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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The New York Post is reporting that the Pirates have spoken to, and are no longer pursing Fran. Read »
According to numerous reports, Fran is the leading candidate for the Seton Hall job, which was vacated by former MAAC coach Bobby Gonzalez almost a week ago. Pete has more at his blog.
This story is all over the local NJ papers, though according to Pete, Fran’s interest level is unknown.
I always thought that if [...]
The #13 seed Siena Saints (27-6, 17-1) will go for their third straight NCAA tournament first-round victory when they take on the #4 seed Purdue Boilermakers (27-5, 14-4) Friday afternoon in Spokane, WA in the South Region.
This will be the first meeting between the two schools, and this will be the first time the Saints [...]
Siena Head Coach Fran McCaffery gets mentioned in USA Today because of his unusual balloting in this week’s coaches Top 25.
Fran McCaffery joined Bill King on Rivals radio as Fran continues to make the rounds after Siena’s MAAC Championship victory. Catch the interview here!
Fran McCaffery – Siena head basketball coach