Coming into Saturday’s game, Butler and Seton Hall were on two entirely different trajectories. The Bulldogs were seeing a massive decline from last season as they went from being ranked as high as fifth in the country, to now sitting at 1-2 in-conference and 2-4 overall. Meanwhile, the Pirates were coming off one of their best all-around team games in years when they beat Xavier last Wednesday.
The Pirates looked like a different team at the start of the first half, going down by as many as 7 points on some lights out shooting from Butler’s Myles Tate, but they closed the half on a 21-5 run which included 13 points from Sandro Mamukleashvili and 10 point from Jared Rhoden.