Seton Hall brush off midweek loss with gritty away win over DePaul

Seton Hall came into Saturday’s game off the back of a 36-point loss to No. 7 Creighton on Wednesday night while DePaul were just three games into their season due to previous positive COVID-19 tests within the team. It was always going to be an especially difficult game for both teams physically and mentally, but the Pirates showed true grit to fend off a late second half comeback by the Blue Demons to leave the Wintrust Arena with a win.

“I’m really proud of the way the guys fought back after not playing well on Wednesday,” head coach Kevin Willard said in his postgame interview with Gary Cohen and Dave Popkin. “I think we just got a little tired late in the second half. We had some good…