What did those eleven days do?

7-14 from three will help, but it still seems like a lot has changed since there was about 8 minutes left to go against Northern Iowa.  Wake up call? I don’t attribute it to that, I just think it’s parity.

Our consensus #2 for the conference was Rider.  They have the best player in the MAAC and a wealth of experience.  Don’t write them off because of one big win.  Rider came into Albany on Wednesday night and couldn’t hit he broad side of a barn. Justin Robinson was 1-9 from beyond the arc– he was shooting 50% from three before that night. I guarantee they wont shoot that poorly in Lawrenceville.

Siena’s been subject to this sort of parity as well– for instance, last season they lit up Northern Iowa at home; even the kid at halftime hit his $25K shot.  Last January, they smoked Niagara at home– but when they’ve gone on the road, the results haven’t been pretty.

The national media has seen Siena as a disappointment– granted, this was the one year that they expected that we wouldn’t be a surprise, that we’d contend start to finish, and I think any reasonable Siena fan would say that they’re “disappointed in two of our four losses.”  Sure enough, our readers proved that theory.

Siena has beaten the teams they should, but struggled finishing against the others, and I think that’s where the focus needs to remain– finishing.