BIG EAST MEN’S TOURNAMENT March 11-14 • Madison Square Garden •

FIRST ROUND QUARTERFINALS SEMIFINALS FINAL Wednesday Thursday Friday Saturday March 11 March 12 March 13 March 14

No. 9 ST. JOHN’S

7 P.M. FS1 12 P.M. No. 8 GEORGETOWN FS1

No. 1 CREIGHTON 6:30 P.M. FS1 No. 5 BUTLER

2:30 P.M. FS1 No. 4 PROVIDENCE 6:30 P.M. No. 10 DEPAUL FOX 9:30 P.M. FS1 7 P.M. No. 7 XAVIER FS1 No. 2 VILLANOVA 9 P.M. FS1 No. 6 MARQUETTE 9:30 P.M. FS1

No. 3 SETON HALL

All times listed are Eastern. GAME 31 vs. MARQUETTE • NEW YORK, N.Y. • MADISON SQUARE GARDEN GAME INFORMATION Date/Time: Thursday, March 12 / 9:30 p.m. Eastern [3] (21-9, 13-5 BIG EAST) Site: Madison Square Garden (19,812) / New York, N.Y. HEAD COACH: (Pittsburgh, ‘97) | 2020 BIG EAST Regular Season Champions TV: FS1 • Gus Johnson, Bill Raftery & Lisa Byington RECORD AT SETON HALL: 190-137, 10th Season | CAREER RECORD: 235-186, 13th Season Online: FOXSportsGO.com vs Radio: AM970 AM • Gary Cohen & Dave Popkin [6] (18-12, 8-10 BIG EAST) SHU Pirates Mobile App • TuneIn HEAD COACH: Steve Wojciechowski (Duke, ‘97) Social: @SetonHallMBB RECORD AT MARQUETTE: 115-81, Sixth Season | CAREER RECORD: 115-81, Sixth Season Seton Hall All-Time vs. Marquette: 11-19

THIS IS MARCH • Seton Hall has registered 10 or more BIG EAST victories in four of the last five seasons. 2019-20 SCHEDULE • The BIG EAST Tournament is here and Seton Hall is the No. 3 seed, the fourth time in five years that the MP AND Q EARN BIG EAST HONORS DATE OPPONENT TV TIME/RESULT Pirates are the tournament’s No. 3 seed. Oct. 25 BLOOMFIELD (EXH.) % None W, 81-52 • The Pirates are 31-36 all-time at the BIG EAST • Senior All-America candidate Oct. 29 MISERICORDIA (EXH.) % None W, 112-38 Tournament with championships in 1991, 1993 (Trenton, N.J.) was unanimously selected to the Nov. 5 WAGNER % FS1 W, 105-71 and 2016. All-BIG EAST first team for a second year in a row, • Last season, the Pirates rode late season the conference office announced on March 8. Nov. 9 STONY BROOK % FSN W, 74-57 momentum into the BIG EAST Tournament finals , • Powell is only the second Seton Hall men’s Nov. 14 No. 3 MICHIGAN STATE ! FS1 L, 76-73 its second appearance in four years, where they fell basketball player to ever place on to the All-BIG Nov. 17 at Saint Louis ESPNU W, 83-66 in a tight contest to Villanova, 74-72. EAST first team multiple times and two years in a Nov. 23 FLORIDA A&M FS2 W, 87-51 • The Hall is 5-2 all-time as the No. 3 seed. row, joining former Pirates legend Nov. 27 vs. No. 11 Oregon @ ESPN2 L, 69-71 • As the higher seed at the BIG EAST Tournament, (1989-93). Nov. 28 vs. Southern Miss @ ESPN2 W, 81-56 Seton Hall is 18-9. • Joining Powell in receiving honors is classmate • Since 2015-16, Seton Hall is 12-5 at Madison Square Quincy McKnight (Bridgeport, Conn.), who was Nov. 29 vs. Iowa State @ ESPNU W, 84-76 and 6-3 at MSG in the BIG EAST Tournament named All-BIG EAST honorable mention. Dec. 8 at Iowa State # ESPN2 L, 66-76 • While receiving the most attention on the Dec. 14 at Rutgers $ BTN L, 48-68 NOTES YOU NEED TO KNOW defensive end from opponents, he is averaging Dec. 19 No. 7 MARYLAND FS1 W, 52-48 21.0 , second-most in the BIG Dec. 22 PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FS1 W, 75-55 • Seton Hall finished the regular season with a 21-9 EAST, and 18th best in the country. Dec. 30 at DePaul* FS1 W, 74-66 record overall and a 13-5 mark in the BIG EAST • In conference play, Powell was also second in the Conference, which earned the Pirates a three-way league in scoring at 20.9 points per game as well Jan. 3 GEORGETOWN* FS1 W, 78-62 share of the league’s regular season championship, as tied for 10th in assists (3.4) and tied for eighth Jan. 8 at Xavier* FS1 W, 83-71 the program’s first since 1993. in steals (1.4). Jan. 11 MARQUETTE* CBSSN W, 69-55 • The Pirates were in first place for every day of the • McKnight has been rock steady as Seton Hall’s Jan. 15 at No. 5 Butler* FS1 W, 78-70 BIG EAST’s regular season, marking the program’s guard in his senior season with overall Jan. 18 at St. John’s* FOX W, 82-79 first wire-to-wire run at the top of the league. averages of 11.9 points and 5.4 assists. Jan. 22 PROVIDENCE* FS1 W, 73-64 • This season marks Seton Hall’s fifth consecutive • He claimed the conference’s statistical 20-win campaign, a program record. championship in assists by averaging 6.3 dimes in Jan. 29 DEPAUL* FS1 W, 64-57 • The Pirates’ 13 BIG EAST victories are the second- the 18 league games, becoming only the second- Feb. 1 XAVIER* FOX L, 62-74 most in program history behind only the 1992-93 ever Pirate to do so (Shaheen Holloway, 1998). Feb. 5 at Georgetown* FS1 W, 78-71 squad that won 14 games. Feb. 8 at No. 10 Villanova* FOX W, 70-64 Feb. 12 No. 23 CREIGHTON* FS1 L, 82-87 INSIDE THE RESUME (THROUGH GAMES ON MARCH 8) Feb. 15 at Providence* CBSSN L, 71-74 • Seton Hall ranks 16th in the NET with a 10-7 • The Pirates and Butler tied for the most Q1 and Feb. 19 No. 21 BUTLER* FS1 W, 74-72 record against “Quad 1” opponents and a Q2 games played in the country (24). Feb. 23 ST. JOHN’S* CBS W, 81-65 combined 15-9 record vs. “Quad 1” and “Quad 2” • Seton Hall is ranked 20th in the nation in KenPom Feb. 29 at Marquette* FOX W, 88-79 opponents. with a strength of schedule ranking of 10th. • The Hall’s 15 combined Q1 and Q2 wins are tied • The Pirates’ strength of schedule also ranks March 4 No. 14 VILLANOVA* FS1 L, 77-79 for third in the country with Villanova. fourth in the NCAA. March 7 at No. 11 Creighton* FOX L, 60-77 • Seton Hall’s seven Quad 1 road wins are tied for • The Pirates also rank among the top teams in March 12 vs. Marquette ** FS1 9:30 PM the most in the country with Kansas. the nation in KPI (7), Sagarin (10) and Strength March 13 BIG EAST Semifinal ** FS1 9 PM of Record (19). March 14 BIG EAST Final ** FOX 6:30 PM

% at in South Orange, N.J. LAST GAME’S STARTERS 2019-20 STATISTICS * BIG EAST game ** 2020 BIG EAST Tournament at Madison Square Garden No. Name Pos. Cl. Ht. Wt. PPG RPG APG FG% 3FG% FT% ! Gavitt Tipoff Games 0 Quincy McKnight G Sr. 6-4 185 11.9 3.3 5.4 41.4 34.6 85.0 @ Battle 4 Atlantis 13 Myles Powell G Sr. 6-2 195 21.0 4.3 2.9 39.8 30.6 79.5 # BIG EAST/Big 12 Scheduling Alliance 22 Myles Cale G Jr. 6-6 210 6.0 3.7 0.9 38.7 28.4 58.3 $ Garden State Hardwood Classic All games in CAPS and BOLD are home games. All home games are played at 23 F Jr. 6-11 240 11.9 6.0 1.4 54.0 43.4 65.8 Prudential in Newark, N.J. unless noted otherwise 35 Romaro Gill C Sr. 7-2 255 7.8 5.6 0.1 62.8 0.0 67.5 PRONUNCIATIONS KEY RESERVES Asiah Avent ...... Isaiah 2 Anthony Nelson G So. 6-4 180 2.7 0.8 2.3 43.8 26.7 60.9 Darnell Brodie ...... bro-dee 4 Tyrese Samuel F Fr. 6-10 220 3.2 2.7 0.4 37.5 32.7 44.0 Myles Cale ...... KALE 14 Jared Rhoden G So. 6-6 210 9.1 6.4 1.1 44.1 33.7 62.3 Sandro Mamukelashvili . . . . . ma-MOO-kell-osh-VEE-lee 21 Ike Obiagu C So. 7-2 265 2.4 2.0 0.0 67.6 0.0 57.9 Takal Molson ...... tah-CALL 33 Shavar Reynolds, Jr. G Jr. 6-2 190 4.2 1.8 1.0 43.0 47.8 82.8 Ike Obiagu ...... O-bee-ah-goo

2019-20 GAME NOTES 1 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB INSIDE THE HALL A YEAR TO “RO”-MEMBER MP13 JOINS EXCLUSIVE COMPANY • The strong final season for seniorRomaro GIll • Along with his elite scoring numbers, Myles GENERAL INFORMATION (St. Thomas, Jamaica) was rightfully rewarded Powell will finish his career as one of Seton Location...... South Orange, NJ 07079 with Gill earning the BIG EAST’s Defensive Hall’s winningest players in program history. Founded...... 1856 Player of the Year and Most Improved Player of • Not including redshirt seasons, Powell is Enrollment...... 10,400 the Year awards. currently tied for sixth all-time with 84 career Affiliation...... NCAA Division I • Gill becomes Seton Hall’s third BIG EAST victories, two shy from matching Chris Davis Conference...... BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year recipient joining (1990-91, 92-95) for fifth all-time (86): Nickname...... Pirates Jerry Walker (1993) and Fuquan Edwin (2014). Colors...... and White • He is also Seton Hall’s third most improved Seton Hall Most Wins at Seton Hall Home Court (Capacity) ...... (10,481) player alongside classmate Myles Powell (2018) 1. Arturas Karnisovas (1991-94) - 93 Secondary Home Court (Capacity)...... Walsh Gymnasium (1,655) and Shaheen Holloway (2000). Bryan Caver (1991-94) - 93 President...... Dr. Joseph E. Nyre • As a junior, Gill averaged 2.3 points and 1.3 3. Terry Dehere (1989-93) - 88 Director of Athletics...... Bryan Felt blocks per contest. This season, he posted 7.8 Michael Nzei (2015-19) - 88 Athletic Department Phone...... (973) 761-9498 points, 5.6 rebounds and 3.2 swats per game 5. Chris Davis (1990-91, 92-95) - 86 Ticket Office Phone...... (973) 275-HALL while starting in 26 of the Pirates’ 30 games. 6. Myles Powell (2016-20) - 84 • Gill ranks third in the country and leads the John Leahy (1991-95) - 84 MEN’S BASKETBALL COACHING STAFF conference with 3.2 blocked shots per game. Angel Delgado (2014-18) - 84 Head Coach...... Kevin Willard • Gill’s 95 swats this season, which also paces the Desi Rodriguez (2014-18) - 84 Alma Mater/Year...... Pittsburgh/1997 conference and ranks fourth in DI, ranks fourth (2014-18) - 84 Record at Seton Hall/Years ...... 190-137/10 years Ismael Sanogo (2014-18) - 84 Career Record/Years...... 235-186/13 years all-time in a single season at Seton Hall. Assistant Coaches...... Grant Billmeier (Seton Hall ‘07) • His 63.5 percent percentage and 3.4 • With the Pirates’ chances of making the NCAA ...... Tony Skinn (George Mason ‘06) blocks per game led all players in BIG EAST Tournament for the fifth consecutive season ...... Duane Woodward (Boston College, ‘98) games. a certainty, Powell will become only the Director of Basketball Operations...... Kyle Smyth (Iona ‘12) • Gill claimed the conference’s statistical fourth Seton Hall player to play in four NCAA Coordinator of Basketball Ops...... Kevin Lynch (Seton Hall ‘14) championship in blocks per game (3.4), joining Tournaments, joining Arturas Karnisovas (1991- Coordinator of Basketball Ops...... Charlie Butler (Seton Hall ‘15) Samuel Dalembert (2000) and Eddie Griffin 94), Bryan Caver (1991-94) and Michael Nzei Graduate Assistant...... Brandon Hall (Saint Peter’s ‘12) (2001) as the only Pirates to accomplish that (2015-19). Office Phone...... (973) 761-9070 feat. • He also became the first Seton Hall player since MP13’S SCORING BY THE NUMBERS TEAM INFORMATION Michael Cooper (1990) to win the BIG EAST’s 2018-19 Record...... 20-14 field goal percentage title as he shot 63.5 • Myles Powell is averaging 21.0 points per game, BIG EAST Record/Finish...... 9-9/T-3rd percent from the field in 18 league games. an average that ranks 18th in Division I and Postseason...... BIG EAST Final/NCAA First Round • Gill is one of 10 semifinalists for the 2020 second in the BIG EAST, and he’s averaging 22.7 Players Returning/Lost...... 11/1 Naismith Men’s Defensive Player of the Year. points in the 25 games he’s been able to finish. Starters Returning/Lost...... 4/1 • Off the court, Gill is involved in Seton Hall’s • At Providence (2/15/20), Powell moved past Newcomers...... 2 Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) Jeremy Hazell (2,146) for third on Seton Hall’s and represented the Hall and the BIG EAST all-time scoring list. PROGRAM HISTORY Conference over the summer at the annual • At No. 10 Villanova (2/8/20), Powell became the First Season...... 1903-04 NCAA National SAAC meeting at NCAA program’s all-time leader in three-point field All-Time Record...... 1,536-1,095-2 (.583) headquarters. goals made, passing Hazell (328). NCAA Tournament Appearances...... 13 • Gill is also on the SAAC Men’s Basketball • Against St. John’s (1/18/20), Powell became NIT Appearances...... 17 Oversight Committee, where he offers his only the fifth Seton Hall player to score 2,000 BIG EAST Championships...... 3 (1991, 1993, 2016) advice on current legislation and subjects of points (Hazell, Greg Tynes, , Terry interest among his sport for the NCAA. Dehere) and the sixth player to score 1,000 points in BIG EAST games (Dehere, Hazell, Mark NCAA Blocks Leaders Bryant, Andre McCloud, Khadeen Carrington). MEDIA INFORMATION 1. Osasumwen Osaghae, FIU ...... 3.8 • Powell has been named to the Wooden Award 2. Kylor Kelley, Oregon St...... 3.5 Final Ballot (Top 15), the Oscar Robertson ATHLETIC COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE 3. Romaro Gill, Seton Hall ...... 3.2 Award Midseason Watch List, Naismith Trophy Associate Athletics Director for Digital Media & Communications: 4. Hayden Koval, Central Arkansas . . . .3.0 Semifinalist, a Jerry West of the Thomas Chen 5. AJ Wilson, George Mason ...... 2.9 E-mail: [email protected] Year Top 5 Finalist and a Senior CLASS Award Cell phone: (914) 843-7185 Top 10 Finalist. Office phone: (973) 761-9493 Seton Hall Single Season Blocks Leaders • At the Battle 4 Atlantis, Powell set the single- Office fax: (973) 761-9061 1. Eddie Griffin (2000-01) ...... 133 tournament scoring record with 74 total points 2. Glenn Mosley (1976-77)...... 125 and he registered the third-most points scored Assistant Athletics Director of Digital Media & Communications: 3. Samuel Dalembert (2000-01) . . . . 107 in a B4A contest with his 32-point performance Peter Long 4. Romaro Gill (2019-20) ...... 95 vs. Oregon (11/27/19). E-mail: [email protected] 5. Dawan Scott (1977-78) ...... 88 • Powell is steadily making his way up Seton Cell phone: (732) 814-5436 Hall’s all-time scoring and three-point charts: MEDIA CREDENTIALS INSIDE THE SERIES: MARQUETTE 3-PT FG Made Credentials for media covering Seton Hall at Walsh Gym, on the • The Pirates are 11-19 all-time against University’s campus,or at Prudential Center, should be made by 1. Myles Powell (2016-pres.) - 348 visiting our credential website at www.sportssystems.com/setonhall. Marquette but they’re 9-8 since the BIG EAST’s 2. Jeremy Hazell (2007-11) - 328 Otherwise please contact Tom Chen at (973) 761-9493, by fax (973) reconfiguration in 2013-14. 3. Terry Dehere (1989-93) - 315 761-9061, or by email to [email protected] with questions. Seton • Willard is 8-7 all-time against Marquette with 4. Darius Lane (1999-02) - 273 Hall reserves the right to revoke press credentials at any time for any head coach Steve Wojciechowski at the helm. 5. (2000-04) - 244 reason. • The Hall is 2-2 all-time against Marquette in the BIG EAST Tournament and its won the last two 3-PT FG Attempted INTERVIEWS meetings. 1. Myles Powell (2016-pres.) - 1,006 All requests for player interviews, either in person or via phone, must • Last year’s win over Marquette in the BIG EAST 2. Jeremy Hazell (2007-11) - 954 be arranged through Tom Chen in the Athletics Communications semifinals was a true rock fight as the teams 3. Terry Dehere (1989-93) - 809 Office. Advance notice of at least 24 hours is preferred. Interview combined to earn nine technical/flagrant fouls, requests for Coach Kevin Willard must be made at least 24 hours in 4. Darius Lane (1999-02) - 718 advance. three ejections, four foul disqualifications, 57 5. Andre Barrett (2000-04) - 696 fouls called and 85 free throws attempted. POST-GAME • The Pirates went 2-0 against Marquette All-Time Scoring Leaders Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard will be available for interviews during the regular season, winning by nine 1. Terry Dehere (1989-93) - 2,494 following a post-game cooling off period. The Seton Hall locker room in Milwaukee (88-79) on Feb. 29 and by 14 in 2. Nick Werkman (1961-64) - 2,273 is not open to the media, but a separate area will be designated for Newark (69-55) on Jan. 11. 3. Myles Powell (2016-pres.) - 2,252 player interviews. • Myles Powell is averaging 25.6 points per game 4. Jeremy Hazell (2007-11) - 2,146 in his last five games against the Golden Eagles. 5. Greg Tynes (1974-78) - 2,059

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 2 2019-20 GAME NOTES • Powell finished third on Seton Hall’s list of top • Against Marquette (1/11/20), the Pirates trailed point scorers in BIG EAST play (conference by as many as 11 with 9:57 to play in the first half PIRATES IN THE POLLS games only, no tournament games): before taking a three-point lead into halftime and carrying that momentum to a 69-55 victory. Seton Hall’s BIG EAST Scoring Leaders 1. Terry Dehere (1989-93) - 1,320 AP Top 25 MAMU’S BACK AND HE’S BETTER THAN EVER 2. Jeremy Hazell (2007-11) - 1,316 (Week of March 2) 3. Myles Powell (2016-pres.) - 1,254 • Since his return to the court vs. DePaul Rank School Record Points Prev. 4. Andre McCloud (1982-86) - 1,113 (1/29/20) after missing the prior 10 games 5. (1984-88) - 1,005 1 Kansas (64) 26-3 1600 1 with a fracture in his right wrist, junior Sandro 2 Gonzaga 29-2 1514 3 Mamukelashvili (Tbilisi, Georgia) has shown 3 Dayton 27-2 1453 4 • Powell is also among the Pirates’ all-time leaders off his versatility and his ability to take over in in points scored at the BIG EAST Tournament: 4 Baylor 25-3 1395 2 games offensively. 5 San Diego State 28-1 1375 5 • The Georgian is averaging 15.1 points and 7.8 6 Kentucky 24-5 1253 8 Seton Hall’s BIG EAST Tournament Scoring Leaders rebounds per game while shooting at a 57 1. Terry Dehere - 164 (9 games) 7 Florida State 24-5 1164 6 percent clip from the field since his breakout 8 Seton Hall 21-7 1145 13 2. Arturas Karnisovas - 147 (11 games) performance at Villanova (2/8/2020). 3. Jeremy Hazell - 120 (6 games) 9 Maryland 23-6 1041 9 • Mamukelashvili has scored in double figures in 10 Louisville 24-6 948 11 4. Myles Powell - 115 (6 games) seven of the last 11 games. 5. Khadeen Carrington - 111 (7 games) 11 Creighton 22-7 843 10 • He’s registered two double-doubles since his 12 Duke 23-6 809 7 return; a 20 point, 10 output vs. No. 14 13 Oregon 22-7 802 14 THE PIRATES GO AS “Q” GOES Villanova (3/4/20) and a 16 point, 10 rebound 14 Villanova 22-7 779 12 performance against St. John’s (2/23/20). 15 BYU 24-7 756 17 • Quincy McKnight has worn many hats this • At Marquette (2/29/20), Mamukelashvili turned season and he was rewarded by being named 16 Michigan State 20-9 726 24 in the most complete performance of his career 17 Auburn 24-5 575 15 All-BIG EAST Honorable Mention. as he dropped 26 points on 10-of-13 shooting • He’s a floor general who led the league with 18 Iowa 20-9 492 18 from the field and 3-of-3 shooting from three- 19 Ohio State 20-9 489 23 6.3 assists per game in BIG EAST contests and point range to go along with nine rebounds and finished second with 5.4 apg in all games. 20 Penn State 21-8 367 16 three assists. 21 Houston 22-7 265 25 • In just two years in South Orange, McKnight has • He hit a buzzer beating shot and finished with cracked the top 20 all-time in assists at Seton 22 Virginia 21-7 219 NR 15 points and six rebounds in the Pirates’ 74-72 23 Illinois 20-9 208 NR Hall where he ranks 18th with 295 dimes. over No. 21 Butler (2/19/20) and he posted a • He’s a lockdown defender and a candidate 24 Wisconsin 19-10 179 NR double-double (16 points, 10 rebounds) vs. St. 25 Michigan 18-11 94 19 for BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year who John’s (2/23/20), landing him a spot on the BIG allowed Michigan State’s to EAST Weekly Honor Roll. shoot only 6-of-17 from the floor (11/14/19), Others receiving votes: Butler 68, UCLA 54, Stephen • In his first start following the injury, F. Austin 47, East Tennessee State 31, West Virginia 22, Maryland’s Anthony Cowan to shoot 3-of-14 Mamukelashvili registered a season-high 12 from the field (12/19/19) and held Marquette’s Providence 17, Colorado 13, Marquette 12, Arizona 9, rebounds, eight points and had a team-best +/- Texas Tech 9, Northern Iowa 4, Oklahoma 4, Stanford 4, to 1-of-15 shooting in last of +22 at Georgetown (2/5/20). year’s BIG EAST Tournament semifinal. Arizona State 4, Wichita State 2, Saint Mary’s 2, LSU 2, New • Mamukelashvili turned in an encouraging Mexico State 2, USC 1, Belmont 1, Vermont 1 • Finally, he’s an iron man who sustains multiple performance in his second game back against bumps and bruises due to his rugged style of Xavier (2/1/20) where he had 10 points on 4-of- play but shakes them off every time. 5 shooting from the field with three rebounds. • McKnight’s toughness was on display when • It was his first double-digit scoring performance USA Today/Coaches Top 25 he put up eight points and 10 assists vs. since dropping 18 vs. Iowa State (11/29/19) at (Week of March 2) Georgetown (2/5/20) only one game after the Battle 4 Atlantis. landing awkwardly and leaving the game with Rank School Record Points Prev. an injured left knee in the second half in the 1 Kansas (32) 26-3 800 1 Pirates’ previous game against Xavier (2/1/20. SHAVAR BRINGS IT OFF THE BENCH 2 Gonzaga 29-2 742 4 • The Pirates have played 63 games since • Every team needs a sparkplug; someone who 3 Dayton 27-2 741 3 McKnight’s first season at Seton Hall in 2018-19 can come off the bench and cause havoc, get 4 Baylor 25-3 694 2 and he has started in 62 of them. a , score a basket and then some. That 5 San Diego State 28-1 680 5 • During Seton Hall’s 10-game win streak, sparkplug for the Pirates this season has been 6 Kentucky 24-5 628 9 McKnight averaged 13.0 ppg, 7.1 apg and 4.3 junior Shavar Reynolds, Jr. (Manchester, N.J.). 7 Seton Hall 21-7 567 13 rpg with an /turnover ratio of 3.2. • The son of a U.S. Naval officer who has served 8 Florida State 24-5 555 6 • McKnight also ranks fourth in the BIG EAST with overseas, Reynolds did not receive a Division I 9 Maryland 23-6 516 8 an 85.0 percentage. scholarship offer coming out of prep school but 10 Louisville 24-6 494 10 he enrolled at Seton Hall and joined the team 11 Duke 23-6 419 7 STRONG DOWN THE STRETCH as a walk-on. 12 Villanova 22-7 392 12 • Reynolds earned a scholarship following his 13 Oregon 22-7 387 16 • While some teams get tired as the game goes freshman campaign and this season he has shot 14 Creighton 22-7 385 11 on, the Pirates have been scoring more and 43.0 percent from the field, 47.8 percent from T15 BYU 24-7 323 18 shooting the ball better after halftime. three-point range (22-for-46) and 82.8 percent T15 Auburn 24-5 323 15 • The Pirates are 9-7 this season when trailing at from the free throw line in 16.0 minutes per 17 Michigan State 20-9 310 24 halftime. The Hall’s nine wins when trailing at game. 18 Iowa 20-9 301 17 the half leads the country. • His tenacity on the defensive end of the floor 19 Ohio State 20-9 240 23 • Seton Hall averages 33.3 points and shoots 40.6 has made him even more valuable, helping lead 20 Penn State 21-8 323 14 percent from the field in the first half. In the one of the top defensive teams in the BIG EAST 21 Houston 22-7 141 NR second half, it averages 41.4 points and shoots and . T22 Virginia 21-7 79 NR at a 48.5 percent clip from the field. • Reynolds has hit 52.0 percent (13-of-25) of his T22 Illinois 20-9 79 NR • The Pirates also share and take care of the ball three-point attempts and 83.3 percent (20-of- 24 Wisconsin 19-10 78 NR better in the second stanza. In the first half, their 24) of his free throws in BIG EAST games. 25 Butler 20-9 60 NR assist/turnover ratio is 0.99 (208/210) compared • In 24 minutes at No. 10 Villanova (2/8/20), to their 1.24 assist/turnover ratio (229/185) in Reynolds hit a three, dished out four assists, Others receiving votes: Michigan 31; UCLA 30; the second. went 4-of-4 from the charity stripe and finished West Virginia 27; Colorado 26; Northern Iowa 19; East • In BIG EAST play, the Hall has overcome six with seven points in the Pirates’ 70-64 win over Tennessee St. 16; Stephen F. Austin 15; Texas Tech 14; halftime deficits including a 10-point deficit the Wildcats. Arizona 14; St. Mary’s 13; Marquette 13; Louisiana State in its 78-70 victory at Butler (1/15/20) and a • Seton Hall is 10-6 this season in games where 4; Texas 3; Providence 3; Yale 2; Southern California 2; 13-point deficit in its 82-79 win at St. John’s Reynolds makes a three-pointer. Wichita St. 1; Stanford 1. (1/18/20). Seton Hall 2019-20 opponents in BOLD

2019-20 GAME NOTES 3 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB RHODEN IS EXPLODIN’ 1. March 5, 2020 vs. Villanova - 16,863 POLLS AND HONORS 2. Feb. 18, 2017 vs. Villanova - 16,733 • Sophomore forward Jared Rhoden (Baldwin, 3. March 9, 2019 vs. Villanova - 16,114 N.Y.), has blossomed in conference play, turning 4. Feb. 23, 2020 vs. St. John’s - 14,648 2019-20 Poll Trends into one of the Pirates’ top rebounders and a 5. Nov. 14, 2019 vs. Michigan St. - 14,051 Date AP USA Today KenPom consistent scorer. 6. Feb. 28, 2018 vs. Villanova - 13,711 Preseason 12 13 20 • In 18 conference games, Rhoden has made 7. Feb. 6, 2012 vs. Syracuse - 13,569 Nov. 11 12 13 20 12 starts and has averaged 9.9 points and 6.6 8. Dec. 19, 2019 vs. Maryland - 13,313 Nov. 18 13 13 16 rebounds per game with a 44.6 three-point 9. Jan. 11, 2020 vs. Marquette - 12,707 Nov. 25 13 13 19 percentage and a 50.0 field goal percentage. 10. Feb. 1, 2020 vs. Xavier - 12,230 Dec. 2 16 15 15 • His clip in BIG EAST games from three-point Dec. 9 22 22 18 range ranks fourth in the conference while his Dec. 16 RV RV 22 boards per contest ranks seventh. BREAKING DOWN THE STREAK Dec. 23 RV RV 21 • His boards per game total in BIG EAST games • From Dec. 19, 2019 to Jan. 29, 2020, Seton Hall Dec. 30 RV RV 22 leads the team and his clip from the field ranks Jan. 6 RV 25 19 rattled off a 10-game win streak, which at the third on the team in BIG EAST games behind Jan. 13 18 18 13 time was the longest in the BIG EAST and tied Jan. 20 10 10 10 only Romaro Gill and Sandro Mamukelashvili. for the fourth-longest in the nation. Jan. 27 10 9 11 • Rhoden scored in double figures in 10 of the • The Pirates’ 10-game win streak was the longest Feb. 3 12 13 14 Pirates’ 18 BIG EAST games this season. streak of the Kevin Willard Era. Feb. 10 10 10 12 • At No. 10 Villanova (2/8/20), Rhoden put up • The streak saw the Pirates defeat two top-10 Feb. 17 16 14 15 nine points, 11 boards, two assists and was +16 teams (No. 7 Maryland and No. 5 Butler) and it Feb. 24 13 13 20 in the +/- column. helped them jump out to an 8-0 start in the BIG March 2 8 7 13 • At Butler (1/15/20), Rhoden made multiple EAST. March 9 TBA TBA TBA big plays down the stretch. With 1:57 to play • The streak made the Pirates only the 12th team and the Pirates leading by four, the Bulldogs in the 41-year history of the BIG EAST to start found an open man under the basket off an 8-0 or better in conference play. BIG EAST Standings out bounds play but Rhoden recovered and • Seton Hall’s 10-game win streak was the School Conf. CPct. Overall Pct. STRK blocked the lay-up attempt. program’s longest since winning 12 straight Seton Hall 13-5 0.722 21-9 0.700 L2 • Later, with the Pirates again holding on to a during its BIG EAST Championship season of Villanova 13-5 0.722 24-7 0.774 W2 two-point lead with 46 seconds left and two 1992-93 (2/9-3/18/93). Creighton 13-5 0.722 24-7 0.774 W2 seconds on the shot clock, Rhoden nailed a • It was the Pirates’ longest win streak during the Providence 12-6 0.667 19-12 0.613 W6 dagger three-pointer from the wing that put regular season since winning 13 in a row from Butler 10-8 0.556 22-9 0.710 W3 the Pirates ahead, 73-68. Xavier 8-10 0.444 19-12 0.613 L2 Nov. 25, 1988 to Jan. 3, 1989. Marquette 8-10 0.444 18-12 0.600 L3 • The streak pieced together by this year’s squad St. John’s 5-13 0.278 16-15 0.516 W1 PIRATES ARE ROAD WARRIORS puts them in good company with the 1988- 89 and 1992-93 teams, who advanced to the Georgetown 5-13 0.278 15-16 0.484 L6 • True road wins are hard to come by in college DePaul 3-15 0.167 15-16 0.484 L1 national championship game and won the BIG basketball, but the Pirates have had some EAST regular season and tournament titles, serious success this season when playing in respectively. 2019-20 BIG EAST Preseason Poll front of visiting fans. • The Pirates are 8-4 on the road this season and Seton Hall’s Top-10 Win Streaks Pts. seven of those eight wins have come against 1. 41 – March 3, 1938 to March 19, 1941 1. Seton Hall (5) ...... 77 Quad 1 opponents. 2. Villanova (5) ...... 76 2. 28 – January 16, 1943 to January 30, 1947 3. Xavier ...... 52 • Seton Hall finished the season tied with Kansas (team was dropped from 1943-46 due to WWII) 4. Marquette ...... 50 for the most Quad 1 road wins in the country 3. 27 – Nov. 29, 1952 to Feb. 27, 1953 Providence ...... 50 (7). 4. 13 – Nov. 25, 1988 to Jan. 3, 1989 6. Georgetown ...... 49 • The Pirates’s seven BIG EAST road wins are a 5. 12 – Nov. 30, 1951 to Jan. 10, 1952; 7. Creighton ...... 45 school record. The Hall’s eight road wins are the Feb. 9, 1993 to March 18, 1993 8. Butler ...... 21 most in the Kevin Willard Era. 7. 11 – Feb. 13, 1954 to Dec. 17, 1954; 9. St. John’s ...... 19 • This season, Myles Powell is averaging 25.8 Dec. 1, 1992 to Jan. 11, 1993 10. DePaul ...... 11 points per game and shooting at a 46 percent 9. 10 – Feb. 5, 1916 to Jan. 5, 1917; clip from the field in BIG EAST road games. Feb. 19, 1942 to Dec. 21, 1942; (First-place votes in parentheses) • Since Powell’s freshman year, The Hall has 16 Jan. 14, 1952 to Feb. 18, 1952; true road wins when the attendance is above Dec. 19, 2019 to Jan. 29, 2020 2019-20 Honors 8,500. That includes five victories this season: Romaro Gill WILLARD CLIMBS UP WINS LISTS BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (1/27/20) ATTENDANCE RECORDS BREAK IN 2019-20 • Willard is in his 10th season at Seton Hall and Met Writers Co-Player of the Week (1/27/20) • The Pirate faithful knew that the 2019-20 season BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year ranks fourth all-time in program history in BIG EAST Most Improved Player was going to be a special one, so they showed victories (189), and he’s two wins away from up and supported the Hall at the Prudential surpassing Frank Hill for third. Sandro Mamukelashvili Center all year long. • In the win over DePaul (1/29/20), he surpassed BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (2/24/20) • Seton Hall finished fourth in league attendance P.J. Carlesimo for most BIG EAST wins in Quincy McKnight overall and third conference games only. program history. Carlesimo had 78 from 1982- BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (12/23/19) • Six of the top 10 most attended Seton Hall 94. Met Writers Player of the Week (12/24/19) games at the Prudential Center took place All-BIG EAST Honorable Mention during the 2019-20 season. All-Time Coaching Victories • The Senior Night contest vs. Villanova (3/4/20) 1. Honey Russell (1936-43; 1949-60) . . 294 Myles Powell drew the largest crowd in Seton Hall’s history 2. P.J. Carlesimo (1982-94) ...... 213 BIG EAST Player of the Week (11/18/19) playing at the Prudential Center (16,863) 3. Frank Hill (1911-30) ...... 191 USBWA National Player of the Week (11/19/19) • The Hall is 137-63 (.688) all-time at Prudential 4. Kevin Willard (2010-present) ...... 190 BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (12/2/19) 5. Bill Raftery (1970-81) ...... 154 BIG EAST Player of the Week (1/6/20) Center with a 65-51 (.560) mark against BIG BIG EAST Player of the Week (1/13/20) EAST foes and a 72-11 (.867) record against non- All-Time BIG EAST Coaching Victories Naismith Trophy Player of the Week (1/13/20) conference opponents. 1. Kevin Willard (2010-present) . . . . 84 Met Writers Player of the Week (1/13/20) • The Pirates’ first home game of the season 2. P.J. Carlesimo (1982-94) ...... 78 BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (1/20/20) in Newark against No. 3 Michigan State 3. Louis Orr (2001-06) ...... 38 drew 14,051, the fifth-largest crowd in the Met Writers Player of the Week (1/21/20) 4. Tommy Amaker (1997-01) ...... 32 BIG EAST Player of the Week (2/10/20) Hall’s history at The Rock and the most for a Met Writers Player of the Week (2/12/20) weeknight contest. BIG EAST Weekly Honor Roll (3/2/20) • Here are the top 10 largest crowds in the history ALL-BIG EAST First Team (Unanimous) of Seton Hall basketball at the Rock:

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 4 2019-20 GAME NOTES 2019-20 GAME NOTES 5 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB IT STARTS WITH DEFENSE FROM THE HUNTER, TO THE HUNTED • When Seton Hall is at its best, it’s playing the • For the first time in nearly two decades, Seton ’S NCAA TOURNAMENT kind of hard nosed defense that the program Hall has been picked a BIG EAST favorite. The was built upon. Pirates are ranked No. 1 in the 2019-20 BIG TEAM • The Pirates’ propensity to shots has EAST Coaches Preseason Poll, and it’s only the helped their cause as they average 5.8 blocks third time in program history that The Hall is a per contest, a clip that leads the BIG EAST and preseason favorite. ranks seventh in the country. • The 1992-93 team was picked to finish first and ALL-TIME VS. NJ OPPONENTS • The Hall ranks third in the BIG EAST with a 44.6 went on to win both the regular season and Fairleigh Dickinson ...... 19-4 FG percentage defense. conference tournament titles. The 2000-01 • In the KenPom Era (2001-02 – present), Seton team was picked to win the BIG EAST’s West Saint Peter’s ...... 64-24 Hall twice has finished in the top 15 in defensive Division but ultimately finished sixth. NJIT ...... 6-0 efficiency and both have happened under • Kevin Willard is currently the second-longest Willard (10th in 2010-11 and 2015-16). tenured head coach in the BIG EAST, and over Rutgers ...... 40-31 • A trend this season has been the Pirates’ ability the last four seasons, his Pirates have been in to hold their opponents below their season the upper echelon of the conference: Princeton ...... 10-3 scoring average, which has happened in 17 of BIG EAST Victories (2015-Present) Monmouth ...... 13-0 the Pirates’ last 26 games. 1. Villanova ...... 82 Rider ...... 14-0 • Opponents have scored 10 or more points 2. Xavier ...... 60 below their season scoring average in 10 of Seton Hall ...... 60 Seton Hall’s 21 wins this season. 4. Creighton ...... 53 Overall ...... 165-62 (.727) Date Team 2019-20 PPG* Pts. vs. Hall Providence ...... 53 11/17/19 at Saint Louis 84.0 ppg 66 6. Marquette ...... 50 11/28/19 vs. Southern Miss 69.8 ppg 56 7. Butler ...... 48 NCAA TOURNMENT WINS 8. Georgetown ...... 32 12/19/19 Maryland 77.1 ppg 48 Seton Hall ...... 16 12/22/19 Prairie View A&M 70.3 ppg 55 9. St. John’s ...... 28 12/30/19 at DePaul 77.2 ppg 66 10. DePaul ...... 19 Princeton ...... 13 1/3/20 Georgetown 80.3 ppg 62 1/11/20 Marquette 78.1 ppg 55 Rutgers ...... 5 1/29/20 DePaul 74.5 ppg 57 Monmouth ...... 1 2/8/20 at #10 Villanova 74.0 ppg 64 2/23/20 St. John’s 75.0 ppg 65 Fairleigh Dickinson ...... 1 *PPG entering game vs. Seton Hall NJIT ...... 0 Rider ...... 0 7 AND 80 ARE THE HALL’S MAGIC NUMBERS Saint Peter’s ...... 0 • In recent years, there have been two key scoring trends that have come about in Seton Hall victories; one is a seven-point lead, the other is WINS SINCE 2015-16 scoring 80 points. • The Pirates are 101-13 (.886) since 2015-16 Seton Hall ...... 109 when the scoring margin gets to seven or more points. Monmouth ...... 98 • The Pirates have led by at least seven points in Princeton ...... 88 20 of their 21 wins this season. • Under head coach Kevin Willard, the Hall is 78-8 Rider ...... 87 (.907) when it scores 80 points or more. Saint Peter’s ...... 78 • Seton Hall’s BIG EAST record under Willard is 32-6 (.842) when it scores at least 80 points. NJIT ...... 76 Fairleigh Dickinson ...... 74 PIRATES INK 2 ON SIGNING DAY Rutgers ...... 71 • On Nov. 20, Seton Hall announced that 6-3 guard Jahari Long from Houston, Texas, and 6-6 wing Dimingus Stevens from Washington, D.C. signed National Letters of Intent to play for the IT’S MYLES’ TIME Pirates. • Long is currently attending Episcopal High • Ahead of his final season at School in nearby Bellaire, Texas, and was a Seton Hall, senior Myles Powell 2018-19 finalist for the Guy V. Lewis Award, was named to every preseason given to the top high school player in the city watch list imaginable and then of Houston. He also is a two-time All-Southwest some. Preparatory Conference selection as named by • A native of Trenton, Powell the Dallas Morning News. will leave South Orange as • Stevens is in his first year attending Bishop one of the most beloved and Walsh High School in Cumberland, Md., decorated players in the history after transferring from Woodrow Wilson of Seton Hall men’s basketball. High School. He helped the Tigers win the 2018 D.C. State Athletic Association (DCSAA) championship, and he was a 2018 District of • Unanimous All-BIG EAST First Team Selection Columbia Interscholastic Athletic association • Associated Press Preseason All-America second-team All-Conference selection and • BIG EAST Preseason Player of the Year 2019 Washington Post All-Met fourth team selection. • Wooden Award Final Ballot (Top 15) • Naismith Trophy Semifinalist • Jerry West Shooting Guard of the Year Top 5 Finalist • Oscar Robertson Trophy Midseason Watch List • Senior CLASS Award Top 10 Finalist • Six career BIG EAST Player of the Week honors

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 6 2019-20 GAME NOTES SCOUTING THE PIRATES

DOUBLE-DOUBLES DOUBLE-DOUBLES DOUBLE-DOUBLES Season --> 2 Season --> -- Season --> -- Career --> 6 Career --> -- Career --> -- Streak --> -- Streak --> -- Streak --> --

DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING Season --> 21 Season --> 2 Season --> 2 Career --> 82 Career --> 3 Career --> 2 Streak --> 3 Streak --> -- Streak --> --

20+ POINT GAMES 20+ POINT GAMES 20+ POINT GAMES Season --> 3 Season --> -- Season --> -- Career --> 18 Career --> -- Career --> -- Streak --> -- Streak --> -- Streak --> --

5+ ASSIST GAMES 5+ ASSIST GAMES 10+ REBOUND GAMES Season --> 18 Season --> 3 Season --> -- Career --> 37 Career --> 7 Career --> -- #0 - MCKNIGHT Streak --> -- #2 - NELSON Streak --> -- #4 - SAMUEL Streak --> --

DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING DOUBLE-DOUBLES DOUBLE-DOUBLES Season --> 25 Season --> 2 Season --> -- Career --> 103 Career --> 2 Career --> -- Streak --> 9 Streak --> -- Streak --> --

20+ POINT GAMES DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING Season --> 15 Season --> 14 Season --> 1 Career --> 46 Career --> 15 Career --> 1 Streak --> -- Streak --> 1 Streak --> --

30+ POINT GAMES 20+ POINT GAMES 5+ BLOCK GAMES Season --> 3 Season --> -- Season --> 1 Career --> 12 Career --> -- Career --> 5 Streak --> -- Streak --> -- Streak --> --

5+ ASSIST GAMES 10+ REBOUND GAMES 10+ REBOUND GAMES Season --> 5 Season --> 5 Season --> -- #13 - POWELL Career --> 16 Career --> 5 Career --> 2 Streak --> 3 #14 - RHODEN Streak --> -- #21 - OBIAGU Streak --> --

DOUBLE-DOUBLES DOUBLE-DOUBLES DOUBLE-DOUBLES Season --> -- Season --> 2 Season --> 2 Career --> -- Career --> 7 Career --> 2 Streak --> -- Streak --> -- Streak --> --

DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING DOUBLE-FIGURE SCORING Season --> 6 Season --> 13 Season --> 10 Career --> 23 Career --> 31 Career --> 10 Streak --> -- Streak --> -- Streak --> --

20+ POINT GAMES 20+ POINT GAMES 5+ BLOCK GAMES Season --> -- Season --> 2 Season --> 8 Career --> 3 Career --> 3 Career --> 8 Streak --> -- Streak --> -- Streak --> --

10+ REBOUND GAMES 10+ REBOUND GAMES 10+ REBOUND GAMES Season --> 1 Season --> 4 Season --> 2 Career --> 1 #23 - MAMUKELASHVILI Career --> 12 Career --> 2 #22 - CALE Streak --> -- Streak --> 2 #35 - GILL Streak --> --

THE PREVIOUS MEETING THE LAST TIME OUT Feb. 29, 2020 • Game #28 • at Marquette March 7, 2020 • Game #30 • at No. 11 Creighton BIG EAST Game #16 BIG EAST Game #18 Fiserv Forum | Milwaukee, Wis. CHI Health Center Omaha | Omaha, Neb.

• No. 13 Seton Hall shot 60 percent • No. 8 Seton Hall got 15 points 1ST 2ND F in the first half, finished the game 1ST 2ND F apiece from Myles Powell and 44 44 88 shooting 53.3 percent from the 32 28 60 Quincy McKnight, but No. 11 field and made 13 three-pointers Creighton ended the game on as the Pirates toppled Marquette, a 13-1 run to come away with a 88-79, at Fiserv Forum for the 77-60 win over the Pirates at CHI 1ST 2ND F team’s 13th BIG EAST win of the 1ST 2ND F Health Center Omaha. season. 35 44 79 32 45 77 • Seton Hall ends the regular • The dominating duo season with a 13-5 record in the Myles Powell and Sandro BIG EAST and finishes with one SHU Leaders Mamukelashvili combined to SHU Leaders of three shares for the BIG EAST » Powell - 28 pts, 5 ast, 2 stl score 54 points for The Hall. » Powell - 15 pts, 5 ast, 2 reb regular season championship, the program’s first regular season » Mamukelashvili - 26 pts, 9 reb, 3 ast • Seton Hall registered its 13th » McKnight - 15 pts, 2 ast, 4 reb title since 1993. » Rhoden - 9 pts, 4 reb, 3 ast conference win, the second-most » Rhoden - 12 pts, 5 reb, 1 ast in program history. The Hall also • Powell, who had five assists, and set a new program record with its McKnight were joined in double seventh BIG EAST road victory. figures by Jared Rhoden who had 12 points.

