Pirates Open BIG EAST Play Saturday
1/4/2013 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
SETON HALL (5-8, 0-0) vs. PITTSBURGH (9-4, 0-0) South Orange, N.J. (Walsh Gymnasium) Saturday, Jan. 5 • 2:00 PM Webcast: www.shupirates.com (Jason Guerette) Radio: 89.5 WSOU FM (Play-by-play: Jeremy Dash; Color: Richard Macieko)
ABOUT THE MATCHUP Seton Hall opens its 2013 BIG EAST schedule against the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon in Walsh Gym. Pittsburgh leads the all-time series against the Pirates, 25-22, but Seton Hall beat the Panthers on the road, 63-39, last season, snapping a four-game Pittsburgh winning streak in the series in the process.
SETON HALL STATUS Led by senior Terry Green's 16 points on four three-point field goals Seton Hall finished its non-conference slate and closed out 2012 with a 57-53 win against Wofford on Dec. 30. Green was one of three Pirates in double figures, with senior Alexandra Maseko notching a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds and Ka-Deidre Simmons scoring 11 points with six rebounds and four assists.
PITTSBURGH STATUS Pittsburgh brings a three-game winning streak into Saturday afternoon's matchup with Seton Hall and the Panthers are coming off a 55-54 win at Old Dominion on Jan. 2. Asia Logan leads Pittsburgh with 16.2 points and 8.1 rebounds per game while Brianna Kiesel (14.6 ppg) also scores in double figures for the Panthers. Pittsburgh has seen four players, Logan, Kiesel, Ashlee Anderson and Chyna Golden start all 13 games.
SETON HALL ALL-TIME IN BIG EAST OPENER Seton Hall is 11-19 all-time in its first game of the BIG EAST season but the Pirates have lost four-straight conference openers. Seton Hall's last win to open a BIG EAST season was a 54-43 victory over Cincinnati on Jan. 5, 2008.
SETON HALL ALL-TIME IN BIG EAST HOME OPENERS Seton Hall is 12-18 all-time in its first BIG EAST home game of the season. The Pirates have dropped their last four conference openers, losing twice to Connecticut and once to Notre Dame over that stretch. Seton Hall's last BIG EAST home opening win was the 54-43 win against Cincinnati on in 2008.
ANNE DONOVAN ACCEPTS HEAD COACHING JOB WITH CONNECTICUT SUN Head women's basketball coach Anne Donovan will be leaving her post at Seton Hall to assume the same position with the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA. Donovan, who is in her third season with the Pirates, will coach the team for the remainder of the 2012-13 season before taking on her full-time role with the Sun at the conclusion of the year. Seton Hall will launch a national search for a new head women's basketball coach at the conclusion of the year.
MASEKO RECORDS SECOND DOUBLE-DOUBLE Senior forward Alexandra Maseko scored 11 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to record her second double-double of the season and the second of her career in the Pirates' 57-53 victory over Wofford on Dec. 30. Of Maseko's 11 rebounds in the game, eight of them came on the offensive end, which represented a new si•ngle-game high for a Seton Hall player this season.
SIMMONS EXTENDS HOT STREAK Redshirt sophomore point guard Ka-Deidre Simmons has scored in double figures in five-straight games and is averaging 14.4 points and 5.8 assists per game over that stretch. She now ranks 11th in the BIG EAST with 3.5 assists per game and eighth with 33.6 minutes played per game.
GREEN SCORES IN DOUBLE FIGURES AGAIN After failing to score in double figures over the first 10 games of the season, Seton Hall senior forward Terry Green has now scored at least 15 points in two of the Pirates' last three games. She notched 15 points in an 82-35 win over New Orleans on Dec. 19, and poured in a season-high 16 points in the Pirates' 57-53 win over Wofford on Dec. 30. She is averaging 5.2 ppg this season and ranks second on the team with 14 three-point field goals.
SETON HALL FINDS ITS LONG-RANGE SHOOTING TOUCH Seton Hall did not make more than four three-pointers in any game prior to its 6-for-19 long-range shooting performance against Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 16. Now the Pirates have hit at least five three-pointers in four-straight games, including a 9-for-16 performance against New Orleans on Dec. 19. Over the past four games the Pirates are shooting 38.5 percent (25-for-65) from three, well above the team's season average of 26.8 percent.
