Pierre Brooks II and Andre Screen led the way as Butler picked up an 82-77 win over Seton Hall Wednesday night at Hinkle Fieldhouse.
 
Brooks scored 19 points and Screen registered 16 to lead the Bulldog effort.
 
With the win, Butler is now 8-10 on the season and picks up the team's first BIG EAST victory of the season. The Pirates fall to 6-11 (1-5).
 
THE KEY STRETCH: Butler scored on each of its final four possessions of the contest, bouncing back from a Seton Hall 13-3 run that cut a 71-59 Butler lead with 6:58 remaining to just 74-72 with 2:03 on the clock. The Bulldogs got a driving lay-up from Patrick McCaffery to make it a two-possession game with 42 seconds left and then hit all six free throw attempts following as Seton Hall never cut the deficit back to a single possession.
 
NOTES:

• Both teams shot well as Butler made 51 percent of their attempts and Seton Hall hit an even 50 percent.
• Butler out-rebounded Seton Hall, 31-24, and surrendered only five offensive rebounds to the Pirates.
• The Bulldogs went 23-for-28 from the free throw line (82 percent).
• Butler committed only eight turnovers, while Seton Hall turned the ball over only seven times. Butler has single-digit turnover outputs in seven of its last nine games.
• Screen's 16 points came on 6-for-8 shooting from the field.
• Kolby King (11) and Jahmyl Telfort (10) also found double figures for the Bulldogs.
• Boden Kapke made the first start of his Butler career following his career-high 13 points in the Saturday's game against Creighton.
• Chaunce Jenkins led Seton Hall with 21 points.
• Butler's defense held Seton Hall's leading scorer, Isaiah Coleman, to 11 points on 3-for-10 shooting. Coleman entered the game averaging 23.2 points per game in BIG EAST contests.
• Seton Hall went 9-for-16 from three-point range (56 percent), including making all four of their three-point attempts during the 13-3 run that brought them back into the game.
• Butler's win ends the team's losing streak at nine games.
• Butler's win also breaks a six-game winning streak by Seton Hall in the series between the two teams.

 
UP NEXT: Butler is the lone BIG EAST team without a weekend game before the team returns to action Tuesday night at defending national champion UConn. The tip in Hartford is scheduled for 7 p.m. on FS1. The Bulldogs' next home game is Saturday, Jan. 25 when DePaul visits Hinkle Fieldhouse. Tickets are still available for that 4 p.m. contest.