Shaheen Holloway is leaving Saint Peter’s for Seton Hall just days after helping the little Jesuit school make history by becoming the first No. 15 seed to reach the NCAA Tournament’s Elite Eight.

Seton Hall announced the hiring of the 45-year-old early Wednesday evening. It was hardly a surprise.

Holloway played for the Pirates of the Big East Conference for four years, capping his college career with a run to the 2000 NCAA Tournament's Sweet Sixteen round in his senior year. His move to replace Kevin Willard — who recently took the head coaching job at University of Maryland — has been a hot topic since the opening weekend of the NCAA Tournament. Holloway was an assistant coach on Willard's staff for eight years at Seton Hall (and at Iona College prior to that) before being hired to lead Saint Peter's in 2018.

Holloway, whose Peacocks knocked off No. 2 seed Kentucky. No. 7 Murray State and No. 3 seed Purdue before falling to North Carolina, will get a substantial raise making the move. Willard earned $2.4 million last season, about tenfold what Holloway got at the Metro Atlantic Athletic Confernece school in Jersey City, New Jersey.

Spectrum News' David Mendez contributed to this report.