Seton Hall, Indiana State To Square Off For NIT Championship

Seton Hall (24-12) vs. Indiana State (32-6)
Date/Time: Thursday, April 4 • 7 p.m. Eastern
Site: Indianapolis, Ind. • Hinkle Fieldhouse (9,100)
TV: ESPN • Mike Corey & Fran Fraschilla
Online: WatchESPN.com
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Dave Popkin • SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 84 / SXM App
Seton Hall All-Time vs. Indiana State: First meeting

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Seton Hall's 24 wins this season is tied for the seventh-most victories in program history and it's one shy of tying the most wins in a season since 2015-16 when The Hall won 25 games.
The Pirates are 12-19 all-time in NIT games.
Thursday will be Seton Hall's second appearance in the finals of the NIT and its first since winning it all in 1953.
The Pirates have won seven of their last nine games at Hinkle Fieldhouse including their last four contests.
The Pirates have won by an average of 14.8 points in their last four games at Hinkle Fieldhouse.
After trailing in the first half against Saint Joseph's in its NIT opener, Seton Hall has led at the half in each of its last three games by an average of 14.7 points.
The Pirates are 21-1 when leading at halftime this season.
Seton Hall has won its last three games in the NIT by an average of 18.0 points per game.
As a number one seed, Seton Hall hosted its first three games of the tournament inside historic Walsh Gymnasium where the Pirates went 3-0 and won their last two games by an average of 18.5 points.
As head coach Shaheen Holloway says: "our main guys have to be the main guys." They've been those guys through the first four games of the tournament:
Al-Amir Dawes: 20.3 pts, 6.8 reb, 3.0 ast

Dre Davis: 16.3 pts, 7.8 reb, 2.5 ast, 2.5 blk

Kadary Richmond: 12.0 pts, 8.5 reb, 6.8 ast, 3.0 stl
With BIG EAST All-Freshman team selection Isaiah Coleman sidelined with an illness, Jaquan Sanders has been the first backcourt player off the bench for The Hall and he has averaged 8.5 points on 5-of-8 shooting from three-point range the last two games.
Sanders scored a career-high 11 points in Seton Hall's semifinal win over Georgia.
Head coach Shaheen Holloway is the first Seton Hall head coach to win a national postseason tournament game within his first two seasons.
Holloway's 41 wins as Seton Hall head coach is most of any coach in program history through two seasons.
Picked to finish ninth out of 11 teams in the BIG EAST preseason poll, head coach Shaheen Holloway led the Pirates to a fourth place finish and a 13-7 record in league play, tied for the second-most BIG EAST wins in program history.
Holloway is the first Seton Hall head coach to lead the Pirates to postseason appearances in each of his first two seasons.
Richmond, who's one of two players in the BIG EAST (Devin Carter, PC) that finished in the top 11 in scoring, rebounding, assists and steals in league play, has registered double-doubles in back-to-back games; 11 points, career-high 15 rebounds vs. North Texas and 16 points, 10 assists vs. UNLV.
Richmond is one of six Pirates all-time (Terry Dehere, Shaheen Holloway, Andre Barrett, Khadeen Carrington, Myles Powell) to score 1,000 points, collect 400 rebounds and tally 300 assists in a career.
Davis averaged 16.2 points per game, shot 52 percent from the floor and 86 percent from the free-throw line in BIG EAST play, becoming the first BIG EAST player to average 16 pts, shoot 50% FG and 80% FT in league since Mikal Bridges for Villanova in 2017-18.
Davis is averaging 16.0 points per game and shooting 53 percent from the field (19-of-36) in three games at Hinkle Fieldhouse as a collegian.
The Pirates are 20-6 this season when Dawes scores in double figures and 10-3 when he's the team's leading scorer.
In just two seasons in South Orange, Dawes ranks 14th in school history with 166 made three-pointers and his 88 made treys this season ranks ninth in a single season in program history.