Seton Hall basketball suffers another late-game meltdown, falls to Hofstra

UNIONDALE – After Seton Hall basketball’s shocking loss to Fordham, head coach Shaheen Holloway said he was curious how this group would respond.

The answer came Wednesday, and it wasn’t good.

The Pirates suffered another late-game meltdown in a 49-48 loss to Hofstra at a nearly empty Nassau Coliseum.

To add insult to injury, it was Jaquan Sanders – who transferred from the Hall to Hofstra in the offseason – who buried the dagger 3-pointer when the Pirates inexplicably left him uncovered in transition.

Seton Hall is now 1-2 to start a normal season for the first time since 1998-99 (they also were 1-2 in the COVID-shortened 2020-21 campaign, with losses at Louisville and Rhode Island). It’s mid-November, and the Pirates’ resume already is in tatters.

Hofstra (3-0) was aided by the Hall’s atrocious shooting – 36 percent from the field and 8-of-17 from the free-throw line. The Pirates’ only reliable shooter, postgrad guard Chaunce Jenkins, scored 18 points but sat on the bench during a key stretch of the second half when he had a hot hand.

FIVE TAKEAWAYS

1. Lineup change

Seeking a spark, Holloway pulled sophomore point guard Garwey Dual from the starting lineup and inserted sophomore wing Isaiah Coleman, who is fully recovered from a muscle strain.

Dual checked in at the under-16 timeout but gave up an open 3-pointer right in front of Holloway, who was highly displeased, and then got beat on a 50-50 rebound, and back to the bench he went.

In Dual’s stead junior point guard Zion Harmon got his first real run of the young season, but didn’t make much of an impact. It became ball-handling by committee with postgrad Dylan Addae-Wusu taking the lead.

2. Yacine Toumi’s foul problem

The 6-foot-10 postgrad from Evansville is the Pirates’ most skilled big man, but he can’t stay on the court. After fouling out in 18 minutes against Fordham, Toumi picked up two fouls in five minutes of first-half play against Hofstra. And both were easily avoidable – the first was…

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Publish date : 2024-11-14 03:36:00

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