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Saint Peter’s coach Shaheen Holloway tweets inspirational passage before Elite Eight game: ‘Stay the course’
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PHILADELPHIA – Saint Peter’s males’s basketball coach Shaheen Holloway tweeted some knowledge on Sunday hours earlier than his Peacocks tip off in opposition to North Carolina within the Elite Eight.
The passage with the title “Keep the course” mentions Chris Beard’s quote about ensuring his crew didn’t change something about their routine even whereas they weren’t having success on the basketball court docket.
Saint Peter’s Peacocks head coach Shaheen Holloway talks to his crew earlier than the sport in opposition to the Purdue Boilermakers Friday on the Wells Fargo Heart in Philadelphia.
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Beard coached Texas Tech to the Ultimate 4 in 2019 and just lately led his present Texas crew to the Spherical of 32.
“After just a few losses in a row, Coach Chris Beard was requested if he was going to do something otherwise. He responded, ‘No method, we keep the course. Course of. Rise up, be sure you win the day. Go to class. Sit on the primary couple of rows. Take your hat off. Flip your cell-phone off. Take heed to the instructor. Take notes. Get within the coaching room. Handle your physique. Be sure to eat 4 or 5 meals like a champion. Steer clear of the greenback menu. Go eat one thing that has shade in it. Inform the Coca-Cola later and drink water or milk. Get within the video room. Watch it. Take laborious teaching. Be a person. Get to follow. Get unfastened. Embrace the follow. Come again at evening and get your photographs up. Be an excellent teammate. Get within the weightroom. It’s the method. It’s what you do. You keep after it. We work at this factor about 362 days a 12 months and also you get 31 video games. It’s not simply concerning the sport, it’s concerning the course of. You earn the precise to play in video games. We simply gotta hold combating.’
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“Just a few nights later, his crew beat the #1 ranked crew within the nation. Keep the course.”
Holloway has preached staying the course even because the Peacocks make historical past by turning into the primary No. 15 seed to play within the Elite Eight of the NCAA Males’s Basketball Match.
Followers started to pack the world across the Wells Fargo Heart in Philadelphia earlier than the sport on Sunday evening.
A great mixture of Peacocks and Tar Heels followers had been in Xfinity Reside proper outdoors the sector taking in some lunch earlier than the sport started.
A visit to the Ultimate 4 in New Orleans awaits the winner of the sport.