Sam Idowu Wins CIT With Saint Peter’s

By Sam Neter on April 1, 2017

Great Britain Under-20 Sam Idowu has helped cap off Saint Peter’s historic season with the program’s first ever national postseason tournament championship.

The Peacocks defeated Texas A&M Corpus Christi, 62-61, in dramatic fashion, using a free throw 0.9 seconds left to claim the 2017 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT) title on Friday night.

Idowu went 2/2 from the field for 5 points in 9 mins in the victory, as all nine Peacocks that played in the game scored at least two points in the win.

The Peacocks closed out the season winning 10 out of their last 11 games and finished the season with a 23-13 overall record, which is tied for the second most in a single season by a Peacock team.

Saint Peter’s becomes the second MAAC team ever to win a national postseason tournament and the first team from New Jersey to win a national postseason tournament title since Princeton in the 1975 NIT.

Idowo was discovered and called up to the Great Britain Under-20 program in 2016, born in New York, he is a British passport holder.

Do you like our work?

We have a tiny favour to ask. In 2018 we set out to make Hoopsfix sustainable by building our relationship directly with our readers. Up until now, Hoopsfix has been creating editorials, videos and podcasts to provide sorely missing coverage of the British game and its distinct culture and community.

We have funded Hoopsfix with our freelance work creating basketball media, but sadly that means not only does it fall behind our client’s priorities, but some of those clients are the same organisations we need to report objectively on putting us in a conflicted position.

We want to devote more time to our mission of helping British basketball reach its potential, and produce even more content for the basketball community by making Hoopsfix a sustainable 100% independent business funded directly by our readers through Patreon.

If everyone who enjoys our content chose to support us, our future would be much more secure. For as little as $3 per month, you can support Hoopsfix – and it only takes a minute.

We are tremendously honoured and humbled to have a community of people who value what we do, and we look forward to being at the forefront of the British game as it continues to evolve.

Support Hoopsfix