SHU Battles STJ in BIG EAST 2nd Rd.
3/9/2013 12:00:00 AM | Women's Basketball
SETON HALL (11-19, 5-11) vs. ST. JOHN'S (17-11, 11-5) 2013 BIG EAST Championship Second Round
Hartford, Conn. (XL Center) Saturday, March 9 • 12:00 PM TV: BIG EAST Network Webcast: www.bigeast.org Radio: 89.5 WSOU FM (Play-by-play: Brandon Biskobing; Radio: Anthony DiPaolo)
ABOUT THE MATCHUP Seton Hall and St. John's will be meeting for the third time this season and the sixth time in the BIG EAST Tournament. The teams split the regular season series, with SJU winning at Madison Square Garden, 72-46, on Jan. 12, and SHU picking up a 60-51 win in South Orange on March 2. St. John's leads the all-time postseason series, 4-1, but the schools have not met in the BIG EAST Tournament since 2005, a game the Red Storm won, 45-42.
SETON HALL STATUS Seton Hall advanced to the second round of the 2013 BIG EAST Championship with a 60-55 win over Cincinnati on Friday night. It was the first BIG EAST Tournament win for the Pirates since 2009. Senior Brittany Morris led the way for The Hall with 18 points, while redshirt sophomore Ka-Deidre Simmons scored 14 points and senior Breanna Jones finished with eight points and nine rebounds. Seton Hall is 3-2 in its last five games.
ST. JOHN'S STATUS St. John's finished the regular season on a high note, beating DePaul, 67-54, last Monday. The Red Storm had two players earn First-Team All-BIG EAST honors in Shenneika Smith and Nadirah McKenith while Aliyyah Handford was named to the BIG EAST All-Freshman team. Smith averages a team-high 16.6 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. McKenith also averages double figures in scoring at 13.2 points per game.
2013 BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP QUICK HITS • Seton Hall finished the BIG EAST regular season with a 5-11 mark in league play to earn the No. 12 seed in the 2013 BIG EAST Championship • Seton Hall's 60-55 win over Cincinnati in the first round was the Pirates' first win at the BIG EAST Tournament since a 70-45 win over Georgetown in 2009 • The Pirates are the No. 12 seed at the BIG EAST for the first time in program history • Seton Hall is 17-29 all-time at the BIG EAST Championship and 0-1 in second round games • Last season Seton Hall was the No. 15 seed and lost to No. 10 seed Villanova, 61-60, in the first round of the BIG EAST Tournament • Seton Hall is looking for back-to-back BIG EAST Tournament wins for the first time since 1996 • SHU and St. John's have played five times in the BIG EAST Tournament, most recently a 45-42 Red Storm win back in 2005
WHEN LAST THEY MET... Seton Hall and St. John's split their regular season series, 1-1, with St. John's winning 72-46 at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 12, and the Pirates picking up a 60-51 win in South Orange on March 2. St. John's had three players score in double figures in their win back in January, with Shenneika Smith leading the way with 19 points while Keylantra Langly scored 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting. Senior Brittany Morris scored a career-high 28 points and nailed five threes in the Seton Hall victory last Saturday night.
LURKING DOWN THE ROAD The winner of Saturday afternoon's second round game between St. John's and Seton Hall will advance to face No. 4 seed Louisville in the quarterfinals on Sunday at 12 p.m. Seton Hall fell at Louisville in the team's only meeting this season, 72-62, on Feb. 27, in Louisville and the two teams have never met in the BIG EAST Tournament.
FIRST ROUND RECAP Seton Hall used an 18-2 run over an 11 minute span in the second half to pick up a 60-55 win over Cincinnati in the first round of the 2013 BIG EAST Championship on Friday afternoon. The Pirates held the Bearcats without a field goal for more than 12 minutes in the second half and led by as many as 13 points. Senior Brittany Morris scored a team-high 18 points, while redshirt sophomore Ka-Deidre Simmons chipped in 13 points with a team-high four assists.
