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Monmouth University Athletics

Hammond Seton Hall
Karlee Sell
65
Monmouth MON 1-1
75
Winner Seton Hall HALL 2-0
Monmouth MON
1-1
65
Final
75
Seton Hall HALL
2-0
Winner
Score By Periods
Team 1 2 F
Monmouth MON 32 33 65
Seton Hall HALL 48 27 75

Game Recap: Men's Basketball |

MONMOUTH HELD OFF BY #23 SETON HALL, 75-65

NEWARK, NJ – Freshman Deion Hammond (Mitchellville, MD/Riverdale Baptist School) led Monmouth with 17 points and Micah Seaborn (Fort Worth, TX/Prime Prep Academy) finished with 16 but the Hawks were held off by #23 Seton Hall on Sunday afternoon at the Prudential Center, 75-65. The loss is Monmouth's first of the season, while the Pirates move to 2-0 on opening weekend.

The closest Monmouth got in the second half was 10, the final margin. MU got it to within 15 several times in the period, and scored the final nine points of the game. Seton Hall held off the Hawks to getting within single digits, getting four double digit efforts on the afternoon.

Monmouth led by one nearing the midpoint of the first half, and Hammond's third consecutive triple cut the Seton Hall lead to one at 7:09. Out of the under-eight media timeout, Zac Tillman (Yeadon, PA/Shipley School) had a layup that would have cut it to two waved off after review on a shot clock violation, and Seton Hall followed with a 13-2 run. The Pirates eventually took a 16-point lead into the break.

NOTES AND QUOTES
"It was a really big deal for our kids to come up here and play against Kevin Willard's team and play against Seton Hall. Kevin does a really good job and their team is really, really good." –King Rice

"I am more than happy with my team. We fought, we tried hard. We got lumped up by a bigger group and then we fought back." – King Rice

"Deion has played good offensively and he's done good things defensively. All our freshmen have. George comes out in the game and hits a three. Our freshmen are really locked in." – Micah Seaborn

-The game was played as part of the NIT Season Tip-Off.
-Melik Martin netted his first collegiate points on a first half three.
-Marcus McClary also netted his first career points, going 3-4 from the foul line.
-George Papas netted his first collegiate bucket, a corner three immediately after coming off the bench.
-Deion Hammond has now worked into double figures in both his first two collegiate games, scoring 11 first-half points and finishing with a team-best 17.
-Hammond became Monmouth's first true freshman to lead the team in scoring since Josh James on 2/22/14 against Saint Peter's.
-Micah Seaborn scored in double digits for the second game in a row to start the season, netting 10 in the first half and finishing with 16.
-Today marked Monmouth's first game against a Big East opponent since beating Georgetown in 2015.
-MU is 1-1 for the sixth consecutive season. Five of those losses have come to a high-major.
                -2017: Seton Hall
                -2016: South Carolina
                -2015: Southern California
                -2014: West Virginia
                -2012: Notre Dame

NUMBERS CRUNCH
-Monmouth beat Seton Hall in the second half, 33-27.
-The Hawks outscored the Pirates bench 39-7.
-The Blue and White limited Seton Hall to 28% from deep, and just 8% in the second half (1-12).
-Last year's national leader in rebounding Angel Delgado recorded his 52nd career double-double of 17 points and 11 rebounds.
-Myles Powell led all scorers with 18 for SHU.

UP NEXT
-Monmouth heads to Lehigh on Tuesday night for a matchup with the Mountain Hawks at 7:00 p.m.

 
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