NIT CHAMPS! Pirates Down Indiana State to Claim 2024 NIT Title

Indianapolis, Ind. – Dre Davis (Indianapolis, Ind.) scored the game-winning layup with 16 seconds remaining because the Seton Corridor males’s basketball crew took dwelling the 2024 NIT championship with a victory over Indiana State, 79-77, on Thursday evening inside Hinkle Fieldhouse.

The win offers the Pirates, who ended the sport on a 9-0 run over the ultimate 2:38, their second NIT title in program historical past and first since 1953. Al-Amir Dawes (Newark, N.J.) capped off his sturdy match with a game-high 24 factors, whereas Kadary Richmond (Brooklyn, N.Y.) completed with 21 factors and 13 rebounds. Richmond, Dawes and Davis had been all named to the NIT All-Match Group and Dawes was named the NIT’s Most Excellent Participant.

The crew is flying dwelling Friday morning, and Seton Corridor will welcome the champions again to campus with a public celebration on the inexperienced in entrance of the Seton Corridor College Middle. The Seton Corridor College neighborhood and all Pirates followers are welcome to attend. A quick celebratory program will happen with Seton Corridor College Director of Athletics Bryan Felt, Head Males’s Basketball Coach Shaheen Holloway and the complete crew.

How It Occurred

Seton Corridor led 16-10 with 13:49 left within the first half because the Pirates discovered success capitalizing off of a number of Indiana State turnovers. The Sycamores would go on to rattle off 10-straight factors to leap in entrance by three, 19-16, earlier than an 11-3 run by the Pirates, together with five-consecutive made free throws by Dawes, put The Corridor again forward, 27-22, with 8:06 to go earlier than halftime.

A Davis three-pointer on the 3:30 mark within the first half gave the Pirates their largest lead of the sport, 39-28, however the Sycamores would use a half-closing 11-0 run to tie the rating up at 39-39. Regardless of the momentum change within the Sycamores’ favor within the latter phases of the primary 20 minutes, the Pirates got here out sturdy within the second half as Davis scored seven of The Corridor’s first 12 factors that gave the Pirates a nine-point lead, 51-42.

Indiana State made it a one-point recreation, 58-57, with 10:17 left when a Richmond layup, a defensive cease and a lefty layup from Dylan Addae-Wusu (Bronx, N.Y.), pushed the Pirates’ result in 5, 62-57. A 12-5 run by the Sycamores gave them their first lead for the reason that 10-minute mark within the first half and they might later lead by seven, 77-70, with 3:03 left within the recreation. That is when the Pirates’ three captains — Dawes, Davis and Richmond —  took over the sport. Richmond’s layup off of his personal offensive rebounds with 2:38 left made it a five-point recreation earlier than five-consecutive factors had been scored by Dawes, together with an off-balance three-pointer that tied rating up at 77-77 with 1:05 to go. With underneath a minute left, the ball was Davis’ fingers and his patented spin transfer within the lane put the Pirates in entrance for good at 79-77 with 16 seconds remaining. 

On the ultimate possession of the sport, a block by Bediako on an Indiana State shot past the three-point line helped seal the NIT championship for the Pirates. The Seton Corridor protection held Indiana State scoreless during the last 3:03 and the Sycamores missed their final seven photographs.

Contained in the Field Rating

• Each groups shot properly from the ground as Indiana State shot 47 % and Seton Corridor shot 45 %.
• The Pirates shot 35 % from deep and Indiana State shot at a 38 % clip a the three-point line. 
• The Pirates shot 89 % (17-of-19) from the free throw line and the Sycamores shot 90 % (9-of-10).
• There have been 9 ties and 12 lead possibilities however Seton Corridor held the lead for 26:23 of recreation time.
• The Pirates owned a 38-30 edge in factors within the paint.
• Seton Corridor scored 20 factors off of 15 Indiana State turnovers
• The Sycamores completed plus-four on the glass, 35-31.

Information & Notes

• That is Seton Corridor’s second NIT championship in program historical past and its first since 1953.
• Seton Corridor’s 25 wins this season is tied for the fourth-most in program historical past and essentially the most for the reason that Pirates’ 25-win BIG EAST Match championship season in 2015-16.
• Head coach Shaheen Holloway is now 6-0 within the metropolis Indianapolis with wins over Kentucky and Murray State within the 2022 NCAA Match, two highway wins over Butler and two wins this 12 months’s NIT over Georgia and Indiana State.
• Seton Corridor has received 5 straight video games at Hinkle Fieldhouse together with eight of its final 10 contests.
• Dawes finishes his profession with 169 made three-pointers, which ranks 14th in program historical past.
• Dawes’ 91 made three-pointers this season is tied for the eighth-most in a single season in program historical past.
• Dawes completed with 12 20-point video games this season and 20 in his profession.
• Richmond notched his eighth double-double of the season and the eleventh of his profession.