Pirates Fall To Marquette In #Play4Kay Game

Friday, February 23

South Orange, N.J.

7 p.m.

Seton Hall University

15-13, 7-10BE

Marquette

20-8, 14-3BE

Marquette

Seton Hall

2/23/2018 9:47:00 PM | Women's Basketball

Box Score BOX SCORE (PDF)

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. – The Seton Hall women's basketball team dropped an 81-54 decision to league-leading Marquette on Friday night inside historic Walsh Gym. The Hall finished with three players in double-figures, led by 13 points from senior JaQuan Jackson (Killeen, Texas) In her penultimate home game.

Marquette jumped out to a 13-point lead after a quarter and kept that advantage through the half, then used a 21-10 fourth quarter to put the contest out of reach. Allazia Blockton led MU with 21 points while Erika Davenport finished with 11 and 17 rebounds.

Friday night at Walsh was The Hall's Kay Yow Cancer Fund #Play4Kay Pink Game presented by RWJ Barnabas. As part of the festivities, the Pirates presented Seton Hall president Dr. Mary Meehan, a breast cancer survivor, with a commemorative pink jersey.

Inside The Numbers

The Pirates were held to 37.5 shooting from the floor and were 6-of-23 from 3-point range
Conversely, MU shot 50.7 percent from the field
Marquette was +2 in turnover margin and out-scored The Hall 28-15 off miscues
The Pirates finished with 12 steals, led by four from Nicole Jimenez (Miami, Fla.)
The Seton Hall bench out-scored the MU reserves 24-11
The Golden Eagles held a 47-25 rebounding edge and a 50-24 advantage in points in the paint
Three different Pirates blocked a shot, while MU did not record a rejection

News and Notes

The Pirates fall to 7-13 all-time against Marquette and 5-4 at home in the series
The Hall recorded double-digit steals in a game for the 14^th time this season
With a 12-point effort, Jimenez is averaging 14.5 points over her last two contests
Taylor Brown (Paterson, N.J.) made her first appearance since Jan. 10 returning from an injury and scored 10 points on 4-of-8 shooting
Brown's double-figure scoring effort was the 17^th recorded by a Pirate reserve on the year
Kaela Hilaire (Queens, N.Y.) finished with seven assists, one shy of her season-high

What's Ahead
The Hall will close the regular season on Sunday afternoon at 1 p.m. against co-league-leading DePaul. Prior to the contest The Hall will honor its lone senior, top scorer JaQuan Jackson.