The Saint Peter's Peacocks women's basketball team is the
NCAA Division I
NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest division of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States, which accepts players globally. D-I schools include the major collegiate athlet ...
intercollegiate women's basketball team that represents
Saint Peter's University
Saint Peter's University is a private Jesuit university in Jersey City, New Jersey, United States. Founded as Saint Peter's College in 1872 by the Society of Jesus, the university offers over 60 undergraduate and graduate programs to more than ...
in
. The school's team currently competes in the
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference
The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC, ) is a collegiate List of NCAA conferences, athletic conference affiliated with NCAA Division I. Its current 13 full members are located in five Northeastern states: Connecticut, Maryland, Massachuse ...
(MAAC) and plays their home games in
Run Baby Run Arena. They are currently led by second-year head coach Jennifer Leedham. The Peacocks have appeared in the
NCAA Women's tournament seven times. As with the other women's athletic programs of Saint Peter's University, they were previously known as the Peahens.
History
Saint Peter's University is one of the founding members of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC), which began play in women's basketball with the 1981–82 season. Since then, the Peacocks have compiled the second most wins of any MAAC women's team and have won the
MAAC Women's Championship nine times (1982, 1983, 1984, 1992, 1993, 1997, 1999, 2000, 2002), the second most all-time. Prior to joining the MAAC, the Peacocks competed in the
Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women
The Association for Intercollegiate Athletics for Women (AIAW) was a college athletics organization in the United States, founded in 1971 to govern women's college competitions in the country and to administer national championships (see AIAW Cham ...
(AIAW) from 1971 to 1981 at the Division II level.
In 2021, led by head coach Marc Mitchell, the Peacocks made a spirited run to the
MAAC Championship game after a 19 year absence. They were matched up against their long time MAAC rival, the No. 1
Marist Red Foxes
The Red Foxes are the athletic teams of Marist University. The Marist Red Foxes compete in NCAA Division I athletics as a member of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) the only exception being football, a member of the Pioneer Football L ...
in a bid to win their first MAAC Championship, tenth overall, and first appearance in the NCAA Tournament since 2002. The Red Foxes would go on to defeat the Peacocks 69–30 to win their eleventh MAAC title.
Postseason
NCAA Division I
The Peacocks have made seven appearances in the NCAA Tournament. They have a record of 0–7.
AIAW Small College/Division II
The Peacocks made one appearance in the
AIAW National Division II women's basketball tournament, with a combined record of 1–1.
Coaches
Head coach
Mike Granelli led the Peacocks during their greatest period of success which spanned three decades and the jump from Division II to Division I level competition. During Granelli's 32 years (1972–2004) as the Peacocks head coach, Saint Peter's won 607 games, nine MAAC titles and appeared in seven NCAA tournaments. Saint Peter's best single season record during that span was 26–3 in the 1985–86 season. Granelli was only the third head coach in women's college basketball history to win 600 games at one school and was the first male head coach to win 600 games. He also became ninth head coach in Division I history to win 600 games.
The following is a list of Saint Peter's Peacocks women's basketball head coaches.
References
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