Shaheen Holloway, who stepped into the national spotlight as the coach of the plucky St. Peter’s Peacocks during their deep run through this year’s N.C.A.A. men’s basketball tournament, left the university on Wednesday to become the head coach at Seton Hall.
The move had been expected ever since Kevin Willard departed Seton Hall for Maryland two weeks ago, with Willard openly expressing hope that Holloway — his former assistant — would return to the university where he starred two decades ago.
Holloway, 45, has been in the national spotlight over the last three weeks, beginning when the Peacocks, playing with a confidence and a fearlessness atypical for a second-place team in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference, took down Kentucky in the tournament’s opening round.