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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
At this point, what else is new; lots of good stuff from the man, the myth, the legend, Pete Iorizzo the last few days– Fran’s comments on Yard, tickets flying out the box office, and getting ready for Niagara is all covered over at the Times Union. Our Niagara preview will be out later tonight [...]
This weekend was a weekend to start to show the contenders, who is for real and who is just getting hot at the right time? If we can establish that Siena, Niagara and Rider are the likely top three in the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference let’s try to hash out that next tier of contenders. [...]
What did those eleven days do? 7-14 from three will help, but it still seems like a lot has changed since there was about 8 minutes left to go against Northern Iowa. Wake up call? I don’t attribute it to that, I just think it’s parity. Our consensus #2 for the conference was Rider. They [...]
Marist Win Watch (courtesy Kenpom.com going into Tuesday) Chance of winless record: 24.68% (overall) 31.92% (in conference) Marist lost convincingly against Binghamton, shooting 29.4% from the field. The Bearcats dominated in a 70-52 rout, their 2nd win over a Division I team (their other D-I win came at home against Bucknell). With this loss [...]