No. 20 Pirates Set For Quick Turnaround At Marquette

Saturday, January 15

Milwaukee, Wis.

12 p.m.

Seton Hall University

Marquette

No. 20 Pirates Set For Quick Turnaround At Marquette

1/14/2022 5:29:00 PM | Men's Basketball

Game 16: No. 20 Seton Hall Pirates (11-4, 2-3 BIG EAST) vs. Marquette Golden Eagles (11-6, 3-3 BIG EAST)
Saturday, Jan. 15 • Fiserv Forum (Milwaukee, Wis.) • 12 p.m.
TV: FS1 with Matt Schumacker & Dickey Simpkins
Web: FOX Sports App
Radio: AM970 / Sirius 84 / XM 84 / SXM app 84 / Pirate Sports Network & TuneIn with Dave Popkin & Matt Loughlin
Game Notes: Seton Hall | Marquette

NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW

The 20th ranked Seton Hall men's basketball team will conclude its two-game Midwest road trip on Saturday as the Pirates will take on Marquette at 12 p.m. Eastern at Fiserv Forum.
After starting 0-2 in the BIG EAST for the first time under head coach Kevin Willard, the Pirates have won two of their last three in league play.
Their latest victory was a thrilling 90-87 overtime win over Connecticut on Saturday, their third Quadrant One victory of the season.
Seton Hall's three losses in conference play have come by a combined 15 points.
Two of those defeats came without two critical interior pieces (7-2 graduate student Ike Obiagu and 6-10 junior Tyrese Samuel) against two ranked BIG EAST opponents.
The Pirates have gone 2-1 since Obiagu's return and he has averaged 5.7 points, 4.3 rebounds and 5.7 blocks in those three games.
The Pirates have only played with their full compliment of players twice this season in their road win at No. 4 Michigan on Nov. 16 and in the 96-92 loss at DePaul on Jan. 13.
The loss to the Blue Demons is the Pirates' lone non-Quadrant 1 loss of the season and is currently a Q2 defeat.
Seton Hall's average margin of defeat this season is 4.5 points.
This is the first season in program history where the Pirates defeated two top 10 non-conference opponents in the regular season.
The Hall is one of only four programs in the country with multiple wins over top 10 teams this season (Baylor, Duke, Gonzaga).
The Pirates are one of only four teams in college basketball with a true top five road win (No. 4 Michigan, 67-65) along with Wisconsin (No. 3 Purdue, 74-69), Miami (No. 2 Duke, 76-74) and Texas Tech (No. 1 Baylor, 65-62).
The Pirates lead the BIG EAST and rank 28th in the country in three-point FG percentage defense (28.9 percent).
The Pirates have held eight of its first 15 opponents to 65 points or less.
Seton Hall is ranked in the top 50 in KenPom in both adjusted offensive efficiency (39th) and adjusted defensive efficiency (49th)
Seton Hall is currently 27th in the NET, 30th in KenPom and 20th in the AP Top 25.
The Pirates are 105-17 (.861) since 2016-17 when they attempt more free throws than their opponent.
This season, Seton Hall ranks seventh in Division I in free throws made (264) and 26th in free throw attempts (338).
The Hall is 123-18 (.872) since 2015-16 when its lead gets to seven points.
Under Willard, the Pirates are 88-10 (.898) when they score 80 points or more.
Seton Hall was ranked in the AP Top 25 for the eighth consecutive week on Monday as the Pirates stayed in at No. 20.
Ike Obiagu has registered a block in 24 consecutive games going back to last season, the longest streak in the country.
With five blocks at DePaul (Jan. 13), Obiagu cracked the top five in program history and now sits in fifth with 150 career blocks as a Pirate.
Graduate student Bryce Aiken (Randolph, N.J.) has been a force in closing out games this season with 67 total points in the final five minutes of regulation and overtime through 14 games played (4.8 ppg).
Senior guard Jared Rhoden (Baldwin, N.Y.) now has scored in double figures in 13 of 14 games played and ranks fourth in the BIG EAST in scoring (16.9 ppg).
He became the 47th player in program history to score 1,000 points following his last made field goal in overtime against Connecticut on Jan. 8.