MORRIS NAMED SECOND-TEAM ALL-BIG EAST Seton Hall's leading scorer senior Brittany Morris earned Second-Team All-BIG EAST accolades for the first time in her career, it was announced March 7, by the conference office. Morris leads Seton Hall and ranks 17th in the conference, averaging 13.8 points per game. The sharp-shooting senior averaged 14.8 ppg in BIG EAST contests and hit 2.9 threes per game in league games, which ranked second in the conference. It is the first time since the 1997 and 1998 seasons the Pirates had a player earn either first or second-team All-BIG EAST honors in consecutive seasons; Jasmine Crew was named Second-Team All-BIG EAST in 2012.
KEY TO THE GLASS There was a large rebounding advantage for the victorious team in both games between St. John's and Seton Hall this season. The Red Storm outrebounded Seton Hall by 15 (43-28) in their win, while the Pirates posted a season-best +18 rebound advantage (47-29) in their win.
REBOUNDS TRENDING UPWARD Although Seton Hall is being outrebounded by an average of 2.6 boards per game this season, Seton Hall has been crashing the boards as of late. The Pirates have outrebounded four of their last five opponents, with a +3.6 rebounding margin over the past five games.
1,000 IN THE CROSS-HAIRS With 27 points against Providence on Feb. 20, senior Brittany Morris passed 900 points for her career and is now closing in on 1,000. With 984 career-points she needs 16 more to become the 20th player in Seton Hall history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. She is just six points shy of tying Ashley Bush (‘01-'05) for 20th-place in school history with 990-career points. Morris leads Seton Hall and ranks 17th in the BIG EAST with 13.8 points per game this season.
SUPER SENIOR Senior forward Breanna Jones saved the best game of her career for the postseason, as she scored a career-high eight points and pulled down a career-high and team leading nine rebounds in Seton Hall's 60-55 win over Cincinnati in the first round of the BIG EAST Tournament.
BENCH BOOST Junior Janee Johnson has provided a critical boost in scoring and rebounding over the last two games, both Seton Hall wins. She scored eight points with seven rebounds in the win over St. John's on March 2, and finished with seven points and five boards in the victory over Cincinnati on Friday. She is averaging 7.0 points and 6.0 rebounds over the last two games.
ANOTHER THREE-POINT BROKEN RECORD With two threes in the win over Cincinnati on March 8, senior Brittany Morris took over first place on the Seton Hall single-season three-point shooting list. She has drained a program record 71 three pointers this season.
MORRIS NAMED TO SECOND BIG EAST HONOR ROLL For the second time this season senior guard Brittany Morris was named to the BIG EAST Conference Weekly Honor Roll. She averaged 24.0 points per game in a 1-1 week for Seton Hall, scoring 20 points in a 72-62 loss at Louisville on Feb. 27, and erupting for a career-high 28 points behind five three-pointers in a 60-51 victory over St. John's in the regular season finale on March 2.
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS Seton Hall wrapped up regular season action with a 10-19 overall record and a 5-11 record in the BIG EAST, reaching new highs in season and BIG EAST win totals under head coach Anne Donovan. The Pirates' five conference wins are the most since the 2007 season when they were 9-7 in the BIG EAST and the 10 overall victories are the most for Seton Hall since 2008-09; SHU finished 17-14 that year.
EXACTING REVENGE With its 60-51 victory over St. John's in the regular season finale on March 2, Seton Hall avenged a 72-46 loss to the Red Storm earlier this season and snapped a 10-game losing streak to St. John's dating back to the 2007 season. The Pirates ended long winless streaks against Rutgers and St. John's this season, beating both schools during conference play in the same season for the first time since 2002.
BIG EAST THREES All season the ability to shoot the three pointer has been an important staple in Seton Hall's offensive attack but in conference play the Pirates were even more effective from three. Seton Hall ranks third in the BIG EAST in conference three-point shooting, making 33.0 percent (93-of-282) of its three-point shots against conference foes for an average of 5.8 threes per game. Senior Brittany Morris tied for second in the conference in BIG EAST games by making 2.9 three pointers per game.
LEADING AT THE HALF Getting off to a good start has been important for the Pirates' ability to come away with a win as Seton Hall is 9-1 when taking a lead into the half but just 2-18 when it trails after 20 minutes.
