The Hall Faces Third-Seeded Creighton, Saturday

UNCASVILLE, CONNECTICUT – Mohegan Sun Arena
2023 BIG EAST TOURNAMENT presented by Jeep

#6 SETON HALL (18-13) vs. #3 CREIGHTON (21-7)
Date	Time	Live Video	Live Audio	Live Stats	Twitter
Sat., March 4	9:30 p.m.				@SHUWBB

THE GAME
Seton Hall will continue play at the 2023 BIG EAST Championship on Saturday, March 4 against third-seeded Creighton in the quarterfinal round at Mohegan Sun Arena. Tip time is scheduled for 9:30 p.m.

MEDIA
The game will be televised nationally on FS2 with Matt Schumacker, Kim Adams and Meghan Caffrey on the call. As usual, the game will also be available over the airwaves at 89.5 FM WSOU and at wsou.net. Mike Federico and Spencer Gonzalez will describe the action on the radio all tournament long. Live stats will also be available.

WSOU is now also airing a post-game "Hall Line" show following its women's basketball games. Be sure to tune in after the final buzzer.

LAST GAME
Senior Lauren Park-Lane (Wilmington, Del.) had a game-high 26 points and Victoria Keenan (Bethlehem, Pa.) scored 18 off the bench as the Seton Hall women's basketball team routed Xavier, 84-58, in the first round of the BIG EAST Tournament on Friday.

The six-seeded Pirates led wire-to-wire and saw its lead grow to as many as 30 points in a convincing victory over the 11-seeded Musketeers to advance to the tournament quarterfinals for the fourth year in a row.

Despite playing only 26 minutes due to foul trouble, Park-Lane had 26 points on an efficient 8-for-9 shooting, including 2-for-2 from three-point range and 8-for-9 from the free-throw line. She also dished out five assists.

Keenan had her best game in three years, going 6-for-9 from three-point range for a season-high 18 points. Jala Jordan (Philadelphia, Pa.) was a third Pirate to reach double-figures in scoring. She had 12 points off the bench.

2023 BIG EAST TOURNAMENT
It's the third straight season that Seton Hall and Creighton have hooked up in the quarterfinals as part of the No. 3 vs. No. 6 game. In 2021, third-seeded Seton Hall was upset by No. 6 Creighton. In 2022 however, the sixth-seeded Pirates upset No. 3 Creighton.

Seton Hall is 26-37 all-time in the BIG EAST Tournament. They are 1-0 all-time against Xavier in the event, with a 66-42 rout of the Musketeers in the first round of the 2018 tournament in Chicago.

The Pirates have never won the BIG EAST Tournament, but have advanced to the finals four times, including most recently at the 2015 event when the top-seeded Hall fell to No. 2 DePaul.

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Seton Hall All-Time vs. the Bluejays: Creighton leads, 16-6
2022-23 Meetings:
Creighton 75, Seton Hall 53 (F) – January 11, 2023 (D.J. Sokol Arena)
Creighton 77, Seton Hall 64 (F) – February 7, 2023 (Walsh Gymnasium)

EARLIER THIS YEAR AGAINST CREIGHTON
Graduate student Sidney Cooks (Kenosha, Wis.) had a team-high 20 points, but The Hall fell at Creighton, 75-53, on January 11.

The Pirates never led in this one as Creighton opened the game with a 9-2 spurt and never looked back. The Pirates finished the game without a made three-point field goal, while the Bluejays were 12-for-25 from downtown.

Cooks had another monster game in the rematch at Walsh Gym on Feb. 7 with a game-high 27 points, and senior Lauren Park-Lane tallied a double-double, but The Hall fell to the Bluejays, 77-64.

Creighton used a 10-0 run late in the second quarter to take the lead and never trailed again. The Bluejays made nine of their first 13 shots from three-point range to pull away from the Pirates.

SCOUTING CREIGHTON:
This year, the Bluejays were picked to finish second in the 11-team BIG EAST according to the Preseason coaches' poll. Both Lauren Jensen and Emma Ronsiek were named to the Preseason All-BIG EAST Team, while Morgan Maly was an Honorable Mention.

Creighton enters the BIG EAST Tournament with a 21-7 overall record and has earned the No. 3 seed, earning a first-round bye. The Bluejays are playing some of their best basketball of the season having won nine of their last 10 games and 12 of their last 14. They're coming off a 74-46 throttling of Butler in Omaha on Monday.

Jensen and Maly were named to the All-BIG EAST First Team, while Ronsiek was an Honorable Mention. Jensen leads the team with 15.7 points per game, just edging Maly's 15.5 points per contest. Creighton led the BIG EAST by a wide margin with 9.4 made three-pointers per contest, while the Pirates ranked last in defending the three.

UP NEXT
With a victory over Creighton, Seton Hall will advance to the semifinals of the BIG EAST Tournament and face either No. 7 DePaul or No. 2 Villanova on Sunday. The contest will be nationally televised on FS1. Mike Federico and Spencer Gonzalez will describe the action for WSOU FM.