MASEKO TAKES OVER TEAM REBOUNDING LEAD With her career-high 11 rebounds against Wofford on Dec. 30, senior forward Alexandra Maseko took the lead for Seton Hall in rebounds per game with 6.1. Over the past five games, Maseko has been performing better than her season average with 8.0 rebounds per game.
REVERSIBLE GLASS Through the first eight games of the season Seton Hall faced a rebounding deficit as the Pirates were being outrebounded by a margin of five boards per game. Seton Hall has reversed that trend, outrebounding each of its last five opponents by an average of 9.6 rebounds per game, including a season-best +18 rebounding margin (43-25) against Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 16. The Pirates now have a positive 0.6 edge in rebounds per game.
MORRIS GOES FOR 20 AGAIN Senior guard Brittany Morris has the two highest scoring games of the season for Seton Hall, netting a career-high 23 points against Lafayette on Nov. 11, and pouring in 22 points against Memphis on Dec. 22. She made a season-high four three-point field goals and was a perfect 6-for-6 from the line in accounting for her 22 points against Memphis and leads Seton Hall with 12.2 points per game this season.
FIRST CAREER DOUBLE-DOUBLE Redshirt sophomore Ka-Deidre Simmons enjoyed one of the most productive games of her career in SHU's 82-35 win over New Orleans on Dec. 19, and she finished with her first double-double in a Pirates' uniform. She scored 12 points and dished out a career-high 10 assists in 35 minutes.
SINGLE-GAME SUPERLATIVES With its 47-point victory over New Orleans on Dec. 19 the Pirates set a number of new single-game high marks for the 2012-13 season: • The Pirates scored a season-high 82 points • SHU shot a season-best 51.6 percent (33-for-64) from the field • The 33 field goals made as also a season-high • Seton Hall made a season-high nine three pointers and shot a 2012-13 best 56.3 percent (9-for-16) from three-point range • The Pirates had a season-high 26 assists on their 33 made field goals
A WHOLE LOT OF ASSISTS Led by redshirt sophomore point guard Ka-Deidre Simmons' career-high 10 assists, Seton Hall racked up 26 total assists, the highest team assist output this season and the seventh-highest in a single game in program history. It was the first time the Pirates had 10 assists in a game since a 76-52 win over Arkansas State on Nov. 21, 2009, and the most the team had total since dishing out 27 assists against Providence College on Feb. 24, 1998.
ONE BIG WIN Seton Hall defeated the University of New Orleans, 82-35, on Dec. 19, in what was the largest margin of victory for Seton Hall since a 52-point, 95-43, win over Norfolk State on Dec. 31, 2008.
TERRY GREEN FOR THREE! Senior Terry Green had her first breakout game offensively for Seton Hall this season when she came off the bench to score 15 points on 5-of-6 long-range shooting in the Pirates' 82-35 win over New Orleans on Dec. 19. Green, who ranks fourth in program history with 113 three-point buckets in her career had made just five three-pointers all season prior to the game against New Orleans when she managed to double that amount.
MORRIS ECLIPSES 700-CAREER POINTS With her 13 points in a win over New Orleans on Dec. 19, senior guard Brittany Morris passed 700 points in her career. She has scored 730 points over her three-plus seasons at Seton Hall, and is averaging 7.9 points per game in 92-career games played. This season she leads the Pirates with 12.2 points per game, which ranks 24th in the BIG EAST.
GLASS CLEANER Sophomore guard Alexis Brown set a new career-high and 2012-13 Seton Hall season-high with 12 rebounds against Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 16. It was the first double-digit rebound game of her career and the first time this season an SHU player finished with 12 rebounds.
FIRST-CAREER START FOR WEBB Junior center Brittany Webb made the first start of her career when the Pirates faced Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 16. She finished the game with two points and three rebounds in 10 minutes of action against the Mountaineers.