PRESENCE ON THE BOARDS Over the past five games senior Breanna Jones has been one of Seton Hall's top rebounders. She is averaging 24.0 minutes per game over the last five contests, making four starts and Jones set a new career high in rebounding in three-straight games, most recently pulling down nine boards in a win over Cincinnati on March 8. She is averaging 5.8 rebounds per game over that stretch.
NEW CAREER-HIGH FOR BROWN Sophomore guard Alexis Brown scored a career-high 14 points at Louisville on Feb. 27. She tied her career-high with six made field goals and also knocked down the first three-pointer of her career. Brown has scored in double figures six times this season and ranks third on the team in scoring at 5.5 points per game.
SINGLE-SEASON MARKS Redshirt sophomore Ka-Deidre Simmons is close to cracking the Seton Hall single-season top-10 list in a pair of statistical categories. With a team-leading 117 assists, she sits just two shy of moving into a tie for the 10th-best single-season mark in school history. Simmons also leads the Pirates with 60 steals, needing just one more to tie for the 10th most in one year.
SO YOU WANT TO BE A COACH Senior Brittany Morris has been selected to participate in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) "So You Want To Be A Coach" program, which will be held in conjunction with the WBCA's annual national convention in New Orleans, La., at the Final Four. Morris was one of 50 selected to attend the convention out of one of the deepest and most competitive applicant pools in the program's history. The mission of the "So You Want To Be A Coach" program is to assist female college basketball players who are interested in pursuing a career in coaching women's basketball.
START IT UP Senior Breanna Jones made her first start of the season and the second start of her career when she was slotted in at forward against No. 3 Connecticut on Feb. 23. Jones, who has played in 54-career contests has appeared in all but one game this season.
MORRIS BREAKS THREE-POINT RECORD Senior guard Brittany Morris is the new Seton Hall career three-point leader with 175 triples over her three-plus seasons as a Pirate. She passed Ebonie Williams (‘07-10) and Jodi Brooks (‘90-'94) old mark of 156-career threes by draining a career-high six three pointers at USF on Feb. 16, vaulting from third to first in school history. She leads Seton Hall with 71 threes this season, which is the highest single-season mark in school history.
Hartford, Conn. (XL Center) Saturday, March 9 • 12:00 PM TV: BIG EAST Network Webcast: www.bigeast.org Radio: 89.5 WSOU FM (Play-by-play: Brandon Biskobing; Radio: Anthony DiPaolo)
ABOUT THE MATCHUP Seton Hall and St. John's will be meeting for the third time this season and the sixth time in the BIG EAST Tournament. The teams split the regular season series, with SJU winning at Madison Square Garden, 72-46, on Jan. 12, and SHU picking up a 60-51 win in South Orange on March 2. St. John's leads the all-time postseason series, 4-1, but the schools have not met in the BIG EAST Tournament since 2005, a game the Red Storm won, 45-42.
SETON HALL STATUS Seton Hall advanced to the second round of the 2013 BIG EAST Championship with a 60-55 win over Cincinnati on Friday night. It was the first BIG EAST Tournament win for the Pirates since 2009. Senior Brittany Morris led the way for The Hall with 18 points, while redshirt sophomore Ka-Deidre Simmons scored 14 points and senior Breanna Jones finished with eight points and nine rebounds. Seton Hall is 3-2 in its last five games.
ST. JOHN'S STATUS St. John's finished the regular season on a high note, beating DePaul, 67-54, last Monday. The Red Storm had two players earn First-Team All-BIG EAST honors in Shenneika Smith and Nadirah McKenith while Aliyyah Handford was named to the BIG EAST All-Freshman team. Smith averages a team-high 16.6 points and 7.1 rebounds per game. McKenith also averages double figures in scoring at 13.2 points per game.
