PHILADELPHIA -- The NCAA tournament has been played since 1939, an annual athletic carnival engineered to match the opposite ends of college basketball's caste system.
Over eight decades, thousands of games and dozens of precocious March darlings, Saint Peter's found a way to Friday night to set a new historical standard for underdog success in the NCAA tournament.
By stunning No. 3 Purdue 67-64 at Wells Fargo Arena, the Peacocks became the first team seeded No. 15 to advance to the Elite Eight of the NCAA tournament. It's a daunting historical marker, considering that no team ranked No.