Seton Hall Readies For BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle At No. 6 Baylor

Game 8: No. 6 Baylor Bears (8-0) vs. Seton Hall Pirates (5-2)
Tuessday, Dec. 5 • Ferrell Center (Waco, Texas) • 9 p.m.
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Notes You Need To Know

The Seton Hall men's basketball team will play its first true road game of the season on Tuesday as the Pirates travel to No. 6 Baylor in a BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle contest on ESPN2.
These two teams were originally scheduled to play a BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle game on Nov. 29, 2020 at Prudential Center in Newark before both teams mutually agreed to cancel the game amidst the unpredictable 2020-21 college basketball season.
The Pirates are 1-2 all-time in BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle games, which features a win vs. No. 7 Texas at Prudential Center in 2022-23.
After Tuesday, the Pirates will have been the road team in three of their four BIG EAST-Big 12 Battle games and they will have played three top 10 teams.
The Pirates' last trip to Lonestar State came during the 2002-03 season when The Hall faced Texas in the Space City Basketball Classic in Houston on Nov. 20, 2002.
This will be Seton Hall's first-ever true road game in the state of Texas.
The Hall is 10-5 all-time against opponents from the state of Texas.
Seton Hall has split its last two road games against non-conference opponents ranked in the top 10; a loss at No. 9 Kansas last season (91-65) and win at No. 4 Michigan on Nov. 16, 2021 (67-65).
Seton Hall has won three of its last five games against non-conference opponents ranked in the top 10 going back to 2019-20.
Tuesday will be the first-ever meeting between Seton Hall and Baylor.
Both head coaches graduated from BIG EAST schools; Shaheen Holloway went to Seton Hall and Scott Drew attended Butler.
The Pirates scored 85 points or more for the third time this season in an 88-75 win over Northeastern on Nov. 29.
Seton Hall was bolstered by 46 combined points from Kadary Richmond (21 points) and Al-Amir Dawes (career-high 25 points).
It marked the first time that Seton Hall teammates scored 20-plus points in the same game since Jared Rhoden and Bryce Aiken on Jan. 13, 2022 at DePaul.
Dawes was named to the BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll on Monday after his career-high 25-point performance against Northeastern where he also grabbed five rebounds and dished out five assists.
Dawes ranks 17th in Division I among active players in career three-point field goals made.
Isaiah Coleman was named BIG EAST Freshman of the Week for the second time this season after scoring 11 points, grabbing three rebounds and tallying three steals.
After his initial BIG EAST Freshman of the Week on Nov. 20, Coleman continued to be a key contributor off the bench for the Pirates in San Diego where he averaged 21 minutes, 5.0 points, 3.0 boards, 2.5 steals and 1.5 assists per contest.
Jaden Bediako has two double-doubles so far this season and has scored in double-figures in six of Seton Hall's first seven games, his most through seven games in his four-year career.
Bediako leads the BIG EAST and ranks 10th in the country with 4.0 offensive rebounds per game and he ranks sixth nationally in offensive rebounding percentage (19.4 percent).
The Pirates lead the BIG EAST and rank 38th nationally in steals per game (9.1 spg) and they're paced by Dylan Addae-Wusu, whose 16 steals leads the conference.
Seton Hall has been highly efficient from the free throw line through six games where they've shot 79 percent (103-of-130), a clip that ranks second in the BIG EAST and 12th nationally.
Dre Davis' 91 percent clip (19-of-21) paces the Pirates from the charity stripe.