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 Missouri Valley Conference, [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 of the game [...]
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 their one [...]
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 [...]
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 stretch before they [...]