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 [...]
ALBANY — The Saints will take on a familiar foe in the MAAC Tournament, the Rider Broncs, who they defeated in the 2008 MAAC Championship game.
Rider dominated St. Peter’s, starting out on a 16-3 run to start the game and held off the Peacocks late charge to win handily 69-57 in Saturday’s first quarterfinal game. [...]
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. Now it’s time for us to get a review of the regular [...]
As we get ready to hit the conference tournament, we check in with the leader in college basketball statistics: Ken Pomeroy of Basketball Prospectus and kenpom.com (also on twitter: @kenpomeroy).
Using his up to date stats and log5 methodology, he has determined the probabilities of every MAAC Team to win the 2010 Citizens Bank MAAC Basketball [...]
Siena established the tempo early, got off to a hot start and crushed the Rider Broncs 80-54 at Alumni Gymnasium by Friday night.
The Saints benefited from hot shooting in the first half, going on a 16-2 run over six minutes, to take a double-digit lead. The Saints shot 61.3% from the field in the first [...]
Having lost two of their last three games, the Siena Saints head to Lawrenceville, New Jersey to face the only MAAC team that beat them last season. Coverage from Alumni Gymnasium will begin at 7PM on ESPNU.
When Rider faced Siena this earlier this season, the Saints’ dominant performance began Siena’s record 15 game winning streak. [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. It’s [...]