Before Seton Hall beat Columbia, juniors Khadeen Carrington and Desi Rodriguez pulled one of their freshman teammates aside.
The rookie was coming off a five-point, 1-8 performance in which he went 0-6 from deep in the Pirates’ Nov. 27 loss to Stanford. His teammates noticed his hesitancy in practice all week following the game, but on this new night the freshman was going to make his first career start. Carrington and Rodriguez couldn’t let such uncertainty linger into SHU’s game against Columbia.
They had to send a message.
“’Make sure you shoot the ball,’” Myles Powell remembers being told before the 95-71 Thursday win.