Guard Doug Endert said the group had been activated by the crowd. “We had a lot of people today,” Edert said. “The whole environment was just unreal. I don’t think any of us were nervous or really cared about how many people were out there watching us. We just went out there and did our own thing. We did what we did.” defending and playing as hard as we could. And after the emotions at the end, again, we write history and we look forward to writing more history. “ The Peacocks, the No. 15 runners-up in the Sweet 16 in history, will face North Carolina at the Elite Eight on Sunday after the Tar Heels beat UCLA 73-66. This is the fourth appearance of St. Peter’s in NCAA tournaments overall. After nearly a month between the games from December 18 to January 14 due to the Covid-19 epidemic on campus, the SPU had scored 18-5 in the 2022 calendar year to win the MAAC title and qualify for the Sweet 16 for for the first time in the program history. Coach Shaheen Holloway said the break helped the team. “It was all for us,” Holloway said. “We had the opportunity to arrive like a mini camp. We did not play in 28 days, so they had the opportunity to go out there. Things were not going well in the first half of the season. It took me a chance to really change some things, come back and “To watch a movie and get back to the project. The break was everything for us.” Saint Peter’s broke many brackets in round 64 last week when the Peacocks struck Kentucky No. 2 seed. They then upset No. 7 seed Murray State in round 32. The opportunity for 15 seeds to qualify began in 1986, when the national tournament was first extended to 64 teams.
