PHILADELPHIA — About an hour after Saint Peter’s charmed March run sputtered to an end against North Carolina, coach Shaheen Holloway emerged from the Peacocks’ locker room. As he walked toward the team bus with his oldest son, Xavier, Holloway wore a backpack with an oversized yellow tube of Wet Ones sticking out of the open pocket on the bag’s left side.
The trappings of a return to reality surrounded him. The din of arena carts echoed through the hallways. Saint Peter’s supporters grabbed signs with the school’s name from the walls near the locker room. The Peacocks’ run to history had shifted to just that — history.
Holloway looked subdued, wearing the familiar ornery grimace he wore on the sidelines, as he left the arena “really disappointed in myself” for not adjusting better in the game.
“I really thought we were going to win this game,” Holloway said….