2013 BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP QUICK HITS • Seton Hall finished the BIG EAST regular season with a 5-11 mark in league play to earn the No. 12 seed in the 2013 BIG EAST Championship • Seton Hall's 60-55 win over Cincinnati in the first round was the Pirates' first win at the BIG EAST Tournament since a 70-45 win over Georgetown in 2009 • The Pirates are the No. 12 seed at the BIG EAST for the first time in program history • Seton Hall is 17-29 all-time at the BIG EAST Championship and 0-1 in second round games • Last season Seton Hall was the No. 15 seed and lost to No. 10 seed Villanova, 61-60, in the first round of the BIG EAST Tournament • Seton Hall is looking for back-to-back BIG EAST Tournament wins for the first time since 1996 • SHU and St. John's have played five times in the BIG EAST Tournament, most recently a 45-42 Red Storm win back in 2005
WHEN LAST THEY MET... Seton Hall and St. John's split their regular season series, 1-1, with St. John's winning 72-46 at Madison Square Garden on Jan. 12, and the Pirates picking up a 60-51 win in South Orange on March 2. St. John's had three players score in double figures in their win back in January, with Shenneika Smith leading the way with 19 points while Keylantra Langly scored 16 points on 7-of-8 shooting. Senior Brittany Morris scored a career-high 28 points and nailed five threes in the Seton Hall victory last Saturday night.
LURKING DOWN THE ROAD The winner of Saturday afternoon's second round game between St. John's and Seton Hall will advance to face No. 4 seed Louisville in the quarterfinals on Sunday at 12 p.m. Seton Hall fell at Louisville in the team's only meeting this season, 72-62, on Feb. 27, in Louisville and the two teams have never met in the BIG EAST Tournament.
FIRST ROUND RECAP Seton Hall used an 18-2 run over an 11 minute span in the second half to pick up a 60-55 win over Cincinnati in the first round of the 2013 BIG EAST Championship on Friday afternoon. The Pirates held the Bearcats without a field goal for more than 12 minutes in the second half and led by as many as 13 points. Senior Brittany Morris scored a team-high 18 points, while redshirt sophomore Ka-Deidre Simmons chipped in 13 points with a team-high four assists.
MORRIS NAMED SECOND-TEAM ALL-BIG EAST Seton Hall's leading scorer senior Brittany Morris earned Second-Team All-BIG EAST accolades for the first time in her career, it was announced March 7, by the conference office. Morris leads Seton Hall and ranks 17th in the conference, averaging 13.8 points per game. The sharp-shooting senior averaged 14.8 ppg in BIG EAST contests and hit 2.9 threes per game in league games, which ranked second in the conference. It is the first time since the 1997 and 1998 seasons the Pirates had a player earn either first or second-team All-BIG EAST honors in consecutive seasons; Jasmine Crew was named Second-Team All-BIG EAST in 2012.
KEY TO THE GLASS There was a large rebounding advantage for the victorious team in both games between St. John's and Seton Hall this season. The Red Storm outrebounded Seton Hall by 15 (43-28) in their win, while the Pirates posted a season-best +18 rebound advantage (47-29) in their win.
REBOUNDS TRENDING UPWARD Although Seton Hall is being outrebounded by an average of 2.6 boards per game this season, Seton Hall has been crashing the boards as of late. The Pirates have outrebounded four of their last five opponents, with a +3.6 rebounding margin over the past five games.
1,000 IN THE CROSS-HAIRS With 27 points against Providence on Feb. 20, senior Brittany Morris passed 900 points for her career and is now closing in on 1,000. With 984 career-points she needs 16 more to become the 20th player in Seton Hall history to reach the 1,000-point plateau. She is just six points shy of tying Ashley Bush (‘01-'05) for 20th-place in school history with 990-career points. Morris leads Seton Hall and ranks 17th in the BIG EAST with 13.8 points per game this season.
SUPER SENIOR Senior forward Breanna Jones saved the best game of her career for the postseason, as she scored a career-high eight points and pulled down a career-high and team leading nine rebounds in Seton Hall's 60-55 win over Cincinnati in the first round of the BIG EAST Tournament.
BENCH BOOST Junior Janee Johnson has provided a critical boost in scoring and rebounding over the last two games, both Seton Hall wins. She scored eight points with seven rebounds in the win over St. John's on March 2, and finished with seven points and five boards in the victory over Cincinnati on Friday. She is averaging 7.0 points and 6.0 rebounds over the last two games.
ANOTHER THREE-POINT BROKEN RECORD With two threes in the win over Cincinnati on March 8, senior Brittany Morris took over first place on the Seton Hall single-season three-point shooting list. She has drained a program record 71 three pointers this season.
