Pirates Return To MSG To Face No. 7 St. John's

GAME INFORMATION
Date/Time: Saturday, March 1 • 2:15 p.m. Eastern
Site: New York, N.Y. • Madison Square Garden (19,812)
TV: CBS • Ian Eagle, Bill Raftery & Jon Rothstein
Radio: SHU Pirates Mobile App • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin
SHUPirates.com • Varsity Network App
Satellite: SiriusXM 392 | SXM App 982
Seton Hall All-Time vs. St. John's: 50-64

NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW

The Seton Hall men's basketball team makes its return to Madison Square Garden on Saturday when it takes on seventh-ranked St. John's at 2:15 p.m. on CBS.
While the Pirates faced the Red Storm at MSG last season in the BIG EAST Tournament, the last regular season meeting between the two programs at MSG was in 2021-22 when The Hall defeated St. John's, 66-60, on 1/22/22.
Seton Hall has won its last three regular season games against St. John's at MSG dating back to 2019-20.
The last time St. John's won both regular season meetings against Seton Hall was the 2013-14 season.
Seton Hall trails the all-time series with St. John's, 50-64, but the Pirates lead the all-time series in BIG EAST regular season games, 40-37.
The Pirates have won six of the last nine meetings against the Red Storm.
Located in the Jamaica section of Queens, N.Y., the St. John's campus is a stones throw away from where Seton Hall head coach Shaheen Holloway grew up in South Jamaica.
Holloway is 2-4 in his career against Rick Pitino; four meetings at their current schools and two meetings when they were at Saint Peter's and Iona, respectively.
Seton Hall is 3-0 on the season in overtime games this season and head coach Shaheen Holloway is 10-3 all-time in overtime games as a head coach.
In 11 BIG EAST games this season, Dylan Addae-Wusu is averaging 12.1 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.1 assists per game.
Addae-Wusu trails only Creighton's Ryan Kalkbrenner for the most career BIG EAST games played among active players with 88.
Chaunce Jenkins (knee), who has led the Pirates in scoring six times this season and The Hall is 4-2 in those games, has missed 10 straight games.
Isaiah Coleman posted his ninth 20-point game of the season with his 23-point performance on Sunday against Xavier.
Coleman is one of the top scorers in the BIG EAST in conference play where he ranks sixth in scoring averaging 17.5 points per game.
He also ranks 14th in league in rebounding averaging 6.0 boards per contest.
Coleman posted his second double-double of the season and his career at Georgetown on Feb. 8 where he scored 21 points and grabbed 10 boards.
Coleman has scored in double-figures in 17 of his last 20 games and eight of those outputs were 20-point performances against BIG EAST teams.
Also coming into his own is freshman center Godswill Erheriene who registered his first career double-double (10 points, 12 rebounds) in the overtime win over UConn on 2/15.
Erheriene is averaging 7.9 points, 6.1 rebounds and 28.1 minutes over the last four games.
Seton Hall has forced 14 or more turnovers in seven of its last 11 games thanks in large part to its diamond full court press.
The Hall ranks third in the BIG EAST and 41st in the country forcing 14.3 turnovers per game.
Seton Hall is third in the BIG EAST and 80th nationally in turnover margin (+1.8).
Seton Hall also ranks 16th in Div. I in non-steal turnover percentage by KenPom.
The Pirates have held four of its last five opponents under 70 points and they've crept back into the top 100 of KenPom's defensive efficiency ranking at No. 86.
Seton Hall ranks second in the BIG EAST averaging 11.5 offensive rebounds per game
According to KenPom, the Pirates rank 12th in Div. I in bench minutes (41.9 pct.).