Saint Peter's coach Shaheen Holloway said his team is walking away from the NCAA men's basketball tournament with heads up after an astonishing run, ...
"They shocked the world," Holloway said. Amid the crushing emotions of the loss, Saint Peter's officials, players and coaches attempted to put into context the Elite Eight run. "I'm so proud of this team," Paul said. Saint Peter's shot 30% from the field, had no answer for UNC's Armando Bacot (20 points and 22 rebounds) and struggled to guard 6-foot-9 sharpshooter Brady Manek (19 points on 7-for-11 shooting). This is a brotherhood, and we love all of our brothers. "You've got guys that's going to be remembered for things that they could tell their kids and grandkids. If and when it comes up, I'll do whatever I can." "I'm not worried about that right now," he said. The trappings of a return to reality surrounded him. Holloway also served eight years there as an assistant to coach Kevin Willard prior to his four seasons at Saint Peter's. PHILADELPHIA -- About an hour after Saint Peter's charmed March Madness run sputtered to an end against North Carolina on Sunday, coach Shaheen Holloway emerged from the Peacocks' locker room. "We honestly haven't spoken about it at all," Paul told ESPN. "He's been focused on his team, and he's been focused on the next game.
Sunday's win also gave UNC the most NCAA tournament wins of all time, breaking a tie with the Kentucky Wildcats, who have had multiple wins vacated due to NCAA ...
Their arms locked, Holloway gave a brief speech to Edert, Banks and the rest — perhaps the last one he will ever give at Saint Peter's. It was a scene impossible to image when a little more than 400 fans attended the season opener. Up next, the big, bad, Big Ten Boilermakers. FanDuel Sportsbook had Purdue at a 12 1/2-point favorite to win the Sweet 16 matchup Friday in Philadelphia. The last thing Purdue saw as it trudged off the court was delirious Peacocks jumping on press row tables, making snowmen on the court and celebrating an improbable 67-64 victory. He deflected questions all tournament about his future and kept the focus on the tiny commuter college in Jersey City, New Jersey. But even the 45-year-old Holloway surely must know he has maxed out the potential at Saint Peter's. Some 90 former Duke players and plenty of celebrities were on hand to watch Coach K in his final ever home game, but the Tar Heels spoiled the fun with a decisive 94-81 victory. The improbable run through the NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament has ended for St. Peter's, as the Peacocks fell to the UNC Tar Heels 69-49 Sunday night.
The Tar Heels advanced to play Duke in a Final Four matchup. It will be the first N.C.A.A. tournament showdown between the two Tobacco Road rivals.
By the time St. Peter’s scored its first basket, a 3-pointer by Fousseyni Drame, more than four minutes had passed, and the Peacocks had missed six shots. The balm for St. Peter’s, if there was one, had been the periodic trips to the free-throw line, the strip that helped give rise to some of this month’s improbable feats. Then, on Friday in Philadelphia, where St. Peter’s beat mighty Purdue, the Peacocks became the first 15th-seeded team to reach the men’s tournament’s round of 8. They had sunk a lone 3-pointer, while North Carolina had hit four, and St. Peter’s 19 rebounds were nearly exceeded, alone, by Bacot’s 15. St. Peter’s, though, had few answers for a supersized North Carolina team that stormed up and down the court, finding open lanes and clean shots amid a cascade of Peacocks miscues. The Peacocks were not in the field as a team that had steamrollered blue-blood opponents, had assembled a perfect season or had enough cachet to make the selection committee think twice about excluding them. North Carolina, which was playing to reach its first Final Four since 2017, saw its own shooting and scoring paces slow. They beat Baylor, the reigning men’s champion, in overtime in the N.C.A.A. tournament’s second round and then hounded U.C.L.A. out of Philadelphia. Both teams struggled with easy shots in the early going, with one ball after another making the net wiggle but no more. The Tar Heels advanced to play Duke in a Final Four matchup. No team this year had stunned the N.C.A.A. men’s tournament more. No team ever, in fact, had come so far from such a dismissive start.
The St. Peter's University Peacocks' magical run through college basketball's postseason came to an end Sunday in Philadelphia.
"There was definitely emotions in the locker room of sadness." "What we did was amazing, and this is a brotherhood. "Coach preached that we should all keep our head high because what we did is something no one's ever done before," Banks said. "Tough way to go out," downcast St. Peter's Coach Shaheen Holloway told reporters after the game. "It was definite sadness. "We just told each other, just stay together," Ndefo said.
While Saint Peter's Cinderella run has come to an end, the Peacocks have nothing to be but proud.
