First of what should be many picks for the Saints in the top 40 to 50 area. Saints will get a lot of love from national NCAA prognosticators this season. One thing is for sure the Saints won’t sneak up on anybody this season
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Siena has finalized its 2008-09 non-conference schedule. Full Story
Talk about difficult, this will be the most challenging schedule a Siena team has ever faced. Depending on who Siena gets in the Bracketbuster Siena will face at least 8 maybe 9 teams that played in last seasons NCAA tournament.

Siena College Men’s basketball fans will get a chance to relive the Saints 2008 postseason run as the CBS College Sports Network presents “2008 March Madness Rewind” July 21-Aug. 3.
CBS College Sports will re-air every game from the 2008 NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament in their entirety. Siena, the 13th seed in the Midwest region, advanced [...]

Monday, the ESPN research team compiled a ranked list of all the Men’s College Basketball teams heading into the 2008-2009 season. Siena was ranked 69th among the 341 Division I college basketball programs. Manhattan was next to appear on the list but 46 spots below the Saints. Siena finished the year ranked [...]

Siena announced that it they will travel to Lawrence, Kansas on January 6, 2009 to play the reigning national champion Kansas Jayhawks. Kansas will be without starters Mario Chalmers, Brandon Rush and Darrell Arthur, but are inargualby the toughest opponent Siena’s schedule. This adds to an already packed schedule as they will host [...]