2019-20 GAME NOTES 7 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB SETON HALL’S 2019-20 RECORD... TREND TRACKER Overall ...... 21-9 BIG EAST ...... 13-5 At home ...... 11-4 On the road ...... 8-4 THE LAST TIME... At neutral sites ...... 2-1 A Seton Hall player scored 30 points ...... 34, Myles Powell at Georgetown 2/5/20 After a win ...... 15-6 A Seton Hall player scored 40 points ...... 40, Myles Powell vs. Grand Canyon 11/22/18 After a loss ...... 5-3 In overtime ...... 0-0 A Seton Hall player scored 50 points ...... 52, Nick Werkman vs. Scranton 1/29/64 vs. ranked opponents (AP) ...... 4-5 A Seton Hall player grabbed 15 rebounds ...... 15, Michael Nzei vs. Marquette 3/15/19 Games decided by 1-3 points ...... 2-4 Games decided by 4-5 points ...... 1-1 The Hall had two 15+ rebounders ...... 16, Angel Delgado vs. Rutgers 12/23/16 Games decided by 6-10 points ...... 8-1 ...... 16, Ismael Sanogo vs. Rutgers 12/23/16 Games decided by 11-20 points ...... 5-3 Games decided by 20+ points ...... 5-0 A Seton Hall player grabbed 20 rebounds ...... 23, Angel Delgado vs. Kansas 3/17/18 Leading at the half ...... 12-1 A Seton Hall player had 20+ pts, 20+ reb ...... 24 pts, 23 rebs, Angel Delgado vs. Kansas 3/17/18 Trailing at the half ...... 9-7 A Seton Hall player totaled 10 assists ...... 10, Quincy McKnight at Georgetown 2/5/20 Tied at the half ...... 0-1 SHU has more field goals ...... 17-1 A Seton Hall player recorded 5 steals ...... 5, Myles Powell vs. DePaul 12/30/19 Opponent has more field goals ...... 2-6 A Seton Hall player recorded 5 blocks ...... 8, Romaro Gill at Georgetown 2/5/20 Field goals are tied ...... 2-2 SHU shoots 40% or better ...... 19-5 A Seton Hall player recorded 10 blocks ...... 10, Eddie Griffin vs. Norfolk State 12/4/00 SHU shoots under 40% ...... 2-4 A Seton Hall player recorded a double-double (pts/reb) . 20 pts, 10 reb, Sandro Mamukelashvili vs. No. 14 Villanova 3/4//20 SHU out-shoots opponent ...... 19-2 Two Seton Hall players recorded a double-double ...... 13 pts, 10 reb, Angel Delgado Opponent out-shoots SHU ...... 2-7 Opponent shoots 40% or better ...... 7-7 ...... 11 pts, 12 reb, Mike Nzei at St. John’s 2/11/17 Opponent shoots under 40% ...... 14-2 A Seton Hall player recorded a double-double (pts/ast) ...... 11 pts, 13 ast, Quincy McKnight at Butler, 1/15/20 SHU out-rebounds opponent ...... 15-3 Opponent out-rebounds SHU ...... 6-6 A Seton Hall player recorded a triple-double ...... 21 pts, 12 reb, 10 blk, Eddie Griffin vs. Norfolk State 12/4/00 Rebounds are tied ...... 0-0 Seton Hall was ranked in AP Top-25 ...... No. 8, 3/2/20 SHU has more FT attempts ...... 15-0 Seton Hall defeated an AP Top-25 team ...... vs. No. 21 Butler, 2/19/20 Opponent has more FT attempts . . . . . 5-9 FT attempts are tied ...... 1-0 Seton Hall defeated an AP Top-25 team non-conference ...... vs. No. 7 Maryland, 52-48 12/19/19 SHU 3FG% is 40% or better ...... 6-1 Seton Hall scored 100+ points ...... 105 vs. Wagner 11/5/19 SHU 3FG% is under 40% ...... 15-8 SHU commits more turnovers ...... 10-4 Seton Hall allowed <50 points ...... 48 vs. No. 7 Maryland 12/19/19 Opponent commits more turnovers . . . 10-3 Seton Hall allowed <20 pts in a half ...... 18 vs. Marquette (Second Half, 1/11/20) Turnovers are tied ...... 1-2 SHU has positive assist-to-turnover ratio . 14-4 Seton Hall held an opponent under 30% FG ...... 26.9 vs. Maryland 12/19/19 SHU has negative assist-to-turnover ratio . 7-5 Seton Hall grabbed 50+ rebounds ...... 52 at Georgetown 3/2/19 SHU assists and turnovers are even . . . . 0-0 Seton Hall grabbed 60+ rebounds ...... 62 vs. Iona 12/27/01 SHU scores 100+ points ...... 1-0 SHU scores 90-99 points ...... 0-0 Seton Hall committed <5 turnovers ...... 4 vs. Marquette 2/7/18 SHU scores 80-89 points ...... 8-1 Seton Hall committed <10 turnovers ...... 7 vs. No. 14 Villanova 3/4/20 SHU scores 70-79 points ...... 9-3 SHU scores 60-69 points ...... 2-4 Seton Hall forced 25+ turnovers ...... 27 vs. Maine 11/21/12 SHU scores 50-59 points ...... 1-0 Seton Hall recorded 15+ steals ...... 16 vs. Sacred Heart 12/19/18 SHU scores under 50 points ...... 0-1 Seton Hall did not make a 3-pointer...... vs. Georgetown, 0-of-13 (1/25/09, 372 games) Opponent scores 100+ points ...... 0-0 Opponent scores 90-99 points ...... 0-0 Seton Hall held opponent w/o a 3-pointer ...... at USF, 0-of-9 (12/18/14) Opponent scores 80-89 points ...... 0-1 Seton Hall did not have a double-digit scorer ...... at Georgia 12/21/14 Opponent scores 70-79 points ...... 8-7 Opponent scores 60-69 points ...... 6-1 Seton Hall held opponent w/o double-digit scorer ...... vs. Saint Peter’s 12/13/15 Opponent scores 50-59 points ...... 6-0 Seton Hall had 5 players in double-digit scoring ...... vs. St. John’s 2/24/20 Opponent scores under 50 points . . . . . 1-0 Seton Hall had six players in double-digit scoring ...... vs. Eastern Washington 12/22/13 In white jerseys ...... 2-0 In silver jerseys ...... 0-0 Seton Hall had two 20+ point scorers ...... at Marquette 2/29/20 (Mamukelashvili - 26, Powell - 28) In blue jerseys ...... 0-0 Seton Hall had three 20+ point scorers ...... at Iowa, 11/17/16 (Powell-26, Rodriguez-25, Carrington-20) In black jerseys ...... 0-1 In blue throwback jerseys ...... 10-3 Seton Hall had two 30+ point scorers ...... vs. VMI 12/12/09 In white throwback jerseys ...... 9-5 Seton Hall played an overtime game ...... at Georgetown 3/2/19 On Monday ...... 1-0 On Tuesday ...... 1-0 Seton Hall played in a double-overtime game ...... at Georgetown 3/2/19 On Wednesday ...... 6-3 Seton Hall erased a 15+ point deficit and won ...... 15, vs. Providence 2/8/17 On Thursday ...... 2-1 Seton Hall erased a 20+ point deficit and won ...... 23, vs. Robert Morris 11/18/07 On Friday ...... 2-0 On Saturday ...... 6-4 On Sunday ...... 3-1 In November ...... 6-2 SETON HALL 2019-20 MISCELLANEOUS STATISTICS... In December ...... 3-2 In January ...... 7-0 Largest halftime lead ...... 17 vs. Georgetown (1/3/20) In February ...... 5-3 Largest halftime deficit ...... 14 at Providence (2/15/20) In March ...... 0-2 Largest halftime deficit overcome in a win ...... 13 at St. John’s (1/18/20) Top Scorers: Largest halftime lead surrendered in a loss ...... 4 vs. Oregon (11/28/19) Romaro Gill ...... 2-0 Largest deficit overcome in a win ...... 13 at St. John’s (1/18/20) Sandro Mamukelashvili ...... 1-1 Largest lead surrendered in a loss ...... 19 vs. Oregon (11/28/19) Quincy McKnight ...... 3-3 Myles Powell ...... 15-4 Largest deficit at any time ...... 25 at Providence (2/15/20) McKnight & Powell ...... 0-1 Largest lead at any time ...... 38 vs. Florida A&M (11/23/19) Most consecutive points scored ...... 18 vs. Oregon (11/28/19) Most consecutive points allowed ...... 20 at Providence (2/15/20)

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 8 2019-20 GAME NOTES KEVIN COACHING RECORD Year School Record (Conf.) Postseason 2007-08 Iona 12-20 (8-10) --- WILLARD 2008-09 Iona 12-19 (7-11) --- 2009-10 Iona 21-10 (12-6) --- 10TH SEASON // PITTSBURGH ‘97 2010-11 Seton Hall 13-18 (7-11) --- 2011-12 Seton Hall 21-13 (8-10) NIT 2nd Round 2012-13 Seton Hall 15-18 (3-15) --- COACHING EXPERIENCE 2013-14 Seton Hall 17-17 (6-12) --- Head Coach: , 2010-present 2014-15 Seton Hall 16-15 (6-12) --- • Has guided Seton Hall to four straight NCAA Tournament 2015-16 Seton Hall 25-9 (12-6) NCAA 1st Round appearances and 20-win seasons (2016-19) • The Pirates’ four consecutive NCAA Tournament berths is tied for 2016-17 Seton Hall 21-12 (10-8) NCAA 1st Round the longest streak in program history (1991-94) 2017-18 Seton Hall 22-12 (10-8) NCAA 2nd Round • Led 2015-16 team to the BIG EAST Tournament championship, • Coached The Hall to its fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament 2018-19 Seton Hall 20-14 (9-9) NCAA 1st Round the first for the program since 1993, and an NCAA Tournament appearance in 2018-19, a feat the school has not accomplished 2019-20 Seton Hall 20-9 (13-5) appearance since a string of four straight NCAA berths from 1991-94. • Has mentored 54 BIG EAST All-Academic team selections • Has led the Pirates to four straight 20-win seasons, a program • His program received three consecutive NCAA APR public first, as well as four consecutive third place finishes in the BIG At Seton Hall: 190-137 (84-96) recognition awards for academic progress in the top 10 percent of EAST with a .500 or better record in all four seasons. Career Record: 235-186 (111-123) the nation from 2015-17 • Assisted Providence head coach over the summer Head Coach: Iona College, 2007-10 in guiding the to a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan • Led 2009-10 team to 21 victories, completing one of the greatest American Games in Lima, Peru. VS. 2019-20 OPPONENTS turnarounds in college basketball history; Iona was 2-28 in the Year Overall At SHU At Iona Last Meeting season prior to Willard’s arrival • Has mentored 13 All-BIG EAST selections and three BIG EAST All-Rookies, including: Butler 7-9 7-9 --- 2019-20 Associate Head Coach: Creighton 9-7 8-7 1-0 2019-20 Fuquan Edwin - 2014 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year University of Louisville, 2005-07 DePaul 12-6 12-6 --- 2019-20 • Helped guide the 2006-07 team to the NCAA Tournament Angel Delgado - 2015 BIG EAST Rookie of the Year, 2017 unanimous All-BIG EAST selection and winner Florida A&M 1-0 1-0 --- 2019-20 Assistant Coach: University of Louisville, 2001-05 and 2018 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Award winner • Helped guide the team to two Conference USA championships Myles Powell - unanimous All-BIG EAST selection and the Georgetown 12-6 12-6 --- 2019-20 and three straight NCAA Tournament appearances, including a run Haggerty Award Metropolitan Player of the Year in 2019 Iowa State 1-1 1-1 --- 2019-20 - 2016 unanimous All-BIG EAST first team Marquette 10-12 10-12 --- 2019-20 to the Final Four in 2005. selection and Haggerty Award winner, 2016 NBA Draft pick. Coaching Associate: Boston Celtics, 1997-2001 Maryland 2-0 2-0 --- 2019-20 • Willard’s student-athletes have also combined for 54 BIG EAST Michigan State 0-1 0-1 --- 2019-20 All-Academic team selections, and the program has boasted a COLLEGIATE PLAYING CAREER perfect single-year academic progress rate in five of the seven Oregon 0-1 0-1 --- 2019-20 NCAA reports since he became head coach as well as perfect Prairie View A&M 1-0 1-0 --- 2019-20 University of Pittsburgh, 1994-97 multi-year APR scores in 2016 and 2017. • Three-year letterwinner Providence 12-9 11-9 1-0 2019-20 • Member of the BIG EAST All-Academic team • In 2019, Willard’s top academic student-athlete, Michael Nzei, Rutgers 7-7 7-7 --- 2019-20 Western Kentucky University, 1993-94 was named the BIG EAST Scholar-Athlete of the Year. St. John’s 11-6 11-6 --- 2019-20 • Willard has proven to be a strong evaluator and recruiter of Saint Louis 1-1 1-1 --- 2019-20 talent, as he brought in a consensus top-15 national recruiting Southern Miss 1-0 1-0 --- 2019-20 class in 2014, led by Whitehead, the program’s first McDonald’s All-American since 2001 and just the fifth all-time. Stony Brook 3-0 3-0 --- 2019-20 Xavier 8-8 8-8 --- 2019-20 • He also has been able to retain Metropolitan New York’s top Villanova 6-15 6-15 --- 2019-20 talent; the 2019-20 roster boasts six scholarship student- athletes hailing from either New York or New Jersey. SHU ALL-TIME WINS 1. Honey Russell (1936-43; 1949-60) ...... 294 2. P.J. Carlesimo (1982-94) ...... 212 3. Frank Hill (1911-30) ...... 191 4. Kevin Willard (2010-present) ...... 190 Willard, senior Myles Powell and junior Myles Cale helped 5. Bill Raftery (1970-81) ...... 154 the United States win a bronze medal at the 2019 Pan American Games in Lima, Peru .

A FAMILY AFFAIR CAREER ACCOLADES • Kevin Willard is one of five head coaches whose • 2019 Peter A. Carlesimo Met Writers Co-Coach of the Year fathers were also DI head coaches: • 2017 Peter A. Carlesimo Met Writers Coach of the Year • 2017 Forbes Top-10 NCAA Basketball Coaches for the Next 10 Years Jeff Capel III, Pitt (Jeff Capel II) Jay Spoonhour, EIU (Charlie Spoonhour) • 2016 Peter A. Carlesimo Met Writers Coach of the Year Richard Pitino, Minnesota (Rick Pitino) • 2016 BIG EAST Co-Coach of the Year Kevin Willard, Seton Hall (Ralph Willard) Brian Barone, SIUE (Tony Barone, Sr.)

2019-20 GAME NOTES 9 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB NUMERICAL ROSTER No. Name Cl. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown (Previous School) 0 Quincy McKnight Sr. G 6-4 185 Bridgeport, Conn. (Sacred Heart) 1 Takal Molson* Jr. G 6-5 205 Buffalo, N.Y. (Canisius) 2 Anthony Nelson So. G 6-4 180 New York, N.Y. (South Kent School) 4 Tyrese Samuel Fr. F 6-10 220 Montreal, Quebec (Orangeville Prep) 13 Myles Powell Sr. G 6-2 195 Trenton, N.J. (Trenton Catholic) 14 Jared Rhoden So. G/F 6-6 210 Baldwin, N.Y. (Our Savior Lutheran) 15 Taurean Thompson Jr. F 6-11 235 New York, N.Y. (Syracuse) 21 Ike Obiagu So. C 7-2 265 Abuja, Nigeria (Florida State) 22 Myles Cale Jr. G/F 6-6 210 Middletown, Del. (Appoquinimink) 23 Sandro Mamukelashvili Jr. F 6-11 240 Tbilisi, Georgia (Montverde Academy - Fla.) 30 Asiah Avent Sr. G 6-3 190 Springfield, N.J. (Franklin) 32 Darnell Brodie So. F 6-9 265 Newark, N.J. (Montverde Academy - Fla.) 33 Shavar Reynolds, Jr. Jr. G 6-2 190 Manchester, N.J. (Manchester Township) 35 Romaro Gill Sr. C 7-2 255 St. Thomas, Jamaica (Vincennes University) * Will sit out 2019-20 season due to NCAA transfer regulations ALPHABETICAL ROSTER No. Name Cl. Pos. Ht. Wt. Hometown (Previous School) 30 Asiah Avent Sr. G 6-3 190 Springfield, N.J. (Franklin) 32 Darnell Brodie So. F 6-9 265 Newark, N.J. (Montverde Academy - Fla.) 22 Myles Cale Jr. G/F 6-6 210 Middletown, Del. (Appoquinimink) 35 Romaro Gill Sr. C 7-2 255 St. Thomas, Jamaica (Vincennes University) 23 Sandro Mamukelashvili Jr. F 6-11 240 Tbilisi, Georgia (Montverde Academy - Fla.) 0 Quincy McKnight Sr. G 6-4 185 Bridgeport, Conn. (Sacred Heart) 1 Takal Molson* Jr. G 6-5 205 Buffalo, N.Y. (Canisius) 2 Anthony Nelson So. G 6-4 180 New York, N.Y. (South Kent School) 21 Ike Obiagu So. C 7-2 265 Abuja, Nigeria (Florida State) 13 Myles Powell Sr. G 6-2 195 Trenton, N.J. (Trenton Catholic) 33 Shavar Reynolds, Jr. Jr. G 6-2 190 Manchester, N.J. (Manchester Township) 14 Jared Rhoden So. G/F 6-6 210 Baldwin, N.Y. (Our Savior Lutheran) 4 Tyrese Samuel Fr. F 6-10 220 Montreal, Quebec (Orangeville Prep) 15 Taurean Thompson Jr. F 6-11 235 New York, N.Y. (Syracuse) * Will sit out 2019-20 season due to NCAA transfer regulations ROSTER BREAKDOWN BY LOCATION Head Coach: Kevin Willard (Pittsburgh ’97) Connecticut (1): McKnight Assistant Coach: Grant Billmeier (Seton Hall ’07) Delaware (1): Cale New Jersey (4): Avent, Brodie, Powell, Reynolds, Jr. Assistant Coach: Tony Skinn (George Mason ‘06) New York (4): Molson, Nelson, Rhoden, Thompson Assistant Coach: Duane Woodward (Boston College ‘98) Georgia (1): Mamukelashvili Director of Basketball Operations: Kyle Smyth (Iona ‘12) Jamaica (1): Gill Coordinator of Basketball Operations: Kevin Lynch (Seton Hall ‘14) Nigeria (1): Obiagu Coordinator of Basketball Operations: Charlie Butler (Seton Hall ‘15) Quebec (1): Samuel Graduate Assistant: Brandon Hall (Saint Peter’s ‘12) ROSTER BREAKDOWN BY CLASS Director of Sports Medicine: Tony Testa (Southern Connecticut State, ‘00) Senior (3): Avent, Gill, McKnight, Powell Junior (5): Cale, Mamukelashvili, Molson, Reynolds, Jr., Strength & Conditioning Coach: Jason Nehring (Wisconsin-La Crosse, ‘96) Thompson Sophomore (4): Brodie, Obiagu, Nelson, Rhoden Freshman (1): Samuel

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 10 2019-20 GAME NOTES QUINCY Mcknight #0 • SENIOR • GUARD • 6-4 • 185 • BRIDGEPORT, CONN. • SACRED HEART

2020 All-BIG EAST honorable mention • 2019 BIG EAST All-Academic team 2019 BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament team • 2019 All-Met third team 2018 Wooden Legacy All-Tournament second team • 2018 BIG EAST All-Academic team >> Currently 2nd in BIG EAST in assists (5.4), 3rd in assist/turnover ratio >> Finished as the BIG EAST’s champion in assists, averaging 6.3 in the 18 MILESTONE TRACKER (2.37), tied for 4th in free throw pct. & 7th in steals (1.5) league games; also finished 3rd in assist/turnover ratio (2.48) To 1600 Pts...... 12 To 550 FGM...... 2 >> Also 38th in the nation in assist/turnover ratio, 39th in assists >> Has made 35 of his last 39 free throw attempts (.897) >> Has a positive assist/turnover ratio in 48 of 64 career games at Seton >> Known for playing lockdown defense on top opposing guards To 500 Reb...... 10 To 500 AST....42 Hall and 23 of 30 games this season >> 18th all-time in career assists at Seton Hall in only 64 games CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 2015-17 AT SACRED HEART 15-16 27 27 867 32.1 119 275 .433 10 40 .250 61 108 .565 28 114 142 5.3 84 0 68 75 11 42 309 11.4 16-17 32 32 1040 32.5 203 473 .429 27 84 .321 172 222 .775 26 130 156 4.9 94 0 95 148 5 52 605 18.9 18-19 34 33 957 28.1 117 259 .452 18 67 .269 66 103 .641 15 77 92 2.7 103 5 134 86 8 55 318 9.4 19-20 30 30 921 30.7 109 263 .414 36 104 .346 102 120 .850 13 87 100 3.3 63 0 161 68 5 45 356 11.9 TOTAL 123 122 3785 30.8 548 1270 .431 91 295 .308 401 551 .728 82 408 490 4.0 344 5 458 377 29 194 1588 12.9

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • PLAYED OUTSTANDING DEFENSE AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE’S CASSIUS WINSTON, HOLDING THE PRESEASON ALL-AMERICAN TO 6-OF-17 SHOOTING PTS: 25 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 PTS: 44 - at Bryant 1/14/17 • HIGH SCORER IN WIN OVER NO. 7 MARYLAND AND PLAYED STELLAR DEFENSE ON REB: 8 - vs. Maryland 12/19/19 REB: 13 - vs. Central Connecticut 2/13/16 ANTHONY COWAN JR., HOLDING HIM TO 3-FOR-14 SHOOTING IN 38 MIN AST: 13 - at Butler 1/15/20 AST: 13 - at Butler 1/15/20 • NAMED MET WRITERS PLAYER OF THE WEEK AND BIG EAST HONOR ROLL AFTER FGM: 8 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FGM: 16 - at Bryant 1/14/17 AVERAGING 21.0 POINTS IN WINS OVER MARYLAND & PRAIRIE VIEW FGA: 16 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FGA: 26 - at Bryant 1/14/17 • CAREER-HIGH 13 ASSISTS, NINE IN THE SECOND HALF, TO HELP PIRATES WIN AT 3FGM: 3, 3x - last at Creighton 3/7/20 3FGM: 4 - at Bryant 1/14/17 NO. 5 BUTLER 3FGA: 7 - at Creighton 3/7/20 3FGA: 7 - at Creighton 3/7/20 • STONE COLD LATE IN GAME AT ST. JOHN’S HITTING FIVE FREE THROWS IN THE FINAL FTM: 12 - at Providence 2/15/20 FTM: 15 - at Boston College 12/18/16 3:33 TO SECURE VICTORY FTA: 14 - at Providence 2/15/20 FTA: 18 - at Boston College 12/18/16 • PHENOMENAL DEFENSE IN THE SECOND HALF OF COMEBACK WIN OVER DEPAUL, BLK: 1, 5x - last at Providence 2/15/20 BLK: 2 - vs. LIU-Brooklyn 3/2/16 INCLUDING MASSIVE STEAL ON ALLEY OOP ATTEMPT STL: 4, 2x - last vs. DePaul 1/29/20 STL: 6, 2x - last at Creighton 2/17/19 • BOUNCED BACK FROM LEG INJURY TO ISSUE 10 ASSISTS IN WIN AT G’TOWN TO: 5, 2x - last at St. John’s 1/18/20 TO: 10, 2x - last vs. Robert Morris 12/29/16 • HIT FOUR BIG FREE THROWS IN THE FINAL MINUTE IN WIN OVER NO. 21 BUTLER MIN: 39 - at Providence 2/15/20 MIN: 54 - at Bryant 1/14/17

MCKNIGHT GAME-BY-GAME

OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 * 25 3-6 .500 2-4 .500 2-2 1.000 0 1 1 2 7 1 0 1 10 10.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 * 34 5-14 .357 2-5 .400 2-2 1.000 0 4 4 2 3 0 1 1 14 12.0 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 * 24 2-6 .333 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 1 3 4 2 6 2 0 1 4 9.3 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 * 25 5-8 .625 2-5 .400 0-0 .000 0 4 4 1 2 2 0 1 12 10.0 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 * 20 2-6 .333 0-2 .000 10-13 .769 0 1 1 1 5 1 1 2 14 10.8 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 * 20 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 0 1 1 0 4 2 0 0 1 9.2 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 * 19 2-3 .667 1-2 .500 4-4 1.000 1 3 4 2 3 0 0 1 9 9.1 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 * 28 5-6 .833 0-0 .000 2-3 .667 0 3 3 1 5 4 0 3 12 9.5 at Iowa State 12/08/19 * 25 3-9 .333 1-6 .167 2-2 1.000 0 0 0 2 3 2 0 3 9 9.4 at Rutgers 12/14/19 * 32 4-8 .500 3-4 .750 0-0 .000 0 3 3 3 1 5 0 1 11 9.6 MARYLAND 12/19/19 * 38 5-14 .357 1-6 .167 6-6 1.000 0 8 8 2 6 2 1 2 17 10.3 PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 * 33 8-16 .500 0-3 .000 9-9 1.000 0 0 0 2 2 1 0 4 25 11.5 at DePaul* 12/30/19 * 33 1-6 .167 1-2 .500 1-3 .333 0 4 4 4 7 2 0 0 4 10.9 GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 * 36 3-7 .429 1-2 .500 7-8 .875 0 6 6 3 10 0 0 1 14 11.1 at Xavier* 01/08/20 * 34 4-10 .400 3-5 .600 4-4 1.000 2 0 2 1 8 4 0 3 15 11.4 MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 * 32 2-8 .250 0-3 .000 0-0 .000 0 4 4 1 6 1 0 1 4 10.9 at Butler* 01/15/20 * 35 4-9 .444 2-5 .400 1-3 .333 3 4 7 2 13 1 1 1 11 10.9 at St. John’s* 01/18/20 * 34 6-8 .750 1-1 1.000 7-8 .875 0 7 7 3 5 5 0 1 20 11.4 PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 * 34 3-7 .429 1-3 .333 4-4 1.000 0 2 2 1 8 3 0 3 11 11.4 DEPAUL* 01/29/20 * 30 4-10 .400 1-4 .250 0-0 .000 0 3 3 4 6 3 0 4 9 11.3 XAVIER* 02/01/20 * 30 4-9 .444 2-6 .333 5-7 .714 0 1 1 2 3 3 0 3 15 11.5 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 * 22 3-5 .600 2-2 1.000 0-1 .000 0 1 1 4 10 4 0 0 8 11.3 at Villanova* 02/08/20 * 34 4-14 .286 0-4 .000 6-6 1.000 0 7 7 4 2 4 0 2 14 11.4 CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 * 36 7-14 .500 2-4 .500 4-4 1.000 0 3 3 1 6 1 0 1 20 11.8 at Providence* 02/15/20 * 39 1-8 .125 0-4 .000 12-14 .857 1 2 3 3 4 3 1 1 14 11.9 BUTLER* 02/19/20 * 31 3-7 .429 2-2 1.000 10-11 .909 0 2 2 4 3 3 0 1 18 12.1 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 * 33 2-8 .250 1-4 .250 0-0 .000 0 3 3 2 6 3 0 1 5 11.9 at Marquette* 02/29/20 * 34 2-8 .250 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 0 2 2 2 8 0 0 1 5 11.6 VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 * 34 6-14 .429 1-4 .250 3-4 .750 4 2 6 1 7 4 0 0 16 11.8 at Creighton* 03/07/20 * 38 6-14 .429 3-7 .429 0-0 .000 1 3 4 1 2 2 0 1 15 11.9 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

2019-20 GAME NOTES 11 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB anthony nelson #2 • SOPHOMORE • GUARD • 6-4 • 180 • NEW YORK, N.Y. • SOUTH KENT SCHOOL (CONN.) 2019 BIG EAST All-Academic team

>> Averaging 11.0 points & 5.5 assists in his first two >> Class AA All-NEPSAC first team and All-New England MILESTONE TRACKER career starts third team his senior year at South Kent To 200 Pts...... 44 To 100 FGM.....42 To 100 Reb...... 43 To 200 Ast...... 77

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 18-19 34 0 358 10.5 30 87 .345 6 20 .300 16 23 .696 4 29 33 1.0 29 0 62 27 2 11 82 2.4 19-20 27 2 336 12.4 28 64 .438 4 15 .267 14 23 .609 3 21 24 0.9 31 0 61 38 0 13 74 2.7 TOTAL 61 2 694 11.4 58 151 .384 10 35 .286 30 46 .652 7 50 57 0.9 60 0 123 65 2 24 156 2.6

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • SHOWED TREMENDOUS POISE AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE, DISHING OUT FIVE ASSISTS AGAINST JUST ONE TURNOVER IN 18 MINUTES PTS: 12 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 PTS: 12, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 REB: 3 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 REB: 4 - vs. Louisville 12/1/18 • COMING OUT PARTY AGAINST NO. 7 MARYLAND IN HIS FIRST CAREER START AST: 7 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 AST: 8 - vs. Sacred Heart 12/19/18 WITH 10 POINTS, GOOD DEFENSE AND A CRITICAL LAYUP IN THE FINAL FGM: 4, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FGM: 4, 3x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 MINUTE FGA: 7 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FGA: 8 - vs. Villanova 3/16/19 • HAD 10 POINTS AND FIVE ASSISTS IN THE SECOND HALF, LEADING THE 3FGM: 1, 4x - last vs. Maryland 12/19/19 3FGM: 1, 10x - last vs. Maryland 12/19/19 PIRATES TO A COMEBACK WIN OVER PRAIRIE VIEW A&M 3FGA: 2, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 3FGA: 2, 6x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 • FOUR POINTS & TWO ASSISTS DURING AN 11-0 RUN THAT HELPED PUT FTM: 4 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FTM: 5 - vs. Rutgers 12/15/18 MARQUETTE AWAY AFTER GAME WAS TIED 45-45 FTA: 5 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FTA: 6 - vs. Rutgers 12/15/18 BLK: BLK: 1, 2x - last vs. Villanova 3/16/19 STL: 3, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 STL: 3, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 TO: 4 - at St. John’s 1/18/20 TO: 4, 2x - last at St. John’s 1/18/20 MIN: 37 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 MIN: 37 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19

NELSON GAME-BY-GAME

OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 16 3-4 .750 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 0 3 3 3 6 1 0 3 7 7.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 19 1-4 .250 1-2 .500 2-2 1.000 1 1 2 0 3 1 0 0 5 6.0 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 18 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 2-2 1.000 0 1 1 2 5 1 0 0 4 5.3 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 18 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 1 2 0 4 2 0 1 2 4.5 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 17 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 3 4 2 0 1 2 4.0 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 19 1-3 .333 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 2 4 3 0 0 3 3.8 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 4 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.3 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 1 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.9 at Iowa State 12/08/19 19 1-4 .250 0-0 .000 2-3 .667 0 2 2 2 4 1 0 1 4 3.0 at Rutgers 12/14/19 19 3-4 .750 1-1 1.000 1-4 .250 0 2 2 3 2 3 0 0 8 3.5 MARYLAND 12/19/19 * 36 4-6 .667 1-1 1.000 1-3 .333 0 1 1 3 4 3 0 2 10 4.1 PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 * 37 4-7 .571 0-2 .000 4-5 .800 0 2 2 2 7 2 0 3 12 4.8 at DePaul* 12/30/19 13 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 1 4 3 0 1 0 4.4 GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 14 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 2 1 2 0 1 0 4.1 at Xavier* 01/08/20 9 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 1 4 1 0 0 0 3.8 MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 12 3-4 .750 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 2 2 0 0 6 3.9 at Butler* 01/15/20 6 1-2 .500 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 2 3.8 at St. John’s* 01/18/20 12 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 0 1 1 0 1 4 0 0 3 3.8 PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 8 0-2 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 3.6 DEPAUL* 01/29/20 8 1-2 .500 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 3 2 2 0 0 2 3.5 XAVIER* 02/01/20 9 2-6 .333 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 4 3.5 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 3 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 3.4 at Villanova* 02/08/20 DNP CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 3 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 3.2 at Providence* 02/15/20 2 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.1 BUTLER* 02/19/20 6 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.0 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 5 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 1 1 1 0 0 0 2.8 at Marquette* 02/29/20 DNP VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 DNP at Creighton* 03/07/20 2 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.7 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 12 2019-20 GAME NOTES tyrese samuel #4 • FRESHMAN • FORWARD • 6-10 • 220 • MONTREAL, QUEBEC • ORANGEVILLE PREP

>> Two-time All-Canada selection Orangeville Prep MILESTONE TRACKER >> Averaged 15 points, 8 rebounds, 3 assists, >> His Orangeville team finished 3rd in Canada in To 100 Pts...... 7 To 100 FGM.....67 3 steals and 1 block in his senior season with 2019 To 100 Reb...... 23 To 100 Blk...... 91

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 19-20 29 1 319 11.0 33 88 .375 16 49 .327 11 25 .440 26 51 77 2.7 36 0 11 20 9 4 93 3.2 TOTAL 29 1 319 11.0 33 88 .375 16 49 .327 11 25 .440 26 51 77 2.7 36 0 11 20 9 4 93 3.2

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • SET CAREER HIGHS IN POINTS, REBOUNDS AND ASSISTS IN A STRONG PERFORMANCE AGAINST PRAIRIE VIEW A&M PTS: 12 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 PTS: 12 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 REB: 8 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 REB: 8 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 AST: 3 - vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 AST: 3 - vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 FGM: 4 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FGM: 4 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FGA: 8, 2x - last at DePaul 12/30/19 FGA: 8, 2x - last at DePaul 12/30/19 3FGM: 2, 3x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 3FGM: 2, 3x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 3FGA: 4, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 3FGA: 4, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FTM: 2, 3x - last at St. John’s 1/18/20 FTM: 2, 3x - last at St. John’s 1/18/20 FTA: 3, 2x - last vs. Marquette 1/11/20 FTA: 3, 2x - last vs. Marquette 1/11/20 BLK: 2 - at St. John’s 1/18/20 BLK: 2 - at St. John’s 1/18/20 STL: 1, 4x - last at St. John’s 1/18/20 STL: 1, 4x - last at St. John’s 1/18/20 TO: 3 - at Rutgers 12/14/19 TO: 3 - at Rutgers 12/14/19 MIN: 21, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 MIN: 21, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19

SAMUEL GAME-BY-GAME

OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 15 1-3 .333 0-1 .000 0-2 .000 1 5 6 1 0 1 0 0 2 2.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 6 1-2 .500 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 0 0 1 0 0 3 2.5 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 9 1-2 .500 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 3 2.7 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 11 0-2 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 2 0 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 2.0 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 19 3-5 .600 0-2 .000 1-1 1.000 2 4 6 2 1 0 1 0 7 3.0 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 10 2-5 .400 2-3 .667 0-0 .000 0 3 3 1 0 0 0 0 6 3.5 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 16 3-4 .750 2-3 .667 2-2 1.000 1 1 2 0 0 0 1 1 10 4.4 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 8 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 0 1 2 0 1 0 0 2 4.1 at Iowa State 12/08/19 18 1-5 .200 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 0 2 2 3 0 1 0 0 3 4.0 at Rutgers 12/14/19 21 1-6 .167 1-4 .250 0-0 .000 2 2 4 1 1 3 0 0 3 3.9 MARYLAND 12/19/19 11 2-5 .400 1-3 .333 0-2 .000 2 1 3 0 0 0 0 0 5 4.0 PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 21 4-8 .500 2-4 .500 2-3 .667 3 5 8 3 2 2 1 0 12 4.7 at DePaul* 12/30/19 * 20 3-8 .375 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 2 4 6 3 0 2 0 0 7 4.8 GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 9 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 1 2 3 1 0 1 0 0 0 4.5 at Xavier* 01/08/20 10 2-4 .500 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 0 1 1 2 0 1 0 0 5 4.5 MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 12 3-3 1.000 1-1 1.000 1-3 .333 1 4 5 1 0 0 1 1 8 4.8 at Butler* 01/15/20 12 1-3 .333 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 3 4.6 at St. John’s* 01/18/20 16 0-4 .000 0-2 .000 2-2 1.000 2 3 5 0 0 1 2 1 2 4.5 PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 10 2-3 .667 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 1 0 1 3 1 0 0 0 5 4.5 DEPAUL* 01/29/20 10 0-3 .000 0-3 .000 0-2 .000 1 1 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 4.3 XAVIER* 02/01/20 3 0-2 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 4.1 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 8 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 1 2 0 0 1 1 0 2 4.0 at Villanova* 02/08/20 6 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 0 0 3.8 CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 8 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 1-2 .500 1 2 3 1 0 1 1 0 1 3.7 at Providence* 02/15/20 17 1-4 .250 1-3 .333 1-2 .500 1 4 5 3 2 2 0 0 4 3.7 BUTLER* 02/19/20 1 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.6 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 6 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 1 0 1 1 3 1 0 0 0 3.4 at Marquette* 02/29/20 DNP VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 0+ 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.3 at Creighton* 03/07/20 6 0-0 .00 0-0 .000 0-2 .000 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 3.2 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

2019-20 GAME NOTES 13 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB MYLES POWELL #13 • SENIOR • GUARD • 6-2 • 195 • TRENTON, N.J. • TRENTON CATHOLIC

2020 Unanimous First-Team All-BIG EAST Selection • 2019 Battle 4 Atlantis All-Tournament Team • 2019-20 Associated Press Preseason All-America 2019-20 BIG EAST Preseason Player of the Year • 2019 NABC Honors Court • 2019 BIG EAST All-Academic team • 2019 Associated Press All-America honorable mention 2019 Haggerty Award Metropolitan Player of the Year • 2019 Unanimous First-Team All-BIG EAST Selection • 2019 BIG EAST Championship All-Tournament team • 2019 All-Met first team 2019 USBWA & NABC All-District • 2018 Joe Calabrese MVP • 2018 Wooden Legacy Most Outstanding Player • 2018 Wooden Legacy All-Tournament first team 2018-19 Preseason ALL-BIG EAST second team • 2018 BIG EAST Most Improved Player • 2018 BIG EAST All-Academic team >> Leading candidate for the Wooden, Naismith, Oscar Robertson, Jerry West >> In conf games only, finished 2nd in scoring (20.9) & tied for 10th in assists (3.4) MILESTONE TRACKER Award and Senior CLASS Awards >> 3rd all-time at Seton Hall in career scoring To 2273 Pts...... 21 To 800 FGM.....64 >> Currently 2nd in the BIG EAST & 18th in the nation in scoring >> Tied for 6th all-time in wins at Seton Hall with 84 >> Averaging 22.4 points in the 26 games he’s been able to finish >> Became Seton Hall’s all-time leader in three-pointers made on Feb. 8 at Villanova To 500 Reb...... 79 To 350 3FGM.... 2 >> Averaged 25.8 points in nine BIG EAST road games this season (7-2) >> Won a bronze medal with Team USA at the 2019 Pan Am Games

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 16-17 33 2 785 23.8 118 301 .392 68 205 .332 49 60 .817 19 55 74 2.2 67 0 29 32 6 30 353 10.7 17-18 34 33 1078 31.7 171 395 .433 94 248 .379 90 114 .789 17 73 90 2.6 82 0 94 68 8 34 526 15.5 18-19 34 34 1223 36.0 252 564 .447 107 295 .363 173 206 .840 26 110 136 4.0 76 0 99 101 6 68 784 23.1 19-20 28 28 883 31.5 195 490 .398 79 258 .306 120 151 .795 26 95 121 4.3 60 2 81 78 5 34 589 21.0 TOTAL 129 97 3969 30.8 736 1750 .421 348 1006 .346 432 531 .814 88 333 421 3.3 285 2 303 279 25 166 2252 17.5

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • WOWED THE NATION WITH 37 POINTS AGAINST NO. 3 MICHIGAN STATE PTS: 37 - vs. Michigan State 11/14/19 PTS: 40 - vs. Grand Canyon 11/22/18 • NAMED BIG EAST PLAYER OF THE WEEK ON NOV. 18 AFTER AVERAGING 31.5 REB: 9 - at Xavier 1/8/20 REB: 9, 2x - last at Marquette 1/12/19 POINTS AGAINST MICHIGAN STATE AND SAINT LOUIS AST: 8 - vs. Villanova 3/4/20 AST: 8, 2x - last vs. Villanova 3/4/20 • SET THE BATTLE 4 ATLANTIS RECORD FOR MOST POINTS IN A SINGLE FGM: 12 - vs. Michigan State 11/14/19 FGM: 14 - at Georgetown 3/2/19 TOURNAMENT WITH 74, EARNING ALL-TOURNAMENT HONORS FGA: 27 - vs. Michigan State 11/14/19 FGA: 27, 2x - last vs. Michigan State 11/14/19 • NAMED BIG EAST PLAYER OF THE WEEK ON JAN. 6 AFTER AVERAGING 21.0 3FGM: 7 - vs. Oregon 11/27/19 3FGM: 7, 2x - last vs. Oregon 11/27/19 POINTS, 4.5 REBOUNDS, 3.5 ASSISTS & 3.5 STEALS IN A 2-O WEEK 3FGA: 15 - vs. Oregon 11/27/19 3FGA: 15 - vs. Oregon 11/27/19 • NAMED BIG EAST PLAYER OF THE WEEK ON JAN. 13 AFTER AVERAGING 23.5 FTM: 11 - at DePaul 12/30/19 FTM: 13 - vs. Butler 1/9/19 POINTS, 8.0 REBOUNDS, 3.0 ASSISTS & 2.0 STEALS IN A 2-0 WEEK FTA: 15 - at DePaul 12/30/19 FTA: 15 - vs. Butler 1/9/19 • 23 OF HIS GAME-HIGH 29 POINTS IN THE SECOND HALF, INCLUDING 7 BLK: 1, 5x - last vs. Providence 1/22/20 BLK: 2, 2x - last vs. St. John’s 12/29/18 STRAIGHT LATE TO RALLY PIRATES PAST ST. JOHN’S STL: 5 - at DePaul 12/30/19 STL: 6 - vs. Georgetown 1/13/18 • SCORED 21 OF HIS GAME-HIGH 34 POINTS IN 1ST HALF TO CATAPULT PIRATES TO: 7 - at Providence 2/15/20 TO: 7, 2x - last at Providence 2/15/20 PAST GEORGETOWN; NAMED BIG EAST PLAYER OF THE WEEK ON FEB. 10 MIN: 39 - vs. Butler 2/19/20 MIN: 45 - at Georgetown 3/2/19 POWELL GAME-BY-GAME

OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 * 30 7-13 .538 4-9 .444 9-11 .818 0 4 4 3 2 3 0 2 27 27.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 * 4 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 13.5 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 * 33 12-27 .444 6-14 .429 7-9 .778 1 5 6 1 2 2 0 1 37 21.3 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 * 32 6-18 .333 4-11 .364 10-12 .833 2 4 6 2 3 2 0 0 26 22.5 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 * 28 9-22 .409 4-9 .444 1-2 .500 1 4 5 3 2 3 1 0 23 22.6 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 * 36 11-25 .440 7-15 .467 3-3 1.000 1 0 1 1 2 3 1 1 32 24.2 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 * 30 5-15 .333 2-9 .222 6-6 1.000 1 4 5 1 2 3 0 0 18 23.3 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 * 33 9-19 .474 4-10 .400 2-3 .667 0 4 4 1 2 4 0 1 24 23.4 at Iowa State 12/08/19 * 33 7-20 .350 4-11 .364 1-2 .500 1 7 8 5 3 5 0 4 19 22.9 at Rutgers 12/14/19 * 15 3-9 .333 0-4 .000 0-2 .000 1 2 3 0 2 0 1 0 6 21.2 MARYLAND 12/19/19 DNP PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 DNP at DePaul* 12/30/19 * 34 7-15 .467 2-8 .250 11-15 .733 0 5 5 1 1 4 0 5 27 21.7 GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 * 27 6-17 .353 2-8 .250 1-1 1.000 2 2 4 3 6 3 0 2 15 21.2 at Xavier* 01/08/20 * 36 10-21 .476 2-8 .250 2-4 .500 1 8 9 2 4 2 0 1 24 21.4 MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 * 35 8-22 .364 2-11 .182 5-6 .833 1 6 7 3 2 1 1 3 23 21.5 at Butler* 01/15/20 * 36 9-23 .391 5-14 .357 6-6 1.000 2 5 7 2 2 3 0 3 29 22.0 at St. John’s* 01/18/20 * 37 11-20 .550 3-5 .600 4-5 .800 3 3 6 3 1 3 0 0 29 22.4 PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 * 34 3-6 .500 0-2 .000 8-8 1.000 0 1 1 3 3 2 1 0 14 21.9 DEPAUL* 01/29/20 * 33 7-21 .333 2-10 .200 8-13 .615 0 5 5 1 1 4 0 1 24 22.1 XAVIER* 02/01/20 * 35 3-14 .214 1-9 .111 2-2 1.000 0 2 2 1 4 0 0 1 9 21.4 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 * 35 12-24 .500 4-13 .308 6-6 1.000 1 6 7 2 3 2 0 1 34 22.0 at Villanova* 02/08/20 * 29 7-16 .438 3-9 .333 2-2 1.000 0 3 3 4 1 5 0 2 19 21.9 CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 * 35 3-16 .188 1-11 .091 5-6 .833 0 1 1 2 2 4 0 0 12 21.4 at Providence* 02/15/20 * 36 9-20 .450 4-13 .308 5-7 .714 2 0 2 5 4 7 0 2 27 21.7 BUTLER* 02/19/20 * 39 5-15 .333 1-5 .200 5-5 1.000 1 5 6 2 5 3 0 2 16 21.4 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 * 29 6-18 .333 2-11 .182 4-5 .800 0 5 5 2 4 2 0 0 18 21.3 at Marquette* 02/29/20 * 33 9-22 .409 5-13 .385 5-6 .833 1 0 1 1 5 3 0 2 28 21.5 VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 * 36 5-18 .278 3-10 .300 1-2 .500 1 3 4 4 8 1 0 0 14 21.3 at Creighton* 03/07/20 * 29 6-13 .462 2-6 .333 1-2 .500 2 0 2 2 5 4 0 0 15 21.0 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 14 2019-20 GAME NOTES jared rhoden #14 • SOPHOMORE • GUARD/FORWARD • 6-6 • 210 • BALDWIN, N.Y. • OUR SAVIOUR LUTHERAN 2019 BIG EAST All-Academic team

>> Currently 8th in the BIG EAST in rebounding >> Averaging 10.2 points & 7.1 rebounds in his 15 MILESTONE TRACKER >> Finished 4th in BIG EAST in conference only starts this season To 400 Pts...... 14 To 200 FGM.....64 3-point shooting (.446), tied for 8th in overall FG >> Has made eight of his last 11 3-point attempts To 300 Reb...... 18 To 100 Ast...... 54 shooting (.500) & 7th in rebounding (6.5)

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 18-19 34 0 444 13.1 39 114 .342 15 61 .246 21 37 .568 37 52 89 2.6 43 1 12 11 9 18 114 3.4 19-20 30 15 773 25.8 98 222 .441 33 98 .337 43 69 .623 44 149 193 6.4 70 2 34 31 8 36 272 9.1 TOTAL 64 15 1217 19.0 137 336 .408 48 159 .302 64 106 .604 81 201 282 4.4 113 3 46 42 17 54 386 6.0

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • RECORDED HIS FIRST CAREER DOUBLE-DOUBLE WITH 10 POINTS AND 12 REBOUNDS IN SOLID WIN OVER FLORIDA A&M PTS: 16 - at Xavier 1/8/20 PTS: 16 - at Xavier 1/8/20 REB: 12, 3x - last vs. Creighton 2/12/20 REB: 12, 2x - last vs. Maryland 12/19/19 • BIG SECOND HALF (9 POINTS, 6 REBOUNDS) AND NEARLY HAD A DOUBLE- AST: 3, 3x - last at Marquette 2/29/20 AST: 3, 3x - last at Marquette 2/29/20 DOUBLE IN A COMEBACK WIN OVER PRAIRIE VIEW A&M FGM: 6, 2x - last vs. Providence 1/22/20 FGM: 6, 2x - last vs. Providence 1/22/20 • CAREER-HIGH 16 POINTS AT XAVIER, HAD CRITICAL RE-STEAL OF BALL LATE FGA: 12, 2x - last at Georgetown 2/5/20 FGA: 12, 2x - last at Georgetown 2/5/20 WHEN PIRATES WERE CLINGING TO FOUR-POINT LEAD & BATTLING PRESS 3FGM: 3 - vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 3FGM: 3, 2x - last vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 • CONNECTED ON THE DAGGER THREE-POINTER WITH UNDER A MINUTE TO GO 3FGA: 6 - at Georgetown 2/5/20 3FGA: 6 - at Georgetown 2/5/20 AND TWO ON THE SHOT CLOCK TO HELP PIRATES WIN AT NO. 5 BUTLER FTM: 6 - at Butler 1/15/20 FTM: 6 - at Butler 1/15/20 • 15 POINTS & EIGHT BOARDS AND HAD A HUGE PUT-BACK JUMPER LATE TO FTA: 6, 2x - last vs. Providence 1/22/20 FTA: 6, 2x - last vs. Providence 1/22/20 HELP THE PIRATES HOLD OFF PROVIDENCE BLK: 2 - vs. Georgetown 1/3/20 BLK: 2, 3x - last vs. Georgetown 1/3/20 • PRODUCED 2ND CAREER DOUBLE-DOUBLE WITH 14 & 11 IN WIN OVER DEPAUL STL: 5 - at Rutgers 12/14/19 STL: 5 - at Rutgers 12/14/19 • WAS A TEAM-BEST +16 IN HIS 25 MINUTES OF ACTION WITH 9 POINTS & 11 TO: 5 - at Iowa State 12/8/19 TO: 5 - at Iowa State 12/8/19 REBOUNDS IN WIN AT NO. 10 VILLANOVA MIN: 36 - vs. Xavier 2/1/20 MIN: 36 - vs. Xavier 2/1/20

RHODEN GAME-BY-GAME

OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 19 4-6 .667 1-3 .333 3-4 .750 1 3 4 2 2 0 0 2 12 12.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 27 4-10 .400 1-4 .250 2-3 .667 0 3 3 3 2 1 0 2 11 11.5 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 13 2-4 .500 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 1 0 1 0 2 4 9.0 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 20 2-12 .167 0-5 .000 3-4 .750 5 3 8 3 2 1 0 0 7 8.5 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 22 4-9 .444 1-5 .200 1-2 .500 4 8 12 2 2 2 0 2 10 8.8 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 16 1-5 .200 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 1 2 3 5 1 0 0 0 3 7.8 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 28 4-9 .444 1-4 .250 0-0 .000 1 3 4 3 0 1 0 3 9 8.0 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 23 3-8 .375 0-2 .000 2-2 1.000 3 0 3 1 1 2 0 0 8 8.0 at Iowa State 12/08/19 26 2-9 .222 0-4 .000 0-0 .000 3 5 8 3 1 5 0 1 4 7.6 at Rutgers 12/14/19 * 29 2-7 .286 1-5 .200 1-2 .500 1 7 8 3 0 1 0 5 6 7.4 MARYLAND 12/19/19 * 33 3-10 .300 2-5 .400 0-0 .000 1 11 12 3 3 1 0 0 8 7.5 PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 * 33 5-9 .556 0-2 .000 2-5 .400 2 7 9 3 0 1 1 2 12 7.8 at DePaul* 12/30/19 20 3-6 .500 2-3 .667 2-4 .500 1 2 3 4 0 1 0 0 10 8.0 GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 * 33 3-6 .500 1-2 .500 2-4 .500 0 9 9 2 1 2 2 1 9 8.1 at Xavier* 01/08/20 * 30 6-10 .600 0-1 .000 4-5 .800 3 1 4 2 0 3 0 2 16 8.6 MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 * 28 2-6 .333 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 1 5 6 2 0 0 0 1 5 8.4 at Butler* 01/15/20 * 28 3-6 .500 1-3 .333 6-6 1.000 0 8 8 3 1 0 1 0 13 8.6 at St. John’s* 01/18/20 * 24 0-3 .000 0-1 .000 2-2 1.000 0 3 3 4 3 0 0 1 2 8.3 PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 * 30 6-8 .750 1-2 .500 2-6 .333 2 6 8 1 1 2 0 1 15 8.6 DEPAUL* 01/29/20 * 31 5-8 .625 2-5 .400 2-5 .400 5 6 11 1 1 1 1 0 14 8.9 XAVIER* 02/01/20 * 36 5-11 .455 2-4 .500 1-1 1.000 1 4 5 3 1 0 0 1 13 9.1 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 * 28 5-12 .417 2-6 .333 0-1 .000 2 7 9 2 2 0 1 2 12 9.2 at Villanova* 02/08/20 25 3-4 .750 2-2 1.000 1-3 .333 2 9 11 1 2 0 1 0 9 9.2 CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 27 2-7 .286 1-4 .250 3-3 1.000 1 11 12 2 1 0 0 0 8 9.2 at Providence* 02/15/20 * 29 4-6 .667 2-3 .667 0-0 .000 1 7 8 5 0 1 0 1 10 9.2 BUTLER* 02/19/20 * 20 2-8 .250 0-4 .000 0-0 .000 0 3 3 1 1 1 0 0 4 9.0 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 * 23 4-5 .800 3-4 .750 3-4 .750 0 4 4 3 1 2 1 1 14 9.2 at Marquette* 02/29/20 23 3-5 .600 3-4 .750 0-0 .000 0 4 4 1 3 1 0 1 9 9.2 VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 25 1-5 .200 0-3 .000 1-2 .500 1 3 4 0 1 0 0 4 3 9.0 at Creighton* 03/07/20 25 5-8 .625 2-3 .667 0-1 .000 2 3 5 1 1 1 0 1 12 9.1 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

