From the AP… LEWISTON, N.Y. — Niagara’s Bilal Benn recorded 21 points and 12 rebounds to lead the team past Siena, 100-85, Friday night in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action at the Gallagher Center. Niagara (23-7, 13-4) has now won nine of its last 10 games. Rob Garrison added 19 points while Benson Egemonye scored [...]
More updates will come this weekend until Sunday. Here’s another update for tonight’s big games. For Siena it still means finding out who they’ll be scouting Friday night, now likely Loyola. For the rest of the MAAC it is for playing on Friday night late or starting on Saturday afternoon. With the loss last night [...]
You can choose Siena in ESPN’s Streak for the Cash tonight. Also join the Siena Saints Blog Group (password Siena).
This Siena team has never lost at Niagara, now would be a good time to knock on wood. Under Fran McCaffery, the Saints are 7-1 against the Purple Eagles. Back in January, Siena beat Niagara handily thanks to the solid all-around-game of sophomore Ryan Rossiter. This game, as it always does with Niagara is going [...]
The day after I posted about ‘middle-of-the-major teams’, ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi (best mugshot ever) answered a fan mail question from a gentleman by the name of Bradley Rost. Lunardi, who was in the Siena camp all along, discussed how Mid Major teams stack up against BCS teams when both are double digit seeds. Surprisingly, [...]
More updates will come this weekend until Sunday. What’s at stake tonight? It could be a lot. We have many tiebreakers that could be swinging any which way before we get to Sunday. For Siena it means finding out who they’ll be scouting Friday night. For the rest of the MAAC it is for playing [...]
Tonight, Providence defeated Pittsburgh 81-73 at the Dunkin Donuts Center. This is bad for Siena in two ways; this lowers Pitt’s RPI [which in turn lowers Siena's], and second, this puts Providence back on the radar for an At Large bid. Recently, ESPN Bracketologist Joe Lunardi participated in a mock draft in which the final [...]
Ryan published a great stat this weekend in the Siena/UNI preview; only 19.3% of Siena’s total points come from 3-pointers. Hasbrouck and Jackson were really the two guys we wanted to get out and defend from the three, we were there for 2 out of 4 of Jackson’s but credit him he knocked them down. [...]