There was one final prayer for Purdue Boilermakers but, let’s be honest: the invaders from the Big Ten weren’t about to receive any celestial intervention.
“We’re happy,” Saint Peter’s guard Doug Edert said, “but we’re not satisfied.” Are you going to tell them they’re wrong, that they’re delusional, that they’re detached from reality? After what they’ve done since March 17? After what they’ve done going back to the MAAC tournament, or going back to Feb. 20, when they lost at Siena, 84-71, dropping their record to 12-11?
Well, they’re 10-0 since. They stunned Kentucky and ruined probably 50 percent of the brackets in existence. They dominated Murray State, which was supposed to be the gold standard of mid-majors this year. And Friday night it was Purdue, which spent some time this year as the No. 1 team in the country. Noah K. Murray-NY PostHolloway, the Peacocks’ coach, said this with a wink. He knows 95 percent of the building was on his side Friday night, as was 95 percent of America.
But he also knows that much of the emotion tied up in his team is because they are the cute story, the little-engine-that-could story, the first team from the MAAC to advance as far as the Elite Eight, the first No. 15 seed to advance that far. People love to root for a team like Saint Peter’s, but it’s something else toNoah K. Murray-NY Post
And Holloway knows that without belief, the Peacocks probably wouldn’t have made it past Quinnipiac in the MAAC semifinals, let alone through the gauntlet they’ve already negotiated. It is. It really is. And the thing is, the way these games have gone? More and more people are truly starting to believe in the Peacocks, and not simply to be charmed by them. They haven’t won on any crazy last-second trick shots. They had to beat Kentucky in overtime. Murray State never came close to rattling them.
Belong? It’s their tournament now. It’s their season. Wells Fargo will be their home court Sunday, a Pennsylvania annex of Jersey City’s Run Baby Run Arena. They aren’t a cute story. They aren’t Cinderella, not after three wins in the tournament, and 10 straight going back to February. Belong? Please. They should rename the whole bracket the Saint Peter’s Invitational at this point.
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