Saint Peter’s will be a familiar name on thousands of brackets after the Peacocks’ improbable run to the Elite Eight in 2022. Saint Peter’s is back in the NCAA Tournament for the first time since that Cinderella story, but can they replicate it? Saint Peter’s lost its last two regular-season games but reeled off three straight victories to capture another MAAC Tournament title.
No. 15 Saint Peter’s prize for winning that championship is a date with No. 2 Tennessee in the first round of the NCAA Tournament. The Volunteers were slated to be a No. 1 seed, but a one-and-done trip in the SEC Tournament dropped them to the No.