NEWARK – The Seton Hall men’s basketball team won a seesaw contest inside an energized Prudential Center on Saturday night, 63-58.
Two teams that will meet again on Feb. 17 in Omaha played a game of low-percentage shooting, not the modus operandi for a Creighton side that entered with two players – Marcus Zegarowski and Mitch Ballock – who possessed better than 45 percent three-point field goal percentages entering tonight.
Ballock was rendered ineffective, finishing 0-for-5 from the field (all threes). Zegarowski, meanwhile, missed the game with injury.
Zegarowski’s lack of impact was fortuitous, but Ballock’s forced upon by Seton Hall, with head coach Kevin Willard pointing to him as a person whose effectiveness could swung the balance of a game.