MORRIS AMONG THE NATION'S LEADER Senior guard Brittany Morris is not only leading the Pirates in scoring, but her free-throw shooting this season stands amongst the leaders in the nation. She is shooting a stellar 92.7 percent (38-for-41) from the free throw line which ranks first in the BIG EAST Conference and 8th in the country.
MASEKO INTERVIEWS AS RHODES SCHOLAR FINALIST Senior forward Alexandra Maseko, a political science major with a 3.824 cumulative GPA, was chosen as one of seven finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship in her native Zimbabwe. Maseko flew home to Harare, Zimbabwe, to participate in the Rhodes Scholarship official interview on Tuesday, Dec. 11, but unfortunately she was not one of just two selections from Zimbabwe for the prestigious international grant.
JOHNSON ERUPTS ON OFFENSE Junior forward Janee Johnson scored in double figures for the first time in a Seton Hall uniform, netting 14 points on 7-of-11 shooting at Wake Forest on Dec. 8. Her points scored and made field goals both represented career-best marks, and she also pulled down six rebounds against the Demon Deacons.
FAB FRESHMAN Freshman forward Tabatha Richardson-Smith lifted the Pirates to a 57-48 win over Siena on Nov. 28, by pouring in a career-high 19 points on 8-for-11 shooting from the floor. She also nailed three three-pointers and tied for the team lead with six rebounds. So far this season Richardson-Smith ranks fourth on the team in scoring with 6.3 points per game and is shooting 36.2 percent (34-for-94) from the floor, ranking third on the team with eight made three-pointers.
KA-DEIDRE SIMMONS NAMED TO ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM Redshirt sophomore point guard Ka-Deidre Simmons was named to the Pepperdine Thanksgiving Tournament All-Tournament team for her roll in leading the Pirates in games against Wyoming and South Dakota. Simmons averaged 13 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game in the tournament. She scored 14 points against South Dakota and netted 12 points with five assists and no turnovers against Wyoming.
ALEXIS BROWN HOSTS CAREER DAY Sophomore guard Alexis Brown turned in the best offensive performance of her career when the Pirates faced South Dakota on Nov. 24. She scored a career-high 13 points, scoring in double figures for the first time in her career, and also had a career-high six field goals to go along with six rebounds and two steals.
CALIFORNIA LOVE Once again the Pirates participated in a holiday tournament as this season the team traveled to Malibu, Calif., to compete in the Pepperdine University Thanksgiving Tournament on Friday-Saturday, Nov. 23-24. Seton Hall faced Wyoming in the opening game and South Dakota in the consolation final.
FINISHING FREE THROWS Seton Hall is doing a great job of converting at the free throw line this season. The Pirates are shooting 73.1 percent (128-of-175) from the stripe, which ranks 4th in the BIG EAST and 52nd in the nation.
FORCING THE ISSUE Seton Hall got its hands in a lot of passing lanes at Temple on Nov. 14, forcing a season-high 26 turnovers against the Owls. It was the most turnovers the Pirates had forced in a single game in nearly two years, since the University of Rhode Island turned the ball over 31 times in a 73-69 Seton Hall win on Dec. 29. 2010.
REACHING MILESTONES Seton Hall senior forward Terry Green eclipsed a couple of career milestones in SHU's 69-66 win over NJIT in the season opener in Nov. 9. By knocking down a three-pointer in the second half, she recorded career-triple No. 100, and she also finished the game with nine points, which was good enough to move her over 500-points for her career.
MAKING A COMEBACK Seton Hall redshirt sophomore point guard Ka-Deidre Simmons returns to the lineup for Seton Hall after missing all of the 2011-12 season with an injury. The 5-foot-8-inch point guard out of Newark, N.J., averaged 7.2 points and 3.4 assists per game in 2010-11, when she received BIG EAST All-Freshman accolades after appearing in all 30 games for Seton Hall, making 27 starts.
LONG-RANGE MARKSMEN A pair of Seton Hall seniors, Brittany Morris and Terry Green, are continuing their ascent up the program record books in three-point field goals in three-point attempts. Morris is third in school history with 127 career three-pointers while Green is fourth with 113-career threes. Morris is second all-time with 416 three-point attempts while Green is just behind her in third place with 407 long-range attempts.
LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN Senior Terry Green etched her name in the school record book with an amazing three-point shooting clinic against DePaul last season. She was a perfect 7-for-7 from three-point range, which set a Seton Hall record in addition to being the best performance from three for a BIG EAST player last season.
WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS ARENA When Seton Hall faces St. John's University on Saturday, Jan. 12, it will be a truly unique experience for the Pirates as the contest will take place at the World's Most Famous Arena, Madison Square Garden, as a part of a St. John's men's and women's hoops double header.
COACHING ADDITION April Phillips has joined the Seton Hall University coaching staff as the SHU Coordinator of Basketball Operations. Phillips was a four-year letter winner at Xavier University where she helped the Musketeers win three-straight Atlantic 10 championships and was a three-time All-Atlantic 10 honoree. After college she played internationally in Israel, Finland and Belgium.
HOME AND AWAY OPPONENTS
Seton Hall's BIG EAST schedule will feature at least one meeting with all 14 of its conference foes but the Pirates will face both USF (Jan. 22 & Feb. 16) and St. John's University (Jan. 12 & March 2) both at Walsh Gymnasium and on the road.
PIRATE SPORTS NETWORK The Pirate Sports Network is back for the 2012-13 season and better than ever. With the addition of multiple cameras, the live broadcasts can now be see in high definition with audio play-by-play and color commentary provided by industry professionals Jon Schaeffer, Joey Wahler and Jason Guerette.
BIG EAST PRESEASON COACHES POLL Seton Hall University was picked to finish in a tie for 13th place with the University of Pittsburgh in the 2012-13 BIG EAST Preseason Coaches Poll. The University of Connecticut received 12 first place votes to claim the top spot in the poll while the University of Notre Dame came in second, receiving the other three first-place tallies.
BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP The 2013 BIG EAST Women's Basketball Championship will take place from Friday-Tuesday, March 8-12, and will return to the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. For the fifth-straight season all 15 BIG EAST teams will be invited to Hartford for the conference tournament.
ABOUT THE MATCHUP Seton Hall opens its 2013 BIG EAST schedule against the University of Pittsburgh on Saturday afternoon in Walsh Gym. Pittsburgh leads the all-time series against the Pirates, 25-22, but Seton Hall beat the Panthers on the road, 63-39, last season, snapping a four-game Pittsburgh winning streak in the series in the process.
SETON HALL STATUS Led by senior Terry Green's 16 points on four three-point field goals Seton Hall finished its non-conference slate and closed out 2012 with a 57-53 win against Wofford on Dec. 30. Green was one of three Pirates in double figures, with senior Alexandra Maseko notching a double-double with 11 points and 11 rebounds and Ka-Deidre Simmons scoring 11 points with six rebounds and four assists.
PITTSBURGH STATUS Pittsburgh brings a three-game winning streak into Saturday afternoon's matchup with Seton Hall and the Panthers are coming off a 55-54 win at Old Dominion on Jan. 2. Asia Logan leads Pittsburgh with 16.2 points and 8.1 rebounds per game while Brianna Kiesel (14.6 ppg) also scores in double figures for the Panthers. Pittsburgh has seen four players, Logan, Kiesel, Ashlee Anderson and Chyna Golden start all 13 games.
SETON HALL ALL-TIME IN BIG EAST OPENER Seton Hall is 11-19 all-time in its first game of the BIG EAST season but the Pirates have lost four-straight conference openers. Seton Hall's last win to open a BIG EAST season was a 54-43 victory over Cincinnati on Jan. 5, 2008.
SETON HALL ALL-TIME IN BIG EAST HOME OPENERS Seton Hall is 12-18 all-time in its first BIG EAST home game of the season. The Pirates have dropped their last four conference openers, losing twice to Connecticut and once to Notre Dame over that stretch. Seton Hall's last BIG EAST home opening win was the 54-43 win against Cincinnati on in 2008.
