NEWARK, N.J. – Despite graduate student Kaiden Rice (89) surpassing former Hoya All-American Allen Iverson (87) for the most made 3-pointers in a single season, the Georgetown University men's basketball team's comeback bid fell short as Seton Hall (19-9, 10-8) escaped with a 73-68 victory on Wednesday night.

ON THE RECORD
"He has a knack of getting in there, especially when they switched. They were switching a lot and we wanted to get him the ball, but a few times we didn't realize the switch and went away from it… Collin did a great job of driving those guys and taking his opportunities when he had them." - Head Coach Patrick Ewing on Collin Holloway

"We just have to fight and keep competing. You have to want it that bad that you are going to do everything that it takes to get it done. We made an adjustment to go big, made an adjustment to go small and we took away things they were getting in the first half. Then in the second half, we had some miscommunications on switches… It's something that we are continuing to work on and we're only going to get better as we go on." - Coach Ewing on handling adjustments

HOYA HIGHLIGHTS

• Kaiden Rice led four in double figures with 17 points on 6-of-9 shooting from the floor and 5-of-8 from distance.
• Collin Holloway registered 16 points while going 8-for-8 from the charity stripe and pulling down three boards.
• Dante Harris scored 12 points on 6-of-10 shooting from the field while logging six assists and three steals.
• Donald Carey recorded his 18th-straight contest in double figures, scoring 11 points to go along with eight rebounds.
• Timothy Ighoefe set a new career high with four blocks while securing a game-high nine boards.
• The Hoyas (6-23, 0-18 BE) forced 10 Pirate turnovers while matching Seton Hall (19-9, 10-8 BE) with 13 points off turnovers.
• The Blue & Gray shot 40.4% from the floor (23-57) while holding the Pirates to 20% from distance (4-20).

HOW IT HAPPENED

• Harris tallied the first bucket of the game as the teams traded the lead in the early possessions. 
• Rice hit a pair of triples on a GU 8-0 run to pull ahead by three, 15-12 (13:07).
• Seton Hall streaked through the middle part of the frame and took a 10-point advantage before Rice halted the Pirate scoring with his record-breaking 88th trey of the season to trail, 31-24 (4:27).
• Jalin Billingsley drew an and-one and completed the three-point play (3:13), jumpstarting an 8-0 run that cut the deficit to one, 35-34 (2:06). The Blue & Gray went into halftime trailing 42-36.
• Holloway drained the first bucket of the second half before a Mohammed triple and an Ighoefe layup pulled the Hoyas within one, 44-43 (16:47).
• Harris scored eight straight points (8:31) and Holloway rattled off eight more of his own to keep GU within striking distance, 62-57 (5:25).
• Carey registered seven of the final nine Hoya points to maintain a one-possession game through the final three minutes before the Hoyas fell, 73-68.

UP NEXT
Georgetown will head to Cincinnati, Ohio to wrap up the 2021-22 regular season against Xavier at Cintas Center on Saturday, March 5. Tipoff is scheduled for 7 p.m. and the game will be broadcast live on FS1. Saturday's contest can be heard locally on The Team 980 with Rich Chvotkin in his 48th season on the call.