MORRIS NAMED TO SECOND BIG EAST HONOR ROLL For the second time this season senior guard Brittany Morris was named to the BIG EAST Conference Weekly Honor Roll. She averaged 24.0 points per game in a 1-1 week for Seton Hall, scoring 20 points in a 72-62 loss at Louisville on Feb. 27, and erupting for a career-high 28 points behind five three-pointers in a 60-51 victory over St. John's in the regular season finale on March 2.
REACHING NEW HEIGHTS Seton Hall wrapped up regular season action with a 10-19 overall record and a 5-11 record in the BIG EAST, reaching new highs in season and BIG EAST win totals under head coach Anne Donovan. The Pirates' five conference wins are the most since the 2007 season when they were 9-7 in the BIG EAST and the 10 overall victories are the most for Seton Hall since 2008-09; SHU finished 17-14 that year.
EXACTING REVENGE With its 60-51 victory over St. John's in the regular season finale on March 2, Seton Hall avenged a 72-46 loss to the Red Storm earlier this season and snapped a 10-game losing streak to St. John's dating back to the 2007 season. The Pirates ended long winless streaks against Rutgers and St. John's this season, beating both schools during conference play in the same season for the first time since 2002.
BIG EAST THREES All season the ability to shoot the three pointer has been an important staple in Seton Hall's offensive attack but in conference play the Pirates were even more effective from three. Seton Hall ranks third in the BIG EAST in conference three-point shooting, making 33.0 percent (93-of-282) of its three-point shots against conference foes for an average of 5.8 threes per game. Senior Brittany Morris tied for second in the conference in BIG EAST games by making 2.9 three pointers per game.
LEADING AT THE HALF Getting off to a good start has been important for the Pirates' ability to come away with a win as Seton Hall is 9-1 when taking a lead into the half but just 2-18 when it trails after 20 minutes.
PRESENCE ON THE BOARDS Over the past five games senior Breanna Jones has been one of Seton Hall's top rebounders. She is averaging 24.0 minutes per game over the last five contests, making four starts and Jones set a new career high in rebounding in three-straight games, most recently pulling down nine boards in a win over Cincinnati on March 8. She is averaging 5.8 rebounds per game over that stretch.
NEW CAREER-HIGH FOR BROWN Sophomore guard Alexis Brown scored a career-high 14 points at Louisville on Feb. 27. She tied her career-high with six made field goals and also knocked down the first three-pointer of her career. Brown has scored in double figures six times this season and ranks third on the team in scoring at 5.5 points per game.
SINGLE-SEASON MARKS Redshirt sophomore Ka-Deidre Simmons is close to cracking the Seton Hall single-season top-10 list in a pair of statistical categories. With a team-leading 117 assists, she sits just two shy of moving into a tie for the 10th-best single-season mark in school history. Simmons also leads the Pirates with 60 steals, needing just one more to tie for the 10th most in one year.
SO YOU WANT TO BE A COACH Senior Brittany Morris has been selected to participate in the Women's Basketball Coaches Association (WBCA) "So You Want To Be A Coach" program, which will be held in conjunction with the WBCA's annual national convention in New Orleans, La., at the Final Four. Morris was one of 50 selected to attend the convention out of one of the deepest and most competitive applicant pools in the program's history. The mission of the "So You Want To Be A Coach" program is to assist female college basketball players who are interested in pursuing a career in coaching women's basketball.
START IT UP Senior Breanna Jones made her first start of the season and the second start of her career when she was slotted in at forward against No. 3 Connecticut on Feb. 23. Jones, who has played in 54-career contests has appeared in all but one game this season.
MORRIS BREAKS THREE-POINT RECORD Senior guard Brittany Morris is the new Seton Hall career three-point leader with 175 triples over her three-plus seasons as a Pirate. She passed Ebonie Williams (‘07-10) and Jodi Brooks (‘90-'94) old mark of 156-career threes by draining a career-high six three pointers at USF on Feb. 16, vaulting from third to first in school history. She leads Seton Hall with 71 threes this season, which is the highest single-season mark in school history.
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