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After NCAA run, Saint Peter’s will always have the memories

Saint Peter’s first 15-seed in Elite Eight, tops Purdue 67-64

JERSEY CITY, N.J. – Saint Peter’s unexpected and uplifting run to the Elite Eight ended with a bus ride back to New Jersey and the unsettling prospect Shaheen Holloway might have coached his last game for Peacocks.

“To be honest, it was amazing to me,” forward Hassan Drame said of the experience in the student center on Monday. “Overall, it was an amazing season and something that we’re going to look back on, and forever where we go we have this story to tell people.”

It was a great story. A little Jesuit university in Jersey City, making just its fourth NCAA Tournament appearance and first since 2011. A program that had never won a game in The Show, knocking off perennial powerhouses Kentucky and Purdue and a very good Murray State squad to become the first No. 15 seed to reach the Elite Eight.

The feel-good story of the NCAA Tournament ended Sunday as the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference tournament champions were blown out 69-49 by North Carolina.

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