2019-20 GAME NOTES 15 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB IKE OBIAGU #21 • SOPHOMORE • CENTER • 7-2 • 265 • ABUJA, NIGERIA • FLORIDA STATE 2019 BIG EAST All-Academic team

>> One of the best rim protectors in the nation >> Had a 20.9 block percentage as a freshman at MILESTONE TRACKER >> 6th in the BIG EAST in blocked shots per game Florida State in 2017-18 To 200 Pts...... 50 To 100 FGM.....42 (1.2), tied for 7th in conference games (1.0) >> Helped the Seminoles to the Elite Eight in 2018 To 200 Reb...... 53 To 150 Blk...... 43

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 2017-18 at florida state 17-18 34 14 364 10.7 33 57 .579 0 0 .000 12 38 .316 33 54 87 2.6 60 0 2 25 71 7 78 2.3 19-20 30 4 317 10.6 25 37 .676 0 0 .000 22 38 .579 25 35 60 2.0 55 1 1 30 36 4 72 2.4 TOTAL 64 18 681 10.6 58 94 .617 0 0 .000 34 76 .447 58 89 147 2.3 115 1 3 55 107 11 150 2.3

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • BLOCKED SIX SHOTS AGAINST NO. 7 MARYLAND TO TIE TEAMMATE ROMARO GILL AND TWO OTHERS FOR MOST SETON HALL SINGLE-GAME BLOCKS IN PTS: 11 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 PTS: 11 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 PRUDENTIAL CENTER HISTORY REB: 8 - vs. DePaul 1/29/20 REB: 12 - vs. Boston College 3/3/18 AST: 1 - at Xavier 1/8/20 AST: 1, 3x - last at Xavier 1/8/20 • DELIVERED SOME CRITICAL MINUTES COMING OFF THE BENCH IN THE WIN FGM: 4 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 FGM: 4 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 OVER DEPAUL WITH EIGHT REBOUNDS, THREE BLOCKS AND A PAIR OF CRUCIAL FREE THROWS WITH 2:15 REMAINING FGA: 4 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 FGA: 8 - vs. Kennesaw State 11/22/17 FTM: 3, 3x - last vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 FTM: 3, 3x - last vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 FTA: 5, 3x - last vs. DePaul 1/29/20 FTA: 5, 4x - last vs. DePaul 1/29/20 BLK: 6 - vs. Maryland 12/19/19 BLK: 7 - vs. Boston College 3/3/18 STL: 1, 4x - last at Rutgers 12/14/19 STL: 2 - at Rutgers 11/28/17 TO: 3, 6x - last vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 TO: 3, 9x - last vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 MIN: 20 - at Rutgers 12/14/19 MIN: 26 - at Rutgers 11/28/17

OBIAGU GAME-BY-GAME

OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 * 17 4-4 1.000 0-0 .000 3-3 1.000 1 3 4 3 0 0 3 1 11 11.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 7 2-2 1.000 0-0 .000 0-2 .000 0 1 1 4 0 0 0 0 4 7.5 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 * 12 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 2 0 3 1 0 0 5.0 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 11 2-2 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 2 3 5 0 1 0 0 4 4.8 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 14 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 2-2 1.000 1 1 2 1 0 1 2 0 4 4.6 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 16 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 2 0 2 2 1 2 4.2 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 14 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 2-5 .400 3 0 3 0 0 1 0 0 4 4.1 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 7 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 0 1 2 0 0 0 1 0 3.6 at Iowa State 12/08/19 * 12 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 0 5 5 4 0 1 0 0 3 3.6 at Rutgers 12/14/19 * 20 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 0 1 2 0 0 3 1 2 3.4 MARYLAND 12/19/19 17 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 1 1 2 3 0 3 6 0 1 3.2 PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 8 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 3 0 1 1 0 2 3.1 at DePaul* 12/30/19 11 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 2 3 1 0 0 1 0 2 3.0 GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 13 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 1 2 1 0 1 1 0 2 2.9 at Xavier* 01/08/20 14 2-2 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 3 4 2 1 0 3 0 4 3.0 MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 15 2-3 .667 0-0 .000 2-5 .400 2 2 4 0 0 0 1 0 6 3.2 at Butler* 01/15/20 12 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 3-4 .750 0 2 2 0 0 0 0 0 3 3.2 at St. John’s* 01/18/20 5 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 2 0 1 2 0 0 3.0 PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 7 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 1 2 2 0 3 0 0 2 2.9 DEPAUL* 01/29/20 15 2-2 1.000 0-0 .000 2-5 .400 4 4 8 4 0 3 3 0 6 3.1 XAVIER* 02/01/20 9 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 2-2 1.000 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 2 3.0 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 7 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 0 1 1 2 0 0 0 0 1 3.0 at Villanova* 02/08/20 8 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 3 1 0 0 2.8 CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 2 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 0 1 1 0 1 0 0 0 2.7 at Providence* 02/15/20 5 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 2 0 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 2.6 BUTLER* 02/19/20 1 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.5 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 12 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 3-4 .750 3 1 4 2 0 3 3 0 3 2.5 at Marquette* 02/29/20 17 2-2 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 3 0 0 2 0 4 2.6 VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 4 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 2.5 at Creighton* 03/07/20 5 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 2.4 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 16 2019-20 GAME NOTES myles cale #22 • JUNIOR • GUARD/FORWARD • 6-6 • 210 • MIDDLETOWN, DEL. • APPOQUINIMINK

>> Tied for 85th all-time at Seton Hall in scoring with 673 >> Outstanding defender with length to go up against MILESTONE TRACKER points guards and wings To 700 Pts...... 27 To 100 Ast...... 11 >> Posterizing dunk vs. Creighton made #SCTop10 >> Won a bronze medal with Team USA at the 2019 Pan Am To 400 Reb...... 93 To 100 Stl...... 22 Games CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 17-18 34 5 584 17.2 56 120 .467 13 46 .283 22 35 .629 18 37 55 1.6 49 0 22 31 5 20 147 4.3 18-19 34 34 1026 30.2 124 302 .411 54 143 .378 44 66 .667 20 120 140 4.1 68 2 41 46 3 27 346 10.2 19-20 30 25 687 22.9 67 173 .387 25 88 .284 21 36 .583 24 88 112 3.7 52 0 26 31 3 31 180 6.0 TOTAL 98 64 2297 23.4 247 595 .415 92 277 .332 87 137 .635 62 245 307 3.1 169 2 89 108 11 78 673 6.9

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • WAS OUTSTANDING AGAINST NO. 3 MICHIGAN STATE WITH 12 POINTS PTS: 16, 2x - last vs. Georgetown 1/3/20 PTS: 23 - at Maryland 12/22/18 • CAREER-HIGH 12 REBOUNDS AND NEARLY HAD FIRST CAREER DOUBLE- REB: 12 - vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 REB: 12 - vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 DOUBLE IN BATTLE 4 ATLANTIS WIN OVER IOWA STATE AST: 4 - vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 AST: 5 - vs. Grand Canyon 11/22/18 • HAD SEVEN POINTS IN CRITICAL 15-5 SECOND HALF RUN TO SPRINGBOARD FGM: 6 - at DePaul 12/30/19 FGM: 9 - vs. Xavier 2/20/19 PIRATES TO COMEBACK WIN AT DEPAUL; FINISHED WITH SEASON-HIGH 16 FGA: 10, 3x - last at St. John’s 1/18/20 FGA: 18 - vs. Kentucky 12/8/18 • DRAINED HIS FIRST FIVE THREE-POINT ATTEMPTS, ALL COMING IN THE FIRST 3FGM: 5 - vs. Georgetown 1/3/20 3FGM: 6 - vs. Villanova 3/9/19 14:09 OF THE GAME, TO FINISH WITH 16 POINTS IN WIN OVER GEORGETOWN 3FGA: 6 - vs. Georgetown 1/3/20 3FGA: 10 - vs. Kentucky 12/8/18 FTM: 4 - vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 FTM: 8 - at Maryland 12/22/18 FTA: 5 - vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 FTA: 8 - at Maryland 12/22/18 BLK: 2 - vs. Maryland 12/19/19 BLK: 2 - vs. Maryland 12/19/19 STL: 3 - vs. Creighton 2/12/20 STL: 4 - at Louisville 12/3/17 TO: 4 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 TO: 4, 2x - last vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 MIN: 33, 2x - last at DePaul 12/30/19 MIN: 44 - vs. Kentucky 12/8/18

CALE GAME-BY-GAME

OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 * 18 2-4 .500 1-3 .333 1-2 .500 0 4 4 1 0 1 0 1 6 6.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 * 18 0-5 .000 0-1 .000 1-2 .500 0 2 2 1 1 1 0 0 1 3.5 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 * 27 4-6 .667 3-4 .750 1-2 .500 1 3 4 2 0 1 0 2 12 6.3 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 * 21 2-5 .400 2-4 .500 1-2 .500 1 3 4 3 2 0 0 2 7 6.5 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 * 15 2-4 .500 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 5 6.2 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 * 23 4-8 .500 2-4 .500 0-0 .000 1 3 4 3 2 1 0 0 10 6.8 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 * 18 2-5 .400 0-3 .000 1-5 .200 0 5 5 2 2 2 0 1 5 6.6 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 * 27 4-7 .571 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 1 11 12 1 4 2 0 1 8 6.8 at Iowa State 12/08/19 * 25 3-7 .429 1-2 .500 2-3 .667 1 3 4 2 0 1 0 1 9 7.0 at Rutgers 12/14/19 * 23 2-10 .200 1-5 .200 0-0 .000 1 1 2 1 1 0 0 1 5 6.8 MARYLAND 12/19/19 * 33 2-10 .200 0-5 .000 1-2 .500 1 3 4 2 0 1 2 2 5 6.6 PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 * 25 3-8 .375 0-5 .000 0-1 .000 2 3 5 3 1 4 0 1 6 6.6 at DePaul* 12/30/19 * 33 6-9 .667 1-3 .333 3-4 .750 2 4 6 2 2 3 1 2 16 7.3 GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 * 31 5-7 .714 5-6 .833 1-2 .500 1 5 6 0 0 2 0 2 16 7.9 at Xavier* 01/08/20 * 24 3-5 .600 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 1 2 3 4 1 1 0 0 6 7.8 MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 * 22 1-3 .333 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 2 1 1 0 0 2 7.4 at Butler* 01/15/20 * 23 0-4 .000 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 1 1 2 4 0 0 0 1 0 7.0 at St. John’s* 01/18/20 * 33 4-10 .400 2-5 .400 2-2 1.000 1 5 6 2 1 2 0 1 12 7.3 PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 * 30 2-7 .286 0-4 .000 0-0 .000 1 1 2 1 0 2 0 0 4 7.1 DEPAUL* 01/29/20 * 24 1-6 .167 1-3 .333 1-2 .500 2 4 6 2 2 0 0 2 4 7.0 XAVIER* 02/01/20 * 24 2-6 .333 0-3 .000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 2 0 2 0 2 4 6.8 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 13 1-6 .167 0-2 .000 2-2 1.000 1 1 2 1 0 1 0 0 4 6.7 at Villanova* 02/08/20 * 18 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 4 4 2 0 0 0 0 2 6.5 CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 * 24 3-7 .429 1-4 .250 0-1 .000 2 1 3 2 2 2 0 3 7 6.5 at Providence* 02/15/20 7 0-3 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 6.2 BUTLER* 02/19/20 19 1-1 1.000 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 0 1 1 0 0 3 6.1 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 18 3-6 .500 0-3 .000 4-4 1.000 2 3 5 0 0 2 0 2 10 6.3 at Marquette* 02/29/20 * 22 1-3 .333 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 0 3 3 0 1 0 0 1 3 6.1 VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 27 2-6 .333 2-5 .400 0-0 .000 1 3 4 4 0 0 0 1 6 6.1 at Creighton* 03/07/20 * 19 1-3 .333 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 2 1 0 0 0 2 6.0 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

2019-20 GAME NOTES 17 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB SANDRO MAMUKELASHVILI #23 • JUNIOR • FORWARD • 6-11 • 240 • TBILISI, GEORGIA • MONTVERDE ACADEMY (FLA.)

2018 Wooden Legacy Tournament Honorable Mention • 2018 BIG EAST All-Academic Team

>> Shooting 57 percent overall and 43 percent from three since >> Game-winner vs. Butler was No. 1 on #SCTop10 MILESTONE TRACKER returning from injury on Jan. 29 >> 123rd player in Seton Hall history to reach 500 career To 700 Pts...... 73 To 300 FGM.....66 >> Would rank 6th in BIG EAST in FG%, but does not have enough points; now 96th all-time in scoring To 500 Reb...... 53 To 100 Blk...... 31 games played to qualify >> Nicknamed “Mamu” and speaks four languages >> Averaging 16.8 points & 9.4 rebounds over last 5 games

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 17-18 34 0 325 9.6 32 68 .471 8 27 .296 15 25 .600 27 36 63 1.9 51 1 16 14 16 8 87 2.6 18-19 34 34 1000 29.4 107 245 .437 28 93 .301 60 98 .612 76 189 265 7.8 89 3 54 50 41 19 302 8.9 19-20 20 18 523 26.2 95 176 .540 23 53 .434 25 38 .658 41 78 119 6.0 48 1 27 28 12 10 238 11.9 TOTAL 88 52 1848 21.0 234 489 .479 59 173 .341 100 161 .621 144 303 447 5.1 188 5 97 92 69 37 627 7.1

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • WAS +28 IN SHU’S WIN AT SAINT LOUIS, FINISHING WITH 17 POINTS, SEVEN REBOUNDS AND THREE ASSISTS PTS: 26 - at Marquette 2/29/20 PTS: 26 - at Marquette 2/29/20 REB: 12, 2x - last at Creighton 3/7/20 REB: 18 - vs. Villanova 3/9/19 • PLAYED GREAT BASKETBALL AT THE BATTLE 4 ATLANTIS, FINISHING WITH AST: 4 - vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 AST: 4, 3x - last vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 AVERAGES OF 14.0 POINTS, 5.7 REBOUNDS, 2.0 ASSISTS AND 1.7 BLOCKS FGM: 10 - at Marquette 2/29/20 FGM: 10 - at Marquette 2/29/20 WHILE MAKING 65 PERCENT OF HIS FIELD GOAL ATTEMPTS FGA: 15 - at Villanova 2/8/20 FGA: 15 - at Villanova 2/8/20 • HAD 12 SECOND-HALF POINTS AND HIT A DAGGER THREE-POINTER TO HELP 3FGM: 3, 4x - last vs. Villanova 3/4/20 3FGM: 4 - vs. Sacred Heart 12/19/18 PUSH THE PIRATES PAST NO. 10 VILLANOVA; FINISHED WITH 17 TOTAL PTS 3FGA: 5 - at Villanova 2/8/20 3FGA: 6 - at Creighton 2/17/19 • WITH 0.6 SECONDS REMAINING IN A TIED GAME, TOOK AN IN-BOUND ALLEY FTM: 6 - at Saint Louis 11/17/19 FTM: 6, 3x - last at Saint Louis 11/17/19 OOP PASS FROM MCKNIGHT AND LAID IT IN FOR THE WIN OVER NO. 21 BUTLER FTA: 7 - at Saint Louis 11/17/19 FTA: 10 - vs. Rutgers 12/15/18 • RECORDED FIRST DOUBLE-DOUBLE OF SEASON & SIXTH OF CAREER WITH 16 & BLK: 2, 3x - last at Villanova 2/8/20 BLK: 4, 2x - last vs. Louisville 12/1/18 10 IN THE WIN OVER ST. JOHN’S; NAMED TO BIG EAST HONOR ROLL ON FEB. 24 STL: 2, 2x - last vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 STL: 2, 7x - last vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 • ROMPED IN THE HALL’S WIN AT MARQUETTE WITH CAREER HIGHS IN POINTS TO: 4 - vs. Michigan State 11/14/19 TO: 4, 2x - last vs. Michigan State 11/14/19 AND FIELD GOALS MADE; SCORED 17 POINTS IN THE SECOND HALF ALONE MIN: 36, 2x - last vs. Butler 2/19/20 MIN: 41 - at Georgetown 3/2/19

MAMUKELASHVILI GAME-BY-GAME

OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 * 26 5-10 .500 0-3 .000 1-4 .250 1 4 5 3 3 1 1 2 11 11.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 * 34 6-11 .545 2-4 .500 3-4 .750 3 2 5 1 2 3 1 0 17 14.0 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 * 31 4-11 .364 1-4 .250 0-0 .000 4 3 7 2 1 4 0 1 9 12.3 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 * 30 5-11 .455 1-2 .500 6-7 .857 1 6 7 3 3 1 0 0 17 13.5 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 * 13 1-6 .167 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 2 0 3 0 0 2 11.2 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 * 30 4-8 .500 1-2 .500 1-1 1.000 3 1 4 4 1 1 2 1 10 11.0 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 * 29 6-8 .750 2-2 1.000 0-2 .000 2 5 7 1 4 3 1 0 14 11.4 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 * 33 7-10 .700 3-4 .750 1-2 .500 3 3 6 3 1 1 2 1 18 12.3 at Iowa State 12/08/19 * 5 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 10.9 at Rutgers 12/14/19 DNP MARYLAND 12/19/19 DNP PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 DNP at DePaul* 12/30/19 DNP GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 DNP at Xavier* 01/08/20 DNP MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 DNP at Butler* 01/15/20 DNP at St. John’s* 01/18/20 DNP PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 DNP DEPAUL* 01/29/20 5 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 1-2 .500 0 0 0 2 0 0 0 0 1 9.9 XAVIER* 02/01/20 16 4-5 .800 0-1 .000 2-5 .400 2 1 3 3 0 0 0 1 10 9.9 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 * 32 4-8 .500 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 4 8 12 3 2 1 1 1 8 9.8 at Villanova* 02/08/20 * 36 7-15 .467 3-5 .600 0-0 .000 4 4 8 0 0 0 2 0 17 10.3 CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 * 15 6-9 .667 0-1 .000 1-1 1.000 4 2 6 5 1 3 0 0 13 10.5 at Providence* 02/15/20 * 20 3-8 .375 1-4 .250 0-0 .000 0 1 1 3 0 0 0 1 7 10.3 BUTLER* 02/19/20 * 36 7-12 .583 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 2 4 6 3 1 1 1 0 15 10.6 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 * 33 5-9 .556 1-3 .333 5-6 .833 3 7 10 3 3 1 0 2 16 10.9 at Marquette* 02/29/20 * 34 10-13 .769 3-3 1.000 3-3 1.000 1 8 9 2 3 2 0 0 26 11.7 VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 * 29 8-10 .800 3-4 .750 1-1 1.000 1 9 10 2 0 2 1 0 20 12.2 at Creighton* 03/07/20 * 35 3-10 .300 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 3 9 12 3 2 1 0 0 7 11.9 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 18 2019-20 GAME NOTES SHAVAR REYNOLDS, JR. #33 • JUNIOR • GUARD • 6-2 • 190 • MANCHESTER, N.J. • MANCHESTER TOWNSHIP

2019 BIG EAST All-Academic Team • 2018 BIG EAST All-Academic Team

>> Former walk-on who earned scholarship in 2018 >> Strong defender on the ball MILESTONE TRACKER >> Best known for hitting the game-winning, buzzer- >> 12 for his last 18 from three-point range (.667) To 200 Pts...... 4 To 100 FGM.....41 beating three in Seton Hall’s 2018-19 conference >> Team’s best free throw shooter (85% career) To 100 Reb...... 10 To 100 Ast...... 50 opener vs. St. John’s

3-Point Rebounds CAREER STATISTICS Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 17-18 19 0 24 1.3 2 7 .286 1 2 .500 2 2 1.000 1 4 5 0.3 5 0 1 2 0 1 7 0.4 18-19 31 1 261 8.4 17 65 .262 5 32 .156 24 28 .857 11 21 32 1.0 37 0 19 9 1 16 63 2.0 19-20 30 0 477 15.9 40 93 .430 22 46 .478 24 29 .828 14 39 53 1.8 54 2 30 22 1 24 126 4.2 TOTAL 80 1 762 9.5 59 165 .358 28 80 .350 50 59 .847 26 64 90 1.1 96 2 50 33 2 41 196 2.5

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • SET CAREER HIGHS IN ASSISTS AND MINUTES PLAYED IN A WIN OVER STONY BROOK PTS: 12 - vs. Villanova 3/4/20 PTS: 12 - vs. Villanova 3/4/20 REB: 5 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 REB: 5, 2x - last vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 • DELIVERED EIGHT POINTS & FIVE REBOUNDS IN A HIGH-ENERGY AST: 4, 2x - last at Villanova 2/8/20 AST: 4, 2x - last at Villanova 2/8/20 PERFORMANCE IN A WIN OVER FLORIDA A&M FGM: 4, 2x - last vs. Stony Brook 11/9/19 FGM: 4, 2x - last vs. Stony Brook 11/9/19 • PLAYED ELITE DEFENSE IN THE SECOND HALF OF THE WIN OVER MARQUETTE, FGA: 8 - at Rutgers 12/14/19 FGA: 9 - at Villanova 1/27/19 FRUSTRATING MARKUS HOWARD AND FINISHING WITH A PLUS-MINUS OF +21 3FGM: 3 - vs. Villanova 3/4/20 3FGM: 3 - vs. Villanova 3/4/20 IN ONLY 19 MINUTES PLAYED 3FGA: 5 - vs. Creighton 2/12/20 3FGA: 6 - at Villanova 1/27/19 • FOUR BIG FREE THROWS LATE IN THE AND PROVIDED SOLID DEFENSE ON FTM: 4 - at Villanova 2/8/20 FTM: 4, 3x - last at Villanova 2/8/20 IN WIN AT NO. 10 VILLANOVA FTA: 4, 3x - last vs. Villanova 3/4/20 FTA: 4, 7x - last vs. Villanova 3/4/20 • SPARKED A SETON HALL RALLY WITH A TRIFECTA OF TRIPLES IN THE SECOND BLK: 1 - at DePaul 12/30/19 BLK: 1, 2x - last at DePaul 12/30/19 HALF AGAINST NO. 14 VILLANOVA STL: 4 - vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 STL: 4, 2x - last vs. St. John’s 2/23/20 TO: 3 - vs. Maryland 12/19/19 TO: 3 - vs. Maryland 12/19/19 MIN: 28 - vs. Stony Brook 11/9/19 MIN: 28 - vs. Stony Brook 11/9/19 REYNOLDS, JR. GAME-BY-GAME OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 12 4-4 1.000 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 3 0 1 0 1 9 9.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 28 4-7 .571 0-1 .000 1-1 1.000 2 1 3 3 4 1 0 1 9 9.0 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 5 0-1 .000 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 6.0 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 12 2-3 .667 1-1 1.000 1-1 1.000 0 4 4 0 1 0 0 0 6 6.0 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 19 3-5 .600 2-3 .667 0-0 .000 1 4 5 1 0 0 0 1 8 6.4 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 11 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 2-3 .667 0 3 3 2 0 1 0 0 2 5.7 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 17 3-4 .750 2-2 1.000 0-0 .000 2 0 2 0 2 1 0 1 8 6.0 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 20 2-5 .400 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 1 2 3 0 0 2 0 1 5 5.9 at Iowa State 12/08/19 15 3-7 .429 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 0 2 2 3 1 0 0 0 7 6.0 at Rutgers 12/14/19 21 1-8 .125 1-4 .250 0-0 .000 0 2 2 3 2 1 0 2 3 5.7 MARYLAND 12/19/19 10 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 5 0 3 0 3 0 5.2 PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 27 0-4 .000 0-3 .000 0-0 .000 1 3 4 1 1 1 0 1 0 4.8 at DePaul* 12/30/19 7 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 2-2 1.000 0 0 0 1 0 0 1 1 2 4.5 GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 12 1-4 .250 0-2 .000 3-3 1.000 0 3 3 0 0 1 0 1 5 4.6 at Xavier* 01/08/20 17 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 3 3 1 1 0 0 0 2 4.4 MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 19 1-3 .333 1-2 .500 2-4 .500 2 1 3 2 2 0 0 0 5 4.4 at Butler* 01/15/20 21 0-3 .000 0-3 .000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 1 0 0 0 1 0 4.2 at St. John’s* 01/18/20 4 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 1 1 0 0 1 0 0 0 3.9 PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 14 1-1 1.000 1-1 1.000 2-2 1.000 0 1 1 0 2 0 0 0 5 4.0 DEPAUL* 01/29/20 17 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 2 0 1 0 1 0 3.8 XAVIER* 02/01/20 9 1-4 .250 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0 0 0 3 1 0 0 0 3 3.8 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 20 1-2 .500 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 1 1 2 2 0 2 0 1 3 3.7 at Villanova* 02/08/20 24 1-4 .250 1-1 1.000 4-4 1.000 2 1 3 2 4 2 0 1 7 3.9 CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 26 3-7 .429 2-5 .400 0-0 .000 1 0 1 3 3 0 0 0 8 4.0 at Providence* 02/15/20 12 1-2 .500 1-1 1.000 2-2 1.000 0 0 0 3 0 0 0 1 5 4.1 BUTLER* 02/19/20 10 1-1 1.000 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 1 0 1 2 2 1 0 0 3 4.0 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 16 1-3 .333 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0 1 1 1 1 2 0 4 3 4.0 at Marquette* 02/29/20 14 2-2 1.000 0-0 .000 2-3 .667 0 1 1 2 3 0 0 1 6 4.1 VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 24 3-4 .750 3-3 1.000 3-4 .750 0 0 0 5 0 0 0 1 12 4.3 at Creighton* 03/07/20 14 0-1 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 2 2 2 0 1 0 0 0 4.2 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

2019-20 GAME NOTES 19 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB romaro gill #35 • SENIOR • CENTER • 7-2 • 255 • ST. THOMAS, JAMAICA • VINCENNES UNIVERSITY

2020 BIG EAST Defensive Player of the Year • 2020 BIG EAST Most Improved Player of the Year 2019 BIG EAST All-Academic Team • 2019 NABC Honors Court • 2018 BIG EAST All-Academic Team

>> Only second BIG EAST player ever to win Defensive Player of >> 7th all-time at Seton Hall in career blocks MILESTONE TRACKER the Year & Most Improved in the same season >> 4th at Seton Hall in single-season blocks To 300 Pts...... 5 To 200 FGM.....81 >> Currently leads BIG EAST & is 3rd in the nation in overall >> Has 25 career games with at least three blocks To 300 Reb...... 59 To 150 Blk...... 21 blocks per game (3.2); also leads conference in overall FG% >> Member of the NCAA Men’s Basketball Oversight Committee >> Finished as BIG EAST champion in blocks (3.4) and field goal for 2019-20 percentage (.635)

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 17-18 redshirt season at seton hall 18-19 27 3 289 10.7 28 48 .583 0 0 .000 5 14 .357 22 50 72 2.7 54 1 1 19 34 7 61 2.3 19-20 30 26 734 24.5 91 145 .628 0 0 .000 52 77 .675 53 116 169 5.6 85 3 4 33 95 8 234 7.8 TOTAL 57 29 1023 17.9 119 193 .617 0 0 .000 57 91 .626 75 166 241 4.2 139 4 5 52 129 15 295 5.2

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS • TIED CAREER HIGH WITH FIVE BLOCKS AGAINST NO. 3 MICHIGAN STATE PTS: 17, 3x - last vs. Providence 1/22/20 PTS: 17, 3x - last vs. Providence 1/22/20 • CAREER-HIGH SIX BLOCKS IN A HUGE PERFORMANCE VS. NO. 7 MARYLAND REB: 13 - at St. John’s 1/18/20 REB: 13 - at St. John’s 1/18/20 • PART OF A DEFENSE THAT LIMITED DEPAUL TO NINE POINTS IN FINAL 10 AST: 1, 3x - last vs. Providence 1/22/20 AST: 1, 4x - last vs. Providence 1/22/20 MINUTES; HAD FOUR BLOCKS IN SECOND HALF FGM: 8 - vs. Providence 1/22/20 FGM: 6, 2x - last at Butler 1/15/20 • HUGE SECOND HALF WITH 10 OF HIS CAREER-HIGH 17 POINTS PLUS EIGHT FGA: 13 - at St. John’s 1/18/20 FGA: 13 - at St. John’s 1/18/20 REBOUNDS AND FOUR BLOCKS TO HELP LEAD THE HALL PAST GEORGETOWN FTM: 6 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 FTM: 6 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 • BLOCKED FIVE SHOTS AND ALTERED MANY MORE IN SETON HALL’S WIN AT FTA: 8, 2x - last vs. Marquette 1/11/20 FTA: 8, 2x - last vs. Marquette 1/11/20 XAVIER BLK: 8, 2x - last at Georgetown 2/5/20 BLK: 8, 2x - last at Georgetown 2/5/20 • 15 OF HIS 17 POINTS IN A DOMINANT SECOND HALF IN WIN AT NO. 5 BUTLER STL: 1, 6x - last vs. Maryland 12/19/19 STL: 3 - at Xavier 1/2/19 • SET NEW SETON HALL PRU CENTER RECORD FOR BLOCKS W/ EIGHT TO GO TO: 4 - at Iowa State 12/8/19 TO: 4 - at Iowa State 12/8/19 WITH 17 POINTS IN A WIN OVER PROVIDENCE MIN: 37 - vs. Butler 2/19/20 MIN: 37 - vs. Butler 2/19/20 • EIGHT MORE BLOCKS IN HELPING THE HALL WIN AT GEORGETOWN GILL GAME-BY-GAME OPPONENT DATE GS MIN FG PCT 3FG PCT FT PCT OFF DEF REB PF AST TO BLK STL PTS AVG

WAGNER 11/05/19 10 3-4 .750 0-0 .000 2-2 1.000 1 1 2 2 0 1 1 1 8 8.0 STONY BROOK 11/09/19 * 23 5-8 .625 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 3 7 10 2 0 1 1 1 10 9.0 MICHIGAN ST. 11/14/19 28 0-2 .000 0-0 .000 0-2 .000 0 8 8 2 0 1 5 1 0 6.0 at Saint Louis 11/17/19 * 15 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 3 3 5 0 0 4 1 2 5.0 FLORIDA A&M 11/23/19 * 22 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 6-8 .750 3 6 9 2 0 0 3 0 8 5.6 vs. Oregon 11/27/19 * 19 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 3 4 4 0 0 3 0 0 4.7 vs. Southern Miss 11/28/19 * 24 2-4 .500 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 4 5 2 0 1 4 1 4 4.6 vs. Iowa State 11/29/19 * 20 3-4 .750 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 2 3 5 2 1 1 0 0 7 4.9 at Iowa State 12/08/19 22 4-4 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 4 0 4 3 0 4 2 0 8 5.2 at Rutgers 12/14/19 20 2-5 .400 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 3 3 1 0 1 3 0 4 5.1 MARYLAND 12/19/19 * 22 3-4 .750 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 3 3 4 0 0 6 1 6 5.2 PRAIRIE VIEW 12/22/19 * 15 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 3-4 .750 3 2 5 1 0 3 2 0 5 5.2 at DePaul* 12/30/19 * 29 2-4 .500 0-0 .000 2-2 1.000 0 4 4 3 0 1 4 0 6 5.2 GEORGETOWN* 01/03/20 * 25 6-9 .667 0-0 .000 5-6 .833 2 5 8 5 0 3 4 0 17 6.1 at Xavier* 01/08/20 * 26 3-4 .750 0-0 .000 5-6 .833 0 4 4 4 0 1 5 0 11 6.4 MARQUETTE* 01/11/20 * 25 3-4 .750 0-0 .000 4-8 .500 2 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 10 6.6 at Butler* 01/15/20 * 27 6-7 .857 0-0 .000 5-6 .833 2 2 4 5 1 2 3 0 17 7.2 at St. John’s* 01/18/20 * 34 5-13 .385 0-0 .000 4-6 .667 7 6 13 4 0 2 6 0 14 7.6 PROVIDENCE* 01/22/20 * 33 8-10 .800 0-0 .000 1-3 .333 1 5 6 3 1 0 8 0 17 8.1 DEPAUL* 01/29/20 * 24 2-3 .667 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 2 3 5 2 0 3 5 0 4 7.9 XAVIER* 02/01/20 * 29 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0-1 .000 0 5 5 4 0 1 2 0 2 7.6 at Georgetown* 02/05/20 * 32 2-4 .500 0-0 .000 2-5 .400 3 3 6 4 0 0 8 0 6 7.5 at Villanova* 02/08/20 * 20 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 2 1 3 2 1 0 3 0 2 7.3 CREIGHTON* 02/12/20 * 24 5-7 .714 0-0 .000 3-3 1.000 3 4 7 2 0 1 3 0 13 7.5 at Providence* 02/15/20 * 33 1-3 .333 0-0 .000 2-2 1.000 2 6 8 4 0 0 3 1 4 7.4 BUTLER* 02/19/20 * 37 5-7 .714 0-0 .000 5-6 .833 2 5 7 3 0 2 2 0 15 7.7 ST. JOHN’S* 02/23/20 * 25 6-6 1.000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 6 6 1 0 1 3 0 12 7.9 at Marquette* 02/29/20 * 22 3-5 .600 0-0 .000 1-3 .333 3 3 6 4 0 0 1 0 7 7.8 VILLANOVA* 03/04/20 * 21 3-7 .429 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 3 4 1 0 0 0 0 6 7.8 at Creighton* 03/07/20 * 27 4-6 .667 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 3 3 6 4 0 3 1 1 9 7.8 vs. Marquette 03/12/20

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 20 2019-20 GAME NOTES TAUREAN THOMPSON #15 • JUNIOR • FORWARD • 6-11 • 235 • NEW YORK, N.Y. • SYRACUSE

2019 BIG EAST All-Academic Team

>> Reserve who can be instant offense off the bench >> Major impact in Seton Hall’s upset win over No. 9 MILESTONE TRACKER with abilities to drive to the basket Kentucky last year To 500 Pts...... 60 To 200 FGM.....19 To 200 Reb...... 9 To 50 BLK...... 4

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 2016-17 AT SYRACUSE UNIVERSITY 16-17 34 21 607 17.9 130 238 .546 3 16 .188 49 76 .645 47 82 129 3.8 84 0 19 44 33 23 312 9.2 18-19 27 0 279 10.3 50 124 .403 7 29 .241 17 23 .739 25 36 61 2.3 38 0 4 21 13 8 124 4.6 19-20 1 0 4 4.0 1 1 1.000 0 0 .000 2 3 .667 0 1 1 1.0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 4.0 TOTAL 62 21 890 14.4 181 363 .499 10 45 .222 68 102 .667 72 119 191 3.1 122 0 24 66 46 31 440 7.1

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS PTS: 4 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 PTS: 22 - vs. Boston University 12/10/16 REB: 1 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 REB: 12 - at Georgia Tech 2/19/17 AST: 1 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 AST: 5 - vs. Eastern Michigan 12/19/16 FGM: 1 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 FGM: 10 - vs. Boston University 12/10/16 FGA: 1 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 FGA: 21 - at Georgia Tech 2/19/17 3FGM: 3FGM: 3 - at DePaul 1/6/19 3FGA: 3FGA: 4, 2x - last at DePaul 1/6/19 FTM: 2 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 FTM: 5, 2x - last at Louisville 2/26/17 FTA: 3 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 FTA: 8 - at Boston College 1/1/17 BLK: BLK: 4 - vs. Providence 1/30/19 STL: STL: 5 - vs. Ole Miss 3/18/17 TO: 1 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 TO: 4 - at Louisville 2/26/17 MIN: 4 - vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 MIN: 33 - at Georgia Tech 2/19/17 darnell brodie #32 • SOPHOMORE • FORWARD • 6-9 • 265 • NEWARK, N.J. • MONTVERDE ACADEMY (FLA.)

2019 BIG EAST All-Academic Team

>> Physical forward with the ability to make plays inside

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 18-19 10 1 55 5.5 3 10 .300 0 0 .000 2 6 .333 3 8 11 1.1 9 0 0 2 2 0 8 0.8 19-20 3 0 18 6.0 1 2 .500 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 1 1 2 0.7 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.7 TOTAL 13 1 73 5.6 4 12 .333 0 0 .000 2 6 .333 4 9 13 1.0 11 0 0 3 2 1 10 0.8

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS PTS: 2 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 PTS: 3 - vs. Butler 1/9/19 REB: 2 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 REB: 6 - vs. Butler 1/9/19 AST: AST: FGM: 1 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 FGM: 1, 4x - last vs. Wagner 11/5/19 FGA: 2 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 FGA: 2, 5x - last vs. Wagner 11/5/19 3FGM: 3FGM: 3FGA: 3FGA: FTM: FTM: 1, 2x - last vs. Butler 1/9/19 FTA: FTA: 4 - vs. Butler 1/9/19 BLK: BLK: 1, 2x - last vs. DePaul 1/19/19 STL: 1 - at Saint Louis 11/17/19 STL: 1 - at Saint Louis 11/17/19 TO: 1 - at Saint Louis 11/17/19 TO: 1, 3x - last at Saint Louis 11/17/19 MIN: 9 - vs. Wagner 11/5/19 MIN: 19 - vs. Butler 1/9/19

2019-20 GAME NOTES 21 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB ASIAH AVENT #30 • SENIOR • GUARD • 6-3 • 190 • SPRINGFIELD, N.J. • HARTFORD

>> In second season as a walk-on with the Pirates >> Father, Anthony Avent Sr., was a 1,000-point >> Received a Senior Night start in his last game at scorer at Seton Hall & a 1991 All-America Prudential Center honorable mention

CAREER STATISTICS 3-Point Rebounds Year GP GS MIN aVG FG FGA PCT FG FGA PCT FT FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT aVG PF FO aST TO BLK STL PTS aVG 18-19 3 0 6 2.0 0 2 .000 0 1 .000 0 0 .000 0 1 1 0.3 2 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 19-20 6 1 8 1.3 0 0 .000 0 0 .000 1 2 .500 0 0 0 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 TOTAL 9 1 14 1.6 0 2 .000 0 1 .000 1 2 .500 0 1 1 0.1 3 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.1

2019-20 SEASON HIGHLIGHTS SEASON HIGHS CAREER HIGHS PTS: 1 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 PTS: 1 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 REB: REB: 1 - at Villanova 1/27/19 AST: AST: FGM: FGM: FGA: FGA: 1, 2x - last at Villanova 1/27/19 3FGM: 3FGM: 3FGA: 3FGA: 1 - vs. New Hampshire 12/4/18 FTM: 1 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FTM: 1 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FTA: 2 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 FTA: 2 - vs. Prairie View A&M 12/22/19 BLK: BLK: STL: STL: TO: TO: MIN: 3, 2x - last vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19 MIN: 3, 3x - last vs. Florida A&M 11/23/19

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 22 2019-20 GAME NOTES 2019-20 Seton Hall Men's Basketball Page 1/1 Team Game-by-Game as of Mar 08, 2020 2019-20 TEAMAll games GAME-BY-GAME

Total 3-Pointers Free throws Rebounds Opponent Date Score FG-FGA PCT 3FG-FGA PCT FT-FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT AVG PF A TO BLK STL PTS AVG Wagner 11/05/2019 105-71 W 37-60 .617 9-24 .375 22-32 .688 6 30 36 36.0 25 20 10 5 14 105 105.0 Stony Brook 11/09/2019 74-57 W 28-64 .438 7-18 .389 11-16 .688 13 26 39 37.5 16 15 9 3 5 74 89.5 Michigan St. 11/14/2019 73-76 L 26-60 .433 11-28 .393 10-15 .667 9 28 37 37.3 15 14 17 6 9 73 84.0 at Saint Louis 11/17/2019 83-66 W 26-65 .400 10-29 .345 21-26 .808 14 32 46 39.5 26 18 10 5 6 83 83.8 Florida A&M 11/23/2019 87-51 W 28-63 .444 8-24 .333 23-31 .742 14 33 47 41.0 18 16 14 8 8 87 84.4 vs Oregon 11/27/2019 69-71 L 24-59 .407 14-27 .519 7-9 .778 9 19 28 38.8 24 14 13 8 3 69 81.8 vs Southern Miss. 11/28/2019 81-56 W 28-55 .509 10-25 .400 15-24 .625 13 28 41 39.1 11 13 12 6 8 81 81.7 vs Iowa St. 11/29/2019 84-76 W 34-63 .540 8-20 .400 8-12 .667 12 28 40 39.3 13 14 17 2 8 84 82.0 at Iowa St. 12/08/2019 66-76 L 25-68 .368 8-30 .267 8-12 .667 13 27 40 39.3 27 12 20 2 10 66 80.2 at Rutgers 12/14/2019 48-68 L 19-59 .322 8-27 .296 2-8 .250 7 22 29 38.3 17 9 14 7 10 48 77.0 Maryland 12/19/2019 52-48 W 19-51 .373 5-20 .250 9-15 .600 5 28 33 37.8 22 13 14 15 10 52 74.7 Prairie View 12/22/2019 75-55 W 26-56 .464 2-19 .105 21-29 .724 12 26 38 37.8 18 13 16 5 11 75 74.8 at DePaul 12/30/2019 74-66 W 23-50 .460 7-20 .350 21-30 .700 8 30 38 37.8 20 14 17 7 9 74 74.7 Georgetown 01/03/2020 78-62 W 25-54 .463 9-21 .429 19-24 .792 7 35 42 38.1 17 18 17 7 8 78 74.9 at Xavier 01/08/2020 83-71 W 31-58 .534 6-18 .333 15-19 .789 10 25 35 37.9 19 19 14 8 6 83 75.5 Marquette 01/11/2020 69-55 W 25-56 .446 5-21 .238 14-26 .538 9 32 41 38.1 11 13 6 3 6 69 75.1 at Butler 01/15/2020 78-70 W 24-58 .414 9-31 .290 21-25 .840 9 25 34 37.9 19 18 9 5 6 78 75.2 at St. John's (NY) 01/18/2020 82-79 W 27-61 .443 6-14 .429 22-27 .815 15 31 46 38.3 18 11 19 10 4 82 75.6 Providence 01/22/2020 73-64 W 26-45 .578 3-13 .231 18-25 .720 7 20 27 37.7 16 16 13 9 4 73 75.5 DePaul 01/29/2020 64-57 W 22-57 .386 6-27 .222 14-29 .483 14 29 43 38.0 23 12 18 9 8 64 74.9 Xavier 02/01/2020 62-74 L 22-60 .367 6-27 .222 12-18 .667 5 17 22 37.2 18 9 6 3 8 62 74.3 at Georgetown 02/05/2020 78-71 W 29-62 .468 9-27 .333 11-17 .647 13 31 44 37.5 21 17 12 11 5 78 74.5 at Villanova 02/08/2020 70-64 W 24-58 .414 9-21 .429 13-15 .867 11 32 43 37.8 17 10 14 7 5 70 74.3 Creighton 02/12/2020 82-87 L 29-69 .420 7-31 .226 17-20 .850 15 24 39 37.8 19 17 13 4 4 82 74.6 at Providence 02/15/2020 71-74 L 20-55 .364 9-28 .321 22-27 .815 11 24 35 37.7 28 10 15 4 7 71 74.4 Butler 02/19/2020 74-72 W 24-52 .462 6-16 .375 20-22 .909 9 23 32 37.5 15 13 12 3 3 74 74.4 St. John's (NY) 02/23/2020 81-65 W 27-56 .482 8-28 .286 19-23 .826 11 30 41 37.6 16 19 18 7 10 81 74.7 at Marquette 02/29/2020 88-79 W 32-60 .533 13-26 .500 11-15 .733 6 23 29 37.3 15 23 6 3 6 88 75.1 Villanova 03/04/2020 77-79 L 28-64 .438 12-29 .414 9-13 .692 10 23 33 37.2 17 16 7 1 6 77 75.2 at Creighton 03/07/2020 60-77 L 25-56 .446 8-22 .364 2-7 .286 12 23 35 37.1 16 11 14 1 3 60 74.7 Total 2241 783-1754 .446 238-711 .335 437-611 .715 309 804 1113 37.1 557 437 396 174 210 2241 74.7 Opponents 2037 717-1786 .401 197-616 .320 406-579 .701 351 748 1099 36.6 538 348 414 92 191 2037 67.9

Seton Hall Averages Games Points/ 3FG Rebounds/ Assists/ Turnovers/ Assist/Turnover Steals/ Blocks/ FG Pct FT Pct Played game Pct game game game ratio game game 30 74.7 44.6 33.5 71.5 37.1 14.6 13.2 1.1 7.0 5.8

2019-20 GAME NOTES 23 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 2019-20 Seton Hall Men's Basketball Page 1/1 Opponents Game-by-Game as of Mar 08, 2020 2019-20 OPPONENTAll games GAME-BY-GAME

Total 3-Pointers Free throws Rebounds Opponent Date Score FG-FGA PCT 3FG-FGA PCT FT-FTA PCT OFF DEF TOT AVG PF A TO BLK STL PTS AVG Wagner 11/05/2019 105-71 W 25-61 .410 5-23 .217 16-26 .615 13 24 37 37.0 26 12 21 0 4 71 71.0 Stony Brook 11/09/2019 74-57 W 18-51 .353 6-25 .240 15-20 .750 9 26 35 36.0 16 8 15 9 6 57 64.0 Michigan St. 11/14/2019 73-76 L 27-65 .415 12-27 .444 10-17 .588 14 26 40 37.3 14 15 14 3 11 76 68.0 at Saint Louis 11/17/2019 83-66 W 19-53 .358 5-14 .357 23-41 .561 11 27 38 37.5 18 10 11 5 6 66 67.5 Florida A&M 11/23/2019 87-51 W 17-58 .293 2-14 .143 15-23 .652 14 24 38 37.6 24 7 20 2 9 51 64.2 vs Oregon 11/27/2019 69-71 L 25-53 .472 5-15 .333 16-28 .571 15 24 39 37.8 12 10 13 3 5 71 65.3 vs Southern Miss. 11/28/2019 81-56 W 22-56 .393 8-16 .500 4-5 .800 6 18 24 35.9 18 11 15 2 5 56 64.0 vs Iowa St. 11/29/2019 84-76 W 29-64 .453 9-27 .333 9-12 .750 9 20 29 35.0 12 9 14 2 8 76 65.5 at Iowa St. 12/08/2019 66-76 L 23-60 .383 4-19 .211 26-33 .788 11 32 43 35.9 17 13 16 8 9 76 66.7 at Rutgers 12/14/2019 48-68 L 27-58 .466 8-19 .421 6-9 .667 11 35 46 36.9 13 19 19 8 9 68 66.8 Maryland 12/19/2019 52-48 W 14-52 .269 5-21 .238 15-20 .750 12 30 42 37.4 18 8 17 5 5 48 65.1 Prairie View 12/22/2019 75-55 W 22-56 .393 2-13 .154 9-15 .600 12 22 34 37.1 26 7 22 1 5 55 64.3 at DePaul 12/30/2019 74-66 W 22-64 .344 5-21 .238 17-20 .850 15 26 41 37.4 21 7 14 6 12 66 64.4 Georgetown 01/03/2020 78-62 W 25-70 .357 3-17 .176 9-16 .563 13 25 38 37.4 19 9 11 2 7 62 64.2 at Xavier 01/08/2020 83-71 W 24-54 .444 8-18 .444 15-18 .833 6 19 25 36.6 17 16 13 4 6 71 64.7 Marquette 01/11/2020 69-55 W 17-52 .327 10-30 .333 11-17 .647 6 28 34 36.4 19 7 14 2 3 55 64.1 at Butler 01/15/2020 78-70 W 24-57 .421 6-21 .286 16-19 .842 10 26 36 36.4 21 14 11 2 4 70 64.4 at St. John's (NY) 01/18/2020 82-79 W 33-75 .440 4-14 .286 9-15 .600 15 22 37 36.4 22 20 12 6 13 79 65.2 Providence 01/22/2020 73-64 W 23-64 .359 4-24 .167 14-16 .875 19 14 33 36.3 20 10 12 2 7 64 65.2 DePaul 01/29/2020 64-57 W 19-57 .333 4-15 .267 15-20 .750 12 27 39 36.4 24 6 19 1 8 57 64.8 Xavier 02/01/2020 62-74 L 30-55 .545 5-12 .417 9-20 .450 14 37 51 37.1 18 8 18 4 2 74 65.2 at Georgetown 02/05/2020 78-71 W 23-68 .338 4-21 .190 21-24 .875 17 24 41 37.3 16 13 10 0 3 71 65.5 at Villanova 02/08/2020 70-64 W 22-61 .361 9-27 .333 11-14 .786 7 25 32 37.0 18 15 7 1 5 64 65.4 Creighton 02/12/2020 82-87 L 29-63 .460 8-21 .381 21-25 .840 11 27 38 37.1 17 16 12 2 7 87 66.3 at Providence 02/15/2020 71-74 L 21-59 .356 7-17 .412 25-35 .714 20 27 47 37.5 21 9 15 2 6 74 66.6 Butler 02/19/2020 74-72 W 27-55 .491 7-21 .333 11-15 .733 6 19 25 37.0 16 15 11 2 7 72 66.8 St. John's (NY) 02/23/2020 81-65 W 24-71 .338 5-20 .250 12-13 .923 17 22 39 37.1 18 9 14 1 7 65 66.7 at Marquette 02/29/2020 88-79 W 29-67 .433 10-26 .385 11-16 .688 16 26 42 37.3 14 13 9 3 3 79 67.2 Villanova 03/04/2020 77-79 L 28-54 .519 13-32 .406 10-18 .556 7 25 32 37.1 13 14 10 0 3 79 67.6 at Creighton 03/07/2020 60-77 L 29-53 .547 14-26 .538 5-9 .556 3 21 24 36.6 10 18 5 4 6 77 67.9 Total 2037 717-1786 .401 197-616 .320 406-579 .701 351 748 1099 36.6 538 348 414 92 191 2037 67.9 Seton Hall 2241 783-1754 .446 238-711 .335 437-611 .715 309 804 1113 37.1 557 437 396 174 210 2241 74.7

