Big East Basketball: Projecting each team’s key player production for 2021-22

Seton Hall: Jamir Harris and Alexis Yetna

Decrease in production: Jamir Harris

Jamir Harris is coming off a season where he averaged 20.5 points and 3.5 assists per game with American. The past two seasons Harris has started in all thirty games he has played while American has contended, but not won the Patriot League.

Harris’ role as a starter is by no means guaranteed, as the somewhat new-look Pirates have no shortage of backcourt players. With 6’6 Kadery Richmond transferring from Syracuse, 6’0 Bryce Aitkin (14.4 mpg), and 6’6 Myles Cale (30.9 mpg) returning for his fifth year as Jared Rhoden (34.6 mpg) returns for his senior year there may not be enough minutes in the backcourt to go around.

There is no opportunity for Harris to average the 39 minutes that he did in 2020-21, it will even be difficult to match the 31.8 minutes he averaged as a junior. The only way Harris produces the same numbers as last season is if head coach Kevin Willard turns Myles Cale or Jared Rhoden into a power forward.

Increase in production: Alexis Yetna

There is a close relation in how the new transfer arrivals to Seton Hall will affect their production. If Kevin Willard is unwilling to start Jared Rhoden at the power forward position it will be former South Florida power forward Alexis Yetna who does, while Rhoden or Cale pushes Harris to the bench.

Yetna’s over seven rebounds per game will replace the boards lost with the departure of Sandro Mamukelashvili to the pros and will be able to compliment the under-five rebounds 7’2 center Ike Obiagu collects per game. In addition, Yetna’s three-point prowess is not that much less than Mamukelashvili, and certainly not sub-standard enough to keep Yetna’s defensive benefits off the court for any extended periods of time.