https://www.northjersey.com/story/sport ... 608872007/
A story about the effects of St.Peter's historic run last year.
Highlights for the university:
-Fiscal year 2022 featured a university record for unrestricted giving, exceeding $2.2 million.
-There was a 47 percent increase in new donors from fiscal year 2021.
-The number of out-of-state students who enrolled this fall doubled that of fall 2021. The same amount were accepted, but double the amount decided to attend.
-The number of applicants for next year is up 7 percent from last year at this time. A huge bump in applications arrived from March 17-26.
-In the three days after the Saint Peter’s upset of Kentucky, online orders for Peacocks’ gear came from 45 different states. In the week after, the campus store recorded $47,000 in merchandise sales, more than doubling sales from the entire fall semester.
- The university’s website, saintpeters.edu, received 67,423 visitors the day after the Kentucky upset. The following week, the site reached a high of 247,493 users.
-On Twitter, there were 476,512 mentions of Saint Peter’s with the #MarchMadness hashtag.