Villanova grind out 58-54 win over Seton Hall

The Villanova Wildcats, riding the momentum of a big home win earlier in the week, turned their attention to the scrappy Seton Hall Pirates in a primetime battle in South Philadelphia on Saturday night.

It wasn’t pretty at times, but the ‘Cats showed some tough defense and gutted out the 58-54 victory in their first meeting with the Pirates.

Both teams came out ice cold to start. Seton Hall held an 11-7 lead halfway through the first half, before Eric Dixon and Caleb Daniels would go on their own 17-3 run over the next six and a half minutes of action to give the ‘Cats a double-digit lead at the U-4 media timeout.

Dixon and Daniels would be the only Wildcats on the board, until a Cam Whitmore…