When Seton Hall and Rutgers take the floor Thursday night at the Louis Brown Athletic Center, a history of close games will be in their favor. The last seven times the two teams have competed, the game has either gone to overtime or been won by a margin no greater than six.
The women's basketball team will play Syracuse for the second time this season on Friday, when they meet in the first round of the Big East Tournament.
The Pirates NCAA Tournament hopes are all but gone after losing to the Marquette Golden Eagles 84-83 in overtime. With the loss the Hall now stands in place in the Big East with a record of 7-9 in conference and 16-11 overall.
With Selection Sunday looming, the Pirates have one more chance to add a key win to their tournament resume before the Big East Championships with their game against Marquette at noon on Sunday at Prudential Center.
The Pirates lost their fifth straight game as they were defeated by Louisville last night at Walsh Gymnasium, 72-49. This set the team to a record of 1-13 in the Big East.
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After falling to the No. 8 West Virginia Mountaineers on Saturday, Seton Hall will travel back to Newark on Tuesday to play their long time rival Rutgers for the first time this year.
Without two of its starters for the majority of the game, Seton Hall picked up a critical road win, 59-50, over St. John's on Wednesday night at Carnesecca Arena.
For the first time this season the Pirates will be going for their fourth straight Big East victory when they take a trip south to West Virginia on Saturday afternoon.
The Seton Hall women's basketball team looks to climb out of the cellar of the Big East conference when it plays on the road Saturday against the Pittsburgh Panthers.
The Seton Hall women's basketball team dropped its third straight game on Saturday, falling by a score of 53-38 to South Florida. Freshman Terry Green led the Pirates with a career-high 15 points on 4-18 shooting while sophomore Kandice Green tallied 13 of her own and pulled down six rebounds.
Seton Hall defeated the DePaul Blue Demons 79-71 on Sunday afternoon in a game where the Pirates held the lead from starting tip off to the final buzzer.
Seton Hall defeated Notre Dame in a 90-87 victory Thursday night, snapping a three game conference losing streak and a six game losing streak against the Fighting Irish.
When the Notre Dame Fighting Irish enter the Prudential Center on Thursday, they will be looking to take advantage of the Hall's recent struggles and move up in the Big East, while the Pirates will look to improve on their shooting and turn around a once promising season.The Pirates are welcoming their return back to Prudential Center as they have yet to win a conference game on the road this season.Notre Dame is currently tied with Marquette for seventh place in the Big East with a 6-5 conference record, 17-7 overall.Seton Hall has fallen to 13th place with a 3-7 conference record, 12-9 overall.The Fighting Irish are led by senior forward Harangody, who is averaging 24.5 points per game, which ranks third in the nation. He also notches 10.1 rebounds per game, ranking him second in the Big East behind Seton Hall sophomore Herb Pope's 10.9 per game. The Pirates were also outrebounded 50-31 in the 10-point loss to No. 2 Villanova on February 2nd, despite shooting 43 percent from the field.The Fighting Irish are coming off victories over Cincinnati and USF but lost five of their last eight games and have a 1-4 record on the road this season against Big East teams.In the last 10 meetings the Pirates are 1-9 against Notre Dame with their last win coming at home in 2003, 78-72.Notre Dame is a strong shooting team, ranking third in the Big East with a 47.5 team field goal percentage, second in three-point shooting with a 40.1percent mark, and sixth in scoring with 79.4 points per game.Aside from Harangody, who is making a strong case for the Big East Player of the Year award, junior forward Tim Abromaitis and senior guard Ben Hansbrough also are averaging double figures for the Fighting Irish.Abromaitis averages 16.5 points per game, with a .523 field goal percentage and a .486 percentage from behind the arc.Hansbrough is averaging 11.8 points per game, along with five assists per game and 3.7 rebounds per game.On Sunday, the DePaul Blue Demons will visit Newark attempting to improve on their 1-10 conference record and climb out of last place in the Big East.DePaul has an overall record of 8-15 and despite dropping their last five matchups, they have been improving. The Blue Demons nearly upset the No. 4 Syracuse Orange on Jan. 30, but fell by two, 59-57.DePaul is without their head coach Jerry Wainwright, who was fired on Jan. 11.This is the second year in a row where the Blue Demons are at the bottom of the conference. Last season, they did not win their first conference game until the Big East Tournament when they beat Cincinnati, 67-57. The Blue Demon's are led by senior guard Will Walker's 16.5 points per game.Junior Mac Koshwal also contributes 13.7 points per game and 9.7 rebounds per game.The Pirates are 5-2 all-time against DePaul.Tipoff time is noon at the Prudential Center on Feb. 14th.Matthew Bryant can be reached at matthew.bryant@student.shu.edu.
The Seton Hall Pirates lost their third straight game, falling on the road to No. 22 Pittsburgh, 83-58, on Saturday.
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