How St. Peter's built a roster that beat a blue blood
Girls wore shades; guys downed shots. Mike Dombrowski, a regular, approached the one bespectacled patron who had stared blankly at the projector screen after the finale. It was Seth Devary, who grew up in Elizabeth, Ky. His family had season tickets at Rupp Arena, and he attended the program’s 2,000th win in 2009. New to Jersey City, he joined friends, who knew the area.
When he needed a shooter, Holloway drove to a tournament in Lancaster, Pa., where he watched his old AAU team, the New Jersey Roadrunners, win games behind aDoug Edert was his name, and Holloway pitched him on what he called his 3-D Vision. If the Peacocks were going to win, they had to follow his principles of desire, dedication and discipline. There was an unspoken fourth D, and that was depth. Holloway inherited a shallow roster that finished 10-22 in 2019, his first year.
In 2019-20, they won 14 conference games, and upset Iona, 56-54, in the MAAC quarterfinals. But then the coronavirus arrived, and the rest of March was canceled. Ndefo’s refusal to stand still carried over to the offseason, when he entered the transfer portal that spring. Holloway wasn’t happy, but the market for Ndefo’s services was relatively limited for the non-shooter. He returned two days before school started and got vaccinated a month later after initial hesitancy.
Edert emerged from lockdown with a new look. During quarantine, he grew a full beard before trimming all but a mustache. When he was cleared to practice again, he woke early for 7 a.m. shooting sessions and quickly found his rhythm, scoring 21 points against Iona. He fired long 3-pointers, beat defenders on back-door plays and feathered floaters over outreached hands.
The previous night, his son, Xavier, requested McDonald’s, and Holloway went with him. Holloway, who had been the MVP of the McDonald’s All American game in 1996, indulged in his usual French fries and a milkshake. Something did not sit well, he fell ill soon after and he says he was “down for the count” with food poisoning. Unable to travel to Indianapolis with the team, he stayed back two additional days as they prepared to play Kentucky.
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