ANNE DONOVAN ACCEPTS HEAD COACHING JOB WITH CONNECTICUT SUN Head women's basketball coach Anne Donovan will be leaving her post at Seton Hall to assume the same position with the Connecticut Sun in the WNBA. Donovan, who is in her third season with the Pirates, will coach the team for the remainder of the 2012-13 season before taking on her full-time role with the Sun at the conclusion of the year. Seton Hall will launch a national search for a new head women's basketball coach at the conclusion of the year.
MASEKO RECORDS SECOND DOUBLE-DOUBLE Senior forward Alexandra Maseko scored 11 points and pulled down 11 rebounds to record her second double-double of the season and the second of her career in the Pirates' 57-53 victory over Wofford on Dec. 30. Of Maseko's 11 rebounds in the game, eight of them came on the offensive end, which represented a new si•ngle-game high for a Seton Hall player this season.
SIMMONS EXTENDS HOT STREAK Redshirt sophomore point guard Ka-Deidre Simmons has scored in double figures in five-straight games and is averaging 14.4 points and 5.8 assists per game over that stretch. She now ranks 11th in the BIG EAST with 3.5 assists per game and eighth with 33.6 minutes played per game.
GREEN SCORES IN DOUBLE FIGURES AGAIN After failing to score in double figures over the first 10 games of the season, Seton Hall senior forward Terry Green has now scored at least 15 points in two of the Pirates' last three games. She notched 15 points in an 82-35 win over New Orleans on Dec. 19, and poured in a season-high 16 points in the Pirates' 57-53 win over Wofford on Dec. 30. She is averaging 5.2 ppg this season and ranks second on the team with 14 three-point field goals.
SETON HALL FINDS ITS LONG-RANGE SHOOTING TOUCH Seton Hall did not make more than four three-pointers in any game prior to its 6-for-19 long-range shooting performance against Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 16. Now the Pirates have hit at least five three-pointers in four-straight games, including a 9-for-16 performance against New Orleans on Dec. 19. Over the past four games the Pirates are shooting 38.5 percent (25-for-65) from three, well above the team's season average of 26.8 percent.
MASEKO TAKES OVER TEAM REBOUNDING LEAD With her career-high 11 rebounds against Wofford on Dec. 30, senior forward Alexandra Maseko took the lead for Seton Hall in rebounds per game with 6.1. Over the past five games, Maseko has been performing better than her season average with 8.0 rebounds per game.
REVERSIBLE GLASS Through the first eight games of the season Seton Hall faced a rebounding deficit as the Pirates were being outrebounded by a margin of five boards per game. Seton Hall has reversed that trend, outrebounding each of its last five opponents by an average of 9.6 rebounds per game, including a season-best +18 rebounding margin (43-25) against Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 16. The Pirates now have a positive 0.6 edge in rebounds per game.
MORRIS GOES FOR 20 AGAIN Senior guard Brittany Morris has the two highest scoring games of the season for Seton Hall, netting a career-high 23 points against Lafayette on Nov. 11, and pouring in 22 points against Memphis on Dec. 22. She made a season-high four three-point field goals and was a perfect 6-for-6 from the line in accounting for her 22 points against Memphis and leads Seton Hall with 12.2 points per game this season.
FIRST CAREER DOUBLE-DOUBLE Redshirt sophomore Ka-Deidre Simmons enjoyed one of the most productive games of her career in SHU's 82-35 win over New Orleans on Dec. 19, and she finished with her first double-double in a Pirates' uniform. She scored 12 points and dished out a career-high 10 assists in 35 minutes.
SINGLE-GAME SUPERLATIVES With its 47-point victory over New Orleans on Dec. 19 the Pirates set a number of new single-game high marks for the 2012-13 season: • The Pirates scored a season-high 82 points • SHU shot a season-best 51.6 percent (33-for-64) from the field • The 33 field goals made as also a season-high • Seton Hall made a season-high nine three pointers and shot a 2012-13 best 56.3 percent (9-for-16) from three-point range • The Pirates had a season-high 26 assists on their 33 made field goals
A WHOLE LOT OF ASSISTS Led by redshirt sophomore point guard Ka-Deidre Simmons' career-high 10 assists, Seton Hall racked up 26 total assists, the highest team assist output this season and the seventh-highest in a single game in program history. It was the first time the Pirates had 10 assists in a game since a 76-52 win over Arkansas State on Nov. 21, 2009, and the most the team had total since dishing out 27 assists against Providence College on Feb. 24, 1998.
