LOUDONVILLE - Siena is calling on its fans to wear gold shirts for the Gold Rush game against Iona on Friday.

It will be a matchup of the two hottest teams in the league as the Saints (12-0, 19-4) have won 13 games in a row, while the Gaels (9-3, 17-6) have won eight straight.

According to the school, only 160 tickets remain for the game.

“It’ll be a good atmosphere,” said junior forward Ryan Rossiter. “Hopefully we’ll get a bunch of people in gold and we’ll get out there and put on a good show for them.”

While the players are supposed to block out everything off of the court, the Siena players said t

“We thrive off that,” senior point guard Ronald Moore said. “Hopefully it is a great crowd for tomorrow night, everyone is in gold. It makes it a lot easier for a player to play in an atmosphere like that, you got your adrenaline going and I think we play better the higher the stakes.”

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In case you didn't see it, a story on Tay Fisher who returns to Albany on Sunday with the Harlem Globetrotters.

'Firefly' lighting it up for Globetrotters

Nice story in our sister paper The Daily Freeman today about former Siena guard Tay Fisher and his life with the Harlem Globetrotters

Here's the link.

Former Siena guard Tay Fisher has been asked to join the Harlem Globetrotters training camp which starts Thursday, Sept. 24.

Fisher is one of six rookies who will be joining the veterans for spots on the team.

Here's what they say about Tay, whose nickname is "firefly."

Joining Coley will be Tay “Firefly” Fisher, a 5-9 sharpshooting dynamo out of Siena College. A 2008 Globetrotters draftee, he helped lead the Saints to the 2007-08 MAAC regular season and postseason titles and a stunning 83-62 upset of SEC power Vanderbilt in the first round of the 2008 NCAA Tournament. Fisher, who hails from Kingston, N.Y., shot a blistering 44.4 percent from three-point range his senior season.

The training camp wraps up on Oct. 5.

Good luck to Tay.