St. Peter’s Came Out of Nowhere in March. Where Are the Players Now?

One of St. Peter’s high gamers, KC Ndefo, a 6-foot-7 shot-blocking specialist, adopted him to Seton Hall as a graduate scholar to complete, he stated, “what I started with Sha.”

Guard Doug Edert, who achieved folk-hero standing throughout the event, with even his mustache inflicting a sensation, transferred to Bryant University in Smithfield, R.I., the place some spectators now put on St. Peter’s shirts to video games. Edert was averaging 7.3 factors a sport via 13 video games.

Daryl Banks III, who scored 27 factors in the upset of Kentucky, transferred to St. Bonaventure, the place he’s the workforce’s main scorer with 15.6 factors a sport and a excessive of 34.

Hassan and Fousseyni Drame, 6-7 twins from Mali, are contributing at La Salle in Philadelphia. Clarence Rupert, who began at middle throughout the event, transferred to Southern Illinois, the place he has three years of eligibility remaining. Matthew Lee, after three seasons at St. Peter’s, left for Missouri State. Marty Silvera went to Southern Connecticut State in Division II. The former teammates keep in contact through a weekly textual content chat.

But don’t cry for St. Peter’s. It went from being a college that most individuals couldn’t place on a map to being the face of the insanity that the N.C.A.A. event guarantees annually. Applications for admission at the college spiked by 33 p.c; unrestricted donations exceeded $2.2 million for the first time; on-line orders for Peacocks gear got here from 45 states from March 18 to twenty, after the extra time upset of Kentucky. On campus, $47,000 in merchandise gross sales was recorded from March 17 to 24, greater than double the gross sales from the fall semester.

Two of the St. Peter’s video games in March have been amongst the high seven most-watched video games of the event. More than 10 million folks watched the upset of Purdue, making it the most watched round-of-16 sport in greater than a decade. More than 13 million watched the run finish in opposition to North Carolina, the event’s eventual runner-up. Only the semifinal between Duke and North Carolina and the nationwide ultimate between North Carolina and Kansas drew bigger audiences.