The top two teams in the MAAC will square off Saturday afternoon at 1pm in the Times Union Center as the Siena Saints (11-4, 4-0) host the Niagara Purple Eagles (10-6, 3-1) in what has become the conference’s biggest rivalry. The Saints will try to extend their 28 game home winning streak in what will [...]
Keepin’ Track of the MAAC: Part Two
The MAAC’s official blogger, Steve Amedio combines his 20 years of experience covering Siena and the MAAC at his site: Keepin’ Track of the MAAC. He’s witnessed college basketball games at over 130 different venues and wrote the MAAC Preview in The Sporting News. In our second part we talk [...]
With so much going on in the MAAC, instead of day-by-day let’s try to snatch out the big headlines of the weekend.
Story #1: Rider Falls Back To Earth
Well all that great reputation Rider built up came down to a thud this weekend with double digit losses in Charlottesville and Lexington.
Rider came out flat on Thursday [...]
Niagara
2009: 2nd Place. 26-8 (14-4)
2010: 3rd
Warning! I’m not on the Niagara bandwagon.
I don’t profess to any biases but I just don’t think this team has it anymore. A team that graduated a tough inside player to replace like Benson Egemonye will find him hard to replace. A team that has traditionally used very little of [...]
Here are the Preseason All-MAAC teams:
First Team
Bilal Benn, Niagara Sr. G/F 6-5 Philadelphia, Pa.
Tyrone Lewis, Niagara Sr. G 5-11 Levittown, Pa.
Ryan Thompson, Rider Sr. G 6-6 Mt. Laurel, N.J.*
Ronald Moore, Siena Sr. G 6-0 Conshohocken, Pa.
Edwin Ubiles, Siena Sr. G/F 6-6 Poughkeepsie, N.Y.
Second Team
Greg Nero, Fairfield Sr. F 6-7 Red Hook, N.Y.
Jamal Barney, Loyola Jr. [...]
Surely we all remember the commotion last year when Ronald Moore didn’t get picked for any of the preseason All-MAAC teams.
There is a camp this year that believes he won’t make it over Ryan Thompson, but why shouldn’t he? Thompson wasn’t exclusively the PG at Rider until about half way through last [...]
ALBANY — The hype machine only has hours left but we will probably see one of the best championships this conference has ever seen tonight between #1 Siena and #2 Niagara.
Niagara defended the three point line really well these past two days, letting their opponents only shoot 11 of 45 (24.4%) from behind the arc. [...]
From the AP…
LEWISTON, N.Y. — Niagara’s Bilal Benn recorded 21 points and 12 rebounds to lead the team past Siena, 100-85, Friday night in Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference action at the Gallagher Center.
Niagara (23-7, 13-4) has now won nine of its last 10 games. Rob Garrison added 19 points while Benson Egemonye scored 13 points. [...]
Under Fran McCaffery, the Saints are 6-1 against the Purple Eagles– with the lone loss coming in the 2007 MAAC Championship. By the time they square off Saturday, both teams will have had 6+ days to prepare for one another. It looks like we are in store for another [highly offensive] 1 vs. [...]