Marquette Men’s Basketball Big East Preview Primer: vs RV Seton Hall

Marquette Golden Eagles (5-8, 0-2 Big East) vs RV Seton Hall Pirates (11-2, 1-1 Big East)

Date: Tuesday, December 30, 2025
Time: 6pm Central
Location: Fiserv Forum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin

Marquette Stats Leaders

Points: Chase Ross, 16.8 ppg
Rebounds: Ben Gold, 6.5 rpg
Assists: Sean Jones, 4.1 apg

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Marquette Availability Note: The team announced on Sunday that Zaide Lowery is no longer on the men’s basketball roster. Things got weird after that, but that’s a different story.

Seton Hall Stats Leaders

Points: AJ Staton-McCray, 13.1 ppg
Rebounds: Stephon Payne 6.8 rpg
Assists: Adam “Budd” Clark, 5.4 apg

KenPom.com Rankings

Marquette: #114, their lowest ranking since going into a home game against Butler at #120 on January 30, 2016, in Steve Wojciechowski’s second season in charge.
Seton Hall: #49
Game Projection: Seton Hall has a 64% chance of victory, with a predicted score of 72-68.

This Season So Far: I bet if we asked Seton Hall head coach Shaheen Holloway at the time, or even now, he would tell us that he wasn’t super fired up about how his Pirates were performing in the first few games of the season. They beat Wagner by seven, they were losing at halftime to Monmouth before ending up with a 12 point win, they weren’t shooting the ball especially well, particularly on two-pointers where they were only connecting on 46% of their attempts, they were giving up an awful lot of three-point attempts.

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And then they went out to Maui, threw a 13-2 run at a ranked NC State team out of the gate, then tacked onto their halftime lead with a 16-2 run after the break on their way to an 85-74 victory.

Seton Hall barely lost to USC in their Maui Invitational semifinal game, giving the Trojans an edge with a 10-0 second half run, but bounced back the next day to beat Washington State. Given the fact that Seton Hall was essentially left for dead by everyone outside of South Orange after the Pirates went 7-25 last year and then turned nearly their entire roster over,…

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