Opponents Averages Games Points/ 3FG Rebounds/ Assists/ Turnovers/ Assist/Turnover Steals/ Blocks/ FG Pct FT Pct Played game Pct game game game ratio game game 30 67.9 40.1 32.0 70.1 36.6 11.6 13.8 0.8 6.4 3.1

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 24 2019-20 GAME NOTES 2019-20 Seton Hall Men's Basketball Page 1/1 Combined Team Statistics 2019-20 CONFERENCE ONLY STATSas of Mar 07, 2020 In Conference games

Game Records Score by Periods Record Overall Home Away Neutral Team 1st 2nd OT TOT ALL GAMES 13-5 6-3 7-2 0-0 CONFERENCE 13-5 6-3 7-2 0-0 Seton Hall 604 740 0 1344 NON-CONFERENCE 0-0 0-0 0-0 0-0 Opponents 610 656 0 1266

Team Box Score Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds No. Player GP-GS MIN AVG FG-FGA FG% 3FG-FGA 3FG% FT-FTA FT% OFF DEF TOT AVG PF DQ A TO BLK STL PTS AVG 13 POWELL, Myles 18-18 606:47 33.7 126-321 .393 44-166 .265 81-101 .802 17 60 77 4.3 43 1 61 53 2 25 377 20.9 23 MAMUKELASHVILI, Sandro 11-9 291:06 26.5 57-100 .570 13-30 .433 13-18 .722 24 53 77 7.0 29 1 12 11 5 5 140 12.7 00 MCKNIGHT, Quincy 18-18 596:58 33.2 65-166 .392 24-65 .369 64-77 .831 11 56 67 3.7 43 0 114 46 2 25 218 12.1 14 RHODEN, Jared 18-12 483:35 26.9 62-124 .500 25-56 .446 29-47 .617 22 95 117 6.5 38 1 20 15 7 17 178 9.9 35 GILL, Romaro 18-18 496:38 27.6 66-104 .635 0-0 .000 40-59 .678 35 73 108 6.0 55 2 3 20 61 2 172 9.6 22 CALE, Myles 18-13 415:31 23.1 37-94 .394 14-48 .292 13-17 .765 15 45 60 3.3 30 0 12 18 1 17 101 5.6 33 REYNOLDS, Shavar 18-0 279:08 15.5 18-43 .419 13-25 .520 20-24 .833 7 17 24 1.3 32 1 19 11 1 13 69 3.8 4 SAMUEL, Tyrese 17-1 157:09 9.2 13-39 .333 5-22 .227 6-15 .400 12 26 38 2.2 20 0 6 10 5 2 37 2.2 21 OBIAGU, Ike 18-0 161:51 9.0 11-15 .733 0-0 .000 13-22 .591 16 18 34 1.9 24 0 1 17 18 0 35 1.9 02 NELSON, Anthony 15-0 111:12 7.4 8-25 .320 0-8 .000 1-2 .500 1 7 8 0.5 11 0 18 19 0 2 17 1.1 30 AVENT, Asiah 1-1 00:05 0.1 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 0 0 0 0.0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.0 Team 22 27 49 10 Total 18 3600 463-1031 .449 138-420 .329 280-382 .733 182 477 659 36.6 325 6 266 230 102 108 1344 74.7 Opponents 18 3600 449-1099 .409 126-383 .329 242-330 .733 214 440 654 36.3 324 10 219 217 44 109 1266 70.3

Team Statistics Team Results SHU OPP Date Opponent Score Att. Scoring 1344 1266 12/30/2019 at DePaul W 74-66 6364 Points per game 74.7 70.3 01/03/2020 Georgetown W 78-62 10481 Scoring margin +4.3 - 01/08/2020 at Xavier W 83-71 9832 Field goals-att 463-1031 449-1099 01/11/2020 Marquette W 69-55 12707 Field goal pct .449 .409 01/15/2020 at Butler W 78-70 8823 3 point fg-att 138-420 126-383 01/18/2020 at St. John's (NY) W 82-79 10428 3-point FG pct .329 .329 01/22/2020 Providence W 73-64 9267 3-pt FG made per game 7.7 7.0 01/29/2020 DePaul W 64-57 9302 Free throws-att 280-382 242-330 02/01/2020 Xavier L 62-74 12230 Free throw pct .733 .733 02/05/2020 at Georgetown W 78-71 7032 F-Throws made per game 15.6 13.4 02/08/2020 at Villanova W 70-64 20706 Rebounds 659 654 02/12/2020 Creighton L 82-87 9736 Rebounds per game 36.6 36.3 02/15/2020 at Providence L 71-74 13255 Rebounding margin +0.3 - 02/19/2020 Butler W 74-72 10481 Assists 266 219 02/23/2020 St. John's (NY) W 81-65 14648 02/29/2020 at Marquette W 88-79 17538 Assists per game 14.8 12.2 03/04/2020 Villanova L 77-79 16863 Turnovers 230 217 03/07/2020 at Creighton L 60-77 18519 Turnovers per game 12.8 12.1 Turnover margin -0.7 - Assist/turnover ratio 1.2 1.0 Steals 108 109 Steals per game 6.0 6.1 Blocks 102 44 Blocks per game 5.7 2.4 Winning streak 0 - Home win streak 0 - Attendance 105715 112497 Home games-Avg/Game 9-11746 9-12500 Neutral site-Avg/Game - 0-0

2019-20 GAME NOTES 25 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 2019-20 Seton Hall Men's Basketball Page 1/1 Combined Team Statistics 2019-20 OVERALL STATS as of Mar 07, 2020 All games

Game Records Score by Periods Record Overall Home Away Neutral Team 1st 2nd OT TOT ALL GAMES 21-9 11-4 8-4 2-1 CONFERENCE 13-5 6-3 7-2 0-0 Seton Hall 1000 1241 0 2241 NON-CONFERENCE 8-4 5-1 1-2 2-1 Opponents 968 1069 0 2037

Team Box Score Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds No. Player GP-GS MIN AVG FG-FGA FG% 3FG-FGA 3FG% FT-FTA FT% OFF DEF TOT AVG PF DQ A TO BLK STL PTS AVG 13 POWELL, Myles 28-28 879:45 31.4 195-490 .398 79-258 .306 120-151 .795 26 95 121 4.3 60 2 81 78 5 34 589 21.0 23 MAMUKELASHVILI, Sandro 20-18 520:07 26.0 95-176 .540 23-53 .434 25-38 .658 41 78 119 6.0 48 1 27 28 12 10 238 11.9 00 MCKNIGHT, Quincy 30-30 920:21 30.7 109-263 .414 36-104 .346 102-120 .850 13 87 100 3.3 63 0 161 68 5 45 356 11.9 14 RHODEN, Jared 30-15 773:49 25.8 98-222 .441 33-98 .337 43-69 .623 44 149 193 6.4 70 2 34 31 8 36 272 9.1 35 GILL, Romaro 30-26 735:27 24.5 91-145 .628 0-0 .000 52-77 .675 53 116 169 5.6 85 3 4 33 95 8 234 7.8 22 CALE, Myles 30-25 690:13 23.0 67-173 .387 25-88 .284 21-36 .583 24 88 112 3.7 52 0 26 32 3 31 180 6.0 33 REYNOLDS, Shavar 30-0 476:12 15.9 40-93 .430 22-46 .478 24-29 .828 14 39 53 1.8 54 2 30 22 1 24 126 4.2 15 THOMPSON, Taurean 1-0 03:52 3.9 1-1 1.000 0-0 .000 2-3 .667 0 1 1 1.0 0 0 1 1 0 0 4 4.0 4 SAMUEL, Tyrese 29-1 322:43 11.1 33-88 .375 16-49 .327 11-25 .440 26 51 77 2.7 36 0 11 20 9 4 93 3.2 02 NELSON, Anthony 27-2 335:27 12.4 28-64 .438 4-15 .267 14-23 .609 3 21 24 0.9 31 0 61 38 0 13 74 2.7 21 OBIAGU, Ike 30-4 316:31 10.6 25-37 .676 0-0 .000 22-38 .579 25 35 60 2.0 55 1 1 30 36 4 72 2.4 32 BRODIE, Darnell 3-0 16:51 5.6 1-2 .500 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1 1 2 0.7 2 0 0 1 0 1 2 0.7 30 AVENT, Asiah 6-1 08:43 1.5 0-0 .000 0-0 .000 1-2 .500 0 0 0 0.0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0.2 Team 39 43 82 14 Total 30 6000 783-1754 .446 238-711 .335 437-611 .715 309 804 1113 37.1 557 11 437 396 174 210 2241 74.7 Opponents 30 6000 717-1786 .401 197-616 .320 406-579 .701 351 748 1099 36.6 538 14 348 414 92 191 2037 67.9

Team Statistics Team Results SHU OPP Date Opponent Score Att. Scoring 2241 2037 11/05/2019 Wagner W 105-71 1655 Points per game 74.7 67.9 11/09/2019 Stony Brook W 74-57 1655 Scoring margin +6.8 - 11/14/2019 Michigan St. L 73-76 14051 Field goals-att 783-1754 717-1786 11/17/2019 at Saint Louis W 83-66 9611 Field goal pct .446 .401 11/23/2019 Florida A&M W 87-51 9656 3 point fg-att 238-711 197-616 11/27/2019 vs Oregon L 69-71 1565 3-point FG pct .335 .320 11/28/2019 vs Southern Miss. W 81-56 1204 3-pt FG made per game 7.9 6.6 11/29/2019 vs Iowa St. W 84-76 2650 Free throws-att 437-611 406-579 12/08/2019 at Iowa St. L 66-76 14269 Free throw pct .715 .701 12/14/2019 at Rutgers L 48-68 8329 F-Throws made per game 14.6 13.5 12/19/2019 Maryland W 52-48 13313 Rebounds 1113 1099 12/22/2019 Prairie View W 75-55 8879 Rebounds per game 37.1 36.6 12/30/2019 at DePaul W 74-66 6364 Rebounding margin +0.5 - 01/03/2020 Georgetown W 78-62 10481 Assists 437 348 01/08/2020 at Xavier W 83-71 9832 01/11/2020 Marquette W 69-55 12707 Assists per game 14.6 11.6 01/15/2020 at Butler W 78-70 8823 Turnovers 396 414 01/18/2020 at St. John's (NY) W 82-79 10428 Turnovers per game 13.2 13.8 01/22/2020 Providence W 73-64 9267 Turnover margin +0.6 - 01/29/2020 DePaul W 64-57 9302 Assist/turnover ratio 1.1 0.8 02/01/2020 Xavier L 62-74 12230 Steals 210 191 02/05/2020 at Georgetown W 78-71 7032 Steals per game 7.0 6.4 02/08/2020 at Villanova W 70-64 20706 Blocks 174 92 02/12/2020 Creighton L 82-87 9736 Blocks per game 5.8 3.1 02/15/2020 at Providence L 71-74 13255 Winning streak 0 - 02/19/2020 Butler W 74-72 10481 Home win streak 0 - 02/23/2020 St. John's (NY) W 81-65 14648 Attendance 154924 144706 02/29/2020 at Marquette W 88-79 17538 Home games-Avg/Game 15-10328 12-12059 03/04/2020 Villanova L 77-79 16863 Neutral site-Avg/Game - 3-1806 03/07/2020 at Creighton L 60-77 18519

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 26 2019-20 GAME NOTES JANUARY 11 VS. MARQUETTE

Official Basketball Box Score - Final Game Time: 9:00 PM Marquette at Seton Hall Game Duration: 2:00 Attendance: 12,707 01/11/20 Prudential Center, Newark 2019-20 Seton Hall Men's Basketball Officials: Michael Stephens, Matt Potter, Earl Walton Marquette - 55 Record: 11-5 (1-3) FG 3P FT Rebounds Fouls Blocks Shooting By Period TP AS TO ST +/- NO. Name Min M-A M-A M-A OR DR TOT PF FD BS BA 1st FG% 12-26 46.2% 1 Brendan Bailey F 32:51 1-9 1-8 1-3 2 9 11 3 1 4 0 2 1 1 0 -17 3PT% 7-13 53.8% 4 Theo John F 13:47 0-3 0-0 0-0 1 2 3 5 0 0 1 0 0 0 1 -2 FT% 6-9 66.7% 0 Markus Howard G 37:42 8-22 4-11 7-8 0 5 5 1 4 27 1 3 0 0 2 -18 2nd FG% 5-26 19.2% 2 Sacar Anim G 37:03 2-9 2-5 3-4 1 3 4 3 2 9 1 1 1 0 0 -8 3PT% 3-17 17.6% 25 Koby McEwen G 35:33 3-6 2-5 0-2 0 1 1 3 2 8 3 3 1 0 0 -8 FT% 5-8 62.5% 23 Jamal Cain 08:39 0-0 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 1 GM FG% 17-52 32.7% 34 Jayce Johnson 20:54 1-1 0-0 0-0 2 6 8 2 1 2 0 3 0 1 0 -2 3PT% 10-30 33.3% 10 Symir Torrence 08:12 1-1 1-1 0-0 0 1 1 1 0 3 1 2 0 0 0 -6 FT% 11-17 64.7% 30 Ed Morrow 05:19 1-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 2 0 0 0 0 0 -10 Dead Ball Rebounds: 3, 0 Team 0 1 1 0 0 Totals 17-52 10-30 11-17 6 28 34 19 11 55 7 14 3 2 3 -14 Technical Fouls::NONE Seton Hall - 69 Record: 12-4 (4-0) FG 3P FT Rebounds Fouls Blocks Shooting By Period TP AS TO ST +/- NO. Name Min M-A M-A M-A OR DR TOT PF FD BS BA 1st FG% 15-28 53.6% 14 Jared Rhoden F 27:40 2-6 1-2 0-0 1 5 6 2 2 5 0 0 1 0 1 8 3PT% 4-11 36.4% 35 Romaro Gill C 25:11 3-4 0-0 4-8 2 4 6 0 6 10 0 0 0 0 0 6 FT% 6-12 50% 0 Quincy McKnight G 32:13 2-8 0-3 0-0 0 4 4 1 1 4 6 1 1 0 0 9 2nd FG% 10-28 35.7% 13 Myles Powell G 35:00 8-22 2-11 5-6 1 6 7 3 3 23 2 1 3 1 1 15 3PT% 1-10 10.0% 22 Myles Cale G 22:35 1-3 0-1 0-0 0 2 2 2 0 2 1 1 0 0 0 -9 FT% 8-14 57.1% 4 Tyrese Samuel 12:20 3-3 1-1 1-3 1 4 5 1 2 8 0 0 1 1 0 6 GM FG% 25-56 44.6% 21 Ike Obiagu 14:49 2-3 0-0 2-5 2 2 4 0 3 6 0 0 0 1 0 8 3PT% 5-21 23.8% 2 Anthony Nelson 11:50 3-4 0-1 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 6 2 2 0 0 0 6 FT% 14-26 53.8% 33 Shavar Reynolds 18:22 1-3 1-2 2-4 2 1 3 2 2 5 2 0 0 0 0 21 Dead Ball Rebounds: 6, 0 Team 0 4 4 0 1 Totals 25-56 5-21 14-26 9 32 41 11 19 69 13 6 6 3 2 14 Technical Fouls::NONE MAR SHU Points from MAR SHU Period by Period Scoring Biggest lead 11 (1st 9:57) 14 (2nd 0:27) Turnovers 7 21 1st 2nd TOT Best Scoring Run 7(2nd 14:17) 11(2nd 10:45) Paint 10 32 MAR 37 18 55 Lead Changes 6 Second Chance 5 10 Times Tied 5 Fast Breaks 6 12 SHU 40 29 69 Time with Lead 13:09 22:59 Bench 7 25

2019-20 GAME NOTES 27 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB FEBURARY 29 AT MARQUETTE

Official Basketball Box Score - Final Game Time: 1:30 PM Seton Hall at Marquette Game Duration: 2:00 Attendance: 17,538 02/29/20 Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee 2019-20 Men's Basketball Officials: Pat Driscoll, Kipp Kissinger, Tony Chiazza Seton Hall - 88 Record: 21-7 (13-3) FG 3P FT Rebounds Fouls Blocks Shooting By Period TP AS TO ST +/- NO. Name Min M-A M-A M-A OR DR TOT PF FD BS BA 1st FG% 18-30 60.0% 23 Sandro Mamukelashvili F 34:07 10-13 3-3 3-3 1 8 9 2 4 26 3 2 0 0 0 7 3PT% 7-12 58.3% 35 Romaro Gill C 22:14 3-5 0-0 1-3 3 3 6 4 2 7 0 0 0 1 1 4 FT% 1-1 100% 0 Quincy McKnight G 34:12 2-8 1-3 0-0 0 2 2 2 2 5 8 0 1 0 1 7 2nd FG% 14-30 46.7% 13 Myles Powell G 33:03 9-22 5-13 5-6 1 0 1 1 4 28 5 3 2 0 0 1 3PT% 6-14 42.9% 22 Myles Cale G 22:23 1-3 1-3 0-0 0 3 3 0 0 3 1 0 1 0 0 13 FT% 10-14 71.4% 14 Jared Rhoden 22:37 3-5 3-4 0-0 0 4 4 1 0 9 3 1 1 0 1 7 GM FG% 32-60 53.3% 33 Shavar Reynolds 14:13 2-2 0-0 2-3 0 1 1 2 2 6 3 0 1 0 0 5 3PT% 13-26 50.0% 21 Ike Obiagu 17:11 2-2 0-0 0-0 0 1 1 3 0 4 0 0 0 2 0 1 FT% 11-15 73.3% Team 1 1 2 0 0 Dead Ball Rebounds: 0, 0 Totals 32-60 13-26 11-15 6 23 29 15 14 88 23 6 6 3 3 9 Technical Fouls::NONE Marquette - 79 Record: 18-10 (8-8) FG 3P FT Rebounds Fouls Blocks Shooting By Period TP AS TO ST +/- NO. Name Min M-A M-A M-A OR DR TOT PF FD BS BA 1st FG% 14-32 43.8% 1 Brendan Bailey F 28:40 2-8 1-5 0-0 1 6 7 1 0 5 2 0 1 1 1 1 3PT% 3-10 30.0% 34 Jayce Johnson C 24:39 2-6 0-0 0-0 6 6 12 1 2 4 0 0 0 1 1 -3 FT% 4-5 80% 0 Markus Howard G 30:16 12-20 6-9 7-8 0 0 0 3 6 37 4 6 0 0 1 -5 2nd FG% 15-35 42.9% 2 Sacar Anim G 36:31 5-15 2-5 1-2 3 2 5 2 1 13 1 1 1 0 0 -4 3PT% 7-16 43.8% 25 Koby McEwen G 16:12 0-4 0-3 2-2 0 3 3 2 2 2 2 2 0 0 0 -17 FT% 7-11 63.6% 4 Theo John 22:16 4-6 0-0 0-2 3 7 10 2 2 8 2 0 0 1 0 -6 GM FG% 29-67 43.3% 23 Jamal Cain 21:04 1-3 0-2 1-2 1 2 3 3 1 3 1 0 1 0 0 -3 3PT% 10-26 38.5% 10 Symir Torrence 05:35 0-1 0-0 0-0 0 0 0 0 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 -9 FT% 11-16 68.8% 5 Greg Elliott 14:47 3-4 1-2 0-0 0 0 0 0 0 7 0 0 0 0 0 1 Dead Ball Rebounds: 4, 0 Team 2 0 2 0 0 Totals 29-67 10-26 11-16 16 26 42 14 15 79 13 9 3 3 3 -9 Technical Fouls::NONE SHU MAR Points from SHU MAR Period by Period Scoring Biggest lead 24 (2nd 11:02) 1 (1st 19:14) Turnovers 11 10 1st 2nd TOT Best Scoring Run 10(1st 13:30) 11(2nd 0:34) Paint 30 32 SHU 44 44 88 Lead Changes 4 Second Chance 7 12 Times Tied 1 Fast Breaks 20 21 MAR 35 44 79 Time with Lead 36:50 01:51 Bench 19 18

#HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 28 2019-20 GAME NOTES Individual Career History CAREERvs Marquette VS. MARQUETTE

CALE, Myles

Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg 2017-1 2-0 21/10.5 2-3 . 6 6 7 1-1 1.00 1-2 . 5 0 0 0 1 1 0.5 3 0 2 1 0 1 6 3.0 2018-1 3-3 93/31.0 7-22 . 3 1 8 1-10 . 1 0 0 3-6 . 5 0 0 4 14 18 6.0 6 0 1 8 1 4 18 6.0 2019-2 2-2 44/22.0 2-6 . 3 3 3 1-4 . 2 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 5 5 2.5 2 0 2 1 0 1 5 2.5 TOTAL 7-5 158/22.6 11-31 . 3 5 5 3-15 . 2 0 0 4-8 . 5 0 0 4 20 24 3.4 11 0 5 10 1 6 29 4.1

GILL, Romaro

Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg 2018-1 2-0 44/22.0 6-8 . 7 5 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 1-4 . 2 5 0 3 7 10 5.0 9 1 0 1 4 1 13 6.5 2019-2 2-2 47/23.5 6-9 . 6 6 7 0-0 . 0 0 0 5-11 . 4 5 5 5 7 12 6.0 4 0 0 0 1 0 17 8.5 TOTAL 4-2 91/22.8 12-17 . 7 0 6 0-0 . 0 0 0 6-15 . 4 0 0 8 14 22 5.5 13 1 0 1 5 1 30 7.5

MAMUKELASHVILI, S.

Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg 2017-1 2-0 10/5.0 0-2 . 0 0 0 0-2 . 0 0 0 0-0 . 0 0 0 2 1 3 1.5 1 0 1 0 0 0 0 0.0 2018-1 3-3 82/27.3 7-22 . 3 1 8 4-8 . 5 0 0 5-8 . 6 2 5 4 9 13 4.3 6 1 4 2 6 3 23 7.7 2019-2 1-1 35/35.0 10-13 . 7 6 9 3-3 1.00 3-3 1.00 1 8 9 9.0 2 0 3 2 0 0 26 26.0 TOTAL 6-4 127/21.2 17-37 . 4 5 9 7-13 . 5 3 8 8-11 . 7 2 7 7 18 25 4.2 9 1 8 4 6 3 49 8.2

McKNIGHT, Quincy

Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg 2018-1 3-3 103/34.3 14-31 . 4 5 2 0-5 . 0 0 0 8-16 . 5 0 0 4 6 10 3.3 10 1 17 7 1 5 36 12.0 2019-2 2-2 66/33.0 4-16 . 2 5 0 1-6 . 1 6 7 0-0 . 0 0 0 0 6 6 3.0 3 0 14 1 0 2 9 4.5 TOTAL 5-5 169/33.8 18-47 . 3 8 3 1-11 . 0 9 1 8-16 . 5 0 0 4 12 16 3.2 13 1 31 8 1 7 45 9.0

POWELL, Myles

Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg 2016-1 3-0 54/18.0 8-23 . 3 4 8 6-16 . 3 7 5 8-8 1.00 1 7 8 2.7 9 0 1 2 0 2 30 10.0 2017-1 2-2 64/32.0 9-19 . 4 7 4 6-13 . 4 6 2 2-3 . 6 6 7 1 3 4 2.0 7 0 4 3 1 1 26 13.0 2018-1 3-3 111/37.0 26-60 . 4 3 3 12-30 . 4 0 0 13-17 . 7 6 5 3 13 16 5.3 9 0 15 9 0 3 77 25.7 2019-2 2-2 68/34.0 17-44 . 3 8 6 7-24 . 2 9 2 10-12 . 8 3 3 2 6 8 4.0 4 0 7 4 1 5 51 25.5 TOTAL 10-7 297/29.7 60-146 . 4 1 1 31-83 . 3 7 3 33-40 . 8 2 5 7 29 36 3.6 29 0 27 18 2 11 184 18.4

RHODEN, Jared

Total 3-Point F-Throws Rebounds Scoring Season gp-gs min/avg fg-fga pct fg-fga pct ft-fta pct off def tot avg pf fo ast to blk stl pts avg 2018-1 3-0 46/15.3 2-12 . 1 6 7 0-6 . 0 0 0 4-7 . 5 7 1 3 7 10 3.3 6 0 2 1 1 2 8 2.7 2019-2 2-1 51/25.5 5-11 . 4 5 5 4-6 . 6 6 7 0-0 . 0 0 0 1 9 10 5.0 3 0 3 1 0 2 14 7.0 TOTAL 5-1 97/19.4 7-23 . 3 0 4 4-12 . 3 3 3 4-7 . 5 7 1 4 16 20 4.0 9 0 5 2 1 4 22 4.4

2019-20 GAME NOTES 29 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB SETON HALL’S BIG EAST TOURNEY HISTORY

Date Round Result Date Round Result at Providence Civic Center (Providence, R.I.) 03/08/00 First Round [5] Seton Hall 85, [12] Providence 65 02/28/80 Quarterfinals [3] Georgetown 60, [6] Seton Hall 47 03/09/00 Quarterfinals [4] Connecticut 79, [5] Seton Hall 64 at Carrier Dome (Syracuse, N.Y.) 03/07/01 First Round [W6] Seton Hall 78, [E3] St. John’s 66 03/05/81 Quarterfinals [2] Georgetown 58, [7] Seton Hall 52 03/08/01 Quarterfinals [W6] Seton Hall 58, [W2] Georgetown 40 at Hartford Civic Center (Hartford, Conn.) 03/09/01 Semifinals [E1] Boston College 75, [W6] Seton Hall 48 03/04/82 Quarterfinals [1] Villanova 88, [8] Seton Hall 73 03/06/02 First Round [E3] St. John’s 64, [W6] Seton Hall 58 at Madison Square Garden (New York, N.Y.) 03/12/03 First Round [W3] Seton Hall 67, [E6] Miami (FL) 52 03/09/83 First Round [9] Seton Hall 73, [8] Providence 64 03/13/03 Quarterfinals [E1] Connecticut 83, [W3] Seton Hall 70 03/10/83 Quarterfinals [1] Boston College 79, [9] Seton Hall 56 03/10/04 First Round [11] Villanova 61, [6] Seton Hall 60 03/07/84 First Round [8] Providence 59, [9] Seton Hall 55 03/09/05 First Round [7] Georgetown 56, [10] Seton Hall 51 03/06/85 First Round [8] Providence 77, [9] Seton Hall 75 (OT) 03/08/06 First Round [10] Rutgers 61, [7] Seton Hall 48 03/05/86 First Round [9] Seton Hall 76, [8] Connecticut 66 03/12/08 First Round [6] Marquette 67, [11] Seton Hall 54 03/06/86 Quarterfinals [1] St. John’s 87, [9] Seton Hall 68 03/10/09 First Round [11] Seton Hall 68, [14] USF 54 03/06/87 Quarterfinals [2] Pittsburgh 96, [7] Seton Hall 88 03/11/09 Second Round [6] Syracuse 89, [11] Seton Hall 74 03/11/88 Quarterfinals [6] Seton Hall 61, [3] Georgetown 58 03/09/10 First Round [10] Seton Hall 109, [15] Providence 106 03/12/88 Semifinals [2] Syracuse 68, [6] Seton Hall 63 03/10/10 Second Round [7] Notre Dame 68, [10] Seton Hall 56 03/10/89 Quarterfinals [2] Seton Hall 74, [7] Connecticut 66 03/08/11 First Round [13] Rutgers 76, [12] Seton Hall 70 (OT) 03/11/89 Semifinals [3] Syracuse 81, [2] Seton Hall 78 03/06/12 First Round [10] Seton Hall 79, [15] Providence 47 03/09/90 Quarterfinals [2] Connecticut 76, [7] Seton Hall 58 03/07/12 Second Round [7] Louisville 61, [10] Seton Hall 55 03/08/91 Quarterfinals [4] Seton Hall 70, [5] Pittsburgh 69 03/12/13 First Round [12] Seton Hall 46, [13] USF 42 (OT) 03/09/91 Semifinals [4] Seton Hall 74, [8] Villanova 72 03/13/13 Second Round [5] Syracuse 75, [12] Seton Hall 63 03/10/91 Final [4] Seton Hall 74, [2] Georgetown 62 03/12/14 First Round [8] Seton Hall 51, [9] Butler 50 03/13/92 Quarterfinals [1] Seton Hall 62, [8] Boston College 60 03/13/14 Quarterfinals [8] Seton Hall 64, [1] Villanova 63 03/14/92 Semifinals [5] Syracuse 70, [1] Seton Hall 66 03/14/14 Semifinals [4] Providence 80, [8] Seton Hall 74 03/12/93 Quarterfinals [1] Seton Hall 83, [8] Georgetown 69 03/11/15 First Round [9] Marquette 78, [8] Seton Hall 56 03/13/93 Semifinals [1] Seton Hall 69, [5] Providence 60 03/10/16 Quarterfinals [3] Seton Hall 81, [6] Creighton 73 03/14/93 Final [1] Seton Hall 103, [3] Syracuse 70 03/11/16 Semifinals [3] Seton Hall 87, [2] Xavier 83 03/10/94 First Round [7] Seton Hall 69, [10] Miami (FL) 51 03/12/16 Final [3] Seton Hall 69, [1] Villanova 67 03/11/94 Quarterfinals [7] Seton Hall 81, [2] Syracuse 80 (OT) 03/09/17 Quarterfinals [5] Seton Hall 82, [4] Marquette 76 03/12/94 Semifinals [6] Georgetown 76, [7] Seton Hall 71 (OT) 03/10/17 Semifinals [1] Villanova 55, [5] Seton Hall 53 03/09/95 First Round [10] Boston College 89, [7] Seton Hall 87 (OT) 03/08/18 Quarterfinals [6] Butler 75, [3] Seton Hall 74 03/06/96 First Round [9] Seton Hall 80, [8] West Virginia 78 03/14/19 Quarterfinals [3] Seton Hall 73, [6] Georgetown 57 03/07/96 Quarterfinals [1] Connecticut 79, [9] Seton Hall 58 03/15/19 Semifinals [3] Seton Hall 81, [2] Marquette 79 03/05/97 First Round [5] West Virginia 77, [12] Seton Hall 57 03/16/19 Final [1] Villanova 74, [3] Seton Hall 72 03/04/98 First Round [11] Boston College 97, [6] Seton Hall 87 (OT) 03/03/99 First Round [8] Seton Hall 79, [9] Notre Dame 69 ALL-TIME SETON HALL BIG EAST CHAMPIONSHIP RECORD: 31-36 (.463) 03/04/99 Quarterfinals [1] Connecticut 57, [8] Seton Hall 56

SHU TOURNAMENT RECORD AGAINST: SHU TOURNAMENT RECORD AS A: SHU TOURNAMENT RECORD AGAINST: PIRATES ON ALL-TOURNAMENT TEAMS Boston College...... 1-4 No. 1 seed...... 4-1 No. 1 seed...... 2-6 1988 Ramon Ramos Butler...... 1-1 No. 2 seed...... 1-1 No. 2 seed...... 4-4 1989 Ramon Ramos, Cincinnati...... 0-0 No. 3 seed...... 5-2 No. 3 seed...... 2-3 1991 Oliver Taylor, Anthony Avent Connecticut...... 2-5 No. 4 seed...... 3-0 No. 4 seed...... 1-2 1992 Terry Dehere Creighton...... 1-0 No. 5 seed...... 2-2 No. 5 seed...... 2-3 1993 Terry Dehere, Arturas Karnisovas, DePaul...... 0-0 No. 6 seed...... 1-4 No. 6 seed...... 2-4 Jerry Walker 2001 Eddie Griffin Georgetown...... 5-4 No. 7 seed...... 2-6 No. 7 seed...... 1-3 2014 Eugene Teague Louisville...... 0-1 No. 8 seed...... 3-4 No. 8 seed...... 6-2 2016 Khadeen Carrington, Ismael Sanogo Marquette...... 2-2 No. 9 seed...... 3-5 No. 9 seed...... 2-1 Isaiah Whitehead Miami (FL)...... 2-0 No. 10 seed...... 2-3 No. 10 seed...... 1-2 2017 Angel Delgado Notre Dame...... 1-1 No. 11 seed...... 1-2 No. 11 seed...... 0-2 2019 Myles Powell, Quincy McKnight Pittsburgh...... 1-1 No. 12 seed...... 1-3 No. 12 seed...... 1-0 Providence...... 5-3 No. 13 seed...... 0-0 No. 13 seed...... 1-1 DAVE GAVITT TROPHY RECEIPENTS (MVP) Rutgers...... 0-2 No. 14 seed...... 0-0 No. 14 seed...... 1-0 1991 Oliver Taylor St. John’s...... 1-2 No. 15 seed...... 0-0 No. 15 seed...... 2-0 1993 Terry Dehere Syracuse...... 2-5 No. 16 seed...... 0-0 No. 16 seed...... 0-0 2016 Isaiah Whitehead USF...... 2-0 Villanova...... 3-4 West No. 3 seed...... 1-1 East No. 1 seed...... 0-2 West Virginia...... 1-1 West No. 6 seed...... 2-2 East No. 3 seed...... 1-1 Xavier...... 1-0 East No. 6 seed...... 1-0 Higher seed...... 18-9 West No. 2 seed...... 1-0 Lower seed...... 13-27 SHU TOURNAMENT RECORD IN . . . First Round Games...... 13-12 Second Round Games...... 0-4 Quarterfinal Games...... 11-12 Semifinal Games...... 4-7 Championship Games...... 3-1

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SETON HALL SINGLE-GAME RECORDS OPPONENT SINGLE-GAME RECORDS SETON HALL CAREER RECORDS SETON HALL TEAM SINGLE-GAME RECORDS

POINTS POINTS POINTS POINTS 1. 34 John Leahy vs. Boston College, 3/9/95 1. 38 Danya Abrams, Boston College, 3/9/95 1. 164 Terry Dehere (9 games) 1. 109 vs. Providence, 3/9/10 2. 32 Andre McCloud vs. Providence, 3/6/85 38 Jamine Peterson, Providence, 3/9/10 2. 147 Arturas Karnisovas (11 games) 2. 103 vs. Syracuse, 3/14/93 32 vs. Georgetown, 2/28/80 3. 35 Cole Huff, Creighton, 3/10/16 3. 120 Jeremy Hazell (6 games) 3. 88 vs. Pittsburgh, 3/6/87 4. 31 Myles Powell vs. Georgetown, 3/14/19 4. 32 Kamar Baldwin, Butler, 3/8/18 4. 115 Myles Powell (6 games) 4. 87 vs. Xavier, 3/11/16 28 Donald Copeland vs. Rutgers, 3/8/06 5. 30 , Syracuse, 3/11/94 5. 111 Khadeen Carrington (7 games) 87 vs. Boston College, 3/4/98 28 Terry Dehere vs. Providence, 3/13/93 30 Khalid El-Amin, Connecticut, 3/9/00 6. 103 John Morton (7 games) 87 vs. Boston College, 3/9/95 7. 27 Khadeen Carrington vs. Creighton, 3/10/16 7. 28 Antonio Granger, Boston College, 3/4/98 7. 102 Andre McCloud (6 games) 7. 85 vs. Providence, 3/8/00 27 Jeremy Hazell vs. Rutgers, 3/8/11 28 , Notre Dame, 3/3/99 8. 93 (9 games) 8. 83 vs. Georgetown, 3/12/93 27 Herb Pope vs. Providence, 3/9/10 9. 27 Sherman Douglas, Syracuse, 3/11/89 9. 92 Fuquan Edwin (9 games) 9. 82 vs. Marquette, 3/9/17 27 Jeremy Hazell vs. Syracuse, 3/11/09 10. 26 Matt Carlino, Marquette, 3/11/15 10. 87 Mark Bryant (6 games) 10.81 vs. Marquette, 3/15/19 27 John Morton vs. Syracuse, 3/11/89 26 LaDontae Henton, Providence, 3/14/14 81 vs. Creighton, 3/10/16 26 Kostas Maglos, Boston College, 3/4/98 REBOUNDS 81 vs. Syracuse, 3/11/94 REBOUNDS 1. 61 Angel Delgado (7 games) 1. 16 Angel Delgado vs. Marquette, 3/9/17 REBOUNDS 2. 59 Arturas Karnisovas (11 games) REBOUNDS 2. 15 Michael Nzei vs. Marquette, 3/15/19 1. 20 Otis Thorpe, Providence, 3/7/84 3. 58 Adrian Griffin (9 games) 1. 51 vs. Connecticut, 3/10/89 15 Herb Pope vs. Louisville, 3/7/12 2. 19 Travis Knight, Connecticut, 3/7/96 4. 49 Mark Bryant (6 games) 2. 49 vs. St. John’s, 3/7/01 4. 14 Sandro Mamukelashvili vs. Villanova, 3/16/19 3. 18 , Connecticut, 3/12/03 5. 45 Herb Pope (5 games) 3. 46 vs. Xavier, 3/11/16 5. 13 Duane Jordan vs. Notre Dame, 3/3/99 4. 16 Jamine Peterson, Providence, 3/9/10 6. 44 Michael Nzei (9 games) 4. 45 vs. Creighton, 3/10/16 13 Adrian Griffin vs. Connecticut, 3/7/96 5. 15 Troy Murphy, Notre Dame, 3/3/99 44 Eugene Teague (5 games) 5. 43 vs. Connecticut, 3/7/96 7. 12 Isaiah Whitehead vs. Creighton, 3/10/16 6. 14 LaDontae Henton, Providence, 3/14/14 8. 43 Jerry Walker (8 games) 6. 42 vs. Syracuse, 3/11/09 12 Eugene Teague vs. Villanova, 3/13/14 14 Jerome Lane, Pittsburgh, 3/6/87 9. 42 Anthony Avent (6 games) 42 vs. Louisville, 3/7/12 12 Robert Mitchell vs. Syracuse, 3/11/09 14 Michael Smith, Providence, 3/13/93 10. 41 Ramon Ramos (5 games) 8. 41 vs. Marquette, 3/9/17 12 Eddie Griffin vs. St. John’s, 3/7/01 14 Gordon Malone, West Virginia, 3/6/96 41 vs. Providence, 3/7/84 12 Darrell Mims vs. Syracuse, 3/11/94 ASSISTS 41 vs. Syracuse, 3/11/89 ASSISTS 1. 39 Shaheen Holloway (6 games) 41 vs. Miami, 3/10/94 ASSISTS 1. 14 Derrick Wilson, Marquette, 3/11/15 2. 38 Andre Barrett (7 games) 41 vs. West Virginia, 3/5/97 1. 13 Jordan Theodore vs. Providence, 3/6/11 14 Michael Carter-Williams, Syracuse, 3/13/13 3. 34 Danny Hurley (8 games) 41 vs. St. John’s, 3/6/02 2. 10 Andre Barrett vs. Miami, 3/13/03 3. 13 , St. John’s, 3/6/86 4. 31 Bryan Caver (11 games) 10 Mike Jones vs. Providence, 3/7/84 4. 11 Harold Starks, Providence, 3/6/85 5. 29 Jordan Theodore (7 games) FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE 10 Ken Powell vs. Providence, 3/9/83 11 Jonny Flynn, Syracuse, 3/11/09 6. 27 Adrian Griffin (9 games) 1. .603 vs. Syracuse, 3/14/93 5. 9 Angel Delgado vs. Marquette, 3/9/17 6. 10 Bryce Cotton, Providence, 3/14/14 27 Eugene Harvey (5 games) 2. .587 vs. West Virginia, 3/6/96 9 John Morton vs. Connecticut, 3/5/86 7. 9 Anthony Collins, USF, 3/12/13 8. 26 John Morton (7 games) 3. .573 vs. Providence, 3/9/10 7. 8 Isaiah Whitehead vs. Xavier, 3/11/16 9 Bill Donovan, Providence, 3/7/84 9. 25 Gerald Greene (7 games) 4. .561 vs. Boston College, 3/13/92 8 Eugene Harvey vs. Syracuse 3/11/09 9 Joey Brown, Georgetown, 3/12/93 10. 22 Isaiah Whitehead (4 games) 5. .560 vs. Providence, 3/6/12 8 Shaheen Holloway vs. Providence, 3/8/00 9 Joey Brown, Georgetown, 3/12/94 6. .551 vs. Pittsburgh, 3/8/91 8 Danny Hurley vs. Boston College, 3/9/95 STEALS 7. .531 vs. Pittsburgh, 3/6/87 8 Adrian Griffin vs. Syracuse, 3/11/94 STEALS 1. 15 Bryan Caver (11 games) 8. .518 vs. Xavier, 3/11/16 8 Gerald Greene vs. Connecticut, 3/10/89 1. 7 Omar Cook, St. John’s, 3/7/01 15 John Morton (7 games) 9. .512 vs. Syracuse, 3/13/13 8 Martin Salley vs. Pittsburgh, 3/6/87 2. 6 Tate George, Connecticut, 3/9/90 3. 13 Andre Barrett (7 games) 10. .509 vs. Creighton, 3/10/16 6 Peyton Siva, Louisville, 3/7/12 4. 12 Darius Lane (6 games) .509 vs. St. John’s, 3/7/01 STEALS 4. 5 Jerome Lane, Pittsburgh, 3/6/87 5. 11 Danny Hurley (8 games) .509 vs. Providence, 3/8/00 1. 7 John Morton vs. Connecticut, 3/5/86 5 Nadev Henefeld, Connecticut, 3/9/90 11 Adrian Griffin (9 games) 2. 6 Terry Dehere vs. Boston College, 3/13/92 5 Don Reid, Georgetown, 3/12/94 11 Terry Dehere (9 games) FREE THROW PERCENTAGE 6 John Morton vs. Pittsburgh, 3/6/87 5 Keenan Jourdon, Boston College, 3/9/95 11 Andre McCloud (6 games) 1. .957 (22-23) vs. Marquette, 3/9/17 4. 5 Andre Barrett vs. Villanova, 3/10/04 5 , St. John’s, 3/6/02 9. 10 Arturas Karnisovas (11 games) 2. .938 (15-16) vs. Pittsburgh, 3/6/87 5 Andre McCloud vs. Boston College, 3/10/83 5 James Beatty, Rutgers, 3/8/11 10 Levell Sanders (5 games) 3. .900 (9-10) vs. Georgetown, 3/9/05 6. 4 Myles Powell vs. Georgetown, 3/14/19 10 John Leahy (9 games) 4. .875 (14-16) vs. Notre Dame, 3/10/10 4 Desi Rodriguez vs. Villanova, 3/12/16 BLOCKS 5. .846 (22-26) vs. St. John’s, 3/6/86 4 Jordan Theodore vs. Rutgers, 3/8/11 1. 6 Gorgui Dieng, Louisville, 3/7/12 BLOCKS 6. .840 (21-25) vs. Providence, 3/13/93 4 Paul Gause vs. USF, 3/10/09 2. 5 Zach LeDay, USF, 3/12/13 1. 13 Eddie Griffin (3 games) 7. .829 (34-41) vs. Georgetown, 3/10/91 4 Daryll Walker vs. Connecticut, 3/5/86 5 Anthony Allen, Georgetown, 3/11/88 13 Samuel Dalembert (5 games) 8. .824 (14-17) vs. Providence, 3/6/12 4 Tom Brown vs. Providence, 3/9/83 5 Constantin Popa, Miami, 3/10/94 3. 10 Gordon Winchester (6 games) 9. .800 (12-15) vs. Boston College, 3/4/98 5 , Georgetown, 3/9/05 4. 8 Isaiah Whitehead (4 games) .800 (16-20) vs. Providence, 3/14/14 BLOCKS 5. 4 Darryl Reynolds, Villanova, 3/10/17 5. 7 Arturas Karnisovas (11 games) 1. 7 Sam Dalembert vs. St. John’s, 3/7/01 4 Luke Fischer, Marquette, 3/9/17 6. 6 Angel Delgado (6 games) 2. 5 Eddie Griffin vs. St. John’s, 3/7/01 4 Luke Fischer, Marquette, 3/11/15 6 Anthony Avent (6 games) 5 Eddie Griffin vs. Boston College, 3/9/01 4 Kameron Woods, Butler, 3/12/14 6 Herb Pope (5 games) 4. 4 Bayonne Taty vs. West Virginia, 3/6/96 4 Emeka Okafor, Connecticut, 3/12/03 9. 5 Tom Brown (5 games) 4 Augustine Okosun vs. Marquette, 3/12/08 5 Kelly Whitney (5 games) 6. 3 10 tied 5 Bayonne Taty (3 games)

2019-20 GAME NOTES 31 #HALLin @SETONHALLMBB 09/27/19 Seton Hall basketball: Mamukelashvili 'coming out with an edge'

Seton Hall basketball: Mamukelashvili 'coming out with an edge'

Jerr y Carin o, Asbury Park Press Published 7:00 a.m. ET Sept. 27, 2019 | Updated 7:55 a.m. ET Sept. 27, 2019

With his confidence improved, the junior forward could be an All-Big East player. Plus 5 takeaways from the Pirates' first full practice.

SOUTH ORANGE -- Sandro Mamukelashvili bolted downcourt, his 6-foot-11 frame gobbling up ground at a rate faster than you’d think. Teammate Myles Powell saw him get a half-step behind the defense and launched a 60-foot pass that landed into his hands perfectly in stride.

The sequence, which took place Thursday during Seton Hall basketball’s first full practice of the 2019-20, was a glimpse into the season’s vast potential. Established star Powell needs a right-hand man, and by all accounts Mamukelashvili is primed for the job.

“This year I’ve got to come out with the mentality that I’m one of the best players at my position in the Big East and nobody can stop me,” the junior forward said. “I’m coming out with an edge. I’m ready. It’s amazing to be around these coaches and players who believe in me and give me the confidence to go out there and do my thing.” 6 free articles left. Confidence is the key word there.

“That’s the only thing lacking with Sandro,” Powell said. “Sometimes, leaving practice we’re like, ‘Wow, Sandro can be the best player on this team.’ He can play the three or the four, he can handle the ball, he can pop out for threes, he can rebound. When he starts thinking, ‘I’m that man, I can do that,’ then his game can go to the next level.” Seton Hall Pirates forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (Photo: Noah K. Murray, Noah K. Murray-USA TODAY Sports)

There are signs that’s taking place. During the team’s August trip to Italy, Powell rested and the Pirates’ offense ran through "Mamu." He put up big numbers accordingly. During Thursday’s practice he was all over the court, starting the offense at times as a point forward, hitting threes and slashing to the basket. Of course he played inside a good deal, but he won’t be anchored in the paint this season with 7-footers Romaro Gill and Ike Obiagu platooning at center.

“The fact that he’s not down there banging all the time, he won’t be so beat up,” Hall coach Kevin Willard said. “He’ll have to guard some guys who are smaller, but he’s growing into that phase.”

Mamukelashvili finally is playing his natural position -- stretch four, which could be a matchup problem for foes.

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“During my recruitment that was the plan,” said Mamukelasvhili, who hails from Georgia in eastern Europe. “Coach told me in my junior year I’ll be playing my true position and I’ll be more involved in the offense. Everything he said is coming true. For me it’s a big help because I’ll be switching a lot, I’ll have little guys guarding me and that will give me a chance to post up. During pick-and-pop situations it will be hard to rotate on me because I can also drive.”

Last season Mamukelasvhili averaged 8.9 points and 7.8 rebounds and recorded more assists than turnovers, which is rare for someone his size. But there were games where he’d miss a shot or two and then disappear offensively.

“We’re always telling him, ‘Sandro, shoot the ball,” Powell said. “Nobody’s yelling at you because you’re shooting. We’re yelling at you because you’re not shooting.” It’s a familiar refrain from everyone in the program.

“I know I can’t be down if I miss a shot,” Mamukelashvili said. “I have to trust myself more, and it’s coming. It’s time to step it up and show everybody what I’ve learned.”

JERRY CARINO'S FIVE TAKEAWAYS

1. The two newcomers fit right in. Freshman Tyrese Samuel is a legit 6-foot-10, 220 pounds and going to make an impact off the bench. The forward exhibited head-turning flashes Thursday, including a tomahawk dunk in transition that had everybody buzzing. Junior guard Takal Molson, a sit-out transfer from Canisius, more than held his own. Willard calls him a “junk-yard dog.”

2. The Pirates are a bit banged up. Sophomore wing Jared Rhoden (ankle), sophomore forward Darnell Brodie (ankle) and junior guard Shavar Reynolds (appendicitis) are sitting out right now. Rhoden’s ankle trouble has been going on since July and, although he is walking fine and doing light drills, there’s no timetable for his return as Willard proceeds with caution. Word is, before got hurt, the New York native was one of the Hall’s top three players in summer workout sessions.

3. Powell is known for his scoring, but he delivered a handful of sensational passes Thursday, including the pinpoint lob to Mamukelashvili and a behind the back drive-and-dish to Obiagu for a dunk. Although the ball could be in his hands more this season, the likely preseason All-American made it clear in an interview that he doesn’t care what position he plays -- his only concern is helping the team win.

4. This is the Hall’s biggest team since at least the end of the P.J. Carlesimo era in 1994. Five players are listed at 6-foot-10 or taller and at least four of them seem penciled in for significant minutes. Willard probably will use a base rotation of nine players, with two additional guys seeing situational time. You could see a front line that goes 7-2, 6-11, 6-10 depending on the matchup. Florida State transfer Obiagu has some rust to shake off, but he practically dented the walls with three thunderous blocks Thursday.

