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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 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. [...]
Senior Alex Franklin takes Siena’s first weekly honor this year as MAAC Co-Player of the Week, sharing the award with Loyola Senior Brett Harvey. Franklin (Reading, PA) scored 22 points on 9 of 13 shooting and nabbed 11 rebounds in Siena’s dominant 84-62 win over Rider on December 23rd. Harvey scored nine of his game-high [...]
The Siena Saints (7-4) will try to defend their 25 game home winning streak on Tuesday as the St. Joseph Hawks (4-7) come into town. After a commanding win over Rider last week, Siena enters into their second match of a four game home stand. The team appeared to be energized and focused against Rider [...]