You can call what they had an irrational confidence but you could also bottle it and sell it at this point, too. That’s what made this run so wonderful, so endearing: from the start, the least surprised people in any room they walked into the last 11 days were Holloway and his players. Truthfully, I thought we matched up well with them.” Doug Edert (left) and Isiah Dasher (right) embrace after Saint Peter’s exits the NCAA Tournament. “I wish we could play this game over again,” he said.Īnd, later: “I really thought we would win. He will get other chances, and soon, and if, as expected, he becomes the Seton Hall coach this week you can expect those opportunities to begin as early as next year. They were just the better team today.”Įven as he said that, of course, Holloway was already reliving this remarkable game. “I didn’t recognize my team the first 10 minutes of the game,” Holloway said, regret already settling into his voice. The season, the run, the ride, it all started to die a little bit right there. So even as so much of the Wells Fargo Center bayed and prayed for Peacocks power, Saint Peter’s fell into a quick 9-0 hole. Not with the Final Four one skinny step away - and the potential of what’ll surely be an Armageddon rematch with Duke awaiting in New Orleans. Saint Peter’s crushed by UNC as magical March Madness run ends Maybe Saint Peter’s didn’t need to shoot 70 percent to win - they hadn’t done that yet in this tournament and still managed to shake up the brackets - but 20 percent wasn’t going to get it done, either. Even a beautifully drawn-up alley-oop play out of a timeout, exactly the kind of textbook design they’d executed all tournament long, flopped.
Inside, outside, drives, tip-ins nothing went in. The Tar Heels, from the start, were on their game, didn’t look nearly as spooked by the moment or by Saint Peter’s tenacity as Purdue had two days earlier.Īnd Saint Peter’s didn’t help itself by shooting ice cold from the field. In some ways, it was clear Sunday that Saint Peter’s was going to pay for the way it had comported itself during this three-game joy ride, knocking of Kentucky, Murray State and Purdue. We’re blessed with that.” Clarence Rupert salutes the Saint Peter’s fans as he walks off the court. For us to be the only team to do this is historical. “What we did was amazing,” Ndefo would say later, after North Carolina would live up to its blue-blood pedigree and send the Peacocks home, 69-49, ending Saint Peter’s dream one step shy of the Final Four. From now on, forever, it will be in the hearts, minds and memories of those who went on the ride with them. One last moment when the team that captured America’s heart would be locked together on the court. They gathered with coach Shaheen Holloway before they returned to the bench. And out of the game came Daryl Banks III and Matthew Lee, out came Hassan Drame and KC Ndefo and Doug Edert. Five players jumped to their feet and walked to the scorer’s table. It was going to end 90 or so minutes from campus, after a magic carpet ride that had taken them ever so tantalizingly close to the sun. The ride was going to end here after all for Saint Peter’s. PHILADELPHIA - The formal ceremony of surrender arrived with 81 seconds left in the game. Knicks provide promising glimpse into what their future might hold Seton Hall hoping Shaheen Holloway can be their Jay Wright Nets' season will end early if they can't learn to close vs. The day Gil Hodges died changed Mets history forever
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