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Saints Lose Another....Predicted Finish
The ball was in the right mans hands with 2.2 seconds tonight and it was just a tough night for Kenny Hasbrouck and the rest of the Siena men's basketball team.
Hasbrouck got a good look and used the window, but was just a little too strong, causing the Saints to fall 73-72 at Draddy Gymnasium.
The only question you could have is how come it took so long to call a timeout after Alex Franklin got control of the rebound with what seemed like six or seven seconds left to go, before dishing to Chris De La Rosa who took a couple steps before the timeout was actually called.
The crazy thing is Siena still controls their own destiny (kind of) because Loyola defeated Rider and even though Niagara won to create a four-way tie, the Saints still have a date with the Purple Eagles on Friday, Feb. 29, the home finale.
With all that in mind and a Fairfield double overtime win over Marist to put the Stags into fifth place, only one game behind the pack, I will not try to predict the order of finish with two games to play in the conference schedule.
On that note, I'm am terrible at predicting things, so take this for what it's worth, but I thought I'd give it a try.
Here are the top six team's remaining schedule (I've included each teams BracketBusters game).
Siena (11-5)
@ Boise St. (ESPN360.COM)
vs. Niagara (Win, I can't see the Saints losing potentially four in a row and I don't see them losing on senior day with what should be a big crowd on hand)
@ Saint Peter's (Win, A lot will be on the line at this point and the Saints pull through)
Niagara (11-5)
@ Appalachian St. (Boone, N.C.)
@ Siena (Loss, The Purple Eagles come up on the short end of a raucous Siena home crowd)
vs. Canisius (Win, No way is Niagara losing to this team twice this season)
Rider (11-5)
@ Cal. St. Northridge (ESPNU)
vs. Saint Peter's (Win, Can you see the Broncs losing three in a row? I can't)
vs. Fairfield (This is turning in to the game to watch on the final day of the league schedule, I'm taking Rider this time)
Loyola (11-5)
vs. UC Davis
vs. Canisus (Here's an interesting game....coming off big wins over Siena and Rider and then playing a non-league game...how do the Greyhounds respond, by winning)
@ Marist (Game No. 2 for the final day of the schedule...I'm going with the Brady and the boys)
Fairfield (10-6)
@ Drexel
vs. Manhattan (First, let me say how did this team poke it's head back into league title talks...the Jaspers are hot and I'm picking them to win)
@ Rider (see above....the Stags are not taking down Thompson & Thompson twice twice)
Marist (9-7)
@ Cleveland State (ESPNU)
vs. Iona (Marist hasn't recovered from the two losses that Siena handed to them in five days, two weeks ago, but they win this game)
vs. Loyola (Brady's bunch ends the season with a big win)
Here's how I've predicted the finish
Siena 13-5 (Siena wins MAAC based on tie-breaker of sweeping Marist, while Rider went 1-1 against the Red Foxes....that tie breaker came after Siena went 2-2 against Niagara/Loyola as did Rider)
Rider 13-5
Loyola 12-6 (Greyhounds finish third because of their season sweep of Siena)
Niagara 12-6
Marist 11-7
Fairfield 10-8
(Here's the scary thought for Siena fans though....Siena's second round matchup will be against #8 seed Manhattan)
Again, this will possibly happen, but it is not probable
Hasbrouck got a good look and used the window, but was just a little too strong, causing the Saints to fall 73-72 at Draddy Gymnasium.
The only question you could have is how come it took so long to call a timeout after Alex Franklin got control of the rebound with what seemed like six or seven seconds left to go, before dishing to Chris De La Rosa who took a couple steps before the timeout was actually called.
The crazy thing is Siena still controls their own destiny (kind of) because Loyola defeated Rider and even though Niagara won to create a four-way tie, the Saints still have a date with the Purple Eagles on Friday, Feb. 29, the home finale.
With all that in mind and a Fairfield double overtime win over Marist to put the Stags into fifth place, only one game behind the pack, I will not try to predict the order of finish with two games to play in the conference schedule.
On that note, I'm am terrible at predicting things, so take this for what it's worth, but I thought I'd give it a try.
Here are the top six team's remaining schedule (I've included each teams BracketBusters game).
Siena (11-5)
@ Boise St. (ESPN360.COM)
vs. Niagara (Win, I can't see the Saints losing potentially four in a row and I don't see them losing on senior day with what should be a big crowd on hand)
@ Saint Peter's (Win, A lot will be on the line at this point and the Saints pull through)
Niagara (11-5)
@ Appalachian St. (Boone, N.C.)
@ Siena (Loss, The Purple Eagles come up on the short end of a raucous Siena home crowd)
vs. Canisius (Win, No way is Niagara losing to this team twice this season)
Rider (11-5)
@ Cal. St. Northridge (ESPNU)
vs. Saint Peter's (Win, Can you see the Broncs losing three in a row? I can't)
vs. Fairfield (This is turning in to the game to watch on the final day of the league schedule, I'm taking Rider this time)
Loyola (11-5)
vs. UC Davis
vs. Canisus (Here's an interesting game....coming off big wins over Siena and Rider and then playing a non-league game...how do the Greyhounds respond, by winning)
@ Marist (Game No. 2 for the final day of the schedule...I'm going with the Brady and the boys)
Fairfield (10-6)
@ Drexel
vs. Manhattan (First, let me say how did this team poke it's head back into league title talks...the Jaspers are hot and I'm picking them to win)
@ Rider (see above....the Stags are not taking down Thompson & Thompson twice twice)
Marist (9-7)
@ Cleveland State (ESPNU)
vs. Iona (Marist hasn't recovered from the two losses that Siena handed to them in five days, two weeks ago, but they win this game)
vs. Loyola (Brady's bunch ends the season with a big win)
Here's how I've predicted the finish
Siena 13-5 (Siena wins MAAC based on tie-breaker of sweeping Marist, while Rider went 1-1 against the Red Foxes....that tie breaker came after Siena went 2-2 against Niagara/Loyola as did Rider)
Rider 13-5
Loyola 12-6 (Greyhounds finish third because of their season sweep of Siena)
Niagara 12-6
Marist 11-7
Fairfield 10-8
(Here's the scary thought for Siena fans though....Siena's second round matchup will be against #8 seed Manhattan)
Again, this will possibly happen, but it is not probable
posted by Andrew Santillo at
10:45 PM
1 Comments:
You just lost allcredibility by saying the ball was in the right hands at the end of the game tonight. Have you missed the fact that Ubiles is Siena's best player, is coming off a 37 point effort against Loyola and had another 24 points tonight on 9 for 14 shooting and was dominating Manhattan? Hasbrouck took too many shots for someone that went 2 for 11 from the floor. Hasbrouck did not have it tonight, and failed to defer to Siena's best player who was rolling but instead tried to play hero and in the process went 1 for 6 from the floor over the last five minutes of the game.
Poor decision by McCaffery to not tell his team to call a timeout on a miss by Manhattan coming out of the huddle for Manhattan's last possession (he was banking on getting a stop with 10 seconds left and having enough time to push the ball up the floor and failed to tell his team to just get a timeout when they got the stop) and poor job by him to go to Hasbrouck who was 2 for 10 at that point as opposed to Ubiles who has been unstoppable and is averaging 30+ points per game over the last two.
If you're going to blog, you need to sharpen up on your game analysis.
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