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2nd |
Final |
| Princeton (9-7) |
21 |
20 |
41 |
| Seton Hall (12-9) |
41 |
38 |
79 |
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| Continental Airlines Arena – East Rutherford, NJ |
Boxscore |
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| Keys to the Game |
| Key sequence |
Leading 14-8 at the 12:13 mark of the first half, Seton Hall blew open the game with an 18-3 run. The Pirates took advantage of a second chance when Larry Davis stroked a three, and after a John Garcia block, Jamar Nutter laid it in for a double-digit lead. Following another offensive rebound, Brian Laing connected from deep, then Nutter matched him with a trifecta the next trip down. A Noah Savage free throw interrupted the Seton Hall run, but Stan Gaines scored layups on consective possessions, with a Marcus Schroeder jumper sandwiched in between. Laing’s long-range bomb made it a 21-point game, and Justin Conway’s three-pointer was answered with one by Laing, as the Pirates scored on their eighth straight possession to make it a 35-14 contest.
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| Key sign it was over |
Princeton trailed by 20 at halftime, and opened the second half with a turnover. After two offensive rebounds kept the Seton Hall possession alive, a Gaines lay-in made it 43-21. Laing stuck a three-pointer and a jumper, and a Davis three-pointer and Eugene Harvey conventional three-point play pushed the margin to 31. Gaines put back a miss, and another offensive rebound led to another Gaines layup to complete a 17-2 Pirate run that put the game out of reach at 58-23.
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| Key performance |
Laing was the game’s leading scorer with 17 points on 7-for-11 shooting — 3 of 5 from three-point rane. He also added five rebounds, four assists, three steals, and a block in 31 minutes without a turnover.
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| Key statistic |
The turnovers and shooting certainly were big factors in the Pirates’ margin of victory, but it’s hard to overlook Seton Hall’s 57.7-percent offensive rebounding. Princeton started the game very strong on the defensive glass, grabbing five of the first six Pirate misses. However, Seton Hall rebounded 14 of its 19 missed field goals the rest of the way — including eight in a row during one stretch in the second half — and finished with 23 second-chance points to the Tigers’ seven.
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| Notes
– Savage was the only Tiger in double figures, coming off the bench to score 10 points in 29 minutes, albeit on 2-for-7 shooting.
– Kyle Koncz did not play due to a stress fracture in his foot.
– Princeton lost the turnover battle 17-9, as Seton Hall outscored its guests 24-7 in points off turnovers.
– The Tigers shot just 13 of 36 (36.1 percent), while the Pirates were 29 of 54 (53.7 percent) from the floor. It was the third straight time an opponent shot over 53 percent against the Princeton matchup zone.
– Despite the Tigers’ huge second-half deficit, Schroeder logged 40 minutes for the 13th time this season.
– Princeton will look to turn things around when it travels to Yale (7-10, 3-1) on February 2 for a 7:00 pm ET tipoff.
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