5. One of Willard’s top focuses will be keeping his players grounded amid soaring expectations. Most practices end with a brief huddle, but Thursday Willard gave the team an extended talking-to, making it clear just how much work needs to be done. He had everyone’s full attention. Meanwhile, the Nov. 14 showdown with Michigan State practically sold out the Prudential Center’s lower bowl before individual ticket sales, so it seems likely the upper deck will be opened as of early next week. Two other candidates for a curtain rising: St. John’s on Jan. 18 and Villanova on March 4. More than 800 student season-tickets have been sold, a record since the Hall moved to the Prudential Center in 2007.

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“I love Coach with all my heart”: Myles Powell credits Willard for development, Draft process

Chris McManus | October 10, 2019

NEW YORK — Amidst all the preseason hype surrounding Myles Powell and Seton Hall, it’s easy to forget the Pirates’ star player almost jumped ship for the NBA Draft in the spring.

Like Isaiah Whitehead and Angel Delgado before him, Myles had a massive decision to make while out in California for pre-draft workouts.

Now at the apex of a preseason media storm that has Seton Hall in many top-15’s and at the top of the Big East coaches poll, and Powell the league’s preseason player of the year as well as a national player of the year candidate, Powell isn’t regretting anything about sticking around.

“It’s truly an honor,” said Powell of the Big East individual accolade.

“They said they [Seton Hall] haven’t seen a preseason player of the year since ’93 [Terry Dehere]. Just to be mentioned with those names, it’s truly a blessing.

“The great players that I’ve played with, especially Angel Delgado, for him not to get picked preseason player of the year and all the things that he accomplished at our school and the things that he did in our league– for me to be preseason player of the year, little things like that that people tend to forget about but I don’t, it’s truly an honor and a blessing.”

Powell is following in Delgado’s footsteps in the sense that he flirted with the NBA before returning for a senior year that should threaten all sorts of Seton Hall records, both as an individual and team.

Unlike Angel, Myles is by far the center of attention in South Orange. Enough of a known commodity that he’s been plastered on eight billboards across the state, as seen featured on social media recently.

That post, an emotional one, was only the tip of the iceberg of what Powell is feeling at this point in his career and his life.

Humble. Blessed. Thankful. Yet still hungry for more.

“That’s a dream come true,” said Powell of being blindsided by the highway billboard.

“Especially coming from where I come from, if you’re ever driving around and you look up you always see billboards. That one caught me off guard because I didn’t know it came out yet.

“When I seen it, I got teary-eyed. It’s just a blessing, what my brother’s going through, where I come from, my family– just being a kid from Trenton.

“To come out and do all this and to play with all the players I’ve played with … There’s a lot of other good guys coming from Jersey and for me to be the one up on the billboard, it means so much to me.”

In all likelihood, Myles wouldn’t have his image on the side of a highway for millions to see if he bolted for the draft.

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For the third time in recent history, Kevin Willard played a major role in a player’s choice to stay or go without pressuring him to stay — far from it.

“I was very close [to leaving], but Coach Willard helped me a lot. When I went in there and first told him that I wanted to do it, he said ‘Okay well if you’re going to do it, you need to do it like you’re staying in.'”

“So already right there I had it in my mind that I wasn’t coming back to school. I was out there in California getting ready for my pro day and I just needed somebody to lean on. Coach Willard was the first person I called of course.

“I just told him that I needed him there. He hung up and called me back in about 30 minutes and he said ‘I’ll be there tomorrow afternoon and we’re going to go out to dinner’ and he was out there in a couple hours. For somebody that I can call and rely on like that, it meant a lot to me.”

Having asked Myles the questions about the billboard and his draft process, I could really sense his sincerity and the emotion he was putting behind everything he said. These weren’t just talking points.

“I was still in the group chat, I was still talking to my brothers every day. We were talking about the bad taste still in our mouth from losing the [BIG EAST] Championship and from losing to Wofford in the first round, especially wanting to play Kentucky again,” continued Powell.

“I felt like there was still a piece missing, I was still feeling unaccomplished. I had to come back to school for basketball and I’ll be the first person in my family to graduate so for me to be the first person and to say that I graduated and I have a diploma in my family, it’s bigger than me and it means so much more to me than the basketball part.”

“Truly deep down in my heart I feel like I made the right decision, watching how the draft went and a couple friends that I have pretty much not playing in the NBA. The NBA isn’t going nowhere, at the end of the day I feel like I made the best decision for my career.”

A couple years ago, Angel Delgado spoke of how Willard was the first person he called when he decided to return to South Orange — Powell’s bond with his coach has reached another level. His words.

“I didn’t think we could get any closer, but I was wrong. I feel like this summer, we took that final step for Coach Willard being my backbone.

“With him helping me get through that process. For him taking a month and a half off from his family to go out to Peru [Pan Am Games] and spend that time with not only me and Myles [Cale], but other kids in the Big East.

“It shows how much Coach really cares about the conference and the kids he’s dealing with. Coach has given me his last (sic), and he knows that I’ve given him my last. I’ve got his back just like he’s got mine. I love Coach with all my heart and that’ll be my guy for life.”

Powell couldn’t help but heap praise upon his coach for how he helped him out during the draft process, but like a pass first point guard, Kevin Willard was modest about his role. “The NBA has done an unbelievable job of giving the kids correct information. All I did, my job with Myles and his family was that they were taking the information and using the information to not make an emotional decision but to make an informed decision,” explained Willard.

“As we sat down the last day in California, it wasn’t an emotional decision, it was an informed decision.

“With his mom and his father, I made a promise that I would make sure that I’d be there with him. I wanted to be there for his pro day, he was excited about it, he wanted me there. It was also important for his father, his father

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When asked if he would be the man he is today if not for Myles Powell?

“Not at all. Everyday in practice he has a level of enthusiasm that is contagious,” gushed Willard. “As a coach and as a person, we’ve been through a lot together. We’ve grown together and I think that’s why he is where he is and I think that’s why this program is where it is.

“The greatest thing about Myles Powell is that he’s as humble today as when I recruited him in high school. He wants to make it, every day he shows up and works hard. His attitude hasn’t changed, his demeanor hasn’t change, he’s as good a teammate as he was a freshman.

“Ever since he stepped foot in our program, he’s been a young man who has represented us at the highest level. He’s going to be the first of his family to graduate from college. He’s someone who would give his shoes away to someone in the stands just because he sees them. He’s been, for me, like a third son.”

Calm and collected, all facts and no emotions. How could there not be an emotional aspect of Willard’s father-like mentoring of Powell through the draft process? You’ve read the quotes, this wasn’t your typical star player wants to move onto the next level scenario.

I asked Willard if it felt like he might lose his “third son” to the league over the summer.

“It’s a weird feeling and no one is going to believe this but you’re hoping you’re going to get information that he can go pro. You’re hoping his dream comes true.

“You don’t want to sit down at breakfast and have the reality talk and say ‘It’s just not your time yet.’ That’s hard when you have to sit there and have that talk. That’s a little heartbreaking for a kid.

“I’d much rather would have said ‘Here’s the information, we think you’re going to get drafted 42nd, you have to go.’ I would have loved that conversation.

“The biggest thing that I balanced was making sure he understood, ‘Look, the fact that we’re in this position, the fact that you’re in this position is great. It shows you how far you’ve come as a player, but we haven’t completed the process.’ That was the hardest thing for me.”

Spoken like a true father-figure. Someone thrilled to see a loved one move onto the next challenge, but also delighted to see the current chapter last just a little bit longer.

That chapter still has quite a few empty pages to fill while the plot thickens as we inch closer to opening night.

For now, a star player is genuinely content to make his senior year unforgettable for himself, his family, his coach, and his fans.

“I wouldn’t be the Myles Powell I am today if it wasn’t for Kevin Willard,” said Powell. “I’m not afraid to say that and I’ll say that to every reporter in here. I’ll say it again: I wouldn’t be the Myles Powell I am today without Kevin Willard.”

“When I saw that billboard going into practice, I just gave him [Willard] a big hug and kind of melted in his arms and just said ‘Thank you Coach’ — none of this would have been possible if it wasn’t for him believing in the fat kid that was 250 pounds three years ago.”

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Seton Hall basketball: Twin towers Obiagu and Gill 'going to be a problem'

Jerr y Carin o, Asbury Park Press Published 5:00 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2019 | Updated 8:14 a.m. ET Oct. 17, 2019

This is unprecedented size for the Pirates. Obiagu's practice exploits are becoming the stuff of legend.

SOUTH ORANGE — It sounds apocryphal, but Sandro Mamukelashvili swears it happened: During a Seton Hall basketball practice Ike Obiagu blocked a teammate’s shot with such force, it landed over the half-court line, traveling 40-plus feet in the air.

“It was crazy,” Mamukelasvhili said. “This was even worse: The other day I tried to box him out and with one shove I was out of bounds, he got the rebound and dunked it so hard, I thought the basket would break. It shows how dominant this man can be.”

The 6-foot-11, 240-pound Mamukelashvili is no pushover. But the power forward is happy to cede post duties to the Hall’s “Twin Towers” — Obiagu and Romaro Gill, both of whom stand 7-foot-2. They project to platoon in 2019-20, with senior Gill's experience complementing sophomore Obiago’s raw power.

“The competition with Ike has been a game-changer for me,” Gill said. “I’m not used to having my shot blocked.

It’s good for me, because in the (Big East) I know I’m not going to run into anybody as tall as him.”

After averaging 2.3 points and 2.7 rebounds while shooting 58 percent from the field as a junior, Gill has improved to the point where he's got the inside track at the starting job. Obiagu, who averaged three blocks per game as Florida State made an Elite Eight run in 2018, is shaking off the rust from his transfer sit-out. Seton Hall Pirates center Romaro Gill (35) boxes out forward Zach Hankins (35) during the second half at the Cintas Center. (Photo: Frank Victores, Frank Victores-USA TODAY Sports)

“I worked on my offensive game because that was a major problem for me,” he said. “I’ve been working on my post moves, my jump hook, on finishing with both hands.”

Coming to the U.S. from Nigeria, Obiagu knew rim protecting was his ticket.

“I had to do something to stay on the floor,” he said. “If you cannot score the ball, you have to at least play defense or there is no use in you being out there. So that’s how I started priding myself on the defensive end, trying to block every shot. Now defense comes naturally and I’m working on my offense so I can be more of a two-way player.” How is that coming?

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“Right now I just try to dunk everything or at least get fouled,” he said. “But you can’t always get close enough to dunk it, so I’m working on my touch. It’s coming along.”

Obiagu knows he’s a classic five. He’s not trying to develop a 10- foot jumper. His extensive one- on-one work with assistant coach Grant Billmeier focuses on catching and finishing.

“I had horrible hands,” he said. "That’s something we work a lot on.”.

How can players improve their hands? Billmeier employs some tricks, including a bad-pass drill.

“He makes the guards throw horrible passes to us, so we can practice focusing on the ball and catching it,” Obiagu said. Florida State Seminoles center Ike Obiagu (12) moves to the basket against the Gonzaga Bulldogs “That’s helped me and Ro a lot.” defense during the first half in the semifinals of the West regional of the 2018 NCAA Tournament at STAPLES Center. (Photo: Gary A. Vasquez, Gary A. Vasquez-USA TODAY Sports)

Billmeier has done good work with Seton Hall's bigs in recent years, mentoring Angel Delgado, Ish Sanogo and Mike Nzei. Now he 14 feet, 4 inches of post presence to work with.

“We’re going to be problem down there,” Obiagu said.

“It’s going to be very hard for other teams,” Gill said. “Just being honest.”

Three Tidbits 1. Willard said sophomore wing Jared Rhoden, who has been limited since July with an ankle injury, is scheduled to resume practicing starting Sunday. Rhoden had been improving by leaps and bounds and could be one of the team’s best players by midseason. Junior guard Shavar Reynolds, a Manchester High School alum, is back in action after recovering from appendicitis. 2. The Jan. 11 game vs. Marquette and Feb. 1 vs. Xavier, both Saturdays at home, are close to selling out the Prudential Center’s lower bowl. Expect the upper-deck curtain to rise for both, giving the Pirates six such contests this season (upper- deck seats already are selling for Michigan State, Maryland, St. John’s and Villanova). In other scheduling news, the Hall will not have a closed-door scrimmage against a Division I opponent. That option came off the table when the program scheduled two exhibition games (the NCAA allows a max of two preseason games/scrimmages in any form). 3. An educated guess on Seton Hall’s early-season rotation: Myles Powell, Quincy McKnight, Myles Cale and Mamukelashvili as regular starters; Gill and Obiagu platooning at center; Rhoden and Anthony Nelson as early, extended-minutes subs; Tyrese Samuel as a regular sub; Reynolds and Taurean Thompson as situational subs.

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Myles Powell's legacy at Seton Hall goes beyond the scoring

Jerr y Carin o, Asbury Park Press Published 5:00 a.m. ET Oct. 22, 2019

The All-America candidate has one goal for his senior year: 'I want to make history.' He knows points alone won't do it.

Members of the Seton Hall basketball team were lingering on the court, basking in the moment after a big win at the Prudential Center last March, but Myles Powell was not among them. The Pirates’ star walked up into the crowd, removed his sneakers and gave them to a young fan who had visited the locker room before the game.

“For him to go into the stands and find that kid, to me that’s a sign of maturity and how big of a heart he has,” head coach Kevin Willard said. “It was awesome, even if it cost me a pair of shoes.”

That’s a small price to pay for Seton Hall's biggest star in a generation, since All-American Terry Dehere rained threes for P.J. Carlesimo’s early 1990s powerhouses. Others have possessed more raw talent, but Powell’s rare combination of production, drive and magnetism has the Pirates positioned to make noise on the national stage this winter.

With four starters returning from a 20-14 team that made the NCAA Tournament, Seton Hall is ranked 12th in the Associated Press's Preseason Top 25 been and picked to win the Big East by the league’s coaches. Those coaches also chose Powell — who is making plenty of All-America lists after averaging 23.1 points per game last winter — as the conference’s Preseason Player of the Year.

“I always believed in myself, but to say I thought I’d be a top-five player in college basketball, I’d be kidding myself,” the senior guard said. “I’ve definitely worked for it. If there’s anything I could tell the next kid, it’s, ‘Don’t put limits on your dreams.’” Myles Powell gives his sneakers to a young fan after a 2019 game at the Prudential Center (Photo: Seton Hall Athletics)

'Time to man up' Powell hails from a tough neighborhood in Trenton, about an hour southwest of Seton Hall’s campus in South Orange.

“As soon as he was able to walk, all he wanted was a basketball; he didn’t even want a bottle,” said his mother, Jeanette Moore. “He was about 7 or 8 and he would go out to the courts where bigger guys were playing and say, ‘I can play with you guys.’ They would be like, ‘You’re too little.’ Once he finally got a shot to play with grownups, they always wanted him on their team.”

Powell starred at Trenton Catholic High School, but injuries and weight gain — he ballooned to 250 pounds on a 6-foot-2 frame — scared off most other high-major suitors. Willard knew early on he'd recruited a gem. During practices the coach would ride him hard, harder than any of his older players could handle. Powell would respond by putting up shots long after everyone left the gym, sometimes until the wee hours.

“A lot of kids have a hard time with, ‘Why is he yelling at me? He doesn’t like me anymore,’” Willard said. “He knew once we walked off the floor I loved him no matter what. He understood that more than any player I’ve been around.”

During Powell’s sophomore season, a traumatic life event sharpened his perspective. His brother older brother Noel Powell was indicted for murder for allegedly shooting a patron at an Applebee’s restaurant in Lawrence, just outside of Trenton. He remains in custody pending trial.

“It really made me realize that it was time to man up and life ain’t a joke,” Powell said. “I just try to keep in mind that kids are looking up to me and it’s bigger than myself. I try not to let all this (basketball) stuff go to my head because I know how fast it can be gone.”

The NBA can wait By the end of last season, Powell was one of the most dangerous players in college basketball. He posted 34 points, five rebounds and five assists in a March win over a ranked Marquette squad. In the Big East Tournament he scored an event-record 29 points in a

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half against Georgetown, making 10 of 14 field goals while also notching three assists and three steals over a dizzying first 20 minutes.

A dalliance with the NBA Draft process followed. Powell wrestled with the decision. While working out for team executives in California a few days before the withdrawal deadline, he called Willard.

“I was hearing so many different things, I needed a person I trusted,” Powell said. “He was out there the next day. He treated me like I was one of his sons.”

Just a few hours before the decision deadline, Powell announced he was staying in school. “Going back to finish what I started & most importantly be the first one in my family to have a college degree,” he tweeted (his degree will be in social & behavioral sciences). “Let’s go win a national championship.”

After helping Team USA win a bronze medal at the Pan American Games in August — he scored 30 points in one of the games, against Venezuela — Powell returned to a hero’s welcome in South Orange.

“Everyone approaches him on campus to talk and he never acts big-time,” teammate Sandro Mamukelashvili said. “He knows he has a lot more to prove.” Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) talks with head coach Kevin Willard during the second half in the tournament against the Marquette Golden Eagles (Photo: Vincent Carchietta, Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports)

Although friendly and articulate, Powell is no wallflower. You don’t get to his level without an edge — “a fire that most people don’t understand,” is how Willard explains it.

If something is bugging him, Powell lets you know. And yeah, there is something he’d like to get off his chest.

An eye toward history The feedback Powell got from NBA personnel was, essentially, “improve your ball-handling.” He takes it seriously but bristles at the notion that he’s going to change positions this season to improve his pro prospects.

“We’ve got different plays where I’m bringing up the ball, but I know how we got here,” he said. “We didn’t become a top 15 team with me bringing up the ball. I keep telling Coach (Willard), ‘If we’re going to win with Quincy (returning point guard Quincy McKnight) bringing up the ball and me off the ball, then that’s what we’re going to do, and I’m 100 percent fine with that.”

His senior year is not about the NBA. It’s not about breaking Dehere’s program scoring record (2,494 points, set in 1993) either, although he’s in range.

“Winning means so much more,” Powell said. “This is my last go-round and when it’s all said and done, I want to make history. Being a Jersey kid, I stayed home for a reason. I want everyone to remember this team.”

Can Myles Powell pull Seton Hall deep into the NCAA Tournament for the first time in 20 years? Prodigious scoring alone won't do it. The road starts with invisible assists, like the team’s Friday-morning meetings with longtime academic adviser Robin Cunningham — rap sessions where guys just speak their minds to each other. Beforehand she emails each player, asking them to confirm their attendance.

“This was the first time in a couple of years that, at the very first meeting, we had a 100 percent response rate,” Cunningham said. “I asked them, ‘Guess who was the first person to answer my email?’” The reply was unanimous.

“They all knew it was Myles Powell,” she said.

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Big men in middle is something new at No. 12 Seton Hall

By TOM CANAVAN, AP SPORTS WRITER OCT. 25, 2019 10:47 AM

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — With preseason All-America Myles Powell and three other starters back, it’s no surprise Seton Hall is No. 12 in The Associated Press preseason Top 25.

The surprise for opponents this season will be waiting in the paint. The Pirates have a new rim presence on both ends of the court that could be a game changer.

It starts with Florida State transfer Ike Obiagu. The 7-foot-2 sophomore from Nigeria played in 34 games and averaged 2.3 points, 2.6 rebounds and 2.1 blocks playing less than 11 minutes in 201718, helping the Seminoles reach the NCAA Tournament round of eight.

Obiagu isn’t the Seton Hall’s only big guy. Far from it.

Senior Romaro Gill, who has been steadily improving, also is 7-2 and is battling Obiagu for the starting center job. Their play has allowed 6-11 junior Sandro Mamukelashvili to move from the starting center spot for his more natural position at power forward.

Even the backups are big. Junior Taurean Thompson (6-11) appeared 27 games last year with a start, and Canadian freshman Tyrese Samuel is a 6-10 forward who is smooth on the court

“We had a ton of NBA scouts come in and every one comes over and looks at me and says this looks like an NBA team,” coach Kevin Willard said. “I think it is one reason why we haven’t practiced long and I have kept practices kind of lighter than in the past because of how big and physical we are.”

He said Obiagu and Gill don’t need to post up to be effective. They can protect the rims. They can run the floor. They are working hard on pick and rolls and setting screens, which should open shots for Powell and fellow guards Myles Cale and Quincy McKnight.

“Our guards love to drive and just throw it up to them and let them dunk it,” Willard added. “They are not just a front-court presence. Defensively, every time you go down there, they are going to be there. You know you are going to have to go over them.”

Willard also has options. He can go “small,” playing Mamukelashvili at the center with Samuel or Jared Rhoden (6-6) at the power forward.

The offense is going to continue to go through the guards, although the Pirates will probably be a little physical and post up more.

Powell, who decided to return for his senior season, is the go-to guy. He averaged 23.1 points last season, the eighth-highest scoring average in school history, 13th-best in the nation and secondbest in the Big East Conference. Cale averaged a career-best 10.2 points and McKnight averaged 9.4, had a team-high 134 assists and was second with 55 steals. The senior also handled the defensive assignments on the top opposing guard.

The big guys are the extra this season.

Obiagu is just happy to be playing again after sitting out last season as a transfer. He has worked hard to improve his offensive game and feels his hands are better.

“The way me and Ro go in practice, we feel we can go against anybody,” Obiagu said. “We can affect games. Guards can get blown by and we have their backs and we can block the shots.” Rhoden has challenged the big guys in practices and laughs about it.

“It’s pretty intimidating,” said the sophomore, who averaged 3.4 points and 2.6 rebounds last season. “I am not going to lie. When you see those big guys down there, you don’t even want to mess with them. You try to kick it out or do a shot fake and then try to go up. But they block everything. They block everything.”

The inside defense can only help the Pirates, who gave up an average of 71.9 points in posting a 2014 record and earning their fourth straight trip to the NCAA Tournament. The Big East preseason favorite has never been to five in a row.

“I think we are going to be a pretty big presence out there,” said Gill, who averaged 2.3 points, 2.7 rebounds and just over a block in 27 games.

The biggest beneficiary of having Obiagu and Gill in the middle is Mamukelashvili. He should have more energy at power forward and could be a bigger threat on offense after averaging 8.9 points and a team-high 7.8 rebounds in 34 games last season.

“That’s my position,” Mamukelashvili said. “I will be more comfortable. I will have so much more freedom now to just play my game. I’m a team player and last year I had to do what the team needed. Now I feel I have more freedom to catch and rip and just face up and go with my pace and help with what the team needs. It’s an exciting year.”

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Seton Hall basketball: Promising sophomores Rhoden, Nelson poised to take next step

Jerr y Carin o, Asbury Park Press Published 6:55 a.m. ET Oct. 28, 2019

Once they shake off injuries, the pair should give the Pirates the kind of quality depth the program hasn't seen in recent years.

SOUTH ORANGE - Jared Rhoden sat courtside in Seton Hall basketball’s practice gym, his left ankle taped. The sophomore wing had just gone through practice at “80, 85 percent,” he estimated, after sitting out two months with a high-ankle sprain.

On the court fellow sophomore Anthony Nelson, who’s been limited by a knee tweak, drained shot after shot during a solo shooting drill.

For outsiders who are sizing up the 12th-ranked Pirates for the first time, these classmates’ production as freshmen doesn’t look like much — a combined 5.8 points over 23 minutes per game, with a .343 shooting percentage. But those who actually watched last season unfold know better. By March Rhoden was an impact sub, a loose-ball machine who could guard three different positions. And Nelson was coming into his own as a backup point guard with the team’s best assist-to-turnover ratio of 2.4-1.

Perhaps the biggest difference between Seton Hall in 2019-20 and the squads that made the past four NCAA Tournaments is this: Once Rhoden and Nelson get up to speed, this is the deepest edition by far.

“We know there’s upperclassmen ahead of us,” Rhoden said. “We try to come into the game and be a spark. I've had that mindset that I was going to do whatever it took to remain on the floor. A big part of the reason I came to Seton Hall is because of that pride in being tough and gritty, being a hard-nosed player who gets after it.”

Results of exhibition games should be taken with a grain of salt because coaches experiment and withhold stuff, but Rhoden clearly got a test run in Friday’s 29-point win over Division II Bloomfield: 13 points on 5-of-7 shooting, including 3-of-4 from 3-point range, plus three rebounds and two steals over 25 minutes. Seton Hall sophomores Jared Rhoden (left) and Anthony Nelson (Photo: Jerry Carino)

“Jared is finally starting to get a little bit of his bounce back, getting his wind back, his overall feel for the game,” Hall coach Kevin Willard said. “I don’t think he’s in game shape yet.”

Over the summer's first half, Rhoden was in the gym three times a day, honing his jump shot and his handle. The shot suffered during the previous offseason as he recovered from a torn labrum, a serious shoulder injury. By this past July, the buzz out of South Orange was that he’d taken a huge leap forward.

Then he landed awkwardly during a team workout and compounded the situation by “rushing back” too early.

“I’ve known Jared for four years now, and to see him grow has been amazing,” said Nelson, a fellow New Yorker who played AAU ball with Rhoden. “The way he’s going, the sky’s the limit.”

Nelson is charting an upward trajectory, too, after an up-and-down freshman year. His breakthrough came in the Big East Tournament final. With starting point guard Quincy McKnight sidelined by a mid-game injury, Willard handed Nelson the ball for 17 minutes, and he responded with 12 points on 4-of-8 shooting, two assists and no turnovers in a two-point loss to Villanova.

“That helped build my confidence,” Nelson said. “I was waiting for that opportunity all year. I knew all I had to do was play hard and he (Willard) would call my number.”

Nelson spent the offseason not only getting shots up, but improving his quickness and ability to guard the ball.

“Last year I felt like I was too slow,” he said. “I’ve been working on my agility.”

On the other end, Nelson’s playmaking is sharpened by the daily wars against McKnight, an elite defender, and pugnacious Canisius transfer Takal Molson.

“Having to go against him and Quincy, it’s been real competitive,” he said.

How will all of this translate to the coming campaign? Here’s a clue: Both Nelson and Rhoden said they were not too impressed with Seton Hall’s No. 12 national ranking, the program’s highest in the preseason since 2000. “Hype,” is what Rhoden called it.

“If we keep our attitude from last year we can do a lot of good things,” Nelson said. “We need the same killer mentality.”

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The Buzz Surrounding Seton Hall Basketball Is Paying Off At The Box Office

Oct 29, 2019, 09:02am

Fans trying to buy tickets immediately before Seton Hall’s against Division II Bloomfield on Friday night were greeted with some unpleasant and unprecedented news.

The game was a sellout.

And as of Monday afternoon, approximately 200 tickets remained for the Tuesday nigh exhibition versus Division III Misericordia.

Being ranked No. 12 in the Associated Press preseason men’s basketball poll and havin a preseason All-American on the team generates not only buzz, but ticket sales which generate revenue.

Seton Hall is trying to obtain a fifth consecutive NCAA tournament berth and trying to attain its best overall season in many years, but one thing already is obvious. It stands t be the Pirates’ most profitable season financially in a long time, and certainly the most lucrative since moving to the then-newly constructed Prudential Center in Newark in th fall of 2007.

Consider that Seton Hall already has opened upper-level ticket sales at Prudential, informally known as The Rock, for six home games this season. It marks the first time i the Hall’s tenure there that the athletic department has made upper-level seating available for more than one game in a season. The Villanova contest achieved that distinction in each of the last three seasons.

In its normal configuration for Seton Hall, the upper levels are cordoned off with curtains placed over them, resulting in a lower-bowl seating capacity of 10,481. In its fu configuration, the arena can hold 16,514 fans.

“It’s really impressive,” Seton Hall assistant athletic director for ticket operation Joseph Rixon said of the interest that has led to increased demand. “We tend to have somewha of a niche fan base here because we are a smaller institution. It’s cool to see how our fan base has really bought into the season and it’s really gratifying to see how our success has increased our brand across the state.”

Rixon, who is in his fifth year at Seton Hall, said that selling out an exhibition game wa “unprecedented,” according to longtime athletic department employees. Granted, venerable on-campus home Walsh Gym (opened in 1941) seats only 1,655. And Rixon noted that tickets for the exhibitions were priced at $5. (Proceeds from the two games are being donated to Catholic Relief Services to aid in Hurricane Dorian relief efforts.) Still, it’s indicative of the interest in the program, as are the six games for which the upper bowl is being opened. Those games are Nov. 14 vs. Michigan State, Dec. 19 vs. Maryland, Jan. 11 vs. Marquette, Feb. 1 vs. Xavier, Feb. 23 vs. St. John's and March 4 v Villanova.

“For the amount of times we’re doing it this year, I think it’s huge,” 10th-year head coac Kevin Willard said. “It shows the excitement (of the fans) and how far we’ve come as a program and the type of guys we have in the program.

“It’s college basketball,” he continued. “It’s (about) emotion and energy and the more people that can be packed into that building, the better. It’s a great atmosphere when it packed and our students have always been great. And when you when you get 12 or 13,000 in that building, it’s a difference maker.”

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Star senior guard Myles Powell agreed.

“The fans mean everything to us,” said Powell, the Big East preseason player of the year and the Pirates’ first preseason Associated Press All-American since the inception of th team in 1986.

Both Powell and Willard pointed out the effect of the home crowd in Seton Hall’s final two regular-season games of 2018-19, upset victories over Marquette and Villanova tha helped the Pirates secure an NCAA bid. The attendance figures for those games were 9,080 and 16,114, respectively.

“I don’t think we would have been able to do it without them,” Powell said of the fans. “You can just feel the vibes, you can feel the energy in the building. Without our fans we’re not a top 25 team and there’s nothing like home-court advantage. If I had anythin to say to the fans, I’d say we love them and we need them to keep this journey going. It just gets us going. Our student section is great.”

“The best part about it, notwithstanding the revenue,” athletic director Bryan Felt said, “is that we’re seeing this kind of response from our fans and our alumni. … This is what we’ve been working for. This is the kind of reaction we wanted and it’s been great.” Seton Hall representatives would not give any monetary projections.

Rixon believes that Seton Hall now is attracting fans beyond its loyal base of alumni, saying, “We’re selling out (due to) New Jersey basketball fans. Our brand has grown as university, as a department.”

“This is what we want,” Felt said of the increased ticket sales. “This is what it’s all about This is what our student- athletes want, to have that kind of atmosphere. We’re trying to build that atmosphere, build that culture and to see it happen is pretty awesome.”

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Myles Powell’s Seton Hall journey amazes at every turn

By Zach Braziller November 2, 2019 | 6:32pm | Updated

Myles Powell shook his head. No, even he couldn’t have dreamed of this three years ago.

Becoming an NBA prospect? Seton Hall’s first preseason Associated Press All-American? The Big East preseason Player of the Year and unquestioned leader for a program gunning for its fifth straight NCAA Tournament berth?

None of it.

“I would’ve just laughed,” he said.

The Trenton native wouldn’t have been the only one. Myles Powell Getty Images

Powell arrived at Seton Hall in the spring of 2016 out of shape and not ready to play big-time college basketball. He was 240 pounds, looking every bit like someone who had earned the nickname “Cheese.” In his first individual workout, he lasted just 15 minutes. Strength and conditioning coach Jason Nehring dubbed him “Butterball.”

Three years later, the 6-foot-2 Powell is the picture of perseverance, set to become the first player from his family to graduate college and 831 points shy of the Seton Hall all-time scoring mark owned by Terry Dehere (2,494). His decision to return to school for his senior season set the program up for its most anticipated season in nearly two decades, a preseason No. 12 ranking and the Big East coaches’ pick to win the league.

“I’d say it’s almost like one of those quotes you read in a book,” Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard said. “If you don’t give up on your dreams and you combine that with hard work, anything’s possible.”

In the past year, so much has changed for Powell. After taking a back seat to Angel Delgado, Khadeen Carrington and Desi Rodriguez his first two seasons, he exploded last year, averaging 23.1 points per game and emerging as the face of the program — keying upsets of Kentucky, Maryland and Villanova. He carried Seton Hall to the NCAA Tournament despite being picked to finish eighth in the Big East. He tested the NBA draft waters, working out for five teams before opting to return to school.

Already, 12 teams have been in to see him. One NBA scout believes he has a good chance to get drafted if he continues to improve as a playmaker and score as he did a year ago.

“I’m a huge fan of his,” ESPN analyst Jay Bilas said. “He can score. He guards people. He’ll accept any physical challenge that comes his way.”

As Powell’s career has taken off, he’s also been dealing with personal anguish. His older brother Noel was indicted on a charge of murder, for allegedly shooting a man at an Applebee’s restaurant in Lawrence, N.J., on Nov. 14, 2017, and is still awaiting trial. Powell frequently writes about him on social media, using the hashtag “FreeBigNutty.” He wears a bracelet with those words on it.

“Everything I’m going through just matured me. It made me a better person on and off the court,” he said. “It just made me cherish life a lot more.”

Powell hopes to be a role model, for kids dealing with weight problems, for those from tough inner-city neighborhoods like him, to his six younger siblings. Though he put everything into basketball, he never forgot about school, maintaining a 3.25 grade-point-average in the classroom. He will earn a degree in social and behavioral sciences. Finishing what he started academically was one of the reasons he returned for his senior season. The NBA, he said, wasn’t going anywhere. He had other responsibilities to take care of.

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“It means the world that I can give this diploma to my mom,” he said. “For me and my family to be able to say I’m the first one, can’t nobody take that away from me. And most importantly, all the young guys and females in my family, I can tell them if I can do it, you can do it.”

Powell loved making anything into a sandwich. He would crush fast foods of all kinds and top it off with soda and ice cream. Still, he was a quality prospect because of his shot-making prowess. He was a four-star recruit ranked No. 81 in the country by 247Sports.com, a ranking lowered by him putting on significant weight after suffering a broken foot his senior year of high school.

Shortly after arriving on campus, Powell knew a change was in order if he wanted to last. Nehring told him he would call him Myles only once he got down to 210 pounds. They worked closely together, early mornings and late nights, setting weekly goals. They changed his diet, switching to salads, fish and pasta.

“It was hard; it was a struggle,” Powell recalled. “But I had it in my mind of what I wanted to be, and I just kept going, kept fighting.”

Powell got down to 195 pounds by the start of freshman year, his weight presently. Last year, he played at under 10 percent body fat. Right now, he is under 8 percent. Recently, a friend posted on social media before-and-after photos of Powell when he arrived at Seton Hall and now. Teammate Sandro Mamukelashvili thought it was doctored.

“No way that’s real,” the junior told him.

Off the court, teammates and coaches rave about Powell the person — as the last player on the court signing autographs and posing for pictures with fans, as someone who will give his sneakers to kids. On the court, he is the team’s clear leader, the Pirates’ heartbeat who will get into a teammate’s face when needed. He always is around in time of need.

“Everybody looks up to him,” Mamukelashvili said. “His heart is humongous.”

His work ethic has set the standard for others. He often is in the gym early in the morning and late at night. Everyone knows where to find him. The same way he lost all that weight is the same way he has improved every season on the court, going from a spot-up shooter to one of the premier guards in the country. All these accolades won’t go to his head, Powell insists. He still remembers not making the Big East all-freshman team his first season, still agonizes over past March shortcomings.

“I know how I got to be the player I am today, and I’m not going to let everything that’s happening let me forget that,” he said. “If I was to stop doing that, only person I’m kidding is myself.”

The future is so bright for Powell, brighter than anyone could have reasonably expected. He will graduate school in the spring. He will then achieve a lifelong dream of being a professional basketball player and be able to support his family. His bank account will be adding a lot of zeroes.

“I’m so close,” he said.

But as he did four years ago, Powell isn’t looking too far ahead. His focus is on the upcoming season, making it a year nobody in South Orange will forget, leading his school back to the Sweet 16. When asked what he dreams about, Powell didn’t even mention the NBA.

“I want to leave a legacy at Seton Hall and I want to be remembered for something special,” he said. “I want to be able to win a Big East championship. I want to win a couple of games in the tournament. I want to make a run.

“I want to be a Pirate that everybody remembers.”

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Underappreciated McKnight sets the tone for Seton Hall

Posted By Kyle Beck on Nov 14, 2019

Seton Hall’s talent has the nation’s attention – the Pirates are ranked 12th in the country and Myles Powell is a preseason All-American. But while he won’t make the highlight reel, Seton Hall would not be where they are without Quincy McKnight at the point. Last year, while Powell grabbed the headlines, McKnight cemented himself as the anchor of Seton Hall’s resolute defensive front. The Sacred Heart transfer earned a reputation as one of the Big East’s premier defenders, a role he relishes despite missing out on most media attention. His active hands and excellent positioning routinely cause problems

“A lot of people don’t gratify [defense] as much as some offensive guys. It’s doing the dirty work,” McKnight said. “But I like it – it’s how I was raised, doing anything possible to win.”

McKnight plays with serious heart – a trademark of Seton Hall basketball under Kevin Willard – and is no stranger to expressing himself on the floor. He can frequently be seen slapping the Prudential Center hardwood on defense in crunch time, as his man dribbles up the court to meet him.

“Defense turns games around,” McKnight said. “A lot of times last year we’d be down late and needing a spark to turn things around, I’d be slapping the floor and you’d have Myles Powell, Myles Cale going in behind me. We’d press a lot, force a turnover and turn it into a bucket, and the momentum changes right there.”

As Seton Hall’s top defender, the Connecticut native found himself up against some of the best players in the country – playing various positions – and McKnight loves stepping up to the challenge.

“I can guard all kinds of positions, 1 through 4 – put me in the post, put me anywhere, I like to be active all the time,” he said.

The Big East, since conference realignment in 2013, has built an identity as a grueling, uniquely competitive league. Recent iterations have featured some of the top guards in college basketball, and McKnight is always up for the challenge.

“There’s a couple guys,” McKnight said when asked about his favorite past opponents. “[James] Akinjo, for Georgetown – He’s a great, active guard. [Butler’s] Kamar Baldwin, he’s one of the harder guys to guard, dribbles with his left and finishes with his right. It’s tough.”

But his biggest challenge, and perhaps his greatest accomplishment to date in blue and white, has been facing Marquette’s Markus Howard, last year’s Big East Player of the Year and a Preseason All-American this year alongside Powell.

“Markus is a different breed,” McKnight said with a smile, but that didn’t stop him from locking Howard down in last year’s Big East Tournament semifinal. A career 45% shooter averaging 25 a game last season, McKnight held Howard to just 1-of-15 from the floor. The Pirates won, 81-79.

McKnight credits New Jersey’s resident superstar for his ability to take on the game’s biggest stars.

“Being able to go up against Myles [Powell] in practice every time, it’s no different,” McKnight said. “I think going up against Myles is why I can go up and guard [players like] Markus all game.”

The Pirates face Howard and Marquette at least twice this year, along with national Player of the Year Cassius Winston, Maryland superstar Anthony Cowan and many more of college basketball’s best offensive players. McKnight won’t be in the spotlight, but thanks to him, you may not see those guys’ names in lights either.

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Myles Powell brilliance means everything's possible for Seton Hall, despite Michigan State loss

Ste p hen Edelso n , Asbury Park Press Published 10:57 p.m. ET Nov. 14, 2019 | Updated 8:01 a.m. ET Nov. 15, 2019

NEWARK – It had the look and feel of a postseason tournament game, in the second week of the college basketball season.

That tells you all you need to know about Seton Hall and what might be possible for the Pirates this season.

With an all-time player in Myles Powell and a strong supporting cast, what played out Thursday night in the Prudential Center against No. 3 Michigan State is only the beginning.The Pirates greatest player since Terry Dehere is pulling the strings on what might just be their greatest since the Dehere-led team that went into the NCAA Tournament as a No. 2 seed in 1993.

It’s all on the table for this team, from a Big East Tournament title to a deep run in the NCAA Tournament to, well, the Final Four.

There, I said it.

I know, the 76-73 loss to the Spartans by the 12th ranked Pirates stings, and it should.

But Powell’s brilliance makes them as good as anyone in the country. And he scored 37 points playing at less than 100 percent thanks to the ankle sprain he suffered a week earlier, with the drama surrounding his seemingly miraculous recovery dominating the narrative during the buildup.

"That just goes to show that we can play with anybody in the country," Powell said. "We were up five with two minutes to go, and we had the game, and just a couple of rushed shots and not finishing plays hurt us."

He played like the first-team preseason All- Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) controls the ball as Michigan State Spartans American he is in a huge spot, taking the game over guard Rocket Watts (2) defends during the first half at Prudential Center. for stretches. (Photo: Vincent Carchietta, Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports)

Michigan State head coach Tom Izzo said Powell "is one of the greatest players I’ve ever seen in college basketball. He seems to play hard, he seems to have fun, he seems like a great kid, he didn’t talk a lot of crap, he did it the right way, and my hat off to him."

Powell scored 13 in the first half, converted a 3-point play to open the second half. When he drained a 3-points with 3:21 to play to give Seton Hall a 6866 lead, the place erupted.

When he hit a 3 falling out of bounds, getting fouled, to make it 71-66 with 2:41 to play, it shook The Rock to its very foundation. He gave Seton Hall a 7372 lead with a pair of free throws with 44 seconds left, after Michigan State grabbed the lead on back-to-back 3-pointers.

In this building, they’re going to be tough for anyone to beat during the Big East campaign. In any building, actually, based on what everyone saw Thursday night.

For the record, it would have been the highest-ranked non-conference victim for the Pirates since beating No. 4 Temple in the 2000 NCAA Tournament, and you have to go back the win over No. 6 Ohio State at home in 1992 for what would have been the last regular season win of this magnitude.

It would have been the third time they’ve beaten the No. 3 team in the land, beating No. 3 Villanova twice at the Garden, in the 2014 and 2-16 NCAA Tournament.

It wasn't to be.

But with a generational player like Powell, who comes along every 25 years or so, this is the season. Any doubts were dispelled against Michigan State, regardless of how the end game played out. Seton Hall’s size, length and athleticism, along with Powell's brilliance, was on display for all to see.

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What makes Myles Powell him

Dana O'Neil Nov 15, 2019

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. - People once flocked to Trenton. My mother, who grew up 30 minutes north of the city, remembers Saturday visits as a special treat, Trenton the place to go when you wanted something especially nice. Streets lined with department stores - Dunham’s as well as Goldberg’s, with its famous Toyland - lured shoppers, while the Woolworth’s counter promised a good lunch.

I grew up with monthly dinners at Chianti’s, one of the dozens of delectable restaurants that filled Chambersburg, the Italian section of the city, and at my first job, at The Trentonian, I’d heed the call when Tattoni’s rang up to inform my coworker they had tripe on the day’s menu. During the summer Feast of Lights, you could walk the streets at night and grab a plate of pizza frit (fried dough) and a Tony Goes, a Trenton original hot dog loaded with peppers and potatoes on a torpedo roll, created by an Italian vendor who parked his cart outside of the statehouse.

In the early 1990s, I spent my summer afternoons in basketball heaven, parked on a bleacher at Cadwalader Park, watching the summer-league games that featured returning college players and the playground stars ready to school them. By then, things already were starting to change. One night a fight broke out and someone appeared to brandish a gun. The crowd scattered. My car was parked far away, but fortunately, Greg Grant, a city-born legend who turned a Division III career into an NBA run, shepherded me to his car to wait for the all-clear.

The department stores are long gone now and the Chambersburg restaurants have fled to the suburbs if not closed altogether. Friends tell me there’s no way I could go to Cadwalader Park today, not that there’s a league to watch anymore. “Nah, no one plays there anymore. No one,’’ says Grant, who runs youth basketball programs at gyms around the city. “You can’t have anything where a bunch of people will be at because somebody will start something. Those days are gone. You gotta invent programming, get kids to do other things in other ways. Two thousand people outside watching basketball? Uh uh. Never again.’’

Attempts to revive Trenton continue, but nothing seems to stick. The city ranks as the third most violent in New Jersey - ahead of Newark, and behind only Asbury Park and Camden - and the school system is in tatters. The New Jersey Department of Education recently assigned scores to each school in the state, 1 for the lowest and 100 for the highest. Trenton Central High School scored a 12 and an elementary school, Martin Luther King Jr., a 1.4.

Yet spanning the Delaware River, plastered on what’s officially called the Lower Trenton Bridge, shout the stubborn red neon letters of Trenton’s civic pride: Trenton Makes, The World Takes. The words were added in 1935, the result of a chamber of commerce slogan contest, and at the time, it made perfect sense. The city manufactured all sorts of things - from pottery to pork roll to Bayer aspirin to felt-tip markers - and flexed its industrial muscle with the Trenton Iron Co., the Trenton Rubber Co. and John A. Roebling’s and Sons.

All these years later, the boast now reads more like a plaintive cry for what once was. What, after all, does Trenton make any more?

To this, Seton Hall senior guard Myles Powell pulls down the V-neck on his Seton Hall practice jersey to reveal his first tattoo, a replica of the bridge’s proclamation.

“Me,’’ he says. “Trenton made me.’’

Cadwalader Park sits just a few blocks from the West State Street home where Myles grew up. He knew of the park’s dangers as a kid, but he also knew of its history, and talks about the guys who came before him - Grant and former Seton Hall star Bryan Caver - with reverence. “Legends,’’ he calls them.

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He yanks up gym shorts on his left leg to reveal another tattoo as he talks about his version of the park, a place of refuge and a proving ground. The tattoo is of the park’s basketball court, two boys sitting side by side on a bench watching the action. The boys are Myles and his older brother, Noel.

Basketball was a given in the Powell family. Myles’ father, also named Noel, played alongside Grant at what was then called Trenton State College (now The College of New Jersey). He’s in the local CYO Basketball Hall of Fame. His firstborn son could play too. Grant remembers the younger Noel coming through some of his programs, at times with his little brother in tow. Though seven years older, Noel didn’t mind having Myles tag along. He threw him into games against players much older, making sure little bro received no special treatment. Noel withstood elbows and hard defenders, and he trash-talked because his skills didn’t quite match up. Myles and Grant both say Noel could have been good. He had the talent and he loved the game. “But he fell in love with the streets,’’ Myles says. “You get two roads, and once you pick one, it’s kind of hard to turn back.’’

The tattoo is meant to represent brotherly love, and there is so much love here. Noel took care of Myles, made sure he got to practice on time, helped pay for his sneakers if he needed them. “Doing what a big brother is supposed to do,’’ Myles says. But it’s hard not to look at the ink and see the poignancy of two boys dreaming of a future. One is months away from his, the other has been put on hold. Myles will graduate Seton Hall in May and in June will wait to see where the NBA takes him. Noel has spent the past two years in jail, awaiting trial for first-degree murder.

Noel has no criminal history but has been indicted for the 2018 execution-style murder of a man at an Applebee’s in Lawrence, N.J., just outside of Trenton. Prosecutors allege Noel walked into the restaurant and shot another man at pointblank range before fleeing the scene. Reports, citing anonymous sources, claim the murder stemmed from a long-time feud between the two, although Noel’s defense attorney has challenged both a witness’ testimony and some of the language in a probable cause affidavit, related to the clothing Noel supposedly was wearing. Noel’s attorney declined to make him available for an interview, but Myles speaks at length about his brother.

He says if it weren’t for Noel, there’s no telling what might have come of him. Because he was so much younger, his parents reared him entirely differently, learning, he says, from the freedoms they gave their firstborn. “I got a cell phone later than my brother, my curfew was way earlier,’’ Myles says. “I wasn’t able to stay out at my friends’ houses if they lived in bad areas. I didn’t understand why, but now that I’ve made it to where I am, I’m so thankful.’’ And if his parents weren’t on him, Noel was. Myles admits he was no angel - he got into fights on occasion, tried to skip school - but his brother was on him all the time. “I wouldn’t be the man I am if it weren’t for him,’’ Myles says.

In return, Myles is trying to give Noel something he won’t ever enjoy - a basketball career. With the little bit of free time he has in the Mercer County Correction Facility, Noel calls Myles almost daily, checking in like always to make sure his little brother is doing things the right way. “The only thing he’s looking for is positivity in his life,’’ Myles says. “I know my brother is living through me now. That’s why I’m doing this. That’s what this is, me just trying to do what’s right. Nobody is perfect, but I try my best to live a perfect life. I’m doing it for him, for my family, for Trenton.’’

Kevin Willard eases back into a chair after what he terms an “awful” practice. A Seton Hall basketball practice feels more like a track meet with a ball. The Pirates run through drills, run through half court sets, run to get water, run to lift a fallen teammate, run out of the building for film sessions. Walking appears to be illegal. Willard likes it this way. High-spirited and fast-paced, that’s the only way to keep guys’ attention, he insists. “Otherwise, I start losing them in the huddle,’’ he says jokingly.

Within the chaos, though, Willard has a high level of expectation: He expects attention to detail and effort, not just flailing about; he expects smart decisions, especially when things seem unruly; and he expects teamwork and selflessness. The last makes Willard’s take about his star player all the more interesting. “Myles,’’ he says, “needs to worry about Myles Powell. He’s gotta be a little bit selfish.’’

Willard was the first to offer Myles, and Seton Hall the only place Myles visited.

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Up until Willard extended a scholarship, Myles wasn’t quite sure how good he was. He finally got over on his brother’s buddies years earlier, but what exactly did that mean in the grand scheme of things? Then Seton Hall started a floodgate, with Myles receiving offers from all over the country, including a late push from UCLA. Seton Hall, though, felt right from the get-go. Just an hour from home, it meant his parents could watch him play, and the city vibe was familiar, comfortable even. Seton Hall is an oasis in the urban streets of South Orange, a turn one way down South Orange Avenue taking you to the gritty streets of Irvington.

Willard didn’t have grand expectations for Myles. He saw him as an off-the-bench gunner, a kid who could drain 3s when the Pirates needed him most. “Like Vinnie Johnson, the microwave,’’ Willard explains. In Myles’ first workout, Willard wondered if the kid could even do that. Myles broke his foot during a prep season at South Kent, and opted against surgery, preferring to rest up so he knew he’d be good for college ball. “I knew I was a little chubby, but that’s because I hadn’t been doing anything for months,’’ Myles says. “I stepped on the scale when I got here. I was 250 pounds.’’

