Its been a down year for Seton Hall as they been falling back in the Big East standings over the past couple weeks of action losing their last 3 games in a row to stand 17-8 overall and 6-6 in conference.
They are also NOT a good road team.

Seton Hall is coming off back to back close losses at home against Marquette and on the road against Georgetown, and things get even tougher for the veteran Pirates today going against the second best team in the Big East. On the year Seton Hall ranks 66th in the nation in scoring and 169th in total defense.

Xavier has been able to leap over Villanova for the time being in the Big East with an impressive mark of 23-3 overall and 11-2 in conference. Xavier has been on fire winning their last 8 games in a row including some tremendous wins this past week on the road against Butler and Creighton. Xavier has shown they love to play with tempo, but they can also adapt how they do things, which will help this 14th ranked offensive unit come postseason play.

Xavier has already picked up a road win against Seton Hall earlier in conference play by a final of 73-64 and we'd be somewhat surprised if the Musketeers weren't able to grab a similar margin of victory in today's rematch, especially when looking at how these teams have been playing more recently. Look for XAVIER to pull away in the 2nd half.