A former point guard who once beat out Kobe Bryant for an MVP award, Shaheen Holloway has led Saint Peter's to the Elite Eight with unwavering confidence, coaching acumen and care for his players, Adam Kilgore writes.
With his snarl on the sideline and smile on camera, Holloway has become the face of March. He has provided quotes fit for billboards and T-shirts. He has devised perfect game plans and made crucial adjustments. Shortly after he asked a CBS interviewer, “What they going to say now?” following the Peacocks’ toppling of mighty Purdue on Friday night, his players mobbed him on live television.
“When I’m making a decision on anything, I call him,” Smith said. “He’s a brother to me. I would do anything for him.” Since the dawn of his basketball career, Holloway has chosen the harder path and flourished. New York City powerhouses, some of the top high school teams in the country, courted him when he was in eighth grade. St. Patrick was maybe one of the 20 best programs in New Jersey. Holloway chose St. Patrick, and by the time he graduated he had made three all-state teams.
In Saint Peter’s, Holloway has found a kindred university. About 70 percent of its 2,134 undergraduates are minorities. It prioritizes the education of first-generation college students. When Tommy Amaker coached Holloway at Seton Hall, he sensed how badly Holloway wanted to graduate in four years, to become the first member of his family with a college degree.“Come hell or high water, he was going to accomplish that,” said Amaker, now the coach at Harvard.
“When you watch his team, everybody says, ‘They’re tough, they’re scrappy, they’re gritty,’ ” Smith said. “Well, that’s Sha. That’s who he is. He grew up in Queens. He’s just a tough kid. But just his understanding of the game — this team is executing at a high, high level right now.”Said Amaker: “You can’t do what he’s doing with what his program has been and the resources, you can’t do what he’s doing without being an outstanding coach. And he needs to get credit for that.
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