St. John's (NY) plays Seton Hall for conference showdown

St. John's (NY) Red Storm (11-3, 1-2 Big East) at Seton Hall Pirates (7-7, 0-3 Big East)

Newark, New Jersey; Saturday, 12 p.m. EST

BOTTOM LINE: Joel Soriano and the St. John's (NY) Red Storm visit Al-Amir Dawes and the Seton Hall Pirates on Saturday.

The Pirates have gone 4-2 at home. Seton Hall is seventh in the Big East in rebounding averaging 33.8 rebounds. Tyrese Samuel leads the Pirates with 6.2 boards.

The Red Storm are 1-2 in conference matchups. St. John's (NY) leads the Big East with 12.1 offensive rebounds per game led by Soriano averaging 3.9.

The matchup Saturday is the first meeting this season between the two teams in conference play.

TOP PERFORMERS: Kadary Richmond is averaging 9.6 points, 3.6 assists and 1.9 steals for the Pirates. Dawes is averaging 10.6 points over the past 10 games for Seton Hall.

David Jones is shooting 29.8% from beyond the arc with 1.8 made 3-pointers per game for the Red Storm, while averaging 14.9 points, 7.6 rebounds and 1.6 steals. Soriano is shooting 58.2% and averaging 15.3 points over the past 10 games for St. John's (NY).

LAST 10 GAMES: Pirates: 4-6, averaging 65.3 points, 31.6 rebounds, 11.9 assists, 7.8 steals and 5.4 blocks per game while shooting 42.6% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 67.1 points per game.

Red Storm: 7-3, averaging 77.2 points, 38.3 rebounds, 15.5 assists, 9.2 steals and 4.1 blocks per game while shooting 44.1% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 70.9 points.

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The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by Data Skrive and data from Sportradar.