Both Myles and Willard remember that first workout, the coach seeing a player so woefully out of shape that he simply couldn’t finish, the player realizing immediately that his goal to find a spot to help the team wasn’t soon going to be realized. “They’d just won the Big East championship, and they knew what they had to do,’’ Myles says. “They were like, We don’t need some fat, little pudgy guy.’’ Like most teenagers, Myles never considered what he put into his body. He’d plow through the pork roll, egg and cheese sandwiches his mother made, feast on pizza and burgers and wash everything down with swigs of juice. “He was one cheeseburger away from not being able to play this game anymore,’’ Willard says.

With the help - and teasing and occasionally threatening - of Seton Hall strength coach Jason Nehring, Myles radically changed his diet, replacing burgers with salmon, chips with vegetables and juice with water. Tuna salad came sans mayonnaise, turkey sandwiches with mustard in lieu of cheese. “They used to call me ‘Cheese,’ because I loved it so much,’’ Myles says, shaking his head. “Then I had none of it. No cheese, no bread, no carbs, nothing.’’ Aside from getting on the court, his motivation was simple. He had worked too hard, overcome too much to be saddled by something he could control. Soon he fell in love with weight loss, the results showing up in the mirror and on the scale. Within a month, he dropped 15 pounds. By the end of his freshman season, he ranked fifth among all Big East rookies in scoring. As a sophomore, after starting all but one game and ratcheting his scoring up to 15.5 points per game, Myles earned the league’s most improved player award.

The following fall, Noel was arrested, upending the family’s equilibrium, and crushing Myles. “When I lost him two years ago, when he went through what he went through, it woke me up,’’ he says. “I realized how life was, how fast it could be taken from you, how precious it is. It made me grow up on the court and off.’’ Playing for so much more than himself, Myles answered the mounting pressure with a scintillating junior year - honorable mention All-American, 13th-highest scorer in the nation, the fourth-best scoring season in Seton Hall history and a school record for made 3s in a year. He tested the NBA Draft waters in the offseason, getting the feedback he needed, even if it wasn’t necessarily what he wanted to hear.

Willard remembers sitting inside a Cheesecake Factory in Los Angeles, breaking down the decision with his star player. He told Myles he had to take the emotion out of the decision, remove what he wanted to do and concentrate on what he should do. It was gut wrenching, coach and player both ending up in tears over their dinners. “It’s like telling my son some bad news. You want so badly to be able to say, ‘Hey kiddo, congratulations,’ and instead you have to say, ‘It’s not your time,’ ’’ Willard says. “I just kept reminding him, ‘We only have one more step to go. Look how far you’ve come. You were the pudgy kid from Trenton who couldn’t finish a workout and now look at you.’ ’’ They met again the next morning for breakfast. Over a heaping plate of pancakes and eggs for Myles and a cup of coffee for Willard, Myles decided he would return to Seton Hall.

He also foisted even more responsibility on his shoulders. Myles was driving down a New Jersey interstate recently when he spied one of those revolving electronic billboards just as it turned to an ad for Seton Hall basketball, his face plastered high above. He nearly drove off the road. He is the legend now, the man kids revere. He wants desperately to live up to everyone’s hopes, maybe even more than their expectations. He goes back to the neighborhood spots where he played - to the Boys and Girls Club and elementary school

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and middle school gyms, even sometimes to the park - and tells the kids to dream big, explaining how he came out of the very same place with the very same hardships that make them feel stuck.

Trenton made, the world has taken Myles to amazing heights: preseason All American (Seton Hall’s first), Big East preseason player of the year, national player of the year contender, potential NBA Draft pick. He plays for the kids, he tells them. He plays for his parents who made sure he was boxed in by rules, for a university that nurtured him, a coaching staff who challenged him and a brother who saved him.

All of which gives Willard pause. From the day he met Myles, he has loved him for his big, kind heart. During practice, Myles is always the first to throw his arm around someone’s shoulders or high-five a good pass. When his group lines up for a defensive drill, they reach in front and behind them, holding hands as if in a huddle until the whistle sounds. “It’s what makes him Myles Powell,’’ Willard says. “And I don’t want him to lose that, but I also want him to understand that if you play for Myles Powell, the trickle-down effect, everything else will take care of itself. Your parents, your family, your city, your state, your brother, everyone benefits but you have to play for you.’’

He does not merely warm up. He skips through the layup line, hopping and dancing like a boxer before a big bout. In some ways, he is. This is only November. There are miles to go down the basketball road, and no verdicts will be cast on Seton Hall anytime soon. But Michigan State, the preseason No. 1 team and blue blood, is in town. For the Pirates, 12th in the nation, this is a show-me game.

Saddled by a high ankle sprain a week earlier, Myles has every reason to sit this one out. It does not occur to him. Trenton to Myles is more than a place, more even than an attitude. It’s something you have to live to understand. Grant gets it. The pintsized point guard starred at Trenton High, but earned only a passing glance from recruiters. He wound up at Morris Brown, a Division II historically black college in Atlanta. After a semester, he had had enough, opting to stay home after the holiday break. He got a job at a fish market, hauling crates all day, the stench of the place nearly making him wretch. Kevin Bannon, then the coach at Trenton State, found Grant in the fish shop. Aware of his high school career, he gave the kid a chance. Grant wound up the Division III Player of the Year after leading the nation in scoring, and a second-round pick of the Phoenix Suns, stringing together a long enough pro career (nine years) to earn a pension.

Now 53, Grant sees a lot of himself in Myles, and even more so sees a lot of Trenton. “Sometimes this can go negative, but I mean it positive: Myles is street,’’ Grant says. “He has that toughness about him, that Trenton about him. I was just like that, that same fire, and you channel it the right way, it helps you.’’

Against Michigan State, Myles channels all of his Trenton into 34 minutes that is pure Myles, pure Trenton. “Nothing he does surprises me,’’ Willard says later of his star’s game. “But I didn’t think he could do that.’’ He scores 37 points, nearly carrying the Pirates past the Spartans, falling just short, 76-73.

“Their kid, Myles, is one of the best players I’ve seen in college basketball,’’ Michigan State coach Tom Izzo says afterward. “He seems to play hard, have fun, seems like a great kid. Didn’t talk a lot of crap. Just did it the right way.’’ The fans, the same ones who greet Myles with a thunderous ovation during pregame introductions, applaud him and his teammates as they exit the arena with equal passion.

He is grateful in postgame interviews and gracious to everyone - and well aware he has just played in a March level game in November. He and Cassius Winston, the prohibitive player of the year favorite, just went near shot for shot in the second half. Winston, wearing a patch reading “Smoothie” to honor his brother who died only days earlier, scores 17 of his 21 in the second half; Myles has 24 of his 37 in the last 20.

But like all athletes after a loss, Myles laments what went wrong instead of everything that went right. He chides himself for failing to run more clock after the Pirates went up five, and takes the fall for not scoring on a late drive to the bucket. As for the ankle injury, he dismisses it, insisting that once the game started it was a non-issue. “My boys back home, they called me and told me they knew I was going to play,’’ he says. “That’s who I am.’’

And that’s where he’s from, and why he has that bridge across his chest.

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Seton Hall stuns No. 7 Maryland in early-season statement win

By Zach Braziller December 19, 2019 | 9:25pm | Updated

When a poor play came up, the lm was stopped and rewound. Over and over, Seton Hall relived Saturday’s ugly loss at Rutgers. For two hours the next day, the Pirates dissected their 20-point defeat.

The following three days, they practiced like it was the preseason, going for 2 ¹/₂ hours the day before Thursday’s game.

“It was a gut check,” senior Quincy McKnight said. “We did a lot of soul- searching.”

It led to a victory few could see coming, a gritty 52-48 win at Prudential Center over No. 7 Maryland. After blowing leads against Michigan State and Oregon, the Pirates closed, despite the absence of All-America guard Myles Powell (concussion) and second-leading scorer Sandro Romaro Gill dunks over Maryland's Jalen Smith during Seton Mamukelashvili (fractured wrist). Hall's 52-48 upset win on Thursday night. (AP)

They shook o consecutive losses. They forgot about losing their Top-25 ranking. They ignored their role as a 7 ¹/₂-point underdog, responding to adversity by playing their best defensive game of the young season and registering a key résumé- building victory that saves what had been a disappointing non-conference performance.

“A lot of people were doubting us. A lot of people were saying our season was going the wrong way,” sophomore Jared Rhoden said. “I just feel like this win stamped us and showed us what we’re made of and what Seton Hall is all about.”

Added McKnight: “We dug down and we got a good program win.”

After the victory, the Pirates (7-4) celebrated with Powell, who Face-timed with the team from his room. Last Saturday, he su ered a serious concussion after taking multiple shots to the head and won’t be back until he passes concussion protocol. There was a lot of excited screaming, which coach Kevin Willard didn’t like, because Powell is supposed to be taking it easy. When McKnight notched a key threepoint play late in the second half, he exed at the crowd, knowing Powell was watching, celebrating like he would.

“I had to give him a scream, let him know we were going to win this game for him,” McKnight said.

Without its two leading scorers, Seton Hall needed production from some unlikely sources, players who hadn’t been reaching their potential.

Leading the charge was McKnight, who limited Maryland (10-2) star Anthony Cowan Jr. (3 of 14, 16 points) on the defensive end while also converting two clutch three-point plays down the stretch and nishing with 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists. Rhoden was a key on the glass, grabbing a career-high equaling 12 rebounds to go along with eight points. Starting for the rst time this year, point guard Anthony Nelson scored 10 points, including the game’s biggest basket, a driving layup with 1:01 to go to give Seton Hall a seven-point lead. Big men Ike Obiagu and Romaro Gill combined to block a 12 shots, as Maryland shot just 26 percent from the eld, committed 17 turnovers and was held to a season-low 59 points.

“This was a con dence-booster for everybody who was on the court today,” McKnight said.

The current dynamic may not change soon. Mamukelashvili is likely out until February. Willard doesn’t expect Powell to be back by the start of the league season. But Seton Hall showed it still has enough to beat a very good team without its stars.

“The way they bounced back from Saturday and the way they attacked this week — with a business-like attitude, with a humble attitude, to get ready for this game — will go farther than anything else will,” Willard said. “I think it’s very important for the fact they understand who they are right now, and right now, we’ve got to be a bunch of junkyard dogs and we’ve got to be gritty, and we’ve got to scratch and claw our way to victories.”

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Posted by Jaden Daly at 1:30 AM Friday, December 20, 2019

This time, Pirates’ latest program-defining win resonates just a little more

Romaro Gill (35) blocks Maryland’s Jalen Smith for one of Seton Hall’s 15 rejections as Pirates stunned seventh-ranked Terps Thursday night. (Photo by Bob Dea/Daly Dose Of Hoops)

NEWARK, N.J. — The story has been repeated so many times in Kevin Willard’s decade-long reign at Seton Hall.

Team with its proverbial back against the wall, sometimes missing a key player, maybe two, maybe even asked to do something it had not done before, matches up against program with Top 10 ranking. Fans and pundits alike predict worst-case scenario, only for said underdog team to rise up and score massive upset.

That tale has come to define Seton Hall over the years, for better or worse. So many of the Pirates’ memorable victories — take your pick of any during Isaiah Whitehead’s transcendent run to a Big East championship, or maybe last year's epic takedown of Kentucky — have come when the chips were down in and around South Orange, bringing the Big East’s blue-collar team together to rally for and with one another to produce a heart-stopping instant classic.

So it was again Thursday night, when Seton Hall welcomed a seventh-ranked Maryland team into the Garden State to complete the back end of a two-year series the Pirates opened last December with a resilient — and resonant — victory in College Park. Unlike last year, though, the manner in which The Hall pulled out this latest rabbit from its hat was one that was unexpected by almost any of the 13,000-plus patrons that played a deciding factor in Maryland suffering a second consecutive eyebrow-raising defeat.

It wasn’t so much the workmanlike, defense-oriented tenor of the Pirates’ 52-48 triumph over the Terrapins that commanded everyone’s attention, but rather the circumstances surrounding the game and the willingness to fix the mistakes of the past week by reinventing the team’s identity. Playing without Myles Powell after his concussion suffered against Rutgers, and Sandro Mamukelashvili as he continues to recuperate from a broken wrist indeed handicaps Seton Hall offensively, and admittedly does make things

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“It shows everybody,” Quincy McKnight — now thrust into the role of alpha dog offensively in Powell’s absence — said of the significance of the latest name-brand win collected by the Pirates. “There’s been a doubt with us since we lost to Iowa State (December 8), there’s been a doubt losing Sandro, losing Myles. There’s been a little doubt, and we proved to everybody that we can still play.”

“We did a lot of soul searching these past four days, and this is a big program win right here. We’re out an All-American and we’re out our starting power forward in Sandro, and when we’re down two players like that, it’s tough. But we dug down and got a good program win.”

There were no players-only meetings this time around, no outside distractions, no off-the-court drama between Saturday's 20-point loss to Rutgers and Thursday night. It was all business, and an uncharacteristically long pregame film session after three days of intense practices confirmed the shift in mantra.

“We came back Monday and we literally watched the first half for an hour and a half,” McKnight recalled. “It was a gut check, simple as that. Everybody came back and we practiced hard. We’ve just basically been getting after it.”

It was that gauntlet of sorts, in fact, that prompted Seton Hall’s coach to reaffirm his own vote of confidence in a team predicted to be the Big East favorite before the ball was even tipped for the first time last month, citing the toughness he once questioned in his core group several years ago.

“I was looking to see how they were going to bounce back,” said Willard. “They were honest in the film — we all talked about things that were going on in the film — and then we had three days of our best practice we’ve had all year.”

Not only did the Pirates bring the behind-closed-doors intensity out for the public to see, the supporting cast was unfazed by the number next to the visitors’ name, nor did it cower in the absence of its Batman and primary Robin. From McKnight playing off the ball and underscoring Anthony Nelson’s burgeoning prowess as a facilitator, to Romaro Gill and Ike Obiagu combining to block a dozen shots — Seton Hall registered 15 rejections as a team — to Jared Rhoden channeling Angel Delgado and Michael Nzei with a nose for the basketball, Seton Hall cared not about what was at stake, it simply cared about getting the job done, regardless of cost.

“They proved to me that they weren’t going to hang their heads, they weren’t going to worry about anything,” Willard proudly assessed. “And they showed up and played great defensively.”

And the beat goes on for the boys in blue, who will get a brief respite before Sunday’s encounter with Prairie View A&M, the final tuneup before Big East play opens at DePaul eight days later. But for whomever lies ahead, the objective remains the same for the Pirates, a group that has taken an adverse situation and turned it into a positive, carrying an all-for-one and one-for-all approach to navigating the choppy waters separating Seton Hall from Powell and Mamukelashvili returning to finish the job.

“We all knew that we needed each other to win tonight,” Rhoden reiterated. “A lot of people were doubting us, a lot of people were saying our season’s going down the wrong way. I just feel like this win stamped us and showed us what we’re made of, and showed what Seton Hall is all about.”

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Seton Hall’s Quincy McKnight: The Pirate who has steered the ship

By Adam Zagoria | For NJ Advance Media Posted Dec 27, 2019

Quincy McKnight headed home to Bridgeport, Conn., to recharge for the Christmas holiday.

But even while he was away from his Seton Hall teammates, the senior guard planned to check in with them.

“We all get to go home, we get three days off,” he said. “We’re going to cherish that. I’m going to still call these guys Christmas Day. These are my brothers, so I’m going to still call them, text them in a group message, things like that.

“We’re going to enjoy the family time, and then come home and have some more family time with these guys in conference play.”

The 6-foot-3 McKnight certainly earned a few days off the way he played leading up to the holiday. In the team’s last two non-conference games, he averaged 21 points while leading Seton Hall to wins over No. 7 Maryland and a pesky Prairie View A&M team with leading scorer Myles Powell and big man Sando Mamukelashvili out.

When the Pirates stunned the Terps on Dec. 19, McKnight went off for 17 points, eight rebounds and six assists, including two free throws with 1.1 seconds on the clock.

Then with his team trailing Prairie View A&M by five points at the half on Dec. 22, McKnight took the game over in the second half and finished with a season-high 25 points while shooting 9-of-9 from the foul line in what turned into a 20- point win.

McKnight has been wired as a scorer since his college career began.

Three years ago, he went off for 44 points on 16-for-26 shooting and also had nine rebounds, six assists, and four steals while playing for Sacred Heart in a triple-overtime win against Bryant. That season he averaged 18.9 points and 3.0 assists.

But after transferring to Seton Hall in the summer of 2017 and then sitting out the 2017-18 season per NCAA transfer rules, McKnight evolved into more of a defensive stopper and facilitating point guard. Last season he averaged 9.4 points along with 3.9 assists and 1.6 steals.

“Three years ago now I was scoring the ball at a high level,” he said. “I came here, sat out a year and moved to the point guard position. I kind of started to defer to Myles [Powell] a little bit. With the amazing scorer that he is, it’s kind of hard not to, you know? I just took the role as the point guard and tried to keep my turnover ratio down and tried to get my guys involved and just played my role.”

But with Powell now sidelined with a concussion and second-leading scorer Sandro Mamukelashvili (fractured wrist) out 6- 8 weeks, somebody has had to step up and become the alpha scorer to keep the Pirates’ season afloat.

“My role before was playing defense,” McKnight said. “Myles and Sandro went down, so I had to step up on the offensive end, and that’s what I’ve been doing, stepping up on both sides.”

McKnight isn’t the only one who has carried more of the offense recently.

Sophomore forward Jared Rhoden is averaging 10 points and 10.5 rebounds in the last two games and sophomore guard Anthony Nelson is averaging 11 points and 5.5 assists. Freshman forward Tyrese Samuel went for careers-highs of 12 points and seven rebounds in the Prairie View A&M win.

“He’s doing what exactly what you hope talented freshmen do, is they stay patient, keep working and I think he’s going to continue to get better and better,” Pirates coach Kevin Willard said. “And we’re going to need him with the amount of physicality we’re going to see with DePaul, Xavier and those type of teams.”

With Seton Hall set to open the Big East schedule on Monday against DePaul (12-1), the Pirates will need more of that offensive magic from those players. Powell is questionable for the game, and Willard said it was “realistic” he could debut against Georgetown on Jan. 3 at Prudential Center.

“Trust me, that’s all he wants to do is get back on the court,” McKnight said of Powell, who sat on the bench last Sunday wearing glasses. “He came back for a reason his senior year and he has a lot to prove coming into conference play.”

Even after Powell returns, Seton Hall will need a second-scorer because Mamukelashvili is likely out until some time in late January.

And McKnight seems more than comfortable in that role.

“Q has answered the bell since he stepped on campus,” Willard said.

01/02/2020 What Seton Hall’s Myles Powell learned during concussion recovery

What Seton Hall’s Myles Powell learned during concussion recovery

By Howie Kussoy January 2, 2020 | 11:02pm

There is no concern regarding Myles Powell’s health. There is no doubt whether the Seton Hall star will make his long-awaited return home Friday night. There is again no question what he is expected to do.

After missing two weeks and two games with his first-ever concussion, Powell unexpectedly returned for Monday night’s Big East-opener and led the Pirates to a 74-66 win at DePaul. The preseason All-American scored 27 points (hitting 7 of 15 from the field and 11 of 15 free throws) with five rebounds and five steals in the Pirates’ double-digit comeback.

On Friday (9 p.m., FS1), the senior will play at Myles Powell AP Prudential Center for the first time since Nov. 23, when Seton Hall (9-4, 1-0 Big East) plays host to Georgetown (10-4, 0-1).

“It just made me cherish [the season] more because everything can be taken from you so fast,” Powell said of the injury. “I feel like the season’s gone by so fast. I had time to sit down and take in everything that’s gone on and just be thankful for everything that I have.”

Powell had barely practiced before playing Monday. He still hasn’t resumed lifting weights yet and admitted his “body still feels a little weak.”

After twice hitting his head during the Dec. 14 game at Rutgers, Powell frighteningly asked coach Kevin Willard why the team was practicing at their in-state rival.

“I don’t remember the game,” Powell said Thursday. “I watched a little bit of it, but it was kind of messing me up because I didn’t really remember it.”

The following two weeks were largely spent in the dark. No TV. No video games. Limited phone use.

Exceptions were made, like Seton Hall’s stunning Dec. 19 win over No. 7 Maryland.

“I lost it that day. I was so happy that my guys were able to come up with a big win,” Powell said. “That was my first time watching us on TV. It was crazy. Now, I really see what the fans feel. My palms are sweating, I’m jumping through the roof, I’m trying to tell them what I do.

“It was different. It was a good experience, but I wouldn’t want to do it again.” History remains ahead.

Powell is five points from becoming the seventh-leading scorer in school history. He is 23 3-pointers from becoming Seton Hall’s all-time leader. He is less than three months from potentially bringing the school to a record fth straight NCAA Tournament.

Everything still looks as he envisioned.

“When you take something away from somebody that they love doing for a brief amount of time, it affects them, but [my teammates] did a great job of helping me keep my head up,” Powell said. “I love this group of guys. It feels good to be back out there with my brothers.”

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01/04/2020 Romaro Gill steps into the spotlight after stellar Georgetown performance

Romaro Gill steps into the spotlight after stellar Georgetown performance

Chris McManus | January 4, 2020

An ironically overlooked seven-footer not known for his offense goes up against the Hoyas, a program not only recognized for their centers but coached by one of the very best, .

On top of that, Gill is up against someone who can see eye-to-eye in Turkish big Omer Yurtseven, who has put up 19 and 9 against Syracuse and Oklahoma State, 21 and 5 against Duke, and 16 and 10 against Penn State — the four best opponents Georgetown has faced.

But after losing perhaps his first opening tip all season, it was all Romaro Gill (17pts, 8rebs, 4blks) from then on.

Yurtseven, who was bullied in Wichita by Angel Delgado and Ish Sanogo as an N.C. State player, morphed into the young player seen that day when up against Gill.

Gill neutralized Yurtseven on the glass in the first half and held him to several mid-range attempts and just two points before Gill’s first of four blocks came in the opening minutes of the second half after a flurry of four Seton Hall turnovers.

The block of course came against Yurtseven, who would score just four more points in minutes that mattered while Gill tallied ten more, added eight rebounds, and three more blocks in the second half.

“What I’m proud of [about] Ro’ is the consistency,” commented Kevin Willard.

“Back-to-back games — the second half at DePaul and now this game — we’re trying to get him the ball a little bit more around the rim so we can reward him for all the stuff he’s doing defensively, and I thought the guys did a good job of looking for him tonight.”

The native of Jamaica’s performance left Kingston-born Ewing to heap rare praise upon him.

“Gill affected the game, he blocked four shots,” said a usually short Ewing.

“He’s playing great, he does everything that he needs to do. He protects the rim, he fights for everything, he does a great job of defending in the post, blocking shots, in pick-and-rolls, when they lob it up to him he catches it and finishes.”

Gill didn’t directly hear Ewing, but it was made sure that he heard third-hand.

“That’s an honor, because Patrick Ewing is one of the best players to have ever played and he’s also a Jamaican too so for him to say that about me that’s a big honor and I appreciate that,” said Gill, his usual humble self.

“Think about it, he’s a Hall of Famer so if he’s saying he’s that good, it’s got to mean something,” remarked a grinning Myles Cale of the exchange.

“I’m sure Ro’ didn’t hear that yet but when he does he’s going to appreciate it,” added Myles Powell.

“Ro’s a great kid, I really hope he gets a chance [in the pros]. To the NBA guys: you guys should take a good look at him. He’s going to work hard, he’s going to do everything you ask, he’s a great player, a great person on and off the court and if I had a team, that’s someone I would definitely want on my team.”

Gill’s lateral quickness and ever-improving lack of clumsiness when defending guards has really ramped up the post defense Ewing commented on, something Quincy McKnight has also mentioned at least twice now.

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“When you’re able to pressure the ball like I do and not worry about guys getting lay-ups when they do get past me, that’s something that worried us a lot last year and why I fouled a lot last year because I was trying to stop lay- ups,” explained McKnight.

“But this year with Ro’ and Ike [Obiagu] back there it’s a blessing for all of us, we just let guys go by us. All you hear from us is ‘Block party! Block party! Let’s get it, we’re out of here!’

“It’s great, Ro’ and Ike are coming along and are used to battling each other in practice every day and you don’t see a dunk out of those two in practice, they’re both always going after each other, making each other better and making us better as a team.”

While Patrick Ewing’s compliments were a little out of the ordinary for his press conference track record, it was Myles Powell’s post-game gesture that won the night.

Powell was tapped by FOX Sports to be interviewed on the court after the win, but feeling like there were other better players on the night, he made sure to procure a headset-less Gill to soak up some of the fame.

Don’t forget: Gill spoke of just how grateful and surprised he was to be at Big East media day — a bit of a fluke after McKnight was held home — let alone national TV.

“That feels good,” said Gill of his roommate’s gesture. “For him to do something like that I feel like whatever I’m doing out there, they actually appreciate it, so it feels good for him to do that.”

“I think Myles Powell is starting to become a smart man, because I think he understands how much Ro’ does and how much he’s protecting all those guys down there,” half-joked Willard.

But why did Powell do it?

Just another one of his class acts.

I’ll let him do the talking, this one was too wholesome to boil down.

“Ro’ is my roommate, he’s been my roommate the last three years. Me and Ro’ are really close. Sometimes, that’s what you need to do as a leader as I realized throughout the game how great he was playing. All week the only thing everybody was saying to him was ‘We need you to do this, we need you to stop this seven-footer.’ You go on social media, [Omer] Yurtseven that’s the only seven-footer they’re talking about, this and that.

“He took that on the chin. Last night we’re in the room and he couldn’t sleep and I’m looking at him like ‘Bro you alright?’ and he’s like ‘Yeah bro, I’m just ready to go’ and when he said that, I knew.

“This is the Ro’ that we’ve seen [in practice] and this is the Ro’ that we know that can be one of the best big men in the country. When it was my opportunity — to bring him with me — I felt like it was time, man. I love Ro’, he knows that I love him and the spotlight that I get I want him to come too.

“When you have a man like that who is just working, and working, and working as hard as he does in the classroom, on the court, off the court you just want the best for those type of people and he’s the guy that reminds me of Mike [Nzei]. Me and Mike were so close and our bond is based off of that. We have the same bond.

“I, I don’t know how to say it, fade toward people like that. I’m kind of speechless, getting emotional just talking about Ro’.”

The fact of the matter is that Powell, Willard, the nation, and perhaps even Patrick Ewing will have a lot more to say about Romaro Gill if he puts in more performances like this one.

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‘You better want to work’: How Kevin Willard has built Seton Hall into a consistent top 25 program

By Dana O'Neil Jan 15, 2020

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — The Seton Hall basketball team was maybe 10 to 12 blocks from its final destination when the bus started to sputter, cough and wheeze its displeasure, eventually refusing to budge another inch. Jimmy O’Donnell, the senior associate athletic director, walked to the back and quickly diagnosed the problem. The black smoke coming from the bus offered a decent telltale. As O’Donnell weighed the options — walking the last few blocks to the team’s Cincinnati hotel, on the day before the Pirates played Xavier, or calling for a new bus — Kevin Willard ambled around to check out the problem.

There was a time, not too long ago, that a broken-down bus would not have pleased Willard. Perpetually on the hot seat and tightly wound because of it, he might have considered the smoke spewing from the bus a metaphor for his own career at Seton Hall. Chugging along, all systems go, until a big belch rained noxious misery on the whole thing.

This time, Willard spied the smoke and shrugged his shoulders. “It could be worse,’’ he told O’Donnell. “It could be the plane.’’ With that, Willard hustled his players to gather their backpacks, explaining they’d have to hoof it to the hotel and wait for a replacement bus to gather everything else. A day later, the Pirates beat Xavier, 83-71, for their fifth win in a row. The string stands now at six straight, a run of eye- popping consistency in a college basketball season that otherwise seems allergic to calm. The streak dates to Dec. 14, to a humbling loss at Rutgers that in other years might have been the end of the entire season.

That the whole thing didn’t all go up in smoke in Piscataway says everything about the growth of both program and coach.

Supported by an administration that stubbornly - or foolishly, others might once have argued - refused to cave to the catcalls to can him, Willard has figured out the difference between building a team and building a program, kissing off the chronic worry about his job status in exchange for simply worrying about doing the job. In exchange, the Pirates have rewarded him with the sweet spot every coach craves — a good team that has all the X’s and O’s to win and win big, but even more, has all of the intangibles.“I love our identity,” Willard says. “I love coming to work every day. I love this team. We’re not pretty. We’re not fancy. We are who we are and who we are is pretty darned good.’’

From the back of the van, the older boys would egg the coach’s son along. “Get him to stop at McDonald’s,’’ they’d say. “He’ll listen to you.’’ And so the elementary school-aged Willard dutifully climbed through the seats to ask his pop if they couldn’t hit a drive-through on the way back to St. Dominic High School. In the offseason, father and son varnished the old court, the smell so pungent that all these years later, Willard still recalls it with a nose wrinkle. By the time Willard was a ninth-grader, his father was an assistant at Kentucky. Willard happily woke up before school and rode with his father to work. As his dad stewed in 6 a.m. meetings alongside Rick Pitino, Willard would grab a ball and shoot, a teenager with Memorial Coliseum all to himself.

Whatever aggravations the coaching profession had, Willard didn’t know of it. He saw his father’s early career through the blissfully ignorant clouds of childhood. By the time Kevin was old enough to see the warts — Ralph’s struggles to win at Pittsburgh, where his son was a point guard — it was too late. Kevin wanted to be a coach. “I wanted him to do what he wanted to do, but I wasn’t rooting for him to become a coach,’’ says Ralph. “I knew it would make my life even more difficult.’’

Once he realized there was no turning his son away from coaching, Ralph urged Kevin to start from the ground up, take the hardest job he could find to make sure he really wanted in.

Kevin took his father’s advice perhaps a little too well, joining Ralph in Boston, where the two worked for Ralph’s lifelong friend and Kevin’s coaching mentor, Rick Pitino. “My dad told me it would be the hardest year of my life,’’ Willard says of his position with the Celtics. “It was the hardest four.’’ His job description included anything and everything Pitino needed him to do — advance scouting, game preparation, video breakdowns, individual workouts — and no sleep. Willard, along with Frank Vogel, then another grunt and now the Lakers head coach, worked 20 hour days, heeding Ralph’s advice never to let Pitino beat them to the office.

Plenty of nights they’d crash on the training table, sometimes side by side. Before one All-Star break, Pitino found his two minions and told them he planned to use the mini-vacation for a summit, really break down the offenses with film and planning. “I’m looking at Frank and there are tears in the corners of my eyes,’’ Willard says. “Coach looks at us and says, ‘You really think I want to spend all this time with you fucking guys? I’ll see you in a few days.’ We didn’t even celebrate. We just went to sleep.’’

But Willard, all of 22, also spent hours working out the likes of Paul Pierce and Antoine Walker. He’d closely watch games that included Patrick Ewing and pore over tapes, trying to figure out how to stop Karl Malone and John Stockton’s pickand-roll. When the job wasn’t hell, it was heaven. “Are you kidding me?” he says. “I loved it.’’ When Pitino resigned in Boston, Kevin Willard followed him to Louisville, staying 10 years before landing his own job at Iona. The Gaels were 228 before Willard arrived. When he left three seasons later, they were 21-10.

Bobby Gonzalez was whistled for seven technical fouls in his final season. He verbally pistol-whipped his own boss. One of his players was ejected from a game for fighting, a second arrested for causing an accident after driving the wrong way on a highway, a third arrested for duct-taping eight people during an armed robbery. The Big East commissioner called Gonzalez’s behavior an “embarrassment,’’ and after he finally was fired, he was arrested for shoplifting a murse.

Never was a coach more aptly nicknamed than Gonzo, the man, the myth, the mayhem, who managed to drag the once-proud Seton Hall program so deep into the mud that pigs thought the Pirates beneath them. “I lived through the Bobby Gonzalez era.’’ That’s how Bryan Felt, the current athletic director and former executive director of the Pirate Blue Athletic Fund, describes Gonzalez’s four years of dysfunctional scorched earth in South Orange. “You look back on some of it now and you can’t believe we went through that.’’

The only thing Gonzalez did do was leave his successor with a pretty good team. When Willard arrived from Iona, he inherited a roster heavy with returners that had finished 19-13 the year before. It was fool’s gold, of course, the program in such disarray that not even a band of fairy godmothers could have bippity-boppity-booed the thing into shape.

But Willard was the perfect fool to believe it. Blessed with the arrogance of ignorance and the promise of his first big-time job, he brazenly waltzed into the living rooms of recruits, following on the heels of the old-time Big East coaches such as and Jim Boeheim, and thought he had a chance. He looks back now, at the 34-year-old bristling with big-time dreams and no real plans to achieve them, and

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shakes his head. He wonders if he had done things right from the get-go, developed some sort of long-term plan instead of just getting starry- eyed about a quick hit, if he would have saved himself some misery. “I walk into my first meeting and there’s Pitino, Calhoun, Boeheim, Mick Cronin, Buzz Williams and I’m like, Holy shit!” he says. “But I was just, you’re just stupid. It took me a while to realize I was wasting my time.’’

He figured it out soon enough. Thanks to some blunt assessments from Ralph and the even more blunt realities of a string of lousy records, Willard learned what suited Seton Hall and what didn’t. The school sits in an urban neighborhood and lacks the sprawling acreage necessary to expand. The university revamped its Regan Recreation & Athletics Center, but getting to the Pirates’ practice gym requires an Alice into the rabbit hole run down the steps to the basement. The space is serviceable, but nothing like the palaces most top-tier programs call home. (The university is in the very early planning stages of a plan to construct a separate facility, Felt says, eyeing up an addition to the fieldhouse — but that is years away.)

The place, frankly, suits Willard even if he didn’t see it at first. He’s fiery and demanding, cut of the same workhorse cloth as Pitino. He’s a big believer in individual instruction, preferring to reserve early-morning slots for his players to focus on their unique skills so that practice is more efficient — albeit hyperactively energetic. Players who commit to him have to commit to that work, to the early alarm clocks and constant focus on fundamentals. “You better want to work,’’ senior guard Myles Powell says. “That’s the Seton Hall basketball vibe.’’

But in between fighting the vibe and finding it, Willard nearly have cost himself his job. One crummy season begat another, five consecutive years without an NCAA Tournament appearances, five consecutive years where the Pirates only twice reached .500, all bottoming out in 2014-15. That year, Willard’s fifth on the job, a 12-2 start disintegrated as the Pirates lost 13 of their final 17, tension in the locker room ultimately leading to the transfers of Sterling Gibbs and Jaren Sina. The inevitable calls for Willard’s head grew so loud that, on the advice of Ralph, the coach and his wife, Julie, had a frank talk about their future — when to put the house on the market, where they could move, what he might do next.

Despite the clamoring, Pat Lyons never dropped the axe. The athletic director, who is now the school’s executive vice president, hired Willard at Iona, and he believed in his coach’s plan. The two met almost daily, informally usually, and Lyons believed that Willard, finally matured on the job, had a workable plan. He also knew Seton Hall needed stability. Since the glory days of P.J. Carlesimo, no Hall coach has lasted five seasons, an untenable turnover rate. “All coaches go through a maturation process, learning from their past mistakes and what they can and can’t control,’’ Lyons says. “I believed in Kevin and that he was trying to build this the right way. The only way he could do that was if I partnered with him.’’

From the couch in his office — the one he says he rarely sits on — Willard glances over at the laptop propped open on his desk. “Synergy,’’ he says, “is my enemy.’’ Like most coaches he sleeps little, arriving at the office no later than 6:30 each morning and even when he’s still, his mind is chronically active. Willard is an admitted tinkerer, which is why Synergy, the online analytics hub, is so addicting. He watches every Big East game, using the app to break down tendencies or plays as he sees them, and he also uses the service to swipe ideas from the NBA. Willard concentrates especially on Sacramento and Utah, finding in the plays the two teams design for and Donovan Mitchell respectively, options for Powell, his national player of the year candidate. “I’ll watch one night and the next day Myles will have seven new plays,’’ he says. “My poor big guys are like, How many more screens do I have to set?” Just last week, on the day before the Pirates played Marquette, Willard added another wrinkle.

Except this is not work. It’s fun. After the 2014-15 season, Julie gave him a much needed dose of reality. “Either have fun with this business, or get out of this business but we’re not doing this anymore,’’ she told him. His two young sons, Colin and Chase, he realized, weren’t having the same idyllic basketball experience he enjoyed at a young age, and it was entirely his own fault. He cared far too much about himself, and not nearly enough about his players. Sobered by that reality, and trusting Lyons’ faith in him, Willard deliberately worked on his attitude. He did not find some Zen master. Willard remains fiery and demanding, but he has refocused his priorities. “The most important walk I make every day are the steps I take onto the practice court,’’ he says. “They feed off of me, and if I’m grumpy, these kids are around me as much as my family, they know.’’

It helps, of course, that after all of those years of struggling, Seton Hall has found its footing. Led by Isaiah Whitehead, the Pirates followed up that debacle season in 2015 with a breakthrough, finishing 25-9, winning the Big East Tournament title and earning Willard his first NCAA Tournament bid. More, Whitehead and his classmates established the standards for their successors. Every coach agrees that a culture isn’t a culture until it’s created and cultivated by the players and not the coaches. Seton Hall’s culture, finally, is entirely player-run. Powell remembers arriving on campus the following summer, a pudgy freshman who figured he could fit in. “It was like zoom, zoom zoom. They knew what they had to do,’’ Powell says. “There was no way I was going to keep up if I didn’t work.’’

Willard is now four for his last four in NCAA Tournament bids with a fifth coming in March, but arguably he has not had a team set up to do big things quite like this one. In Powell, he has a player capable of taking over a game (and a tournament, as Steph Curry, Kemba Walker and Shabazz Napier all have), but Powell no longer has to take over the game for the Pirates to succeed. Willard has depth (and even more when Sandro Mamukelashvili returns from a wrist injury), able to go as many as 10 deep. He has size with Ike Obiagu and Romaro Gill, a savvy point guard in Quincy McKnight, and, above all else, a balanced team that is as effective defensively as it is offensively. Seton Hall is 10th in defensive efficiency per KenPom.com, and over its six-game winning streak is holding opponents to 59.5 points per game.

There is, naturally, an inherent pressure in success as well. Willard, once expected to be fired, is expected to win and win big. His father, who still calls with suggestions, can’t even watch his son’s games live. “My blood pressure can’t take it,” Ralph says. “It sends me into A-fib.’’ He hits record, waits for a little more than two hours and then allows himself to peek at the score. Only then does he cue up the tape, once he knows what he’s in for.

For a two-game span last month, Ralph wasn’t the only one reaching for his medication. Ranked 16th in the nation, the Pirates lost back-to- back games, falling first to a struggling Iowa State team they’d beaten in Atlantis just weeks earlier, and then to Rutgers by 20. There were reasons: Mamukelashvili broke his wrist against Iowa State, and Powell played just 15 minutes against Rutgers because of a concussion. “You would have thought the world ended,’’ Felt says. “It was like a microcosm of the arc of Kevin’s entire career. Oh no, here we go!” Six years ago, Willard admits he might have been right on the ledge with his fan base, “ready to kick the poor dog.’’ He imagines what he might have done back then. Probably would have come into the office immediately afterward and stared blankly at film. “And got nothing done because what can you do? You lost. You can’t fix it right there by yourself in the office,’’ he says.

This time Willard went home. The next day, a Sunday, he went to church with his family, watched his boys play their games, ate some barbecue. Having been through a few fires, Kevin Willard isn’t about to worry about the smoke anymore.

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Seton Hall basketball: Myles Powell on verge of 2,000point milestone with St. John's next

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The Trenton native is making history, and not just in the scorebook.

Years from now, some newcomer to college basketball will see that Myles Powell scored 2,000 points at Seton Hall and think, “that guy was a really good scorer.”

True enough, but that won’t be the whole picture. The gaudy milestone doesn’t include what happened at Butler Wednesday.

With the Pirates up two and inbounding along Butler’s baseline with 47 seconds left and the shot clock nearly expired, Hall coach Kevin Willard called for a lob at the rim for sophomore Jared Rhoden.

“The Butler guys were calling out the play," Powell said. "They knew it."

So the senior called an audible, gesturing to Rhoden to flash left around 7-foot teammate Ike Obiago along the perimeter. Then he took care of the rest.

“Because I’m a shooter, I know how to get open,” Powell said. “I know the kind of screens that I need.”

Powell moved toward the basket and took out not one, but two Butler defenders. Rhoden drained the open jumper, and the Pirates beat the fifth- ranked Bulldogs for their seventh straight victory.

On Saturday, when they try to make it eight at St. John’s (noon, Fox), Powell almost certainly will become the fifth player in program history to reach the rarefied air of 2,000 (he needs seven points; see chart below). He’s also poised to become the sixth Pirate to Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (Photo: Vincent Carchietta, Vincent Carchietta-USA TODAY Sports) score 1,000 points in Big East play. In an ideal world it would happen at home — a ceremony will take place at the Prudential Center next week regardless — but the Garden feels like an appropriate stage.

“Madison Square Garden has been a special place for me for all four of my years here,” Powell said. “To be able to get 2,000 points in the most famous arena in the world, I feel like that kind of goes with my story.”

What a story it’s been. The Trenton native is tracking to become the Hall’s third first-team All-American, joining 1930s innovator Bob Davies and record setting 1950s big man . He’s averaging 22.0 points and 5.1 rebounds as 18th-ranked Seton Hall is 13-4 overall and 5-0 in the Big East — the program’s best league start ever.

“It’s a dream come true and a blessing,” Powell said. “When you’re a kid you dream about going to a big-time school and breaking records, and for me, because this is a school in Jersey, it means so much more.”

The focus might be on Powell’s points, but the shortest player in the Pirates’ lineup is rebounding at career-best rates.

“I know this is my last go-around, so I’ve bought in a little more, “ the 6-foot-2 guard said. “I’m watching more film, going over the scouting report with the coaches a little more, doing whatever it takes for my team. In the beginning of the year we had trouble rebounding, so I wanted to be one of the first people, as a leader and a captain, to pick that up.”

Despite sitting out two weeks with a concussion, and Willard’s publicly stated concerns over wear and tear, Powell said “I feel great” and said this is what he envisioned when he passed up an opportunity to turn pro in May.

“It’s been my greatest experience in college, going places with all these fans, selling out at home, being with this team,” he said. “I am really enjoying it.”

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Asked how many friends and family members are making the trip to Manhattan for Saturday’s milestone, Powell said he hasn’t discussed it with anyone.

“I’m just trying to make it another game,” he said, “another chance to get a win.”

The 2,000-Point Club

Seton Hall's all-time leading scorers: 1. Terry Dehere 2,494 2. Nick Werkman 2,273 3. Jeremy Hazell 2,146 4. Greg Tynes 2,059 5. Myles Powell 1,993

The 1,000-Point Club

Seton Hall players who have scored 1,000 points in Big East games (regular-season only):

1. Terry Dehere 1,320 2. Jeremy Hazell 1,316 3. Andre McCloud 1,113 4. Mark Bryant 1,005 5. Khadeen Carrington 1,001

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Romaro Gill is putting up some lofty numbers for Seton Hall

By Adam Zagoria | For NJ Advance Media Updated Jan 17, 2020;Posted Jan 17, 2020

Romaro Gill speaks in hushed tones and isn’t prone to braggadocio.

At 7-foot-2, the native of Jamaica truly appears to be a gentle giant off the court.

But as No. 18 Seton Hall (13- 4, 5-0 Big East) takes a seven- game winning streak into Saturday’s noon tilt with St. John’s (12-6, 1-4) at Madison Square Garden (noon, Fox), Gill has been anything but In five Big East games, Seton Hall's Romaro Gill is averaging 12.2 points, 5.2 rebounds gentle on the court. and 3.2 blocks. (Andrew Mills | NJ Advance Media) Andrew Mills | NJ Advance Media

After reaching double-figures in scoring just once in Seton Hall’s first 13 games, Gill has now tallied double-figures in four straight games. In two of his last four outings — wins over Georgetown on Jan. 3 and at No. 5 Butler on Wednesday — he poured in a career-high 17 points.

They weren’t garbage-time points, either. Seton Hall likely doesn’t beat Butler without Gill scoring 15 of his 17 points after they trailed by 10 points at the intermission.

After averaging 2.3 points, 2.7 rebounds and 1.3 blocks last season, Gill is averaging 7.2 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.9 blocks. In five Big East games, he’s averaging 12.2 points, 5.2 rebounds and 3.2 blocks.

Myles Powell’s roommate is tied for 12th in Division 1 in blocked shots.

“The leap that he has made, it’s amazing,” Powell said. “You guys know how I feel about Ro, and I’m at a loss for words to just say I’m proud of him.”

At this point, Gill, 25, has to be considered among the favorites — if not the favorite — to win the Big East Most Improved Player award. Considering that Powell is averaging 22 points, 5.1 rebounds and 2.3 assists for the league’s top team, he has to be considered the favorite for Big East Player of the Year. That means Seton Hall is in the mix for at least two major conference awards.

“Romaro Gill’s development within the course of this season is the most dramatic of any player in the Big East,” Steve Lavin, a Big East analyst on Fox and the former St. John’s and UCLA head coach, told NJ Advance Media. “During Seton Hall’s seven game win streak, he has been a central figure and difference-maker in the Pirates’ schemes at both ends of the court.”

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With his length and athleticism, Gill has always been a natural shot-blocker. In his second season at Vincennes University, a junior college in Indiana, he averaged 2.5 blocks while shooting 56 percent from the field and ranked 10th in the National Junior College Athletic Association in blocked shots with 85.

His coach, Todd Franklin, also knew that Gill had a blossoming offensive game given his instincts on the low block.

“He doesn’t have a bad little left-shoulder jump hook,” Franklin told NJ Advance Media earlier this season. “He’s so tall and long.”

Now he’s scoring off screen-and-roll lob dunks, which is virtually unstoppable. Against Butler, Gill scored nine points in a 15-6 run that ended with Powell’s 3 to give Seton Hall a 58-57 lead with 8:14 to play.

The win was their biggest of the season and their second over a Top-10 ranked opponent this season.

Gill’s improved offensive play has come at a time when the Pirates are without junior forward Sandro Mamukelashvili, arguably the team’s second-best player. He has been out since early December with a fractured wrist on his right (non-shooting) hand but is due back in the coming weeks.

Without him, Gill and sophomore Jared Rhoden, who has moved into the power forward spot and excelled, have both played huge roles. Rhoden is now averaging 8.6 points and 6.2 rebounds on the season.

“What Jared has done as a sophomore, it’s amazing,” Powell said. “He went from being a guard to having to throw away everything he knows as a guard and everything he learned in the first two years to now he’s playing the four. And when you do that, that's a huge jump because you’re not doing nothing the same.

“He’s setting screens now, he’s rolling to the basket, he’s picking up the four man, he has to switch. It’s a lot that he has to do that most sophomores don’t pick up that fast. I just want to give him a lot of credit because I know me as a sophomore, I wouldn’t have been able to do that.”

When Mamukelashvili returns, coach Kevin Willard will have to figure out how to work him back in the rotation without disturbing the chemistry he has achieved on this current winning streak.

“I still want everybody to realize that we still don’t have Sandro,” Powell said. “We’re winning [seven] games in a row and we’re still not even at our peak yet because we still don’t have one of our best players on our team so we’re only going to keep getting better and better from here.

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Myles Powell’s greatness makes anything possible for Seton Hall

By Howie Kussoy January 18, 2020 | 8:10pm

Ultimately, Seton Hall is here because a chubby freshman became a chiseled star senior. The Pirates will reach a school-record fifth straight Big Dance because a coach who went 82-80 with no NCAA Tournament appearances in five seasons was invited back for a sixth try.

There is Kevin Willard, who made it all possible. There is Myles Powell, who makes anything seem possible. There is much more to come.

When the Pirates came back from 10 points down Wednesday to win at No. 5 Butler, you learned the true potential of a team capable of capturing its first Big East regular season title in 27 years. When they overcame an atrocious start and 13-point halftime deficit to St. John’s on Saturday, you learned the true identity of a team capable of recreating 1989.

Following their 81-78 Garden win over the Red Storm, the No. 18 Pirates (14-4, 6-0 Big East) are set to vault up the polls.

They have opened Big East play with six straight wins for the first time ever, notching four on the road. They have won six straight league games for the first time in 17 years. Their current eight-game win streak matches the longest of Willard’s 10-year tenure.

“We’re just showing everybody we’re tough,” point guard Quincy McKnight said. “I think everybody’s playing their role right now and that’s what’s making us so good. Nobody’s forcing the issue. We’re just doing what we do.”

There is Powell, so there is no deficit too great. Even when the star guard misses his first six shots. Even when he goes to halftime with just six points.

Powell opened the second half by becoming the fifth player in Seton Hall history to reach 2,000 career points. He closed things out by putting Seton Hall ahead five separate times, while scoring 23 of his 29 points following the break and 15 in the final 8:17.

Powell could become the first Pirate named Big East Player of the Year since Terry Dehere in 1993 and the school’s first First Team All-American since Walter Dukes in 1953.

“You’re looking at a pro,” Willard said. “I can’t say enough. [He’s] the best player in college basketball.”

Powell couldn’t return the compliment quickly enough, aware of what it took for the long-overlooked program to elevate into a national contender.

“When one of the best coaches in the country has that much confidence in you, it’s kind of hard to lack confidence,” Powell said.

It may never be this good again. Luring the country’s top recruits is a challenge. Stumbling into a superstar like Powell is even more unlikely.

