami, Fla.) and Fountain. Taylor Brown (Paterson, N.J.) capped the run with a jumper in the paint that made it 31-16 at the 3:08 mark of the quarter.

The big second quarter helped The Hall take a double-digit lead to the break, but Providence clawed back and chipped the lead down to 59-52 with 2:04 to go in the fourth quarter. Needing a clutch late bucket, the Pirates went to Fountain for a turnaround jumper with 1:42 to play to go back up nine and effectively ice the contest.

Inside The Numbers

The Hall shot 44.6 percent from the floor and 43.8 percent from 3-point range, while holding PC to 37.5 and 22.2 percent marks
The Pirates won the rebounding battle, 38-30, led by 12 from Fountain and eight from Shadeen Samuels (Ossining, N.Y.)
Seton Hall grabbed nine offensive rebounds and held a 13-5 edge in second chance points
Fountain's 20 points came on 7-of-11 shooting and a 3-for-3 mark from distance
Butina, Jackson and Jimenez combined for 10 assists against one turnover

News and Notes

Fountain's 1000^th career point came on a free throw with 5:41 to play in the second quarter
- Fountain scored 70 points at Georgia Tech (2013-14) and 720 at Temple (2015-17) before hitting the grand mark with her 210^th as a Pirate
- She became the second transfer to hit 1,000 this year, joining Jackson back on Nov. 10
The 20-point effort was Fountain's seventh of the year, while the double-double was her fourth
Jackson scored in double-figures for the 10^th time this season and her 31^st time at SHU
The Hall improves to 36-29 all-time against Providence and has won nine of 10 against the Friars
Butina recorded her fifth game with at least five assists and seventh with two or fewer turnovers

What's Next
The Pirates are back on the road in conference play on Sunday afternoon, traveling to Butler for a 1 p.m. contest at Hinkle Fieldhouse.