Siena’s Bracketbuster opponent, Northern Iowa, lost at home tonight to Drake 47-46. This is their second loss in a row. Both teams shot under 39% from the floor and committed a total of 37 turnovers between the two teams. The loss tonight for UNI puts them in a tie for 1st the [...]

Siena will jump George Mason and Illinois State when the new Mid Major Rankings come out on Monday. Both teams lost at least one game this week. Here’s how I see it shaping up tomorrow…

Rank
Team
Record
Last Week

1.
#16^ Butler
18-1 (9-0)
1

2.
#22^ St.Mary’s
18-1 (5-0)
2

3.
#23^ Gonzaga
14-4 (5-0)
3

4.
Davidson
16-3 (9-0)
4

5.
Siena
16-5 (9-0)
7

^ – they’re moving up tomorrow.
Butler smoked second place Wisconsin-Milwaukee [...]

Mike Hume at ESPN.com Insider mentioned the Saints briefly in his column Tuesday,
Take Siena, a tournament team that knocked off Vanderbilt last year and returned all its starters. The Saints couldn’t snag a win against Tennessee nor Oklahoma State nor even Wichita State at the Old Spice Classic. They also lost at Pittsburgh and Kansas. [...]

ESPN.com’s Kyle Whelliston had this to say about Siena’s season thus far:
Another round of 32 squad that has underachieved is the Saints, who have lived under the mid-major microscope after their crushing 13-over-4 victory over Vanderbilt (in the same Tampa pod that produced the San Diego shocker). A virtually intact team simply hasn’t been up [...]

An appropriate 7:00 wake-up call began our last day in Orlando. After a brief breakfast and meeting the team met at the vans to drive over to the Milk House at about 8:30. The usual stretch and warm up, and our fifth game of the year had begun.
The first ten minutes [...]

The Saints were defeated by the Oklahoma State Cowboys 77-68 Sunday morning at the Milk House in Orlando. This gives Siena 8th place in the Old Spice Classic; the first MAAC team ever to go 0-3 in the Old Spice. This game really came down to free throws, OSU made all 6 of [...]

Spartans Weblog summarized Oklahoma State:

2007-08 record: 17-16 (7-9 in the Big 12)
2007-08 tempo-free strength: Creating turnovers; the Cowboys ranked 32nd in the nation in defensive TO% at 24.0%
2007-08 tempo-free weakness: Giving up points at the line; Oklahoma State’s opponents put up a free throw rate of 44.1 (308th in the nation for OSU defensively)
2007-08 tempo: [...]

The trend of our trip continued on day four with another wake up call at 7:30. The team met at 8:00 for breakfast and a short meeting about Wichita State. We departed the Coronado Springs at 8:30 for the Milk House. This would give the guys enough time to get taped and [...]