“We’ve been blessed to watch him play for the last 3¹/₂ years,” Willard said.

Imagine what you may soon watch.

For a team that hasn’t reached the second weekend of the NCAA Tournament since 2000 — and hasn’t been higher than a six-seed since 1993 — Seton Hall could enjoy a quick trip to Albany for the first weekend of the NCAA Tournament, then play the following week at the Garden.

It’s not too soon to look ahead. Look around. Six teams have been ranked No. 1 in the country. Duke lost to Stephen F. Austin. Kentucky lost to Evansville. No traditional power is to be feared. No player is as frightening to face as Powell.

How do you make a run?

By following one emotional win with another, like securing a second-ever road win over a top-five team, then winning another away from home against a rival. You do it whether or not you lose a key piece, like Sandro Mamukelashvili, who is out with a broken wrist. You do it with elite defense and coaching, with size and with perhaps the best player in the country. “This is what I came back for my senior year for,” Powell said. “I’m blessed to be in this situation and thankful for

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How Romaro Gill grew into Seton Hall’s unstoppable force

By Zach Braziller January 22, 2020 | 1:02am

Sometimes, Romaro Gill thinks back about the past five years.

He remembers where he was and how far he has come, from a high school graduate in his native country of Jamaica with no set plans to a key piece on one of the best college basketball teams in the country.

It still seems surreal to No. 10 Seton Hall’s game-changing 7-foot-2 center.

“I have to ask myself if this is really happening,” he said in a phone interview.

It’s a remarkable story. The 25-year- old Gill didn’t begin playing organized basketball until landing at Vincennes (Ind.) University. His first season, he averaged 1.8 points in 13 games. Fast forward to now, when Gill has emerged as the linchpin to Seton Hall’s defense, averaging 3.11 blocks per game, which is tied for the sixth most in Division I. His offensive game has taken off , virtually out of nowhere. Gill dunks everything and Romaro Gill looks to block Nick Rutherford's shot during Seton Hall's win over St. John's displays a soft touch around the on Saturday. (Bill Kostroun) basket. After reaching double figures once in his first 40 games as a Pirate, he’s averaging 12.5 points through six Big East contests, along with 6.5 rebounds per game.

This all began with a leap of faith, by several people, including Gill. Growing up in Saint Thomas, Jamaica, he played cricket and volleyball, but basketball always intrigued him. He was tall and played pickup games on occasion. He took part in Jamaica Basketball Development’s annual camp, which has produced the likes of Samardo Samuels, Jerome Jordan and current Illinois freshman Ko Cockburn. Gill impressed scout Mike Minto, who saw him again later that year.

“He could outrun everybody,” said Minto, a New Jersey native originally from Jamaica. “There was no way we’re going to have this 7-foot kid walking around here not playing.”

Gill was stunned when Minto approached him about a potential college scholarship. He felt there were better players than him — and there was no film for Minto to show college coaches.

Minto wanted to keep Gill close to him in the Northeast, but local junior colleges blew him off. Vincennes coach Todd Franklin had one open scholarship left for the 2015-16 season and

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In March 2017, Seton Hall had just been eliminated from the NCAA Tournament and assistant coach Grant Billmeier was in Hutchinson, Kan., for the junior college national tournament. He was there to see other prospects when he noticed Gill. On one possession, Gill threw down a dunk on a pick-and-roll, nimbly catching a pass on the move. On another, he blocked three shots in succession.

“I looked around and thought, ‘How come nobody is recruiting him?’ ” Billmeier recalled. “A lot of people at that event needed a finished product. We needed someone not for that year, but for the following two years.”

Billmeier worked fast to get Gill on campus. Following the tournament, other high-major programs — Georgetown, Washington and Washington State among them — had grown interested. But Seton Hall landed Gill, who liked the campus and being close to Minto. Gill was also happy with the plan coach Kevin Willard mapped out. Due to a crowded frontcourt that included Angel Delgado and Ismael Sanogo, the Pirates wanted Gill to redshirt his first season and learn from the program’s veterans.

“They kind of inspired me,” he said. “It was a great decision for me to sit out that year I did.”

Gill showed flashes last season, getting better as the year went on, helping Seton Hall reach the NCAA Tournament for the fourth straight season. When he missed three weeks due to an ankle injury last year, the Pirates struggled, losing four of five games. In one of their biggest wins of the year, over No. 23 Marquette on March 6, he had seven points, five rebounds and three blocked shots.

Still, Gill’s recent offensive production never seemed likely. He reached double figures in just one of Seton Hall’s first 13 games this year. Then came Jan. 3, a 78-62 victory over Georgetown at Prudential Center. Gill exploded for 17 points, eight rebounds and four blocks.

“I never knew I could score so many points,” he said.

He followed that up with 11 points and five blocks against Xavier and 10 points and six rebounds against Marquette. In a come-from-behind win over then-No. 5 Butler on Jan. 15, Gill had a number of alley-oops, scoring 17 points. He then notched the second double-double of his career, a 14-point, 13-rebound, six-block tour de force in a win over St. John’s last Saturday at the Garden.

“This rapid transformation,” Minto said, “is a surprise to everybody.”

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From Cricket to Hoops: Gill Helps Pirates SOAR

1/22/2020 8:00:00 AM By SEAN BRENNAN Special to BIGEAST.com

Romaro Gill and basketball did not cross paths until he was a senior in high school. It was then the 7-2, 255-pounder Seton Hall center decided to give basketball a shot in his final year at St. Thomas Technical High School in Jamaica.

“I played cricket for four years in high school,” Gill said. “My high school didn‘t have basketball until my final year, so cricket was my thing.”

The Pirates can be thankful that there is not a crying need for 7-2 cricket players these days. But there is for a 7-2 defensive menace and the Pirates are reaping the benefits of Gill’s play this season as Romaro Gill has been an integral part of the Pirates 6-0 start to conference play. he is a big part of the reason Seton Hall is ranked in the AP Top 10 for the first time in two decades.

And who would have thought all this was possible when The Hall lost junior Sandro Mamukelashvili, arguably the Pirates second-best player, to a fractured wrist back in December? Who was going to fill the void left by the 6-11, 240-pounder’s absence?

Romaro Gill, that’s who.

“Losing Sandro, that was a big part of our team because he was putting up a lot of numbers when he went out,” Gill said. “So not just me, but other players, too, had to step up to fill that gap and I feel like we all took that responsibility upon ourselves and we’ve been doing it since then.”

But perhaps no one more than Gill.

In six BIG EAST conference games this season, Gill has posted double figures in scoring five times, his last five outings, actually, has blocked 22 shots and is averaging 6.5 rebounds per contest. The rebounds and block totals should not surprise, but the scoring? Where did that come from after reaching double figures in just one of the season’s first 13 games?

“That’s something I do every day in practice,” Gill said. “And after that game against Georgetown (when Gill logged 17 points, eight rebounds and four blocks) I finally realized that I can really do it in games. I just tell myself, ‘This is what I need to be doing.’” And that’s what I’ve been doing every game since.”

His latest outing was one of his finest performances to date when he put on a show at Madison Square Garden, scoring 14 points while grabbing 13 rebounds and blocking six shots in the Pirates’ 82-79 win over St. John’s. Gill said he waited a year to have that performance.

“I kind of went into that St. John’s game with a chip on my shoulder because I remember last year when we went in there and got embarrassed,” Gill said of the Pirates’ 78-70 loss to the Johnnies last February. “So I went in there with a little fire in my belly. I wanted to do whatever it took to win the game.”

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Gill said some of his breakout season can be attributed to daily words of encouragement that come from his roommate, one Myles Powell.

“We both always encourage each other and he’s a cool dude,” Gill said. “Everybody knows that. So the things he’d say would boost your spirits.”

But what kind of roommate is Powell? Does he leave plates in the sink? His socks all over the floor? Is he Oscar Madison to Gill’s Felix Unger?

“No, he’s a great roommate,’ Gill said with a laugh.

Gill has become for the Pirates’ defense what Powell’s has been for their offense. A menacing presence in the paint and on the boards, his play even led Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard to dub Gill “a game changer” after his 17-point, four-rebound, three-block effort in a road win at then-No. 5 Butler last week. But as much fun as his new-found offense has become, Gill said remains a defensive menace at heart.

“Scoring is fun but what I enjoy more is blocking shots,” said Gill, who has 56 blocks on the season and ranks sixth in the nation - and tops in the BIG EAST - in blocks per game with 3.1. “If I get a chance to score, I’ll score. But I feel like I have more fun blocking shots. That’s my specialty.”

With eight straight wins heading into Wednesday night’s home encounter with Providence, the first of three straight home games for the Pirates, Seton Hall is sitting pretty at No. 10 in the nation. It is the Pirates’ highest ranking since being tabbed No. 8 on Dec. 19, 2000. The Hall also remains the lone unbeaten team in the BIG EAST this season.

“I think it’s amazing but I feel like we’re still not where we want to be,” Gill said. “We still have to deliver on the court and hopefully we’ll get to where we really want to be. But it is amazing to be ranked 10th.”

Where Gill wants the Pirates to be is finishing as regular-season champs, hoisting the BIG EAST Tournament trophy on that Saturday night in March at Madison Square Garden and then making a deep, deep run at the Dance in what could become a very special season for the gang from South Orange. Dreams that can happen when the Pirates return to full strength with the eventual return of Mamukelashvili.

“I think we’re going to be a lot better when he comes back,” Gill said. “He was a big part of the team before he (got hurt). But with the way we’re all playing right now and then getting Sandro back, I think we’re going to be a lot better than we are right now.”

With all he has done this season, and with more to come, might we be looking at the BIG EAST’s Most Improved Player this year?

“I’m working on it,” Gill said. “Hopefully with what I’m doing I can get close to getting it.”

Oh, as for his cricket days? They seem to be a thing of the past for Gill.

“I haven’t even seen it for awhile,” Gill said. “I think the last time I saw it was when we were in the Bahamas (during the Battle 4 Atlantis in November).”

Now, it’s all hoops.

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How a Star was Born: Myles Powell’s path to glory fueled by work ethic and big heart

Posted By Tyler Calvaruso on Jan 24, 2020

One conversation with Myles Powell is all it takes to realize he is different than other star players in college basketball.

Despite the numerous accolades to his name and the fame that has come along with being a 2019 preseason All-American and the face of Seton Hall basketball, Powell prefers not to talk too much about himself. Even after games where he single-handedly wills Seton Hall to victory, Powell steers the conversation elsewhere. He would rather talk about Seton Hall’s fans, his teammates and his coaching staff than any aspect of his individual performance.

Why is this the case? It all comes back to the two core principles that have led Powell to the pinnacle of college basketball.

Powell is the product of a tough environment. In his crime-ridden hometown of Trenton, New Jersey, success does not come easy. The temptation to succumb to life on the streets is inescapable. For Seton Hall’s star, that is not just a theory. Powell’s brother, Noel, is currently charged with murder for allegedly shooting a man at an Applebee’s. He is still awaiting trial.

For all the bad that Trenton had to offer, there was some good to be taken from the city. The New Jersey capital may no longer be the manufacturing behemoth it once was, but those letters don’t remain on the Lower Trenton Bridge for nothing. Trenton is where Powell inherited the toughness and resilience that contribute to his success on the hardwood. By his senior year of high school Powell was a four-star recruit and Top 100 player in his class according to 247Sports.com. He was known as one of the premier shooters in the country and would have been ranked higher if he didn’t suffer a foot injury at South Kent School in Connecticut didn’t cause him to put on excess weight.

In November 2015, Powell signed his National Letter of Intent with Seton Hall, picking the Pirates over offers from Cincinnati, Connecticut, DePaul, Kansas State, Pittsburgh, Rutgers and VCU, as well as a late push by UCLA. Little did he know at the time, but putting pen to paper would propel him to NCAA stardom.

That never would have happened if Powell didn’t put in the necessary work, though. When he arrived in South Orange, he knew a lifestyle change was needed. Powell reported to Seton Hall weighing around 250 pounds, the same weight as then-Pirates center Angel Delgado. He proceeded to change his entire diet, trading soda and late-night snacks for salad, fish, pasta and other protein-packed foods. He set weekly weight goals for himself and did everything in his power to shatter them by eliminating junk food and sticking to a strict diet.

“It was hard. It was a struggle,” Powell said. “But I had it in my mind of what I wanted to be, so I just kept going and kept fighting.”

Powell’s diet wasn’t the only thing that changed. He turned into a gym rat, hitting the gym in between classes to shed weight and put on muscle. By the first day of his freshman year, Powell weighed 195 pounds and trimmed his body fat to under 10%. By his sophomore season, Powell was playing at less than 8% body fat.

“He has become addicted to being in shape,” Seton Hall head coach Kevin Willard said in 2017. “He loves the way he looks and he understands how well he’s playing is directly because of how he’s changed his body.”

Powell’s diet and workout regimen translated to immediate success on the court. In his freshman year, he averaged 10.7 points per game despite being buried in the pecking order by a talented group of upperclassmen. He upped that total to 15.5 as a sophomore, earning Big East Most Improved Player honors in the process.

“Being around four seniors [Delgado, Desi Rodriguez, Khadeen Carrington and Ismael Sanogo], I realized that hard work always pays off,” Powell said. “If I’m having bad days where I’m not feeling like myself, I just go to the gym, shoot and work out. Hard work is hard work, so that’s what you have to do.”

Everything changed for Powell entering his junior year. For the first time in his career, he was the veteran in the locker room and No. 1 option. He was the one the young players would turn to for guidance in times of need. He was also the one who would have to take charge in practice, in games and away from the basketball court. Powell teamed up with fellow upperclassman Michael Nzei to organize team meetings every Friday. Talking basketball was on the table during these meetings, but Powell placed an emphasis on talking about academics and life away from the game.

“The Myles I knew as a freshman, if I went up to him and said, ‘Myles what do you think about this meeting, he would have said, ‘Nah bro, Friday is a day for us to rest,’” Nzei said. “This Myles, when I asked him what he thought, he said, ‘I love it. Let’s start.’”

Powell eventually settled into the leadership role and became the go-to guy for a Seton Hall team that made a late-season run to the Big East Championship game and a fourth consecutive NCAA Tournament on and off the court. The country realized he was an elite scorer and his personality and passion were put on full display.

Powell seldom talked to the media in his first two seasons at Seton Hall. With four seniors in the mix, it was tough for him to break into the postgame press room. That was not the case in his third season with the Pirates. Powell faced the media after every game with a big smile on his face whether his team won or lost. He provided insightful answers and handled each question with compassion.

It’s easy to say Powell is well-versed in dealing with the media, but it goes beyond that. He treats all of his teammates as if they were family members. When point guard Jordan Walker temporarily quit the team in December 2017, Powell was there to talk him off the ledge. When one of https://www.thesetonian.com/2020/01/24/seton-hall-pirates-mens-basketball-myles-powell/ Page 1 of 2 01/24/20 How a Star was Born: Myles Powell’s path to glory fueled by work ethic and big heart his teammates goes through a rough stretch on the court, he doesn’t yell or belittle them. He pumps them up and encourages them to give it their all, even when things aren’t going their way.

“Everybody needs to feel loved at some point; it’s a good feeling,” Powell said. “I try to keep that in mind. Even when I’m having a bad day, I try to walk around with a smile on my face because you never know whose day you’ll make.”

Fast forward to this season and Powell is still the same big-hearted person he was last year and as a kid growing up in Trenton. He wishes every member of the media well after games, urging them to drive home safely. Holidays are Powell’s favorite when it comes to expressing well wishes, reminding reporters to enjoy the season and time with their family.

“He is one of the most genuine, caring people you will ever meet,” Seton Hall guard Shavar Reynolds said. “He will take care of you like he is your own blood.”

Powell’s love for his teammates is apparent for the whole country to see on a daily basis. Following a win over Georgetown to kick off the new year in which he essentially sealed the game with a dominant stretch of play over the course of a minute, Powell joined Fox Sports 1 for a postgame interview. Instead of taking the spotlight for himself, he brought Seton Hall center Romaro Gill with him, refusing to do the guest spot without his friend and teammate by his side.

“Ro’ is my roommate. He has been my roommate for the last three years,” Powell said. “Me and Ro’ are really close. Sometimes, that’s what you need to do as a leader. When you have a man like that who is just working and working as hard as he does in the classroom, on the court and off the court, you just want the best for those types of people. I don’t know how to say it. I fade towards people like that. I’m kind of speechless, getting emotional just talking about Ro’.”

A week later, Powell hopped on with Fox Sports 1 once again following a win on the road over Xavier. This time, he credited his teammates for all the success he has achieved this season.

“Without my teammates, there’s no Myles Powell,” he said. “We don’t win this game and I’m not here doing this interview.”

Powell’s relationship with Kevin Willard is also special. Star players and coaches often clash, but that is rarely the case with these two. Powell credits Willard with every aspect of his development as a player and a person in his time at Seton Hall. Likewise, Willard is candid about the impact Powell has had on him.

“Not at all,” Willard said when asked at 2019 Big East Media if he would be the man he is without Powell in his life. “As a coach and as a person, we’ve been through a lot together. We’ve grown together and I think that’s why he is where he is and I think that’s why this program is where it is.”

If it weren’t for Willard’s presence, odds are Powell would have taken his chances in the professional ranks and bypassed his senior year. Powell seriously considered declaring for the NBA draft after last season, but leaned on Willard as his backbone throughout the pre-draft process. Willard was there for his star player every step of the way, flying out to California for his pro day on less than a day’s notice.

“I just told him that I needed him there,” Powell said. “He hung up and called me back in about 30 minutes and he said, ‘I’ll be there tomorrow afternoon and we’re going to go out to dinner’ and he was out there in a couple hours. For somebody that I can call and rely on like that, it meant a lot to me.”

Stardom can take a toll on an athlete. In some cases, it can completely alter one’s personality and the way they treat others. It has not had any bearing on how Powell lives his life, though. He has been doused with preseason accolades and has graced multiple magazine covers since the summer. From preseason award watchlists to preseason Big East Player of the Year and first-team AP All-American honors, every possible form of recognition has been thrown his way. He even has eight billboards with his picture on it spread out around the state.

“When I saw the billboard going into practice, I just gave coach Willard a big hug and kind of melted in his arms,” Powell said. “I just said ‘Thank you coach’. None of this would’ve been possible if it wasn’t for him believing in the fat kid that was 250 pounds.”

How has Powell handled All-American nods and billboards alike? By sticking to the core principles that have gotten him to this point in his life. Powell has grown exponentially in his time at Seton Hall, but deep down, he has always been a humble, soft-spoken kid from Jersey.

“The greatest thing about Myles Powell is that he’s as humble today as when I recruited him in high school,” Willard said. “He wants to make it. Every day he shows up and works hard. His attitude hasn’t changed, his demeanor hasn’t changed. He’s as good a teammate as he was a freshman.

“Ever since he stepped foot in our program, he’s been a young man who has represented us at the highest level. He’s going to be the first of his family to graduate from college. He’s someone who would give his shoes away to someone in the stands just because he sees them. He’s been, for me, like a third son.”

When Powell graduates from Seton Hall in May, it’s a guarantee that he will never be forgotten in South Orange. He has a chance to etch his name into program lore by breaking Terry Dehere’s long-standing all-time scoring record. Whether he accomplishes that feat or not, there is a strong possibility Powell has his No. 13 retired sooner rather than later.

Powell will be remembered by the masses as a dynamic scorer and the star of a Seton Hall team that could make history when it’s all said and done this season. By those who know him the best, though, he will be remembered for his work ethic and big heart – the traits have helped him rise to the ranks of the elite in college basketball over the last two years.

“He’s the toughest son of a gun I know,” Willard said. “I will never ever forget being able to coach him.”

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How Far Can the Pirate Ship Sail in March?

1/28/2020 12:57:10 PM By SEAN BRENNAN Special to BIGEAST.com

We're coming up on the midway point of the BIG EAST conference schedule and through the season's first month only the Seton Hall Pirates remain unscathed in league play with their 7-0 record.

Sitting atop the BIG EAST standings heading into this week's action, the Pirates have already posted four road wins in the conference with victories at DePaul, Xavier, Butler and St. John's. And more comforting news for the Pirates - seven of their remaining 11 conference games will be played at home.

So Seton Hall, currently the No. 10 team in the country in the latest AP Top 25 poll, is obviously in tremendous shape for a high seed in the NCAA Tournament. Same goes for Villanova, the No. 8 team in the nation, as well as No. 16 Butler and its superb defense, Creighton and its explosive offense and Marquette and the Markus Howard Show.

But as the Pirates prepare to host DePaul Wednesday night in the middle game of a three-game homestand, the question was posed to league coaches: Does Seton Hall have the look of a special team ready to make a ride to the Final Four or beyond?

Villanova head coach knows a thing or two about what it takes to guide a team to a national championship, having done so twice in the past four seasons. And the long-time Wildcats' coach likes what he sees coming out of South Orange, N.J.

"I really do think they are a Final Four contender and they're playing without one of their best players," Wright said, referring to injured Pirates' sophomore Sandro Mamukelashvili. "And they've been dominant. They've already beaten top teams with their injuries. They have great depth, size (and) experience. So yeah, I definitely think they are one of the best teams in the country."

Wright pointed to the experience the Pirates gained last season, when they reached the BIG EAST Tournament championship game before losing to Villanova, as a key reason for a possible title run this season.

"All those guys played on an outstanding team last year and they've been through everything," Wright said. "They've been through the tough grind of a BIG EAST season. They've played against top teams in the country. They've played through injuries. They've done it all and they're all back. And in Myles Powell I think they also have one of the best players in the country. (And) it's not just that guy, it's that guy with that talent around him and that's usually what it takes to be a Final Four type of team."

Georgetown head coach Patrick Ewing, who won a national championship during his playing days with

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"We still have a lot of games to go (before) we start thinking about the Final Four," Ewing said. "But they are a very good team. They're balanced, they have shot blocking in the middle, they have two guys (Romaro Gill and Ike Obiagu) who can protect the rim. Powell is an elite scorer and they have other guys who are stepping up and getting the job done on both the offensive and defensive end. And they're a very good defensive team. So if you look at them in all phases of the game, they're very good. But as everyone knows this is not the NBA. It's not the best-out-of-seven. It's one game and once you make (the NCAA Tournament) any team can go on a run. But I think they have the quality of a team (where) that can happen."

Providence head coach Ed Cooley likes the makeup of Seton Hall's roster and he believes a deep tournament run could be in the cards for the Pirates. But there are a lot of things that need to fall into place in order for them to reach the Final Four in Atlanta.

"I think they have all the pieces in place to have a good run," Cooley said. "When you talk about those level of teams, you have to have the right seed, you have to have the right opponent. So there is a lot of luck that goes into that. But they have a lot of pieces in place to be successful. They have probably the best college basketball player in the country (in Myles Powell) and they're still missing an important piece in Mamu. They're long, they cover ground really quickly and (head coach) Kevin (Willard) has done a phenomenal job with that group. Right now, for them to be undefeated in our league at this point in time, there's something to be said about that."

Creighton head coach Greg McDermott, who has the Bluejays sitting in third place in the BIG EAST with a 5-3 record and just outside the latest AP Top 25 poll while receiving 59 votes, thinks even before Mamukelashvili returns from his fractured wrist the Pirates have the necessary ingredients for a deep March run.

"They're extremely talented. Myles Powell is terrific and I think he's if not the best player in the country he certainly has to be in the conversation," McDermott said. "But their complimentary pieces have gotten so much better. Quincy McKnight is playing at a high level and obviously Gill inside just changes a game defensively. I think they got through a period of time where they suffered some injuries and they're going to get some of those guys back. I think to make a run in the NCAA Tournament you need to be healthy and you need to have the depth to be able to go through that grind and Kevin certainly has that now."

Butler coach LaVall Jordan has his Bulldogs ranked 16th in the nation currently and he got an up-close look at Seton Hall on Jan. 15 when the Pirates knocked off Butler 78-70 at Hinkle Fieldhouse. And he points to the rigors of BIG EAST play with having a team battle-tested for a run at the national title, much the way Villanova did twice in the past four seasons.

"I think they're really good. I thought that watching them on film before we played them," Jordan said. "I think their backcourt is great and has great poise. They have the big fellas inside blocking shots, they have a great defensive presence and they got a ton of guys who understand their roles. They're ahead a bit now early in the conference season, but if you win this conference or you're at the top of this conference you're going to have a chance to be playing for a national title."

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By Eamonn Brennan Feb 6, 2020

WASHINGTON — Here’s a theory: You could have known nothing about basketball, like absolutely nothing, and been able to guess who was more likely to win Wednesday night at Capital One Arena based on the strength of maybe the last 90 seconds of warmups.

Over here you have the , doing all of the normal warmup stuff, taking their last few layups and jumpers, exchanging the occasional high-five, and then walking over to their end of the floor to line up for the national anthem. And then over here, on the other baseline, you have the Seton Hall Pirates, who had long since skipped to the self-alley-oop portion of the proceedings, to the “everyone say eyyyy in unison” part of the program, and who are particularly pleased with Georgetown’s choice of pregame music, to the point they had stopped warming up altogether and are basically just dancing now, a jubilant circle at whose center sat guard Myles Powell.

Powell is still dancing when the huddle breaks. He is flanked by teammates, all beaming at one other, still dancing, matching each other’s bobs and dips. If Georgetown looks like your standard basketball team going through the standard basketball motions, Seton Hall, as led by Powell, looks like a group of friends having an absolute blast. They look cool.

Come to think of it, is there a better word for what Powell is on the floor? For his game? For the way he ran Georgetown’s gym Wednesday night, in Seton Hall’s 7871 win, like the undisputed king of a neighborhood pickup run? For all of the subtle little flourishes, the tics and personal touches that don’t translate on TV?

Things like: Powell’s first shot of the game, in which he not only dribbled into a 3 at the top of the key but also kind of shimmied into it, in a way that was both aesthetically impressive and effective in creating operational space. Or the way he collects his feet beneath him when he’s just about to come off of a screen, and then flies into the motion, the way all of this very coordinated, intensely practiced movement - which, Wednesday night, resulted in Seton Hall beginning the game on a 14-0 lead, most of that lead directly created by Powell - looks nonchalant.

The way Powell casually whips a one-handed bounce pass in an early Seton Hall transition. Or the way he finishes against contact, falls down, gets up and decides to flex, but instead of flexing (and screaming) in the time-honored tradition, smirks and does a little half-flex thing, a flick of both wrists, which looks more like a dance move. Or when he hears someone courtside say something, then bursts into one of those catch-and- shoots, buries it and turns to look in the taunter’s direction, with a look that communicates multitudes: That was a mistake, because I am very good at this, but also It’s cool, we’re all here to have fun. (There is also the way this look exposes the taunters, a group of college-age kids on the sideline, through their sudden, embarrassed smiles.)

There is the way Powell moves through Georgetown’s defense when he drives to the basket. There is the way he instinctively switches the ball to his left hand. And there is the way he finishes that drive with a layup, then spots the photographers on the baseline, stares at his left hand in performative awe, then smiles and winks. (There is also the way those photographers are now also smiling, examining their cameras, because Powell just set them up with a remarkable shot. Thanks, MP!) This is not just a visually interesting basketball player (though he is that) but also a supremely confident one - one who looks like he is having an excellent time, pretty much all the time.

And that was just the first half. Powell played 17 of those 20 minutes. He had 21 points, five rebounds, two assists and a general sense that he owned every inch of Capital One Arena. All of it looked very chill, from the warmup on down.

In fact, it came at the end of an especially unchill few days. On Saturday, at home against Xavier, was Seton Hall’s first loss of the Big East season and, with all due respect to the Musketeers, easily the worst game the Pirates had played since mid-December, when they managed just 48 points against Rutgers. For most of January, Powell had been untouchable, the best player every time he stepped on the floor. But in a Jan. 29 win over DePaul, Powell had made just 2 of 10 3s, which presaged his epic off-day against Xavier, when he scored nine points on 14 shots, including 1-of-9 from 3.

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Powell had forgotten the feel of bad vibes on the basketball court. It was a surprisingly hard thing to take. Saturday and Sunday were rough, and then there was Monday. “I had a real bad practice on Monday,” Powell said. “I mean, real bad. I was kicking the ball around the gym, all that.”

After practice was over and cooler heads had prevailed, coach Kevin Willard called Powell for what the player described as a “heart to heart.” Powell’s teammates stepped in too. “They kept picking me up, telling me they weren’t going to do it without me,” Powell said. “It’s because of them I was able to bounce back right away.” The message was also tactical: Powell had been dribbling too much, trying too hard to create, not letting the game come to him. He took the feedback in the spirit it was intended. He got back in the gym. He took a lot of shots.

That was the process behind Powell’s immediate impact Wednesday; it is no coincidence that his early jumpers were simple, straightforward attempts, created by down-screens and sharp perimeter passes from his teammates. It was no surprise that he sprinkled in a hyper-aware post steal from Georgetown center Omer Yurtseven in those opening moments. He was, in his own way, locked in.

One of the teammates in his ear, senior point guard Quincy McKnight, had 10 assists, several to his close friend, which in itself is pretty wild, considering that just a few days ago it wasn’t clear whether McKnight had been lost for the season. An ugly, awkward fall against Xavier precipitated an MRI exam on McKnight’s knee, which to Seton Hall’s surprise came back negative. The good news allowed McKnight, considered a game-time decision, to play Wednesday.

“Once I saw the MRI was negative, it’s like this mental thing, it’s like your body suddenly starts feeling better a little bit,” McKnight said. “Going down like that, it was scary. But I’m good now.”

McKnight had 10 assists in his return to the court after an injury scare. (Brad Mills/USA Today Sports) There was no hint of any of this on the floor in D.C., no sign that the previous few days had been so difficult or uncertain. That said, Georgetown did prove it wasn’t entirely OK with the way things were happening in the first half. To the Hoyas’ credit, the game did get tighter in the second, and the ease with which Seton Hall had played early on never materialized again. The undermanned Hoyas, stuck without Mac McClung, who remains day to day with a foot injury, were playing with just six scholarship players, and still made it a game.

Yurtseven, who’d had his worst game of the season against Seton Hall’s Romaro Gill when the teams met in Newark, was far more effective this time around, particularly in the thick of the game late. Jahvon Blair offered 18 points but just one made 3, and the Hoyas shot just 4-of-21 from beyond the arc, and 33.8 percent from the field.

Still, it never turned into a blowout. Powell was a bit more sporadic in the second half, which helped. He got to the rim on occasion, particularly in transition and secondary break situations, but his perimeter game (1-of-5 from 3) wasn’t quite there. There was a wide-open miss on a corner 3, which would have seemed impossible early in the night. There were also a couple of tougher, more contested jumpers, the type Powell had excised from his game in the first half.

There was also, with just over two minutes to play and with the Seton Hall lead whittled to four points, probably Powell’s best play of the game. The Pirates were scuttling through a frantic offensive possession; Gill had missed a layup, snatched his own rebound and only barely managed to kick the ball out. Then Powell caught it, drove left, flipped the ball up on the rim and in, and somehow spun away from contact in the process, an extra stunt on top of an already spectacular finish. He ended with 34 points, his third 30-point performance of the season.

“He was good,” Georgetown coach Patrick Ewing said. “He’s a great player. We tried everything.”

On the next possession, after Jared Rhoden finished a 3-point play that gave Seton Hall an eight-point lead, Powell turned to the fans on the opposite baseline. “That was a foul too,” he said. He meant on his own shot. He was probably right.

Powell raised his arm. He smiled. Then he high-fived with the teammates in his vicinity, in that same special- handshake way he seems to insist on at all times, even in the most cursory of high-five scenarios. By now, there was still no hint of the frustrated dude who’d kicked the ball against the gym walls at practice Monday, of the guy who’d been furious at himself. It was crazy to imagine Powell, of all people, might be capable of losing his cool. “It was like, bro - you’re not having fun,” McKnight said. Yeah. So much for that.

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Toughness is why Seton Hall beat Villanova and is on its way to a Big East title

By Dana O'Neil Feb 8, 2020

PHILADELPHIA — Sandro Mamukelashvili missed the chippy. He grabbed the rebound. He missed the putback. He grabbed the rebound. Finally, on try No. 3, Mamukelashvili slipped the ball through the net, celebrating with a muscle flex and a roar as he headed back down the court. If ever a play defined a program, this is it: Mamukelashvili, a junior raised in the war-torn Republic of Georgia and sidelined for two months this season with a wrist injury, scoring a huge bucket in a place at which Seton Hall hadn’t won in 26 years, all while star player Myles Powell watched from the sidelines because of foul trouble.

It is entirely nonsensical and yet perfectly logical when you consider who and what Seton Hall is. The Pirates’ best player, Powell, hails from Trenton, N.J., a onceproud city ravaged by gang violence. Big man Romaro Gill long-routed to a starting spot on a top-15 team, from Jamaica via a stop at a junior college. Quincy McKnight started his career at Sacred Heart. Shavar Reynolds not only began as a walk-on but also nearly had to quit because of the cost until Seton Hall awarded him with a scholarship. And Mamukelashvili left Georgia just before the RussoGeorgian War began. Oh, and head coach Kevin Willard got his coaching start as the video guy for the maniacal Rick Pitino.

Toughness is not merely some chest-popping posturing when it comes to the Pirates; it’s in their pores, defining them first as people and now collectively as a team. Seton Hall beat Villanova on Saturday 70-64 in a game that had all sorts of significance if you’re into the view from 10,000 feet. It marked the first win in Philadelphia since 1994 and bumped the Pirates to a three-game lead in the Big East standings. This is all relevant to plenty of people, except for the people who accomplished these feats. The Pirates aren’t terribly interested in what they’ve won in February; they’re far more preoccupied with how they’ve won and how that might help them in March. “Everyone says stuff about 1989,” Willard said afterward, referencing Seton Hall’s run to the national title game. “It’s about these kids. What’s important is this team right now, what they’re doing. I love their work ethic. I love their focus. I’m just living in the moment.”

It is a sweet moment to enjoy. Seton Hall now has eight Quad 1 wins, six of them on the road, numbers that should resonate well come Selection Sunday. The committee earlier on Saturday said the Pirates are a 3-seed in the South right now, but these things are fluid, and while so many other teams in the country are still a jumbled mess, Seton Hall knows who it is and how to use that identity to win games.

Willard is unapologetic when it comes to his team’s style, wholeheartedly conceding that, even with the video-game-esque Powell, the Pirates are frequently not a thing of beauty. They do not actually care to be. The Pirates almost want to punk their opponents, stand toe to toe and eyeball to eyeball, kind of like you might on the playground. See who blinks, knowing it’s rarely going to be them. The game against Villanova served up a perfect exhibit. It was less rhythmic than an Elaine Benes dance-off, both teams assaulting the rims and failing to score for long stretches of time.

Seton Hall gagged up all of a 10-point first-half lead, falling apart with six turnovers in a six-minute stretch and allowing the Wildcats to come all the way back. Yet when things looked the worst, with Powell exiting with foul No. 4 with nine minutes to play, the Pirates found their best. They led 46-42 when he exited; they took a 57-51 lead on Mamukelashvili’s third try right after Powell returned.

Willard calls Mamukelashvili his security blanket, trusting in the junior’s versatility and experience. A natural power forward, he’s been able to play his actual position this year thanks to the emergence of Gill and the addition of Ike Obiagu, his ability to drain 3s and post-ups creating matchup troubles for tons of opponents. I watched a practice earlier this year and thought Mamukelashvili looked like the second-best player on the court. By midseason, he was playing like it, averaging 10.9 points per game. But a broken wrist suffered against Iowa State stopped his season and his progress in his tracks. Mamukelashvili returned to the lineup only three games ago, and though he says he never lost confidence, his coach has been waiting to see the “Mamu” of old. He arrived against Villanova, with 17 points and eight rebounds, helping push the Pirates to a critical 43-32 edge on the boards.

Mamukelashvili brushed off praise afterward, saying he merely mimicked what he used to watch former Seton Hall big man Angel Delgado do. His teammate was quick to sing his praises, however. “That’s what it’s all about,” Powell said. “Seeing your brother shine. We don’t even care whose turn it is. We just want to win.”

This all looks and sounds very familiar to Jay Wright. He has sat at podiums alongside upperclassmen who understood the difference between wanting to win and knowing how to win. “You see the experience, the basketball IQ, the answer they have at each position,” Wright said. “I really think they’re one of the best teams in the country. I really do.” Play Villanova basketball, that’s what and used to preach, a seemingly meaningless phrase that meant a great deal to them.

Defend, be smart, play hard and, above all us, play tough. That’s who Villanova was. That’s who Seton Hall is.

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Seton Hall is Final Four-caliber team we’ve waited 21 years for

By Zach Braziller February 9, 2020 | 7:13pm | Updated

Every year around this time, there is hope.

Hope one of our local teams go on a run. Hope by March there is a team that can get hot and play deep into the month. Hope there is a program everyone can get behind.

This year, we have more than hope. We have realistic dreams. There is a team that doesn’t have to get lucky to win a tournament game or get the right draw to reach the Sweet 16.

Seton Hall looks like a legitimate Final Four contender — the first team from this area to have such high expectations since St. John’s 21 years ago. That team, led by Ron Artest, Erick Barkley and Lavor Postell, came within three points of the Final Four, ousted by Ohio State in the Elite Eight. It was a three-seed. Shavar Reynolds Getty Images

The highest seed for a local since was St. John’s getting a No. 2 in 2000, but it fell in the second round to Gonzaga, the 10th seed. Only the 1999-2000 Seton Hall team has reached the second weekend, and that group was a 10-seed that lost in the regional semifinals. It’s been a long drought.

These 12th-ranked Pirates are different. They are experienced and deep, well-coached and versatile. They can play big or go small. They have one of the premier players in the country in senior Myles Powell and emerging complementary scorers in Quincy McKnight, Jared Rhoden and Sandro Mamukelashvili. Center Romaro Gill is one of the premier shot-blockers in the country — he’s rejected 3.6 shots per game, third-most in the country — a key to the Pirates being ranked ninth in defensive efficiency. They have nine wins away from home and six Quadrant 1 road victories, the most in the country. Their 13 Quadrant 1 and 2 wins are the second-most in the nation, behind only Kansas’s 15. They have four wins over teams ranked in the top 24 of the NET, the ratings tools the selection committee relies on.

“I really think they’re one of the best teams in the country,” Villanova coach Jay Wright said on Saturday after losing to the Pirates, likening them to some of his best teams.

On Saturday’s NCAA Tournament bracket reveal five weeks and a day before Selection Sunday, Seton Hall was projected as a three-seed in the South Region, and then went out and knocked off No. 10 Villanova on the road. A two- or three- seed in the East, which would set them up to play at the Garden the second weekend of the tournament, is within grasp.

Everything has fallen into place for Seton Hall this year. Powell, a National Player of the Year candidate, flirted with the NBA and returned. Several key players have improved. There are no great teams in college basketball, nobody Seton Hall should fear. The road to the Final Four could be a local one: Albany followed by the Garden.

This is more than hope. Good fortune isn’t needed. Seton Getty Images Hall has all the pieces — and the needed résumé — to give the area some real March memories. It’s been 21 years since that could be said about any team around here.

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Seton Hall basketball: Inside Sandro Mamukelashvili's remarkable rebound

With Creighton ahead, a detailed look at how the talented forward returned from a 7- week injury layoff with minimal rust. It took a village.

Jerry Carino, Asbury Park Press Published 5:01 a.am. ET Feb. 11, 2020| Updated 7:33 a.m. ET Feb. 11, 2020

Sandro Mamukelashvili broke his right wrist on Sunday, Dec. 8. The next day, the Seton Hall basketball forward rested. Come Tuesday Tony Testa, the Pirates’ director of sports medicine, delivered a message to the 6-foot-11 junior.

“You’ve got to barrel through it,” Mamukelashvili recalled. “So I started running. Every day, I did something. I saw guys playing and being in shape, and I wanted to not fall off.”

He didn’t, and that’s not as easy as it sounds. If you’re wondering how Mamukelashvili returned from a seven- week layoff with minimal rust — he shredded Villanova in the Hall’s historic win in Philadelphia Saturday, just 11 days after getting cleared — this is the story.

It took a village.

“Because it wasn’t a leg injury he was able to do a lot of running, cutting, defensive work,” Hall coach Kevin Willard said. “He worked hard to stay in good shape and that really helped.”

Working with Testa and strength and conditioning coach Jason Nehring, Mamukelashvili alternated days between cardio and lifting. Testa had him doing wind sprints, agility drills around cones and running up and down steps.

“When we went to DePaul for our first Big East game, he made me Seton Hall guard Myles Powell (13) smiles in front of forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) after a score run all the stairs in the gym against the during the second half at Wells .Fargo Center. (Wintrust Arena),” Mamukelashvili (Photo: Bill Streicher-USA TODAY Sports) said.

His strength work included isometric exercises for his broken right wrist, pushing and pulling in a low-impact manner.

“Every time we would go away, we’d find a gym in the hotel and do lifting and running,” Mamukelashvili said.

Basketball-wise, it helped that Mamukelashvili is a lefty. Once the pins were inserted and the cast was on, he could dribble and shoot.

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“That’s why I have a good left hook now, because we worked on it so much,” he said.

Perhaps the biggest hurdle was psychological. Mamukelashvili always possessed a great attitude, but Willard took care to involved him in practice as much as possible.

“He didn’t just sit on the sideline and watch,” Willard said. “When we put in new stuff he was engaged; he would pick it up right away.”

His teammates kept his head up, too.

“When I first got injured, I thought it was over; I was really down,” he said. “(Eventually) I felt like it was nothing major because nobody made it seem like it was a big deal. Guys stepped up and started winning, so I focused on myself and thought, OK, I’ll be back in a little bit.” Mamukelashvili came to think of himself as not hurt, but simply “off” from game action.

“And I was going to come back ready to go at full speed,” he said.

When the green light came Jan. 29 against DePaul, Willard cautioned him to set the bar low.

“The only conversation I had with him was, don’t have big expectations,” the coach said. “Take your time and focus on how the team is playing, not how you’re playing.”

He logged five rusty minutes in that one. Then came 10 points and three rebounds in 16 minutes against Xavier.

“I started feeling it,” Mamukelashvili said. “I had an and-one, and that’s when I knew: Next game is time to bring it and not shy away from the contact.”

He notched eight points and 12 boards over 32 minutes in the win at Georgetown and then came his masterpiece: 17 points and eight rebounds over 36 minutes at 10th-ranked Villanova. He drilled three 3-pointers and hit that left hook twice. When Villanova got Pirates center Romaro Gill in foul trouble, Willard went small, with Mamukelashvili anchoring a mobile front line.

You might see more of that Wednesday against 23rd-ranked Creighton (18-6, 7-4), which will bring a perimeter- oriented attack to the Prudential Center (6:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1). For the 10th-ranked Hall (18-5, 10-1), Mamukelashvili is the linchpin to a rotation offering virtually unmatched versatility.

Thanks to everyone in the village — coaches, trainers, teammates and of course the resilient young man in question — a better player may have emerged from the injury.

“To be honest, this is how I realized how much I love basketball,” Mamukelashvili said. “I never played (NBA) 2K before. When I was injured I played it every time I had a chance because I missed playing the game. I came back hungry.”

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Seton Hall basketball: Big game vs. Butler on tap. First, time to sound alarm on trolls

Jerr y Carin o , Asbury Park Press Published 8:22 a.m. ET Feb. 18, 2020 | Updated 3:46 p.m. ET Feb. 18, 2020

My exchange with a troll illuminates the mental-health peril college athletes face online. Plus: 3 things to look for in key game vs. Butler

Earlier this month, Michigan State basketball coach Tom Izzo used part of a press conference to address fans who were abusing his players on Twitter.

“It’s despicable some of the things that have gone out there about some of our guys that have given more to this program than most of those alums or most of those people sitting behind a chicken keyboard,” he said.

A few days later, Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell expressed exasperation about the things people were messaging his players after back-to-back losses.

“People expect these kids to play well every single night,” Pikiell said. “I don’t know anyone who does that . . . These kids aren’t pros.”

Trolls infect all walks of social media, but the problem is particularly acute in college sports — where amateur, often-teenage athletes are performing on a highly exposed stage. Too many people are teeing off on them, and it’s becoming a major mental health issue.

After Seton Hall got upset at Providence Saturday night, a troll tweeted a disparaging attack at Pirates reserve Shavar Reynolds, saying “you may be one of the worst players in D1.”

A Manchester High School alum, Reynolds was has been one of the team’s most valuable subs and posted a pretty good line for the game: five points on two shots, one steal and no turnovers in 12 minutes. More on that shortly.

The troll used what has been determined to be a stolen profile photo, and might have been using a fake name as well, but the account listed a real email address, which I contacted with a question for the record: What compelled you to do this? I sent along the link to Izzo's aforementioned press conference.

The Twitter account has since been deleted, but here is the answer I received, slightly abridged for brevity purposes:

“First of all, I am not a Seton Hall fan. I am a fan of the game of basketball and an avid sports bettor. To be honest with you, I could've been a lot ruder in my tweet earlier, but decided to go easy on the kid and express disappointment rather than hatred.”

“Secondly, as a player in a national spotlight such as basketball players at Michigan State or players in D1 basketball in general, you need to have thicker skin than to get personally offended by people trolling you or making rude statements on Twitter. . . The players don't need to be on Twitter, and they certainly don't need to interact with fans, so being offended at rude mentions is quite ridiculous.”

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The troll, who identified himself as Steve Kowalski, seemed incredulous that people would take umbrage with his tweet. I explained Reynolds’ inspiring backstory, how he was a walk-on who got upgraded to scholarship, and how his father is a U.S. Navy chief serving overseas. Then I pressed the question: Why did you do this?

The reply: “Him and the entire SHU team choking cost me a wager, as they have many times in the past. I don't feel my tweet was overly rude or overly dramatic, especially not to the extent that you or the SHU fanbase seems to think it is.”

Trolls don’t get it, and never will. This one wasn’t even looking for attention (witness: the deleted account). It was just a nasty way to vent about a lost bet. As it turns out, Reynolds made a late 3-pointer that pushed the total score over the over-under.

After weighing things carefully, I chose to write about this because the public needs to know the kind of harassment today’s college athletes are dealing with, and what fuels it. Yes the players could log off, but much of their daily lives are intertwined with social media, in ways that older generations cannot understand.

In our conversation about this a few weeks back, Pikiell suggested that each athletic department should hire a therapist trained in the mental-health implications of social media. It’s a great idea, and I’m starting to think it will become commonplace sooner rather than later.

Scouting Seton Hall vs. Butler

Hall coach Kevin Willard was tough on his team after Providence, calling out “some guys with bad attitudes right now” in his postgame radio interview. He didn’t name anyone, but threatened to shorten his rotation from 10 to six unless “they regain their focus.”

Will they? That’s the big theme as the 16th-ranked Pirates (18-7 overall, 10-3 Big East) play host to No. 21 Butler (19-7, 7-6) Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. (Fox Sports 1). Here are three things to watch as Seton Hall tries to hold on to first place in the league.

1. The first six minutes. Three times this season, the Pirates have gotten run off the floor at the start of games. Part of that has been ace guard Myles Powell opening up ice cold. Look for some plays designed for him to see the ball go through the hoop early, and for everyone to be crashing on rebounds. Anything short of a focused start will be surprising.

2. A shortened rotation? No way Willard actually uses just six players, but he probably won’t go 10 deep again. That’s a lot anyway for this late in the season. Don’t be surprised to see a starting lineup change and a quick hook for subs who don’t bring it. Butler isn't playing well lately, but the Bulldogs always are physical.

3. An engaged crowd. The lower bowl is sold out (capacity: 10,700). When Seton Hall needed a lift against Maryland in December, fans brought it. Expect a similar vibe. The Pirates still sport a fine resume (NET: 14), but winning at home will keep them on schedule for a protected NCAA Tournament seed in Albany — the potential springboard to a deep run that everyone expects from this squad.

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Seton Hall basketball: Mamukelashvili's buzzer-beater sinks Butler

Jerr y Carin o, Asbury Park Press Published 8:52 p.m. ET Feb. 19, 2020 | Updated 8:45 a.m. ET Feb. 20, 2020

NEWARK — Over the course of a special season, there are pivotal moments that immediately enter the lore of a college basketball program.

Sandro Mamukelashvili delivered one for Seton Hall Wednesday.

After taking an inbounds pass under the Butler basket with 0.6 seconds left, the junior forward rolled in a one-handed leaner from the left block to deliver 74-72 victory as 10,481 fans blew the lid off the Prudential Center.

The wild finish halted a two-game losing streak as the 16th-ranked Hall (19-7 overall, 11-3 Big East) held onto first place in the conference and kept the train on the tracks to Albany — the optimal first-weekend NCAA Tournament site.

The winning play, initiated by a perfect inbounds lob from senior guard Quincy McKnight, was exactly what head coach Kevin Willard drew up on the sidelines.

"I had past experiences where I couldn't score the game winner, so I was kind of a little nervous," Mamukelashvili said. "But I was ready when he called my name."

He had extra incentive — the presence of his father, Zurab, who came from Georgia in Eastern Europe for the game. This was just the second time Zurab saw his son play college ball in person. The first time was two years ago, when Sandro was a deep reserve as a freshman.

As an added twist, Zurab's presence coincided with Seton Hall vs. Cancer Night. He's a Hodgkin's lymphoma survivor. The Pirates wore pink warm-up shirts for the awareness event.

"It means a lot," Sandro said. "This was a big day for him. It felt amazing."

After the final buzzer, Sandro was mobbed by teammates and did a television interview on the court. When he turned around, his dad was there and they embraced at length.

They hadn't seen each other since May.

"It was just an unbelievable experience," Sandro said.

Zurab Mamukelashvili could not have picked a better time to visit. His son finished with 15 points on 7-of-12 shooting and grabbed six boards.

