MILWAUKEE — The St. Peter’s men’s basketball team, metaphorically sprouting from a crack in the Jersey City asphalt to reveal its Peacock feathers to a national audience, is led by a man who knows something about seizing a moment.
Back when Shaheen Holloway was a senior in high school, with a slick game honed on the hardcourts of Queens, he was invited to play in the McDonald’s All-American game.
The West team featured a couple of pretty good point guards: Mike Bibby and Mateen Cleaves, who would each win a national championship in college. Holloway had some rather talented teammates, too: future pros Tim Thomas, Richard Hamilton and Stephen Jackson — and a couple of guys who in a matter of weeks would be going straight to the N.