The Seton Hall Pirates returned home to defeat the Bethune-Cookman Wildcats 84-70 at the Prudential Center on Sunday afternoon. The Pirates win helped them to improve to 5-1 on the young season. Seton Hall was led by Alexis Yetna and Jared Rhoden to drop the Wildcats to 1-6. Bethune-Cookman took a surprising 34-33 lead into halftime against the 21st ranked Pirates.
Alexis Yetna produced his first double double of his career with the Pirates scoring fourteen points and grabbing thirteen rebounds. This breakout performance will be a building block for the South Florida transfer in preparing for the rigors of the upcoming Big East season.