Garwey Dual has officially committed to play for the Seton Hall Pirates next season and will still have three years of eligibility remaining.

Following his declaration to go through the Draft process, Dual was invited to and participated in this year’s G-League Elite Camp. When the final hours approached for the deadline to either stay in or back out of the upcoming Draft, Dual withdrew his name from the pool of eligible potential draftees and re-entered the Transfer Portal to search for a new collegiate home. Garwey wasted no time before before committing to Shaheen Holloway and the Seton Hall Pirates.

Providence transfer Garwey Dual has committed to Seton Hall, sources tell Fox Sports. A former 4-star recruit, the 6-5 guard averaged 3.3 PPG & 1.9 APG as a freshman. He was sold on Shaheen Holloway tapping into his upside and getting it out of him. Intriguing add by the Pirates.

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Seton Hall filled a giant need with Garwey after losing Kadary Richmond and much more to the transfer portal/graduation, Richmond departing to go within the Big East Conference to nearby St. John’s and Rick Pitino. The Pirate faithful were rightfully pissed about Richmond staying in-conference (Friartown is more than familiar with that feeling) but now have a lot less of a leg to stand on after welcoming Dual onto thir team with their last open scholarship. Holloway and the Pirates also filled their backcourt void with Chaunce Jenkins, an incoming transfer from Old Dominion. Jenkins is a score-first guard whose shooting percentages are reminiscent of a Jayden Epps-lite. His career assist-to-turnover ratio has hovered steadily around the 1:1 range for the entirety of his college career at Wichita State & ODU. Dual takes care of the ball at a much more efficient rate (63 assists to 34 turnovers last year) but his shooting numbers don’t instill confidence alongside Jenkins either.

Take a look at what the stable of guards for Seton Hall shot from the floor last season:

Garwey Dual: 33.1% FG / 25.0% 3pt-FG / 66.7% FT

Chaunce Jenkins: 40.2% FG / 32.4% 3pt-FG / 72.4% FT

Dylan Addae-Wusu: 35.6% FG / 29.0% 3pt-FG / 66.7% FT

Zion Harmon (transfer from Bethune-Cookman): 38.6% FG / 25.8% 3pt-FG / 93.2% FT

Jahseem Felton rounds out the guards as an incoming Freshman from Combine Academy in North Carolina. That is some rough shooting numbers, especially from three. Harmon has great free throw shooting numbers but is somehow terrible from three. Seton Hall is going to have a hard time staying in games if they can’t find scoring especially after losing so much of their scoring from last year’s squad.

Seriously, just take a look at the list of guys from last year’s team who are no longer on the Pirates:

Kadary Richmond (15.7 ppg – St. John’s), Al-Amir Dawes (15.0 ppg – graduated), (Dre Davis (15.0 ppg – Ole Miss), Jaden Bediako (8.1 ppg – graduated), Elijah Hutchins-Everett (3.5 ppg – James Madison), Jaquan Sanders (2.7 ppg – Hofstra), Malachi Brown (1.3 ppg – Georgia State), Sadraque NgaNga (1.1 ppg – San Jose State), Arda Ozdogan (0.7 ppg – TBD).

The team is losing 63.1 points per game from the 72.8 points per game they averaged last season. That accounts for 86.7% of their scoring. With the guards that the team has added, I’m not confident that they’re going to be able to score enough to hang with some of the firepower of the Big East. Of course, it definitely helps to have Shaheen Holloway as your coach to help with the guard play, I just think it is going to be a struggle.

In all except the games against the Friars, I will absolutely be rooting for the success of Garwey…as long as he brings those same colorful kicks with him to New Jersey. Those things are so fucking sweet.