Shaheen Holloway

Shaheen Holloway (born October 7, 1976) is an American men's basketball coach and former player who is the coach for the Seton Hall Pirates. He played college basketball at Seton Hall from 1996 to 2000. A point guard, Holloway played professionally for seven seasons. He served as the head coach for the Saint Peter's Peacocks from 2018 to 2022, where he led the 15th seed Peacocks to the Elite Eight in the 2022 NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Tournament. As head coach of Seton Hall, he led the top-seeded Pirates to the 2024 National Invitation Tournament (NIT) championship.

High school Holloway was considered one of the top point guard prospects in his high school class playing for St. Patrick, with some of the scouting reports naming him as the best point guard in the nation. He and Mike Bibby were consistently named as the two best point guards of the 1996 class. Selected 3 times in the All-State selection, in 1995 he was amongst the top scorers of the Reebok Big Time Tournament with an average of 26.3 points per game, and he was selected to the Parade All-America Second Team. He averaged 22.5 points, 9.1 assists and 5.8 steals as a senior, for a total of 2,151 points, 727 assists and 540 steals during his time at St. Patrick, and was named to the Parade All-America second team (for the second year in a row) and was also named a McDonald's All-American. In the McDonald's All-American Game of 1996 Holloway was the starting point guard for the East team: he recorded 7 points, 8 assists and 6 steals, receiving the Most Valuable Player award over Kobe Bryant.

College career After considering offers from California, Duke, and Georgia Tech, Holloway accepted the scholarship offered by Seton Hall.

During his freshman year, Holloway posting averages of 17.3 points and 6.3 assists per game and was 5th in the Big East conference in scoring. He was selected for the Big East All-Rookie team and for the All-AAC second team. Despite his solid season, he decided not to declare for an early entry in the NBA draft. His second season was slightly worse than his rookie season and, despite leading the Big East in assists per game (6.5), he had worse averages in all the other major statistical categories. His junior season was his worst of his college career and all his statistics declined. This was the only season in which he averaged a single digit in points per game (9.3).

His senior season was his best and he was one of the main players on the Seton Hall team that reached the 2000 NCAA tournament Sweet Sixteen. He focused more on his 3-point shooting, improving his percentage to 40.3%, and was named the Big East Most Improved Player in 2000. In 978 total minutes played, he was Seton Hall's top player in assists per game, and he was second in scoring and rebounding (the top rebounder was future NBA center Samuel Dalembert). In the 2000 NCAA Tournament, he scored 27 points, including the winning basket with 1.9 seconds left in overtime, in the Pirates 72–71 first-round victory over seventh-seeded Oregon. In the next game against second-seeded Temple, Holloway suffered an ankle injury on a successful fastbreak drive for a layup, ending his season.

He finished his college career with 1,588 points and he became the all-time assist leader, with 681 assists, a record that he still holds as of 2018. He played a total of 3,865 minutes with the Pirates. In 2012 he was inducted into the Seton Hall Athletics Hall of Fame.

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