The First Niagara Sneak Preview will be held on Thursday, September 23rd this year. This is basically like a pep rally for the general public, the coaches will address the fans, and the fans will have an opportunity to buy season tickets– starting as cheap as $110.
Northeastern Fine Jewlery will be giving away one [...]
Stephen Ott Rejoins Siena Staff, courtesy of SienaSaints.com.
From SienaSaints.com…
Rakeem “Rahk” Brookins Commits to Siena
Buonaguro Lands Star Guard with First Scholarship
Rakeem “Rahk” Brookins, a combo guard who attends Roman Catholic High School in Philadelphia, is the first student-athlete to commit to Siena during the Mitch Buonaguro reign. Brookins has signed an athletics financial aid agreement to receive a basketball scholarship for [...]
This comes from our friend Jason Rich at Siena…
The Siena men’s basketball program honored the most successful senior class in its 70-year history and dished out annual awards at the First Niagara Year-End Celebration Monday night at the Hilton garden Inn in Troy.
With YNN Sports Director Joe Calderone serving as master of ceremonies, Former [...]
Well it’s been an exciting week in sports. We’ve seen Duke take down Butler for a national title, their first since 2001. In the Saints world, well, we’ve got a new head coach in Mitch Buonaguro. Pete Iorizzo is reporting that Andrew Francis will head to Iowa to help McCaffery recruit. Speaking of [...]
Today, the Siena Administrative Staff will announce that their new Men’s Basketball head coach will be Mitch Buonaguro. Siena will hold a press conference on campus at 2:30 pm to introduce him. It will be broadcast live on 1300 AM, and on SienaAllAccess.com.
I think the administration can’t really go wrong by ‘keeping it [...]
Looks like the Siena basketball program will be hiring Mitch Buonaguro as their new head coach, a source told Siena Saints Blog today. Mitch, 56, was Fran McCaffery’s top assistant at Siena and is very highly regarded in the eyes of the players. Buonaguro received an endorsement from McCaffery when Athletic Director John [...]
At Siena’s press conference addressing Fran McCaffery’s departure from the program, Athletic Director John D’Argenio announced the college’s gratitude for all the success McCaffery has brought to the capital region and claimed the coach remains on good terms with the program.
D’Argenio then spoke on the upcoming process of hiring a new coach. He [...]
Update 4:09pm–
According to the Times Union, Mitch Buonaguro would be very interested in the job. The NY Times is reporting that Iona coach Kevin Willard has been hired at Seton Hall. Read More »
Here’s Siena’s offical press release:
Iowa Set to Name McCaffery Men’s Basketball Coach McCaffery to be Introduced at News Conference Monday in Iowa [...]
Could Georgia Tech Seton Hall, St. John’s or even Boston College be a destination for Fran McCaffery?
Rumor has it that Boston College head coach Al Skinner has been contacted and is talking to St. John’s about their opening. Should Skinner leave, McCaffery might be considered in Chesnut Hill but people in BC believe that McCaffery [...]