The Pirate Pursuit Begins Friday vs. FDU

2017 NIT Season Tip-Off Campus Game No. 23 Seton Hall Pirates (0-0, 0-0 BIG EAST) vs. Fairleigh Dickinson Knights (0-0, 0-0 NEC)
Date/Time/Location	Friday, November 10 \| 6:30 p.m. \| Prudential Center (Newark, N.J.)
Tickets	Ticketmaster.com \| Seton Hall Athletics Ticket Office
Television Broadcast	FS2 \| FOX Sports GO
Radio Broadcast	AM970 The Answer \| Pirate Sports Network
Game Notes	Seton Hall \| Fairleigh Dickinson
Links	Live Stats \| Twitter \| Facebook \| NIT Season Tip-Off

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The long summer and preseason of preparation and talk is over. Now the Seton Hall men's basketball team begins its pursuit of greatness Friday night at home in front of hopefully a large crowd as the Pirates face Fairleigh Dickinson in a NIT Season Tip-Off Campus Game at 6:30 p.m. Dave Sims and Len Elmore will have the national television broadcast call on FS2, which is also live streamed on FOX Sports GO. The dynamic duo of Gary Cohen and Dave Popkin will deliver the radio call on AM970 The Answer.

Things to Know About The Hall:

The No. 23 ranked Seton Hall men's basketball team tips off one of the most anticipated seasons in program history Friday night, and jump-starts a stretch of four home games in nine days at Prudential Center with Friday's NIT Season Tip-Off matchup against Fairleigh Dickinson.
The Pirates return 90 percent of their scoring and rebounding from a team that won 21 games in 2016-17, advanced to the BIG EAST Tournament semifinal, and reached the NCAA Tournament for the second consecutive season.
Led by eighth-year head coach Kevin Willard, the Pirates welcome back an incredible senior class that has the only active trio of 1,000 point scorers in Division I - Khadeen Carrington, Angel Delgado and Desi Rodriguez.
Delgado was a unanimous All-BIG EAST First Team selection after leading the nation in rebounding in 2016-17, pulling down an astonishing 13.1 boards per game.
The 2017-18 non-conference slate for the Pirates includes potential matchups against six teams currently in the KenPom Top-75. The Hall will square off with four teams that made the NCAA Tournament last season, including Rhode Island, either Vanderbilt or Virginia, Louisville and VCU.

Off The Bat:

The Hall leads the all-time series with the Knights, 18-4. The teams have only met twice since 2008, and have played 23 of the 24 meetings on SHU's home court.
Willard is 7-0 in home openers with an average margin of victory of 19.0 points. The Pirates have won 16 straight non-conference games at Prudential Center and are 55-8 all-time in non- league contests at The Rock.
Seton Hall opened last season with Fairleigh Dickinson inside Walsh Gymnasium, and came away with a 90-71.Carrington posted 27 points including a 5-of-6 performance from beyond the arc, while Delgado chimed in with 22 points and 14 boards, and led a dominating 52-18 advantage in the paint.
Delgado and Carrington were named to the Preseason All-BIG EAST first team, and Rodriguez earned an honorable mention nod. The Pirates were picked second behind Villanova in the league's preseason poll.
Seton Hall is ranked in the AP Top-25 Poll entering the season for the first time since 2000- 01 when it came in at No. 10., and was picked to win the BIG EAST. The last time the Pirates were ranked was March 14, 2016 at No. 20.