ONE BIG WIN Seton Hall defeated the University of New Orleans, 82-35, on Dec. 19, in what was the largest margin of victory for Seton Hall since a 52-point, 95-43, win over Norfolk State on Dec. 31, 2008.
TERRY GREEN FOR THREE! Senior Terry Green had her first breakout game offensively for Seton Hall this season when she came off the bench to score 15 points on 5-of-6 long-range shooting in the Pirates' 82-35 win over New Orleans on Dec. 19. Green, who ranks fourth in program history with 113 three-point buckets in her career had made just five three-pointers all season prior to the game against New Orleans when she managed to double that amount.
MORRIS ECLIPSES 700-CAREER POINTS With her 13 points in a win over New Orleans on Dec. 19, senior guard Brittany Morris passed 700 points in her career. She has scored 730 points over her three-plus seasons at Seton Hall, and is averaging 7.9 points per game in 92-career games played. This season she leads the Pirates with 12.2 points per game, which ranks 24th in the BIG EAST.
GLASS CLEANER Sophomore guard Alexis Brown set a new career-high and 2012-13 Seton Hall season-high with 12 rebounds against Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 16. It was the first double-digit rebound game of her career and the first time this season an SHU player finished with 12 rebounds.
FIRST-CAREER START FOR WEBB Junior center Brittany Webb made the first start of her career when the Pirates faced Mount St. Mary's on Dec. 16. She finished the game with two points and three rebounds in 10 minutes of action against the Mountaineers.
MORRIS AMONG THE NATION'S LEADER Senior guard Brittany Morris is not only leading the Pirates in scoring, but her free-throw shooting this season stands amongst the leaders in the nation. She is shooting a stellar 92.7 percent (38-for-41) from the free throw line which ranks first in the BIG EAST Conference and 8th in the country.
MASEKO INTERVIEWS AS RHODES SCHOLAR FINALIST Senior forward Alexandra Maseko, a political science major with a 3.824 cumulative GPA, was chosen as one of seven finalists for the Rhodes Scholarship in her native Zimbabwe. Maseko flew home to Harare, Zimbabwe, to participate in the Rhodes Scholarship official interview on Tuesday, Dec. 11, but unfortunately she was not one of just two selections from Zimbabwe for the prestigious international grant.
JOHNSON ERUPTS ON OFFENSE Junior forward Janee Johnson scored in double figures for the first time in a Seton Hall uniform, netting 14 points on 7-of-11 shooting at Wake Forest on Dec. 8. Her points scored and made field goals both represented career-best marks, and she also pulled down six rebounds against the Demon Deacons.
FAB FRESHMAN Freshman forward Tabatha Richardson-Smith lifted the Pirates to a 57-48 win over Siena on Nov. 28, by pouring in a career-high 19 points on 8-for-11 shooting from the floor. She also nailed three three-pointers and tied for the team lead with six rebounds. So far this season Richardson-Smith ranks fourth on the team in scoring with 6.3 points per game and is shooting 36.2 percent (34-for-94) from the floor, ranking third on the team with eight made three-pointers.
KA-DEIDRE SIMMONS NAMED TO ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAM Redshirt sophomore point guard Ka-Deidre Simmons was named to the Pepperdine Thanksgiving Tournament All-Tournament team for her roll in leading the Pirates in games against Wyoming and South Dakota. Simmons averaged 13 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists per game in the tournament. She scored 14 points against South Dakota and netted 12 points with five assists and no turnovers against Wyoming.
ALEXIS BROWN HOSTS CAREER DAY Sophomore guard Alexis Brown turned in the best offensive performance of her career when the Pirates faced South Dakota on Nov. 24. She scored a career-high 13 points, scoring in double figures for the first time in her career, and also had a career-high six field goals to go along with six rebounds and two steals.
