Myles Powell Scores Career Point 2,000
1/18/2020 2:30:00 PM | Men's Basketball
NEW YORK - Senior All-America candidate Myles Powell (Trenton, N.J.) of the Seton Hall men's basketball team reached an incredible milestone Saturday when he became the fifth Pirate ever to reach 2,000 career points. Powell did it on a fastbreak layup off a steal early in the second half of Seton Hall's 82-79 comeback win over St. John's.
Powell, doing what he does best, ended up taking over the game for the Pirates, who trailed at halftime by 13 points. Powell scored 23 of his game-high 29 points in the second half, including seven points in a row to help the Pirates surge past the Red Storm.
A leading candidate for the Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy, Jerry West Award and Oscar Robertson Trophy, Powell is now in elite Seton Hall company in the 2,000-point club, alongside Terry Dehere (1989-93), Nick Werkman (1961-64), Jeremy Hazell (2007-11) and Greg Tynes (1974-78). Powell needs 472 more points to catch Dehere's all-time record. At his current scoring pace of 25.2 points per game in the contests he's been able to finish, Powell has a good chance of surpassing Tynes, Hazell and Werkman while coming close to Dehere.
Powell is one of Seton Hall's most decorated and celebrated student-athletes of all-time. In 2018, he was the BIG EAST's Most Improved Player, which catapulted him into his breakout campaign in 2019, when he was a unanimous first-team All-BIG EAST selection and the Haggerty Award Metropolitan Player of the Year recipient. This season, he went into the year as Seton Hall's first-ever Associated Press preseason All-America selection and also was named the BIG EAST Preseason Player of the Year. Powell has backed up the honors by averaging 22.4 points per game overall and leading Seton Hall to a 14-4 start overall, 6-0 in the BIG EAST.
Powell, doing what he does best, ended up taking over the game for the Pirates, who trailed at halftime by 13 points. Powell scored 23 of his game-high 29 points in the second half, including seven points in a row to help the Pirates surge past the Red Storm.
A leading candidate for the Wooden Award, Naismith Trophy, Jerry West Award and Oscar Robertson Trophy, Powell is now in elite Seton Hall company in the 2,000-point club, alongside Terry Dehere (1989-93), Nick Werkman (1961-64), Jeremy Hazell (2007-11) and Greg Tynes (1974-78). Powell needs 472 more points to catch Dehere's all-time record. At his current scoring pace of 25.2 points per game in the contests he's been able to finish, Powell has a good chance of surpassing Tynes, Hazell and Werkman while coming close to Dehere.
Powell is one of Seton Hall's most decorated and celebrated student-athletes of all-time. In 2018, he was the BIG EAST's Most Improved Player, which catapulted him into his breakout campaign in 2019, when he was a unanimous first-team All-BIG EAST selection and the Haggerty Award Metropolitan Player of the Year recipient. This season, he went into the year as Seton Hall's first-ever Associated Press preseason All-America selection and also was named the BIG EAST Preseason Player of the Year. Powell has backed up the honors by averaging 22.4 points per game overall and leading Seton Hall to a 14-4 start overall, 6-0 in the BIG EAST.
MYLES. POWELL.
— Seton Hall Basketball (@SetonHallMBB) January 18, 2020
HISTORY MADE! #MP13 #HALLin pic.twitter.com/OgpT7ovMqS
Here its is! 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣ points for Myles Powell 👏#HALLin pic.twitter.com/225uuq0FrA
— Seton Hall Basketball (@SetonHallMBB) January 18, 2020
What a day yesterday for @Myles_MBP_23 who not only rallied us back to win, but he scored career point 2️⃣0️⃣0️⃣0️⃣! 🔥🔥🔥 #HALLin pic.twitter.com/jet2giMk9N
— Seton Hall Basketball (@SetonHallMBB) January 19, 2020
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