The details always grow more important in postseason play, and one crucial detail that shouldn’t be overlooked is the recent foul shooting of Alex Franklin.
Franklin is by far the most fouled person on the team with 225 attempts so far this season, which is already a career high for the senior. His 66.2% from [...]
ALBANY — Siena went on an inspired run to pull away from the Rider Broncs 72-62, Sunday afternoon at the Times Union Center. Siena has advanced to Monday night’s MAAC Tournament Championship for the fourth consecutive year.
Clarence Jackson, who shot just 2-15 in the Quarterfinal game, came alive in the second half with a [...]
Happy President’s Day! A pretty funny take in the Daily Gazette this morning…
Saints rebound from ugly loss, beat Canisius
Ryan Rossiter said a Canisius fan at the Koessler Center was on Rossiter’s case all afternoonon on Sunday, at one point telling Siena’s junior center that he’d “never be in Vogue” magazine.
Maybe not, but perhaps Rossiter [...]
Siena (21-5, 14-1) looks to bounce back and start a new winning streak against the Canisius Golden Griffins (12-14, 7-8) on Saturday afternoon. This will be the team’s final game before playing against Butler for BracketBusters weekend on February 20th.
Canisius is led by G Frank Turner who is 2nd in the MAAC in scoring with [...]
Siena snaps their school record and nation’s longest 15-game winning streak falling 87-74 at Niagara for their first MAAC loss since Feburary 27, 2009.
Siena’s loss snaps a 15 game win streak and gives the Saints their first loss of 2010, their last loss was December 12, 2009 at Northern Iowa. This year, four of the [...]
No doubt, this was Niagara’s game. Ive got to give it to Mihalich on this one, they beat us at our own game. At times they couldn’t hit a lay up, but when they needed to, they sure could throw down. Siena could not withstand the long scoring drout (that ticker was on 53 forever), [...]
Ray Floriani covers the MAAC for RushTheCourt. When he’s not doing that he can be found covering college basketball at College Chalktalk as well as the Basketball Times, Hoopville and contributes to Villanova by the Numbers. He went to St. Peter’s dramatic double-overtime home win over Niagara Monday night.
SienaSaintsBlog: Who is a better contender this [...]
The Siena Saints (12-4, 5-0) host the Canisius Golden Griffins (8-8, 3-2) at the Times Union Center, 7pm Monday night. The game will be broadcast on Time Warner Cable channel 3. The Saints are tied for the third longest home court winning streak in the country at 29 with Dayton and Pittsburgh, behind Kansas (51) [...]
The Saints (12-4, 5-0) improve their winning streak to six games after defeating the Niagara Purple Eagles (10-7,3-2) 83-65. Siena also extended their winning streak in the Times Union Center to 29 games.
Siena jumped out early to a 7-0 lead, only to allow Niagara answer with seven straight points of their own. Edwin Ubiles was [...]
Here are quotes from the press conference following Siena’s win over the Niagara Purple Eagles 83-65. Fran McCaffery:
I thought the key to the game was how we defended in the second half of the game…We were plus 11 rebounding in the second half. We did a much better job covering up on rebounding the ball.
Why [...]