Seton Hall Opens Back-To-Back Against St. John's At MSG

Game 17: Seton Hall Pirates (11-5, 2-4 BIG EAST) vs. St. John's (10-6, 2-3 BIG EAST)
Saturday, Jan. 22 • Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.) • 12 p.m.
TV: FS1 with Dave Sims & Jim Spanarkel
Web: FOX Sports App
Radio: WMCA 570 / Sirius 133 / XM 201 / SXM app 964 / Pirate Sports Network & TuneIn with Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
Game Notes: Seton Hall | St. John's

NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW

The Seton Hall men's basketball team returns to action after a week off on Saturday as the Pirates travel across the Hudson River to take on St. John's inside Madison Square Garden for a noon tip on FS1.
Seton Hall is 17-12 at Madison Square Garden under Kevin Willard and 15-8 since 2013-14.
Seton Hall's four losses in conference play have come by a combined 16 points and its average margin of defeat is four points.
The Pirates have lost five games this season by a combined 19 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 loss at DePaul (Jan. 13) is the Pirates' lone non-Quadrant 1 loss of the season and is currently a Q2 defeat.
Seton Hall is 3-5 this season against Q1 and Q2 competition.
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 five programs in the country with multiple wins over top 10 teams this season (Baylor, Duke, Gonzaga, Oregon).
The Pirates are the only team in college basketball that secured a true top five road win in the non-conference (at No. 4 Michigan, 67-65).
The Pirates lead the BIG EAST in three-point FG percentage defense (30.4 percent).
The Pirates have held eight of its 16 opponents to 65 points or less.
Seton Hall is ranked in the top 60 in KenPom in both adjusted offensive efficiency (30th) and adjusted defensive efficiency (53rd)
Seton Hall is currently 30th in the NET and 29th in KenPom.
The Pirates are 105-18 (.854) 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 (280) and 31st 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.
Ike Obiagu has registered a block in 25 consecutive games going back to last season, the longest streak in the country.
With seven blocks at Marquette (Jan. 15), Obiagu is in sole possession of second place on Seton Hall's all-time blocks list and is 10 blocks away from tying Samuel Dalembert's program record of 167 blocks.
Graduate student Bryce Aiken (Randolph, N.J.) has been a force in closing out games this season with 72 total points in the final five minutes of regulation and overtime through 15 games played (4.8 ppg).
Graduate student Alexis Yetna (Paris, France) is averaging a double-double in BIG EAST play with 11.2 points and 10 rebounds per game.
Senior guard Jared Rhoden (Baldwin, N.Y.) now has scored in double figures in 14 of 15 games played and ranks fourth in the BIG EAST in scoring (16.6 ppg).