"I know his father was happy, he came over and gave Seton Hall forward Sandro Mamukelashvili (23) goes up for two points to break a tie in the final me a hug," Willard said. "It's really tough for (foreign- Second of an NCAA college basketball game Wednesday, Feb. 19, 2020, in Newark, N.J. Seton Hall born) guys like Tyrese (Samuel), Ikey (Obiagu), Ro (Gill) won 74-72 (AP Photo/Kathy Willens) (Photo: Kathy Willens, AP) and Sandro, whose families aren’t able to be here. All these other guys get to see their families every night, so when you have a chance to play in front of your family, it’s a little more special.”

The verdict marked a sweep of 21st-ranked Butler (19-8, 7-7) and provided Seton Hall with its ninth Quadrant 1 victory and 14th win against Quadrant 1 and 2 foes. The latter metric, a huge piece of the NCAA Tournament seeding process, ranks third in the country.

FIVE TAKEAWAYS

1. Anatomy of a game-winner Credit Butler for setting up the memorable finish with an impressive rally, draining three 3-pointers in the final minute to force a tie. The final one came with eight seconds left, and after McKnight countered by missing a tough runner, the ball went out of bounds with 0.4 left on the clock.

Junior guard Shavar Reynolds stuck his nose in the scrum for the rebound, and the officials went to the monitor to determine who the ball went off of. Senior guard Myles Powell asked the officials if they could check the time. They did, adding a crucial two-tenths onto the clock.

Meanwhile, Willard drew up an inbounds play using Powell as a decoy.

“The ran that play about two months ago," Willard said. "I’m always looking for ways to get Myles shots in late-clock situations, and they brought Buddy Hield off a triple (screen) just like we brought Myles off, and they stepped him out and they lobbed it (inside), and they got a really good late-clock look."

It worked to perfection, right from the start.

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"We waited for Myles to come off, everybody kind of turned their head looking at Myles, and then it executed really well," Willard said.

Butler coach LaVall Jordan said he thought the lob would be for Gill, the Hall's 7-foot-2 center.

"It was a great play by Kevin," Jordan said. "I thought John-Michael (Mulloy) had a good body on (Mamukelashvili) and made it a tough finish. He just made a tough shot."

Powell thoroughly enjoyed being the decoy.

"Sandro is one of my little brothers," he said. "I gave him a big hug in the (postgame) huddle and told him to enjoy his moment. I'm happy for him, for his family and for us. We needed that win tonight, so it was huge."

2. Swoon avoided In each of the past four NCAA Tournament seasons, the team had suffered a swoon during the meat of the Big East schedule:

In 2016: a 1-4 stretch from Jan. 6-23. In 2017: a 1-4 stretch from Jan. 14 to Feb. 1. In 2018: an 0-4 stretch from Feb. 4-14. In 2019: an 0-4 stretch from Jan. 12-27.

Each time, the Pirates eventually snapped out of it. But each swoon dented the NCAA Tournament seed.

Not this time.

After Saturday's loss at Providence, Willard pushed all the right buttons. First he called out unnamed "bad attitudes" in his postgame radio interview. Then he put the group through a long, tough-love Monday. The team met three times that day, at 7 a.m., 2:30 p.m. and 9:15 p.m.

"He (Willard) just let us have it," Powell said. "Nobody gave him attitude. We knew we did this to ourselves, that this is what we had to do to dig out of the hole. Everyone said we have to hit the reset button. We had all 13 guys buy in."

That's why this team is different than the talented 2018 squad that underachieved. There's total buy-in, and Willard has grown as a coach as well.

"My anger and my frustration, everybody got it," Willard said. "I started with Powell, McKnight and Gill, then I went to the juniors. The only guy that didn’t get it was Tyrese because he’s a freshman, but everybody got it. The staff got it, I got it — I yelled at myself, I did."

3. Powell did the little things Give Powell credit. Though he continues to struggle with his shot at home, the preseason All-American took mostly high-percentage looks within the flow of the offense and got teammates involved at every opportunity.

He finished with 15 points on 5-of-15 shooting, with five rebounds, five assists and two steals.

"I thought that was the best game he’s played in a long time," Willard said. "We’re working a little bit on his shot, but I think his unselfishness early in the game, his willingness to pass, that’s contagious. I didn’t think he took a bad shot all night."

4. Free throws made a difference The main reason the Pirates survived Butler's late rally was their efficiency at the free-throw line. They made 20 of 22 on the night, including all 10 in the second half. Senior guard Quincy McKnight hit 10 of 11, including all four in the final 30 seconds. Gill also came through, making 5 of 6 from the stripe.

With McKnight, Powell and Reynolds on the floor at the end of games, this Seton Hall edition has a huge edge over past squads when it comes to closing games out at the line.

5. Crowd did its part This was the loudest the Rock has been in several weeks. The sold-out crowd started riding the officials even before the opening tap. Fans stood for much of the second half, and the roars down the stretch were ear-splitting.

"Our crowd helped us today," Powell said. "They put the battery in our back and that's what we needed." It was shades of the Maryland game, in December. Fans came through when the team needed it most.

"I think our fans really relaxed our guys," Willard said.

DEHERE WATCH Where does Myles Powell stand on Seton Hall’s all-time scoring list?

1. Terry Dehere 2,494 6. Dan Callandrillo 1,985 2. Nick Werkman 2,273 7. Andre McCloud 1,976 3. Myles Powell 2,178 8. Mark Bryant 1,906 4. Jeremy Hazell 2,146 9. Andre Barrett 1,861 5. Greg Tynes 2,059 10. Khadeen Carrington 1,846

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Party like it's 1989? Why this Seton Hall team looks Final Four bound

Pete Thamel, Yahoo Sports • February 20, 2020

NEWARK, N.J. – Way back in 1989, when the Big East was smaller in size but larger than life, one whistle whiplashed P.J. Carlesimo’s program from NCAA lore to infamy in the national championship game. Clinging to a one-point lead in overtime, the Pirates were seconds from winning the national title when referee John Clougherty’s questionable block call led directly to ’s two free throws and Michigan’s 80-79 victory.

More than 30 years later, Seton Hall finds itself with perhaps its best chance to get the ending right. Stewarded by coach Kevin Willard, the program is on the cusp of its fifth straight NCAA tournament. It’s still leading in the Big East despite a mini February funk and boasts a roster capable of bullying its way to the Final Four.

The Pirates have one of the sport’s elite players, senior guard Myles Powell, and a menacing supporting cast that would be a No. 1 seed if the NCAA tournament was seeded for an MMA fight. In a year when the top of the college basketball world is flat, the field of Final Four contenders is more crowded than the Democratic debate stage.

It’s becoming increasingly clear that No. 16 Seton Hall (19-7) looms as one of the most difficult outs in the NCAA tournament. The Pirates have awakened the feel-good vibes of yesteryear and emerged as a national title threat in large part because Willard has stayed steadfast to a simple program-building model: “We’ve had really, really good college basketball players who’ve developed.”

This year’s NCAA tournament projects to be the most wide-open since 2011, the year that No. 8 seed Butler and No. 11 seed VCU crashed a Final Four which No. 3 Connecticut eventually won. Nearly a decade later, the game has changed so radically because of the massive talent exodus to the NBA and G League that the best high-major teams in college basketball are actually constructed like the bracket-busting mid-majors from a decade ago. They rely on age, experience and continuity – the experience and cohesion trumping elite players toe-tapping in the sport for a few months.

In a year with no definitive Final Four favorites, Seton Hall is one of the smartest picks outside the top 10 to reach the Final Four. “I don’t think there’s that dominant, talented team out there,” Xavier coach Travis Steele said. “The teams that are older and have the toughness element can make a deep, deep run. Seton Hall has both.”

Powell’s explosive scoring (21.7 ppg, including 37 against Michigan State) and point guard Quincy McKnight’s crafty playmaking (5.4 assists) begin any conversation about Seton Hall’s personnel. And Seton Hall Pirates guard Quincy McKnight (0) reacts after scoring during a the skill of the Big East’s best backcourt is game against Georgetown. (Vincent Carchietta/USA TODAY Sports) buttressed by incredible size.

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Both Xavier’s Steele and Stony Brook’s Geno Ford pointed out that Seton Hall’s size needs to be seen in person to be fully appreciated. The Seton Hall frontcourt is like a skyline of sequoias, with a deep cast of length, girth and height that’s hard to replicate anywhere outside of Florida State. Seton Hall 7-foot-2 center Romaro Gill may be the longest player in college basketball, as he can seemingly hug the equator with his 7-foot-8 wingspan. (He also leads the Big East and is third nationally with 3.5 blocks per game.) Skilled 6-foot-11 forward Sandro Mamukelashvili has some of the league’s sharpest elbows. Backups Tyrese Samuel (6-foot-10, 220) and Ike Obiagu (7-foot-2, 265 pounds) give Seton Hall enough muscle that it could trade blows in the six-foul Big East era of the early 1990s. “The personality of their whole team is toughness,” Ford said. “They overwhelm you with their size and physicality.”

Which leads to one of Seton Hall’s calling cards – there’s no need for bouncers to ask them for IDs. Both McKnight and Powell are 22, Gill is 25 and Mamukelashvili is 21. This is not a group that will flinch amid March momentum twists.

Willard willingly contends that this Seton Hall team has a higher ceiling than the four previous units he’s guided to the NCAA tournament. None of those teams were higher than a No. 6 seed, and none made it past the second round.

Seton Hall is first in the Big East standings after beating No. 21 Butler in a thriller on a last-second tip-in on Wednesday. They have outside victories of note, including over then-No. 7 Maryland, 52-48, without Powell back in December. They also knocked off Butler in Hinkle Fieldhouse when the Bulldogs were ranked fifth and have no garish losses this season, at one point ripping off 10 straight wins from mid-December through the end of January.

Willard has always carried a healthy sense of Northeastern cynicism, which has left him resisting the nostalgia from 1989. He quotes his old boss, Rick Pitino, about embracing the “precious present” with this group.

“Enjoy this moment, enjoy this moment” Willard told Yahoo Sports. “I wasn’t around in 1989 and I don’t think these guys were alive. I’m really enjoying a group of guys who work hard and like to play together. That’s where I’m living.”

Willard’s best team at Seton Hall still retains the program’s defiantly unsexy image. Powell was mocked for being overweight in high school, Gill is a JUCO transfer and McKnight’s journey began at Sacred Heart.

The Pirates play their home games in a sterile NHL arena in downtown Newark, which boasts all of the charm and none of the shoulder-to-shoulder intimacy of a New Jersey transit commute. Even the Pirate mascot has an eye patch and assorted rips in the knees of his costume.

But winning still trumps sex appeal, and this season has trended from promising to potentially historic. Pirate athletic director Bryan Felt has seen the arena fill like the old days. He’s noticed a surge in program pride around North Jersey—gear, magnet stickers on cars, general buzz — accompanied by a higher level of postseason anticipation. “There’s a sense of pride,” Felt said. “You feel it.”

And that will only increase if these Pirates, who’ve been constructed to survive a new era of college basketball, can claw their way to Atlanta. In a flat season in college basketball, don’t be surprised if nostalgia overflows as the Pirates try again to get the ending right.

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Seton Hall basketball: Quincy McKnight's fire is igniting a title push

Jerry Carino, Asbury Park Press Published 7:33 a.m. ET Feb. 27, 2020 | Updated 10:22 a.m. ET Feb. 27, 2020

Stats will never do justice to the senior's impact. Here's the case for All-Big East honors -- and a high place in the Pirate Pantheon.

At Providence two weeks ago, as Seton Hall nearly finished climbing out of a 25-point hole, the Pirates gave up a crucial put-back that reversed momentum. During the ensuing timeout there were some tense words about the miscue. The player who got beat for the rebound, Sandro Mamukelashvili, grew a little defensive and told his teammates, essentially, to pipe down.

Quincy McKnight didn’t want to hear it.

“I’m like, ‘Nah, I’m going to yell at you,’” McKnight said. “Afterwards I smacked him on the butt and said, ‘Let’s go bro.’ Sometimes you need to yell at a guy and let him know, ‘You’re good. Get in a good head space.’”

The Hall lost the game but Mamukelashvili played like a man possessed the following week, leading back-to-back victories. Nobody was prouder of the junior forward than McKnight, who has become the Pirates’ coach on the court.

“You want to have good program? Everybody has to be accountable,” the senior guard said Wednesday, after practice. “You’ve got to be accountable for a box-out, to be accountable for your man on defense, to be accountable for your help-side defense, to be accountable for knowing the plays on offense, for screening.”

This stuff doesn’t show up on the stat sheet. Only in the win column.

“That’s why we’ve been so good this year,” McKnight said. “Everybody knows their role and everybody does what they’re told to do, so when you get on the court you’re not running around like a chicken with your head cut off.”

These words easily could have been spoken by Hall coach Kevin Willard.

“Coach empowers us to be vocal leaders because he’s not on the court,” McKnight said. “We’re the ones playing the game. That’s what he’s harped on. That’s what I try to do.”

Indeed, he has done it. Seton Hall sits at No. 13 in the Associated Press poll with a record of 20-7 overall and 12-3 in the Big East right now because, more than any other Pirate, McKnight channels Willard on the court. The under-recruited kid from Bridgeport, Conn. has barked and hustled and willed his way into the Pirate Pantheon. In the Big East era, he is the program’s most impactful two-year transfer and one-half of its greatest backcourt.

On Saturday, as Seton Hall visits Marquette (18-9, 8-7), McKnight will attempt to put the finishing touches on his magnum opus — another lock-down of Marquette All-American Markus Howard.

“When I came here, I didn’t think we would be like this,” he said. “I never really thought I’d be part of a top 10 program.”

He’s not just part of it. He’s the guts of it.

Out of tragedy, a passion

The formative event of McKnight’s childhood took place when he was 13. He lost his mother, Vanessa Bruce, to cancer.

“His team had just won the diocesan championship, and all the parents were out celebrating,” his father, Terry McKnight, said. “She said she wanted to go home.”

Later that night, Vanessa wound up on the hospital with a stage-four cancer diagnosis.

“A few weeks later, she passed,” Terry McKnight said. “We were at the height of our life, happy as heck, and then we hit rock bottom.”

The loss could have derailed the young man’s future. Instead, it fueled him forward.

“It gives me a passion to continue her legacy,” Quincy said. “That’s the reason I play hard all the time.”

That motor was evident in the spring of 2017, when he showed up at Seton Hall for an open gym after transferring out of Sacred Heart University. His performance earned a scholarship offer on the spot.

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“We knew he was tough,” Willard said. “I thought he could be a really good defender, but I didn’t know he had that competitive drive that he does.”

It shone through during McKnight’s sit-out season. His one-on-one battles with senior guard Khadeen Carrington in practice turned everyone’s heads.

“People didn’t see, the year he sat out, how much he pushed that older group,” Willard said. “If you didn’t show up, Khadeen would embarrass you.”

Added McKnight: “Deno made me a better player. That’s why I am the defender I am now.”

That defender limited the prodigious Howard to 10-of-46 shooting over three contests last season. Last month, he teamed with understudy Shavar Reynolds to hound the surefire All-American into 8-of-22 shooting.

“Nowadays a lot of guys, when they score the ball, they run off at the mouth,” McKnight said. “Markus, he doesn’t do that. He puts the ball in the basket and plays the game the right way. The battles we’ve had, they’ve been great. Him not talking help me stay composed, because sometimes when I get to talking, it throws me off.”

Never a ‘me’ guy

The other secret to McKnight’s success is his chemistry with his backcourt mate, All-American Myles Powell. They didn’t meet at that open gym (Powell was sick), but six weeks later, as they sat next to each other in a summer class, the connection was immediate.

“From that first day on campus, it was over,” McKnight said. “I’m a willing passer. I’ve never been a ‘me’ guy. I’ve never been that way my whole life.”

McKnight’s numbers are impressive. He ranks second in the Big East in assists (5.3 per game), third in free-throw shooting (.853), fourth in assist-to-turnover ratio (2.32 to 1) and sixth in steals (1.59 per game). Whether he gets the recognition he deserves from the league’s coaches — Big East Defensive Player of the Year and second-team all-conference — remains to be seen.

One thing is certain: When he takes the court for Senior Night ceremonies March 4, an arena full of Seton Hall fans will give him a prolonged standing ovation.

His dad, who comes to just about every game, will be among them. Terry McKnight already has a space picked out on the shelf for Quincy’s college degree — right next to his own.

“Very proud of him, where he’s come from and what he’s been through,” Terry said. “He’s excelled everywhere he’s been.”

Quincy McKnight’s high place in the Pirate Pantheon is secure. Aside from Andrew Gaze, who spent only a few memorable months in South Orange with the 1988-89 Final Four squad, no transfer has made so large an impact in this program’s modern era.

“It’s happy and sad at the same time,” McKnight said of his college career hitting the homestretch. “But we still have goals we want to complete. The reason I came here was to win a Big East championship and make it far in March.”

His fire is igniting that push. There is no stat for it.

HALL OF A BACKCOURT

Here are Jerry Carino’s top five Seton Hall backcourts of the Big East era.

1. Quincy McKnight and Myles Powell (2019-20): The journey isn’t over, but the Hall’s never had two first/second team All-Big East players in the same backcourt. That could change. 2. Gerald Greene and John Morton (1988-89): They famously fueled the Final Four run with rugged defense and Morton’s clutch shot-making. 3. Bryan Caver and Terry Dehere (1992-93): Caver did the dirty work and Dehere was an All-American on the only Hall team to sweep the Big East titles. 4. Shaheen Holloway, Rimas Kaukenas and Darius Lane (1999-2000): This three-headed monster soon will consist of two SHU Hall of Famers. 5. Isaiah Whitehead and Khadeen Carrington (2015-16): Their collaboration during the Big East Tournament title run was nothing short of spectacular

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By Dana O'Neil 02/28/20

SOUTH ORANGE, N.J. — Romaro Gill has something to confess. Or at least it seems like a confession when, twice in the course of a 40- minute conversation, the Seton Hall senior lowers his voice to a near conspiratorial whisper. He is seated, or folded more appropriately, in a small chair inside the basement sports information offices where, presumably, no one is lurking to hear him spill his secrets. Gill drops his voice anyway.

First he relays the story of why he chose Seton Hall, about the connection with the coaches and the players, the stage of the Prudential Center — so much bigger than what he experienced in junior college — and finally, the allure of the big city just across the river. But then, unprompted, he doubles back on that last item to come clean. He has, he clarifies, ridden on a bus into New York City, stayed at hotels in New York City and played basketball in New York City but he has not actually been to New York City. “I’ve been here three years,’’ he says under his breath. “And I’ve never gone.’’ This is not a grievous sin, neither the lack of Big Apple sightseeing nor saying you picked a school for the draw of a place you’ve not yet visited.

A little later, Gill is discussing his lack of, shall we say, refinement, upon arrival at Seton Hall. “I was behind,’’ he says in a normal voice. He then pauses, turns his head to stare at his questioner eyeball to eyeball and employs the sotto voce again. “Like way, way behind,’’ he whispers. This is not a sin either. It is also not a secret. Todd Franklin, Gill’s coach at Vincennes (ind.) Junior College, lets out a whistle when asked to explain just how much work Gill had to do upon arrival, and Kevin Willard, his Seton Hall coach, laughs out loud (not to be confused with an LOL) when prodded with the same question. Suffice it to say, Gill was rawer than a plateful of steak tartare, and everyone knew it.

But this is who Romaro Gill is: a person so decent he cannot allow even the pretense of a fib to pass through his lips unedited. He is, per Willard, “maybe the nicest human being I’ve ever actually met,’’ and a self-described shy and unassuming homebody who has avoided the city not out of intimidation but because usually when someone asks him to go, he’d rather just take a nap. At 7-2, he is near impossible to miss but prefers to blend into the scenery, and though his repertoire includes perhaps the meanest, nastiest, get-that-crap-outta-here play — the blocked shot — he is unfailingly polite. For years, Gill played much like he lived, quietly and unassumingly. He logged minutes but rarely left an imprint, lacking both the skill and the understanding to impact a game.

All of which makes this, Gill’s final collegiate season, downright startling. He has tripled his offensive production and doubled his rebounding and shot-blocking, giving No. 13 Seton Hall a legitimate inside presence to go with its Myles Powellled outside game. Gill is hands down the most improved player in the Big East and arguably the most improved player in the country, a presence so looming on defense that opponents game-plan to avoid him, and a pick-and-roll expert so deft, he exploits those who can’t keep up with him. Gill averages 7.9 points, 5.7 rebounds and 3.4 blocks, ranks third in blocked shots nationally and just this week was named one of 10 finalists for national defensive player of the year. Not coincidentally the Pirates are 20-7, atop the Big East standings and, many think, primed for a sweet March run. “Understand, Ro has a little prick to him when he’s on the court but you had to get it out of him,’’ Willard says. “Now he has changed what we’ve been able to do as a team. None of this happens without Ro.’’ The man may still whisper. The player shouts.

Todd Franklin clicked play on the video and realized almost immediately he was looking at something different — not the player, but the video itself. This was no snazzy highlight reel, or even game action spliced together. “More like just Ro moving around,’’ Franklin says. It is not that anyone was trying to pull one over on Franklin; there just weren’t any games to film or reels to splice when it came to Gill. There are late bloomers and then there is Gill, who did not have a field from which to bloom. Basketball remains something of a sport oddity in Jamaica, especially in the more rural outposts such as St. Thomas, where Gill grew up. An older stepbrother played in the city some, but Gill’s knowledge of the game extended to a few video games and “Space Jam.” His high school didn’t even introduce a varsity team until his senior season.

But Gill was a tall string bean, which made him a natural for the Jamaican Development Camp, held annually in Kingston. Curious enough about basketball to try out — he played a little pickup and liked it — he went because he thought he should, not really imagining it would lead to anything. Mike Minto, a coach there, told him otherwise, explaining his height alone would make Gill attractive to college programs in the United States. Minto put together the pseudo video, sending it to a collection of coaches he knew in the States.

In his 23-year career at Vincennes, Franklin has met plenty of posers, coaches promising they were trying to help a kid get an opportunity but who were less than trustworthy in both their intentions and their evaluations. Franklin knew Minto, though, and more, he trusted him. He took a look at the video. There wasn’t much to see in terms of basketball, but there was a 7-foot twig who maybe weighed 195 pounds soaking weight. Surely, Franklin thought, he could fill out with proper weight training and time, and he seemed to move fluidly, not herky- jerky like so many bigs. At the worst, he figured, he could be an adequate shot-blocker, so Franklin rolled the dice and gave Gill his final scholarship. In hindsight, Franklin wishes he had redshirted Gill, so negligible were his skills. “He couldn’t catch a lob,’’ Franklin says. “You’d throw him the ball and he’d watch it like he was looking at a fly. I’d be like, go get it and dunk it. But he honestly didn’t know.’’

A boy accustomed to flip flops and T-shirts combatted homesickness and the cold of Indiana, layering coats on top of one another as he shuffled between the only three stops he made on the Vincennes campus: practice, class, dorm. Progress came just as arduously, more in baby steps than leaps and bounds. Gill put on some weight, learned how to block shots instead of just swat at them, but his numbers — five points, five rebounds and two blocks — were hardly eye-popping and his skills still unpolished. Basketball, however, remains a game of upside, and four-year college coaches saw exactly what Franklin did, a tantalizing frame that just might blossom into something powerful. https://theathletic.com/1641857/2020/02/28/meet-romaro-gill-the-seton-hall-gentle-giant-with-the-intimidating-presence/ Page 1 of 2 02/28/20 Meet Romaro Gill, the Seton Hall gentle giant with the intimidating presence

Gill had no shortage of suitors, though Franklin only allowed him to entertain the ones who promised to redshirt him. “I thought if he had time in the oven, he might be something,’’ Franklin says.

Gill was walking to the bus after Vincennes had been eliminated from the junior college national tournament in March 2017 when a former college big man sidled up beside him. Seton Hall assistant Grant Billmeier, a two-year captain during his own tenure with the Pirates, was in Hutchinson, Kan., to look at other prospects, but Gill caught his eye with his shot-blocking and defense. He introduced himself as Gill headed to the bus, praising him for his efforts despite the loss. Gill had never heard of Seton Hall, but a few weeks later he elected to visit the campus. He liked the plan Willard laid out, including the redshirt season, and was awed by the Pirates’ home arena, the Prudential Center. “The biggest place I’d played was at Hutchinson,’’ Gill says. He also liked the size of the campus — “not too big, but not too small’’ — and though New Jersey is not exactly flip flops and T-shirt weather year-round, South Orange does offer a handful of Jamaican eateries just off campus, a welcome taste of home after two years in the less urbane Vincennes, Ind.

Gill did not kid himself. He knew he wasn’t ready for Division I college basketball. “I didn’t mind that I had work to do,’’ he says. He did not, however, realize exactly how unready he was.

They did not use . Gill was not ready for basketballs. They started with tennis balls, using hand-eye coordination drills intended to make his oven-mittsized hands work like actual hands, rather than clubs. They spent more time on footwork than dance choreographers, teaching Gill how to turn the athleticism and grace he was naturally blessed with into something effective on the basketball court. Ballhandling drills came next, followed by shooting and shot-blocking and rebounding and boxing out, an endless progression as Billmeier and the rest of the Seton Hall staff tried to teach Gill stuff most U.S. players learn in elementary school. During practices, senior big man Angel Delgado repeatedly and gently would move Gill where he needed to be, not just telling Gill what to do, but explaining why, how his improper placement negatively impacted Delgado and everyone else on the court. “He had no real feel for the game, where to be,’’ Willard says. “He was always two steps behind.’’

Willard put in the effort, not really knowing what the return would be, Gill so unpolished there was no guarantee he’d ever amount to much. But the coach kept looking at that frame, at that 7-2 body, reminding himself that 7-2 dudes don’t walk into the Seton Hall gym every day. And the kid was so willing, that pleaser of a personality accepting the repetition and tedium without complaint, that Willard thought it just might work.

Gill was less certain. After his sit-out year, he knew he had made some progress but he could never quite translate what he had learned into games. In practice, he was pretty good, but in live-action, the lack of confidence that lingers beneath the surface of every shy kid held him back. In his first year of eligibility, Gill averaged 2.3 points and 2.7 rebounds per game, a seven-point, five-rebound night against Marquette serving as his high bar. Toward the end of the 2018-19 season, his teammate Mike Nzei, invited Gill to come with him to a meeting. Gill had no idea what the meeting was, but because he was hanging out in his dorm doing nothing, he decided to tag along.

Turns out Nzei was snookering Gill, bringing him to Seton Hall’s Student-Athlete Advisory Committee (SAAC) gathering because he was nearly done with his time on the committee, and the group needed a sub. Enter Gill, unwitting replacement. That April, Gill earned an invite to the NCAA Student-Athlete Leadership Forum in Florida, and in July he attended the national SAAC meeting in Indianapolis. Athletes from high-profile sports are rarities at such events, and NCAA honchos took notice of Gill, a member of the student-athlete academic honor society, inviting him to join the Basketball Oversight Committee. Responsible for implementing and voting on recommendations from the selection committee, the oversight committee includes 12 members and just two basketball players. (The other is Marquette’s Markus Howard.) Only Gill has a vote. Suddenly the shy kid still searching for his on-court confidence was being asked his opinion on all things from sports wagering to paying athletes.

Confidence is mercurial, sparked as suddenly as it can be extinguished. Gill doesn’t know if it is a straight line, his involvement in the NCAA committees to his explosion on the court, but he does believe there is a correlation. In his second game this season, he scored in double figures (10 points), something he failed to do in the entirety of the 27 games he played the season prior. Against Georgetown in January, he went for a career-high 17, along with eight rebounds and four blocks. Against St. John’s at Madison Square Garden came his first double-double, 14 and 13, along with six blocks, his offense forcing opponents to stay honest and opening up the Pirates’ perimeter game, and his defense providing the rim protection that, along with Quincy McKnight’s dogged ball pressure, makes Seton Hall’s defense so effective.

Nothing comes out of nowhere, and all of this is a byproduct of methodical and purposeful work, but even Gill admits it’s a little stunning. “I have surprised myself a little bit, to be honest,’’ he says. “I knew I could do it, but I just couldn’t make it happen out there on the court. After that one time, the Georgetown game, it’s like everything changed. Last year, my confidence maybe was a 40. Now it’s close to 100.’’

Todd Franklin is talking again about that raw video, the first time he laid eyes on Gill. But this time he is not talking about what he saw, but rather what he didn’t see, and really what he couldn’t see or wouldn’t ever really know.

How would Gill think? How would he behave? What kind of on-court persona would he have? As a coach, certainly Franklin and later Willard could nurture these things, but they aren’t entirely coachable skills. And yet the cruel twist in basketball, in all of sport, is that these intangibles would be the difference between Gill’s teasing possibilities and his actualities. “He was tough enough, but the question was, was he going to be aggressive enough?” Franklin remembers thinking. “Am I going to impose my will? He could take it, but was he ever going to be the guy that was going to give it? That’s what I didn’t know. And that’s what he’s become.’’

A man who may whisper, but a player who shouts.

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The Bond Between Seton Hall’s Myles Powell And Marquette’s Markus Howard Goes Beyond Basketball

J.P. Pelzman Senior Contributor Feb 28, 2020, 09:10am

When college basketball superstars and good friends Myles Powell and Markus Howard talk to each other, the conversations can go in many different directions. Except for the one you might think would be obvious.

“When Myles and me talk it has very little to do with basketball,” Howard said in a recent phone interview. “We just talk about life.”

“This basketball stuff is just a part of our lives,” Powell said recently. “It’s just a talent that we have but when we talk, it’s a real relationship.”

Still, “this basketball stuff” will be on full display Saturday when Powell and Seton Hall visit Howard and Marquette in a showcase game on FOX at 2:30 p.m. Eastern time.

Both teams are safely projected into the NCAA tournament field by experts.

Thus, for Seton Hall (20-7, 12-3), this is a chance to at least maintain its one-game lead atop the Big East. For Marquette (18-9, 8-7), the goal is to keep building its NCAA resume and improving its potential in Howard’s final home game as a collegian.

“It’s the last time I'll be playing in a Marquette jersey in Milwaukee,” Howard said, “so want to make sure I leave on the right note. That's definitely all I'll be thinking about, giving the fans and the people in the program one last glimpse of the mark I want to leave on this program, so the only thing I'm worried about is trying to help my team get a win.”

Powell said, “(with) the emotions that are going to be running through that building, I can only imagine what he’s going to be feeling.”

It is interesting the two star players don’t talk shop when they communicate via phone, text message or Facetime, considering few players in the country can relate to what each goes through as the focal point of each opponent’s defensive game plan.

Although Powell is from Trenton, N.J. and Howard spent his formative years in Arizona the two met while playing on the summer basketball travel circuit.

“We kind of built a relationship through that,” Howard said. “I think it’s cool to (talk to) someone in kind of a similar situation as you. … It just shows that we’re two regular guys who happen to play basketball. It's not something that defines us, it’s something that we love to do and something that has helped us build relationships.”

Powell indicated that FOX was planning to do a feature on their friendship off the court after he and Seton Hall arrived in Milwaukee. It seems fitting in the Year After Zion (Duke’s Zion Williamson, now with the New Orleans Pelicans) that seniors such as Powell and Howard are getting the spotlight rather than one-and-done types in a much more wide-open race for the national player of the year hardware in men’s college basketball.

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Howard, who is averaging 27.2 points, is the reigning Big East Player of the Year and the Golden Eagles’ all-time leading scorer with 2,663 points. Powell, who is averaging 21.3 points, is third on Seton Hall’s career scoring list with 2,195 points.

Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard said, “to kind of watch both of them grow up in the league and become superstars, I think it shows you the great things about college basketball but I think it also shows you how great this league is that two great players can be showcased at the same time. And I think the league has done a great job of promoting these great players as they’ve grown and gotten better and better.”

As for Powell, he said, “He's one of those special once-in-a-lifetime people that come into your life and you enjoy it and you embrace it and every second with him has been nothing but a special moment.”

Marquette coach Steve Wojciechowski said, “What Markus has done for our program since he’s been here and what he’s meant and how he’s grown as a player to be the player he is right now, has just been incredible. He’s represented himself and our program in a first-class manner every step of the way.”

Immediately after Seton Hall’s 69-55 victory in Newark on Jan. 11 in the previous meeting between the teams, Howard and Powell shared a hug and a long conversation before going to their respective locker rooms.

“When we play against each other,” Howard said, “it’s always a game with a lot of emotion and one that can definitely raise our eyebrows, but to have a moment like that before or after the game is always nice to have. In the heat of competition, we’re competing, but when we step off the court, we’re good friends.”

“We just said a quick prayer together,” Powell said. “That’s my guy. We told each other we love each other. I just want to keep seeing him succeed.”

“You get to see each other grow,” Howard said of being four-year players. “I remember when we were both freshmen. It's really special to share that with somebody who’s from a different team. On the court he has a very loud personality but away from the court I think he’s really soft-spoken. One of those people who’s really the salt of the earth, will give for anybody.

“On the court he’s a fierce competitor,” Howard added, “but off the court he’s real chill, really relaxed. He’s just one of those guys you find who’s easy to connect with and easy to talk to. He's really just a great guy.”

Powell said of Howard, “He's a great kid, he’s a faith- first kid, he called me when I got hurt (a sprained ankle), he was praying for me. These four years that we’ve been in school together we’ve pretty much had a great relationship on and off the court the whole time. There's never been a time where we’ve talked trash on the court. I respect him so much as a man and I just hope he does well in the future.” Howard added, “I just want people to know good of a person he is.”

Still, there is one thing Powell would like to take away from his close friend—-a potential second consecutive Big East Player of the Year trophy.

“He got one under his belt last year,” Powell said, grinning, “so hopefully, I can get one this year.”

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Seton Hall basketball: Before Villanova showdown, tears will flow for Myles Powell

Jerr y Carin o, Asbury Park Press Published 7:45 a.m. ET March 3, 2020 | Updated 8:58 a.m. ET March 3, 2020

13 reasons why no Pirate should ever wear No. 13 again

SOUTH ORANGE — The tears are coming. They’re coming for Seton Hall basketball coach Kevin Willard, who already admitted he’ll be a crying wreck during Wednesday’s Senior Night ceremony. They’re coming for Myles Powell, even though he’ll try to hold it together.

And they’re coming for the 15,000-plus fans who will flock to the Prudential Center for a touchstone moment, a gathering whose meaning goes well beyond a game, even a big game against Villanova.

“I kind of don’t want it to end,” Powell said Monday, before practice. “I didn’t want my Senior Night to come.”

It’s coming, and its magnitude cannot be overstated. In the long and sometimes glorious history of Seton Hall basketball, there never has been a Myles Powell. He is the most-filmed, photographed and quoted Pirate ever. He is the undisputed face of his university, a title that goes to head coaches or football players on other campuses. When people in the far reaches of the country think of Seton Hall, they think first (and perhaps only) of Myles Powell.

It’s a responsibility none of us can imagine. And Powell, a Jersey boy through and through, has carried it with a combination of purpose and joy that sets him apart.

“A lot of guys can’t handle it,” Willard said. “I think he’s really embraced it.” Seton Hall Pirates guard Myles Powell (13) reacts with fans during overtime against the Kentucky Wildcats in the Hoops Classic at Madison Square Garden. (Photo: USA TODAY Sports)

Example 9,234 came Monday, when Powell was asked about the stakes of Seton Hall’s game against perennial power Villanova (8:30 p.m., Fox Sports 1) — an opportunity for the eighth-ranked Pirates to clinch the Big East’s regular-season title outright and earn the top seed in the conference tournament.

“Now instead of just being about the seniors, it’s about the whole university,” Powell said. “I feel like the story fits us because that’s what this year has been about.

“Now it’s about everybody.”

So true, but at some point, probably next season, Seton Hall will dedicate a game night solely to honoring Powell. At that time, his No. 13 should be taken out of circulation and raised to the rafters. No Pirate should wear it again. In case you need more convincing, here are 13 reasons why No. 13 should stand alone:

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1. In his tweet last May announcing he would stay in college instead of turning pro early, Powell highlighted the opportunity to become the first member ofhis family to earn a degree. He referenced that again Monday. It’s an important message.

“My last two memories in the Prudential Center could be winning a championship and in May graduating from college,” he said. “This is what I came back to school for.”

2. He helped Marquette big man Theo John off the floor after a hard fall during Saturday's game. Much was made of the gesture, especially since Johngot into it with some Pirates during last year’s Big East Tournament. But Powell has been helping opponents up all season.

“You guys always pushed me to my best,” he told John.

3. Multiple times this season, he insisted that teammates join him on camera for postgame television interviews. During a Seton Hall women’ game atWalsh Gym (Powell is a frequent attendee) he reacted to a camera zooming in on him by grabbing teammates Quincy McKnight and Takal Molson and pulling them into the frame.

“He’s that guy,” McKnight said. “He never wants it to be just about him.”

4. He took six shots in a January win over Providence. Six shots. An All-American spent 34 minutes as a decoy, and loved it.

5. He led team U.S.A. to the bronze medal at last summer’s Pan American Games.

6. The Pirates’ record during his tenure is 84-45, with four NCAA Tournament appearances and the program’s first Big East regular-season banner since 1993. They’ve cracked the top 10 for the first time since 2000.

7. He’s on pace to finish second on the program’s career scoring list with more than 2,300 points and ranks first in 3- pointers made (343). With amoderate postseason run, he projects to finish no worse than second in games played and third in minutes logged.

8. He will become the Hall's sixth Associated Press All-American and, mostly likely, just the third Pirate to make first team. The last was Walter Dukes in1953.

9. He made one of the most iconic shots in program history, a 35-foot pull-up from the left side that sparked Seton Hall past Villanova and into last year’s NCAA Tournament. The lighting bolt prompted announcer Gus Johnson to famously proclaim, “Trenton makes, the world takes!”

10. He faced-timed St. John’s standouts and L.J. Figueroa to thank them for upending Creighton Sunday, opening the door for thePirates to win the conference outright vs. Villanova. Powell has befriended rivals all over, including Rutgers' Geo Baker and Marquette All-American Markus Howard.

11. His fellow seniors Quincy McKnight and Romaro Gill credit him with playing a key role in their vast individual developments. Powell has roomed withGill for three years; McKnight is his best friend on the team.

12. He’s a Jersey guy who stayed home, committing to the Hall after a 16-15 season. In addition to his mom and dad, his high school and AAU coaches(Fred Falchi and Jimmy Salmon) will join him for Senior Night.

13. He’s been an eloquent spokesman for Seton Hall and for the collegiate model.

“I feel like I got everything out of college that you can possibly get,” Powell said. “I went about it the right way. I waited for my time. I’ve represented the university as best as I possibly can, my family as best as I can, my last name. I’m just thankful to be in this situation.”

Everyone associated with Seton Hall, from coaches to students to fans, is thankful too. On Wednesday evening, just before 8:30 p.m., 30,000 misty eyes will tell the story.

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Posted by Jaden Daly at 1:00 PM Tuesday, March 3, 2020

After four years of memories, Powell set to leave one more lasting impression on senior night

He came to Walsh Gymnasium, a one-hour drive from his native Trenton, 45 pounds overweight and nowhere near 100 percent physically. Little did he, or anyone else for that matter, know that this would be far from the only transformation he would experience over the four years that followed, evolving from out of shape to out of this world one shot at a time.

Myles Powell will take the stage one last time at Prudential Center Wednesday, amid a capacity crowd as his Seton Hall team, ranked eighth in the country – the program’s highest placement in a national poll in nearly two decades – host Big East Conference rival Villanova with a chance to clinch an outright conference championship for the first time since 1993, when an equally unforgettable guard named Terry Dehere solidified the Pirates’ exploits and put South Orange on the national map for college basketball powerhouses. Much has been made of Powell’s prowess for scoring, but as head coach Kevin Willard frequently attests, there is way more to the makeup of the Dan Marino of the Seton Hall brand – Powell, much like the Hall of Fame quarterback, wears No. 13 – than meets the eye.

“I think we got a pretty good player,” Willard said on a conference call earlier this season when recounting Powell’s recruitment, first at Trenton Catholic before the senior superstar played a post-graduate season at South Kent Prep in Connecticut, where Willard and former assistant Shaheen Holloway, now the head coach at Saint Peter’s, continued to track Powell and his upward trajectory. “But he was 250 pounds and coming off a broken foot, so I knew we had a lot of work to do with him. But I also thought he was a special player, with the fact that he had a great ability to shoot the basketball and score the basketball.”

When Powell arrived on the Seton Hall campus for the first time, his nascent super powers were put to the test, not on the hardwood, but in the weight room, with an unflattering nickname to put his determination on the fast track.

“They used to call me Butterball,” Powell recalled at Seton Hall media day prior to his junior season, the moniker given to him by strength and conditioning coach Jason Nehring in a ploy to get him into game shape. “Jason said, ‘When you get to 200, then I’ll call you Myles.’”

“You never know how a kid’s work ethic is going to be once he gets to you, and his work ethic for the last three- and-a-half years has been second to none,” said Willard. “I think that’s why he’s turned himself into such a great player. He’s embraced coaching and he’s really embraced the work we put in – the work HE had to put in – and I think when you combine a kid that’s got a great attitude and a great work ethic, you’re seeing the results of a guy turning himself into a special player.”

For those familiar with Seton Hall and the face the Pirate program dons in the public eye, no explanation is necessary for the level at which Powell serves as its ambassador. Always extroverted and displaying an outsized personality as big as his heart and his once-voracious appetite, Powell is always looking to not only include his teammates – almost always referred to in interviews as his brothers – but also any live being with whom he comes into contact in his life, allowing each the opportunity to savor an experience that most 22-year-olds would likely desire to keep to themselves. Yes, Powell is a rare breed, but the encore of the past four months was nearly left on the cutting room floor.

Following a junior season in which he was an honorable mention on the Associated Press All-America list and recipient of the Haggerty Award, bestowed annually upon the best player in the New York metropolitan area, Powell tested the waters of taking his talents to the professional ranks, entering his name in the NBA Draft. But unlike fellow Seton Hall guard Isaiah Whitehead, who hired an agent and thus closed the door on returning to New Jersey for his final two seasons and passing on the chance to play with Powell, who began his freshman year several months later, Powell kept his options open and did not sign with an agent, ultimately deciding to write the final chapter in a legacy that has grown all the more illustrious by the day. And while his decision – announced via

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“I didn’t think we could get any closer, but I was wrong,” Powell said of the relationship between he and Willard when the subject was broached this past October at Big East media day. “This summer, I feel like we took that final step of Coach Willard really being like my backbone. With him helping me get through that process and then him pretty much taking a month-and-a-half off from his family to go out to Peru (for the Pan-American Games) to spend that time not only with me, but with Myles (Cale) and other kids in the Big East, it just shows how much Coach really cares about the conference and the kids that he’s dealing with.”

“When I went in there and I first told him that I wanted to do it (enter the draft process), he said, ‘Well, if you’re going to do it, you’re going to do it as (if) you’re staying in.’ I was out there in California getting ready for my pro day, and I just needed somebody to lean on. Coach Willard was the first person I called, and I just told him that I needed him there. He hung up, he called me back in about 30 minutes, and he said, ‘I’ll be there tomorrow afternoon,’ so just for somebody that I could rely on like that, that meant a lot to me.”

The admiration is clearly a two-way street, as Willard has a mutual love for his latest pupil to join the likes of Whitehead, Angel Delgado and Khadeen Carrington as precocious talents who have progressed to one-of-a-kind superstars. On numerous occasions, Powell has effusively praised Willard, saying he would not be the man he has become without his coach’s patient guidance and steady hand, but would Willard be the same coach without Powell?

“Not at all,” he shared. “Every day in practice, he has a level of enthusiasm that’s contagious. It’s one of those things that you love coaching a kid that loves to be in gym, wants the big moment. As a coach and as a person, we’ve been through a lot together. We’ve grown together, and I think that’s why he is where he is. For me, he’s been like a third son.”

“I feel like Coach would give me his last (breath) just like I’d give him my last,” Powell reaffirmed. “I’ve got his back just like how he has mine. I love Coach Willard with all my heart, and he’ll always be my guy for life. I wouldn’t be here, I wouldn’t be the Myles Powell I am today, if it wasn’t for Kevin Willard. I’m not afraid to say that, and I’ll say it to every reporter in here. None of this would be possible if it wasn’t for him believing in the fat kid that was 250 pounds three years ago.”

Nor would any of what he has accomplished since his debut on November 11, 2016 be possible without the adulation he has received from the blue-and-white-clad fans over the years, the levels of which figure to reach triple-digit decibel readings when public address announcer Tim McLoone begins to highlight the accomplishments of Seton Hall’s third-all-time leading scorer, with program legend Nick Werkman within reach for second place behind Dehere in career points before the final buzzer sounds on a once-in-a-generation career. In fact, outside of a sense of unfinished business stemming from last March’s NCAA Tournament exit, the outpouring of support Powell has received may be the second-most alluring reason why he eschewed a chance to ply his wares at a higher level last summer. What could possibly supersede that? Walking across the stage in May to receive a degree in the same building that produced so many other timeless memories.

“The bad taste was still in our mouth from us losing in the (Big East) championship and then losing to Wofford in the first round, especially wanting to play Kentucky again,” said Powell. “So I just felt like it was still a piece that was missing, and I still felt unaccomplished. I had to go back to school for basketball to accomplish some more, and I’ll be the first person in my family to graduate. So for me to be the first person to say that I graduated and I have a diploma in my family, it’s bigger than me and it means so much more to me than just the basketball part as well.”

“With all the love they’ve given me, truly, deep down in my heart, I feel like I made the right decision. This was the best decision for my career.”

Thousands of fans, many of whom figure to be on hand in Newark to pay one last homage to a native son that has taken them along for the ride of a lifetime, would concur.

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Seton Hall’s Myles Powell looks ahead after touching goodbye

By Howie Kussoy March 5, 2020 | 3:45am

It was beauty no one wanted to see. It was warmth no one wanted to feel.

It was a night no one wanted to come.

Myles Powell and a record-setting crowd (16,863) were powerless to postpone what was the senior’s final home game at Prudential Center. The Seton Hall star was helpless to prevent all he knew would come.

Before Wednesday’s 79-77 loss to Villanova, Powell walked onto the court, smiling in the midst of the exhilarating scene. Then, coach Myles Powell (Bill Kostrun) Kevin Willard hugged him.

That’s when the tears first fell. Powell wiped them away. New ones formed, dampening his cheeks, eloquently and succinctly detailing his unrivaled run.

“Coach said a few things to me, pretty much told that he loved me. I heard the crowd start cheering and it caught up to me,” Powell said. “I love this building. I love my fans. I love the university. It was just an emotional night for me.”

Powell raised his framed jersey and the crowd roared with gratitude. Unspoken was the inevitable fate of every great show: It ends.

Seton Hall will have no one like him next year. Perhaps not for another generation. Perhaps not in your lifetime.

It wasn’t possible to soak up every second, every shot, every win, every palpable buzz. Who can reflect when a ball is bouncing and time is running off the clock?

Powell hadn’t been able to relish every second, either. He chose to make each one count. He decided that when there was no hint of his destination.

The Trenton, N.J., native couldn’t imagine becoming an All-American, approaching second place on Seton Hall’s all-time scoring list, heading to his fourth straight NCAA Tournament, securing at least a share of the Pirates’ first Big East regular-season title since 1993.

How could he? He arrived at Seton Hall weighing 240 pounds. He was “Cheese.” He was short of breath a couple of shot-clock violations into workouts.

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Powell, who ranked as low as 86th in national recruiting, then shed 45 pounds. He blinked and he was a senior, featured on billboards towering over the state, the most beloved Pirate to ever call Prudential Center home.

“This is what you dreamed of. I’m almost at the finish line of what I started, not only on the basketball court, but I took another step in life as a man,” Powell said. “The next time I’m gonna be in this building is when I’m receiving my diploma.”

It didn’t take long to know what was possible. In his third-ever college game, Powell went off for 26 points in a win at Iowa. As a sophomore slated for stardom, he happily played sidekick to the team’s older core. As a junior, he took the torch as the only returning starter, carrying his team to another dance.

As a senior, he briefly veered from the script. Powell injured his left ankle. He suffered a concussion. He battled with his shot. Still, he remained the most feared closer in the game. He remained the Big East’s best player and the team leader.

Wednesday, he struggled to score 14 points, on 5-for-18 shooting, but he still handed out a season-high seven assists, as expertly as he passes praise and confidence and motivation to teammates.

Returning for his senior season meant Powell could become the first member of his family to graduate college. It ensured his No. 13 would always hang above the court.

“Myles is like my third son,” Willard said. “We’ve always stayed together and I think that’s why I love the kid so much. Whatever’s happened, we’ve always had each other’s back.

“When you see them for your last time on the court, it’s emotional. It’s hard.”

When Powell committed to Seton Hall in 2015, the NCAA Tournament meant everything. Four years have passed since the school’s decade-long drought was snapped. Now, it is no longer enough. The most recent Sweet 16 was 20 years ago. The only Final Four appearance came in 1989.

Powell makes anything possible. It’s strange that some fans apparently forgot, leaving the arena with 38 seconds left and the Pirates down eight. Powell nearly made them pay, trying for a game-tying 3 with five seconds remaining.

No one in the building thought it would miss. No one could believe when it did.

Powell then walked off the Prudential Center floor for the final time, waving to the crowd.

“This one is rough. This is my last time here. We didn’t go out how I wanted to,” Powell said. “But you know me, you know my story, I always say there’s better days ahead.”

The most important chapter is just beginning. Who knows how beautiful goodbye may be?

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GRANT BILLMEIER TONY SKINN DUANE WOODWARD KYLE SMYTH KEVIN LYNCH Assistant Coach • 5th Season • Seton Hall ’07 Assistant Coach • 2nd Season • George Mason ’06 Assistant Coach • 2nd Season • Boston College ’98 Director of Ops • 6th Season • Iona ’12 Coordinator of Ops • 6th Season • Seton Hall ’14