Saint Peter's needs all the crazy fans it can get to upset Purdue in the Sweet 16 on Friday night in Philadelphia.
CBS was at the watch party on the Jersey City campus, and minutes after the game ended, Figueroa had his One Shining Moment. His interview was like a double shot of Jersey injected directly into the veins of anyone watching, a combination of a Springsteen concert, the entire Sopranos video collection and a summer night at D’jais in Belmar all rolled up into one., and then his epic rant began. “New Jersey runs basketball. Jersey City runs basketball. Kentucky? I don’t care.
Suffice to say, Figueroa is exactly the type of rambunctious fan that Saint Peter’s needs in the crowd when it tries to bring down another powerhouse, third-seeded Purdue, in the East Regional semifinals on Friday in Philadelphia.. He said in an interview with NJ Advance Media that most of his friends, including most of the gang standing behind him during the CBS interview and the entire Saint Peter’s women’s basketball team, were shut out when the university sold its allotment this week.
A university spokesman did not immediately respond to an email seeking clarification on how the tickets were distributed. It is forgiven, however, if most people in the Saint Peter’s community didn’t know how to get them. The Peacocks hadn’t won an NCAA Tournament game in its history until shocking Kentucky on Thursday night.
Figueroa can help. The Linden native had no idea that he’d become a campus celebrity when he gave the interview with CBS, but days later on campus, a fellow student asked him to pose for a picture. He was even recognized by a customer at Home Depot, where he works while not studying biology and education at the Jersey City school.
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