Fridays are typically quiet on the Jersey City, New Jersey campus, and that was unchanged even after the feat that destroyed untold numbers of tournament brackets showing second-seeded Kentucky in the winner’s box.
Everyone was buzzing about tiny Saint Peter's University on Friday after its stunning NCAA Tournament upset of Kentucky, except maybe Saint Peter's University.
Sure, students and staff were savoring the No. 15 seed Peacocks’ 85-79 overtime win. But It wasn't that way Thursday night, when a watch party drew a big crowd, Kaylie Morris, a junior majoring in biology, said.The 150-year-old Jesuit school isn’t generally known as a rabid basketball school — at least it wasn’t as the Peacocks headed into their fourth appearance in the tournament since the 2010-11 season. This was the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference champion’s first NCAA tournament win.
“A lot of people doubted. I don’t think anybody believed that a little school in Jersey City would do so well,” John Johnson Jr., an assistant professor of history, said. But Eduardo Pinto, a junior majoring in criminal justice, said he had so much confidence in Saint Peter’s that he bet a friend the team would score more than 80 points. “I always have faith in Saint Peter’s. I know a couple of them. They work hard and everything. I knew they were going to beat Kentucky.”
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