The story of Wednesday night’s loss to No. 17 Creighton was a tale of two halves that didn’t fall in Seton Hall’s favor. After an electric first half that saw Myles Cale shoot 4-for-5 from three-point range and Bryce Aiken put up 12 points, the Pirates failed to maintain their astute defensive efforts in the closing moments of the second half.
Seton Hall well and truly outplayed Creighton up until the under-12 mark where their perimeter defense crumbled and their hot shooting cooled down. Aiken played his best basketball to date in a Seton Hall jersey and Sandro Mamukelashvili seemed to have woken up in the second half with an early three-point basket, but a Mitch Ballock-led Bluejays side ran rampant over the Pirates to seal an 85-81 comeback win at the Prudential Center.