Seton Hall Travels To No. 4 Michigan For Gavitt Tipoff Games

Game 1: No. 4 Michigan (2-0, 0-0 Big Ten) vs. Seton Hall Pirates (2-0, 0-0 BIG EAST)
Tuesday, Nov. 16 • Crisler Center (Ann Arbor, Mich.) • 9 p.m.
TV: FS1 with Joe Davis & Bill Raftery
Web: FOX Sports Live
Radio: AM970 / XM 83 / Sirius 83 / SXM app 83 / Pirate Sports Network & TuneIn with Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
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NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW

Seton Hall returns to action on Tuesday, November 16 for the Gavitt Tipoff Games when it travels to Ann Arbor, Mich. for a contest at No. 4 Michigan. Coverage will begin at 9:00 p.m. on FS1.
The Pirates are off to their fifth 2-0 start over the last seven seasons.
The Pirates have never beaten a top-five non-conference opponent on the road (0-5).
Seton Hall's lone victory against a non-conference foe ranked in the top five was its 67-65 overtime win over No. 5 Temple in the NCAA Tournament's second round on March 19, 2000, a win that propelled the Pirates to the Sweet 16.
The trip to Michigan will be a homecoming for Seton Hall forward and Detroit native Tray Jackson.
The Pirates trounced Yale on Sunday, 80-44, at Prudential Center but will have to quickly turnaround to take on the Wolverines.
10 different Pirates found the scoring column against the Bulldogs and no one played more than 22 minutes.
Seton Hall's combined margin of victory over its first two games is 80, its highest total since winning by a combined 82 points over its first two games back in 1956-57.
The last time Seton Hall held two opponents to under 50 points in consecutive games was in 2005 against Northwestern (L, 42-44) and Morgan State (W, 93-46).
In the opener, five Pirates scored in double-figures, highlighted by the first career double-double (19 points, 11 rebounds) by junior Tyrese Samuel (Montreal, Quebec) and a 15-point output in 18 minutes off the bench by graduate student Bryce Aiken (Randolph, N.J.).
Graduate Student Myles Cale (Middletown, Del.) became the 46th player in program history to score 1,000 career points in the win over FDU on Nov. 10.
The Pirates return four of their top six scorers from last season, add three transfers who have combined for over 1,400 career Div. I points scored and bring in a top-25 rated freshman recruiting class that will help Seton Hall once again compete for another conference championship and NCAA Tournament bid.
The Pirates were picked to finish fifth in the BIG EAST Preseason Poll and senior Jared Rhoden (Baldwin, N.Y.) was named Preseason All-BIG EAST First Team.
In head coach Kevin Willard's 11 seasons, the Pirates have met or exceeded their preseason poll rank eight times.

SETON HALL IN THE GAVITT GAMES

The Pirates are 2-2 against Big Ten teams in the annual Gavitt Games, an early-season series played between the two conferences and named in honor of Dave Gavitt, founder of the BIG EAST and a basketball visionary.
The Pirates are 1-1 in road games in the intra-conference series as they defeated Iowa on the road in 2016 (91-83) and fell at Nebraska in 2018 (80-57).
This will be the Pirates' second top-5 matchup in the Gavitt Games following an epic 76-73 loss to No. 3 Michigan State at Prudential Center on Nov. 14, 2019.

INSIDE THE SERIES: MICHIGAN

Seton Hall is 0-2 all-time against Michigan and both meetings took place in the 1989 calendar year.
The first meeting was the 1989 National Championship game in Seattle -- considered still by many as one of the best national finals ever -- where the Pirates were seconds away from winning it all before Michigan pulled out an 80-79 victory in overtime.
The latest meeting was a 91-86 win for the Wolverines on Dec. 23 1989 in Las Vegas. The game was the second half of a nationally-televised doubleheader.

RANKINGS NOTES & TIDBITS

The Pirates are 2-17 all-time against teams ranked fourth in the country.
Seton Hall's last win against a team ranked No. 4 was a 69-67 victory at Syracuse on Feb. 7, 2000.
That win over the Orange is the Pirates' highest ranked road win in program history.
The Hall's last road win against a top five team was a 78-70 victory at No. 5 Butler on Jan. 15, 2020.