The Siena Saints (7-10, 4-3) travel to Jersey City, New Jersey to take on the St. Peter’s Peacocks (9-9, 4-3) at the Yanetelli Center on Friday night. The game will be televised on ESPNU starting at 9:05. The Peacocks boast a BCS win over Alabama earlier in the season, but they find themselves in the [...]
The Saints came back from down as many as 14 points to beat the Iona Gaels 73-67 at the Times Union Center in front of 5,850 fans on Monday night. Preseason MAAC Player of the Year Ryan Rossiter delivered a floater plus a free throw for a three-point play to give the Saints a 69-67 [...]
Turnovers, timeouts, and tenaciousness. The three T’s that spelled trouble for the Saints in only their second loss to UAlbany in a decade. A lot of grumbling was heard leaving the Times Union Center as to why the Saints had four timeouts at the end of regulation, and chose not to call one and set [...]
Siena could have fouled Dan Mavraides in the last possession of regulation, but elected not to and it cost them. The Saints were ahead 69-66 with under 10 seconds to go– Princeton brought the ball down the court after a timeout and Mavraides buried a 3 pointer with less than a second to go in [...]
2009 Siena @ Butler: 17pt. loss, 15.4% from 3, -1 Assist/TO ratio, 11-17 FT’s 2010 Butler @ Siena: 13pt. loss, 18.2% from 3, -3 Assist/TO ratio, 7-15 FT’s A telling sign of where the two programs are right now– Butler is clearly the elite of the mid-major crop, the standard that everyone else strives to [...]
Siena grabbed momentum early, taking a double-digit lead, but could not maintain a similar efficiency as they fell 76-69 to Minnesota Monday night. The Saints appeared to have their problems solved, up double digits early at Minnesota despite an invisible Ryan Rossiter. Fans might not have noticed it early when Siena took an early double [...]
Siena trailed by 4 late in the game, but a key block by Owen Wignot’s lead to Clarence Jackson’s 3 point play with 1:04 to go, breaking a 59-59 tie. The Panthers turned it over on the ensuing possession, where the Saints killed about 30 seconds of clock and CJ hit a straight away three [...]
Owen Wignot came off the bench to score 11 points in Siena’s Quarterfinal win over Manhattan Saturday. Wignot made three of four three pointers including this one to give the Saints a seven point lead. Catch more SienaSaintsBlog videos, including a video reel for every Saints starter, at our video homepage.
The Saints (17-4, 10-0) escape with a 66-58 victory over the Manhattan Jaspers (7-13, 2-8). Despite being down by nine points in the second half, the Jaspers fought back within one possession with less than one minute left in the game before Siena pulled away with clutch free throw shooting. Manhattan was held without a [...]