Notably, the Peacocks didn’t have enough money to send their cheerleaders with the team to support. The Peacocks Cinderella run began when they took out No. 2 seed Kentucky in the first round 85-79. Yes, the Peacocks’ run may have come to an end, but they made history along the way.
Saint Peter's has enjoyed the popularity of saints. Local basketball fans looking for the next area team with title hopes now can root for, well, Blue Devils in ...
The magical run for the Peacocks that put a tiny Jersey City school on the map, that inspired every mid-major around the country, that captivated the same fans whose brackets they busted, has ended. Our basketball Goliath is just getting started. Our basketball David is finished.
Saint Peter's, the greatest Cinderella in the history of the NCAA Tournament, lost by 20 points to North Carolina in the Elite 8.
Doug Edert hit the deck to force a tie-up and KC Ndefo registered two rejections in under a minute but Saint Peter's was unable to score in transition. The Peacocks are 0-for-3 from the field with a turnover. Saint Peter's is getting to the rim but can't make a bucket. Daryl Banks III drove into the lane and kicked it out to Hassan Drame, who drained a 3-pointer from the right corner. Hassan Drame scored on a layup to cut it to 9-5 but Brady Manek knocked down a 3-pointer for the Tar Heels. KC Ndefo responded with a bucket. North Carolina has opened the half with a 6-1 spurt. North Carolina stopped the run with a free throw and Manek knocked down another 3-pointer for a 51-26 lead. Fousseyni Drame sank a 3-pointer from the corner to make it 51-31. Fousseyni Drame was called for a foul on Brady Manek and officials determined it was a common foul after a review. Bacot made a putback to give the Tar Heels a 63-38 lead. St. Peter's offense had trouble from the tip and could not recover from a huge halftime deficit. Isiah Dasher's layup made it 53-33 but the Peacocks couldn't take advantage of UNC's misses from the field and free-throw line.
Hubert Davis stayed on track to become the first first-year coach to win the N.C.A.A. tournament, and Shaheen Holloway was still in a position to earn a ...
“They have a chip on their shoulder and a toughness and a confidence to give everything that they have on both ends of the floor on every play. A former Tar Heel guard, Davis spent 12 years in the N.B.A. and was a member of the Knicks team that reached the N.B.A. finals in 1994. “I’ll be honest with you,” Willard said after his team lost in the first round to Texas Christian. “If I’m not here next year, I’d love if Shaheen Holloway is here. “The thing that just jumps right out is how much his players love playing for him, and they have his personality,” Davis said of Holloway ahead of the game. If he does take the Seton Hall job, Holloway is in line for a huge raise. Iona, coached by the Hall of Famer Rick Pitino, was the top seed and the favorite. Jim Calhoun was at Connecticut for 27 years before he won his first title, the same for Jim Boeheim at Syracuse. Williams was a head coach for 17 years before he won his initial title with North Carolina in 2005. He ranks second in the N.B.A. in career 3-point-shooting percentage. The Tar Heels were considered an N.C.A.A. tournament bubble team late in the season, but Davis got his players to win when it mattered most. He got our guys to focus on the game. Duke’s Mike Krzyzewski was on the job 16 years before he won the first of his five championships. Nine other first-year coaches have guided a team to the Final Four, most recently Bill Guthridge with North Carolina in 1998.
Savor the flavor as the Tar Heels head to New Orleans.
Leaky, meanwhile, continues to draw the assignment of guarding the best player the other team can throw out there, and kept rising to the challenge. It also created this fire for the team that meant, in a lot of ways, they were playing in the NCAA Tournament from that point on, because any loss would have likely knocked them out. We can debate whether or not Jason Capel’s supposed words to BDaht had something to do with this, but what was clear at that point was that they were not good enough to just run out on the court and beat a less-talented team. Since those awards dropped, Hubert Davis has shown a mastery of coaching this group of guys, leading to two blowouts, almost a third and then completely regrouping the squad after losing a huge lead, and refusing to go away when UCLA kept coming at them. The Pitt loss happened about a week after Dawson Garcia’s exit, and was the game right after a domination of Florida State when the Tar Heels got a little too sure of themselves (more on this in a second). We were all ready to sign off on this team from there, but as it turns out the story hadn’t been written. One great thing about Carolina this season is that, up until that Pitt game, they would win the games they were supposed to win.
The team made it to the Elite Eight, but lost to North Carolina on Sunday. But despite the loss, many of the players may not be done with the NCAA tournament.
The St. Peter’s program is set to benefit financially. They were just coming in to get in out of the gold. The St. Peter’s men’s basketball team is back in Jersey City following an incredible NCAA college basketball tournament run. But despite the loss, many of the players may not be done with the NCAA tournament. It was a cultural ride that many could have never predicted. Focht worked in Rider University athletics for 35 years.