Robbed Bryant's MVP, this "Cinderella" will let Joe continue to cry?

The annual NCAA seems a little crazy this "Crazy March"! As the godfather of national college men's basketball, Duke University, led by "Old K" Mike Shashevsky, beat the University of Arkansas to advance to the final four today! It is reasonable to say that the old K coach who has long been officially announced to retire at the end of this season will undoubtedly become the absolute focus of this season, not to mention that today he has become the first manager in history to lead the team to the final four of the NCAA in 5 years, but there is such a team that almost took away the protagonist aura of "Old K"...

Duke University has been in the final four for seven consecutive years

It is said that the peacock open screen is for courtship, but when you see the St. Peter Peacock team opening screen in the NCAA arena, it means that you are not far from home! As the 60th seed of the season and the 15th seed of the East Side, the St. Peter University Peacocks challenged a much more famous team than themselves in each round of the "March Madness" game, but the small school with only 3,000 students in the school staged the "following gram" in the NCAA for three consecutive rounds, with LianKe winning the hot downs, Booker and "Thick Eyebrows" alma mater the University of Kentucky, all-Star player Ja Morant's alma mater Murray State University and the championship-winning Hotpudu University, all the way to "get off the dog" Gesture to advance to the final divisional finals!

St. Peter's University's approval rating for reaching the top eight is only 0.87%

The 15th seed advances to the divisional finals! What a concept this is! The only divisional finals (elite quarterfinals) in NCAA history with the lowest picks are the University of Missouri in 2002 and Oregon State University in Oklahoma, where NBA champion Cunningham defeated last year in 2021, but they are all No. 12 seeds! This means that St. Peter's University became the first seeded team in history to reach the NCAA Elite Quarterfinals! You should know that the Peacock team only appeared 3 times in "Crazy March", the last time has been traced back to more than ten years ago, the highest record is only the "sweet sixteen", the most inspirational civilian counterattack, still writing their own history! This is the story we want to see!

The NHL game being played at Madison Square Garden Court was also broadcast

St. Peter Peacock defeated Purdue University to reach the elite quarterfinals

And it was their manager Shaheen Holloway who made it all! Seemingly unknown, but he is associated with the famous people, he has been listed as one of the top point guards in the United States since high school, and mike Bibby was selected as the best point guard candidate for the 96th class, and in the 1996 McDonald's All-American High School Star Game, when everyone was looking at Kobe, Holloway won the MVP of that year with 7 points, 8 assists and 6 steals! Who else was in that year's competition? In addition to Kobe Bryant and Mike Bibby, there are championship winners "Bad Boy Mask Man" Hamilton, Steven Jackson, and 6-time NBA All-Star O'Neal Jr.!

It is well known that Kobe Bryant rushed directly from high school to the NBA with talent, and as for Holloway, his outstanding performance has made him favored by many schools! And that includes Duke University, coached by Old K! However, to say that Holloway is destined to take on the throne, he is the only student who does not commit to joining Duke University after two visits to the school! Even the "old K" who has won the National Championship 5 times and won the Olympic gold medal 3 times must say: "What is this situation!" ”。

Holloway has since chosen Seton Hall University in New Jersey with St. Peter's University, and the reason he gives is quite "outrageous", he does not want to leave his barber in New Jersey, of course, his truest thought is to go to a place where he can really change!

This has always been Holloway's insistence, and the final result also confirms that his persistence is right, knowing that the last time a New Jersey team entered the NCAA Sweet Sixteen was Seton Hall University in 2000, and the team's starting point guard at that time was Holloway. In 18 years, he had the opportunity to teach at a higher university, but he finally followed his heart's choice and came to St. Peter's University, and this time he succeeded!

And in this team, there is not a single star player, not even a player who is considered to be selected in the NBA Draft, just like every feather on this blue peacock is so ordinary, but when they come together, it is so lethal! Darryl Banks, who averaged the most points per game, averaged just 11.5 points per game, and Doug Eddett, who averaged 9.8 points per game, and 6 people on the team averaged more than 6 points per game. So the moment Edette stands on the record stage after the victory over Purdue, whether it's like Kobe Bryant or Wade, it doesn't matter anymore, what matters is that they win! They have made history!

One point to fight! Win by game!

Looking back, the road to come is legendary!

The shortest team with an average height of 16, the annual basketball program budget is only a mere $1.5 million, compared with the University of Kentucky eliminated in the first round of St. Peter University, less than 10%, and as the team manager Holloway's annual salary is only 266,000, to know that the University of Kentucky's assistant coach can get $360,000, coach John Calipari's annual salary is 8.5 million US dollars, so in comparison, Holloway and his team's achievements are even more precious...

And just today (March 28)! They will face veteran powerhouse University North Carolina in the divisional Eastern Conference Finals, which defeated defending champions Baylor University in the second round and finally have a bit of a title race this season! Their last victory has been dating back to 5 years ago in 2017, and in the following years, they have almost lost every year, will the "dark horse" "Cinderella" St. Peter Peacock cut North Carolina under the horse?

Perhaps, Holloway, who snatched Kobe Bryant's MVP, can really force Joe to cry?