CALIFORNIA LOVE Once again the Pirates participated in a holiday tournament as this season the team traveled to Malibu, Calif., to compete in the Pepperdine University Thanksgiving Tournament on Friday-Saturday, Nov. 23-24. Seton Hall faced Wyoming in the opening game and South Dakota in the consolation final.
FINISHING FREE THROWS Seton Hall is doing a great job of converting at the free throw line this season. The Pirates are shooting 73.1 percent (128-of-175) from the stripe, which ranks 4th in the BIG EAST and 52nd in the nation.
FORCING THE ISSUE Seton Hall got its hands in a lot of passing lanes at Temple on Nov. 14, forcing a season-high 26 turnovers against the Owls. It was the most turnovers the Pirates had forced in a single game in nearly two years, since the University of Rhode Island turned the ball over 31 times in a 73-69 Seton Hall win on Dec. 29. 2010.
REACHING MILESTONES Seton Hall senior forward Terry Green eclipsed a couple of career milestones in SHU's 69-66 win over NJIT in the season opener in Nov. 9. By knocking down a three-pointer in the second half, she recorded career-triple No. 100, and she also finished the game with nine points, which was good enough to move her over 500-points for her career.
MAKING A COMEBACK Seton Hall redshirt sophomore point guard Ka-Deidre Simmons returns to the lineup for Seton Hall after missing all of the 2011-12 season with an injury. The 5-foot-8-inch point guard out of Newark, N.J., averaged 7.2 points and 3.4 assists per game in 2010-11, when she received BIG EAST All-Freshman accolades after appearing in all 30 games for Seton Hall, making 27 starts.
LONG-RANGE MARKSMEN A pair of Seton Hall seniors, Brittany Morris and Terry Green, are continuing their ascent up the program record books in three-point field goals in three-point attempts. Morris is third in school history with 127 career three-pointers while Green is fourth with 113-career threes. Morris is second all-time with 416 three-point attempts while Green is just behind her in third place with 407 long-range attempts.
LUCKY NUMBER SEVEN Senior Terry Green etched her name in the school record book with an amazing three-point shooting clinic against DePaul last season. She was a perfect 7-for-7 from three-point range, which set a Seton Hall record in addition to being the best performance from three for a BIG EAST player last season.
WORLD'S MOST FAMOUS ARENA When Seton Hall faces St. John's University on Saturday, Jan. 12, it will be a truly unique experience for the Pirates as the contest will take place at the World's Most Famous Arena, Madison Square Garden, as a part of a St. John's men's and women's hoops double header.
COACHING ADDITION April Phillips has joined the Seton Hall University coaching staff as the SHU Coordinator of Basketball Operations. Phillips was a four-year letter winner at Xavier University where she helped the Musketeers win three-straight Atlantic 10 championships and was a three-time All-Atlantic 10 honoree. After college she played internationally in Israel, Finland and Belgium.
HOME AND AWAY OPPONENTS
Seton Hall's BIG EAST schedule will feature at least one meeting with all 14 of its conference foes but the Pirates will face both USF (Jan. 22 & Feb. 16) and St. John's University (Jan. 12 & March 2) both at Walsh Gymnasium and on the road.
PIRATE SPORTS NETWORK The Pirate Sports Network is back for the 2012-13 season and better than ever. With the addition of multiple cameras, the live broadcasts can now be see in high definition with audio play-by-play and color commentary provided by industry professionals Jon Schaeffer, Joey Wahler and Jason Guerette.
BIG EAST PRESEASON COACHES POLL Seton Hall University was picked to finish in a tie for 13th place with the University of Pittsburgh in the 2012-13 BIG EAST Preseason Coaches Poll. The University of Connecticut received 12 first place votes to claim the top spot in the poll while the University of Notre Dame came in second, receiving the other three first-place tallies.
BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP The 2013 BIG EAST Women's Basketball Championship will take place from Friday-Tuesday, March 8-12, and will return to the XL Center in Hartford, Conn. For the fifth-straight season all 15 BIG EAST teams will be invited to Hartford for the conference tournament.
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