JERSEY CITY, N.J. — When Adebusuyi “Boo-Boo” Shittu enrolled at Saint Peter’s University this past fall, he didn’t expect this. Neither did Gene O’Connell, who played on the Peacocks' team that beat Duke at Madison Square Garden in 1968, or Brooke Boutchie, a defender on the women’s soccer team, or Olyvia Smith, an outfielder for the softball team who is also dating star guard Doug Edert.
None of them, nor the other 800-plus fans who packed the Run Baby Run Arena – yes, that’s the name – in downtown Jersey City, thought St. Peter’s would become only the third No.