Dec 4, 2024; Newark, New Jersey, USA; Seton Corridor Pirates head coach Shaheen Holloway appears on in the course of the first half in opposition to the NJIT Highlanders at Prudential Heart. Obligatory Credit score: Vincent Carchietta-Imagn Pictures Within the last sport of this 12 months’s Massive 12-Massive East Battle, Oklahoma State will go to Seton Corridor on Sunday afternoon in Newark, N.J.
Oklahoma State was picked to complete 14th of 16 groups within the Massive 12 preseason coaches’ ballot, and Seton Corridor was voted tenth of 11 by the Massive East coaches.
Thus far, these projections typically have been prophetic.
The Cowboys (5-2) earned their first 4 wins by a median of simply 8.8 factors earlier than throttling Tulsa 76-55 on Wednesday. Oklahoma State misplaced to each Florida Atlantic and Nevada on the Charleston Basic.
Seton Corridor (5-4) additionally participated within the Charleston Basic and went 2-1 there, however the Pirates have suffered discouraging losses to Fordham, Hofstra and Monmouth. They’re No. 132 total on KenPom.com; solely Boston School and Virginia Tech price worse amongst groups from the ability conferences.
“Shifting ahead, I want everyone to be on the identical web page,” Seton Corridor coach Shaheen Holloway mentioned after the Pirates defeated NJIT 67-56 on Wednesday. “I want the fellows who may rating to attain, guys who can defend, defend, guys who rebound, rebound. I feel as soon as we do this, I feel we have nonetheless bought an opportunity of being a great group.”
Prince Aligbe broke out in opposition to NJIT for a career-high 19 factors and a game-best eight rebounds for the Pirates. Chaunce Jenkins, who averages 13.1 factors per sport, and Isaiah Coleman (10.9) are the group’s double-digit scorers.
However Seton Corridor continues to rank close to the underside of Division I in scoring (58.3 ppg) whereas sitting tied for third in factors allowed (56.6).
For the Cowboys, Bryce Thompson led 4 gamers in double figures with 15 factors as they opened a 13-point halftime lead at Tulsa and led by as many as 26 down the stretch.
Oklahoma State pressured 22 turnovers, a season excessive.
“I assumed that was in all probability our greatest defensive effort for an prolonged time period so far on the brief season,” coach Steve Lutz informed the Oklahoma State pupil newspaper.
Marchelus Avery (13 ppg), Thompson (12.6) and Abou Ousmane (12.2) lead the Cowboys in scoring this 12 months.
Sunday’s sport probably will likely be received within the inside. Seton Corridor ranks 343rd with simply 17.1 3-point makes an attempt per sport. Oklahoma State makes an attempt 20.1 per sport and went simply 3-for-8 from the arc in opposition to Tulsa.
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