It's like the Notre Dame of AlbanyThe Buckeyes return to the NCAA tournament as a #8 seed after a one year layoff and will face the #9 seed Siena Saints Friday evening in Dayton.
Siena finished 26-7 and capped off their second-straight Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship with a 77-70 victory over Niagara to win the MAAC tourney for the 2nd year in a row.
The Saints played some heavies close (7 point loss in Lawrence, 13 point loss at Pitt) and if you've read anything at all about this pairing since it was announced, you know that as a 13 seed last season, they put a hurting on fourth-seeded Vandy in the first round of the tournament. The hero of that upset was guard Kenny Hasbrouck and his 30 points. He's still around.
If there is any good news heading into this tricky matchup, it's that the Saints are relatively small up front. As in 6-5, 6-8 and 6-6. But roster breakdowns will be forthcoming. What about Siena? Where is it, are there any hotties that count themselves as alums, etc.?
Siena is a small, Catholic (Franciscan flavor) university located just outside of Albany in Loudonville, New York. A comparison to Capital University could be made, but Capital is larger (3,800 undergrads to 2,900) and about 100 years older.
With just 150 staff members, the faculty is smaller than the staff of the Buckeye athletic department. Their home court looks like something straight out of Hoosiers and the online presence for the student newspaper, The Promethean, is updated just once a month. But not too small to have their own radio station (with the badass call letters WVCR) or to rock out Twitter. Oh, and then there are the 18 Division I sports the school supports.
The list of notable alumni is rather sparse, with more than a few going into politics or careers within the Catholic church. There is one hottie on the list, albeit a fictional one.
Though not a graduate, 21st president Chester A. Arthur lies in rest at Albany Rural Cemetery, literally a stone's throw away from Siena's campus. Arthur, of course, was the first real diva to inhabit the White House. He was known as "Elegant Arthur" and was rumored to have kept more than 80 pairs of pants in his wardrobe and changed several times a day. And mad points to him for being the only president to trot fur out for his official portrait.
But back to Siena. Tickets go on sale at 10am for $75 per seat. With the Buckeyes playing in the late game Friday, it's a great opportunity for fans to make the short trip over to Dayton in support of The Villain and gang. After all, how many tournament games can you travel to without having to take the day of work off?
Buckeye fans will need to show up as Siena legend has it that 10 whole busloads of students traveled to North Carolina to witness the team's upset of Stanford in the opening round of the 1989 tournament.
Depending on how confident you are, the purchase of tickets for Friday also brings an automatic charge for tickets to Sunday's 2nd round game against Louisville.
Comments
the 9:40pm game?
big fat oprah tits.
i meant "big fat oprah tits" in a good way, by the way.
I'ma make it rain.
Where did you find the time info?
Louisville in the 2nd round (assuming we win the 1st game)......... yikes!!!!!!!!!
Home court (sort of) is nice, but against a #1 seed in round 2 kinda sucks! All I can say is we beat Memphis a few years ago when everyone said we would get demolished..... so Go Bucks!!!!!!!!!! Someone give Lauderdale some caffeine before the game and wake his ass up!!!!!!
Got hosed on the seed. Who in the hell put Hightower on the Selection Committee?
Home court info is wrong...Siena plays in the Times Union Center in downtown Albany. Average about 8,000 fans per game.
http://timesunioncenter-albany...
http://www.cbssports.com/colle...
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im tryingt o buy tickets online right now and it wont let me. this is driving me crazy...
gah, i would buy tickets but apparently the ncaa thinks that the best way to do tickets is if OSU wins, you automatically get charged for Sunday's game and I gotta walk for graduation.
you get charged 75 a pop no matter what. if we win on friday we get to go on sunday. if not, you get nothing. kinda gay.
Can't believe the Bucks drew my hometown college in the first round. Awesome. Siena is going DOWN! and I can talk shit to EVERYONE around me, as they are all die-hard Siena fans. This might be the first time that living in Albany, NY as a tOSU fan will pay dividends.
Also, the rumors about the bus trips are for real. That's all I've heard about since this morning on every radio station is advertising "Yankee Travel" bus lines for this game. They will show up in force.
sienna??? isn't that a kind of vanilla cookie?? oh yea that's VIENNA fingers---
http://www.theonlinecandyshop....
but there is a famous Sienna (Miller ) who looks might nice topless!!!!!
http://www.leandrotoro.com/upl...
Bless you, PBB. Always can use a nice pickmeup on a Monday morning.
LOL good call PBB
you are very welcome.... try this search engine link for more Sienna fun
http://www.alltheweb.com/searc...
........... and for the car enthusiasts in the group, there is the Toyota Sienna Minivan.... perfect for carrying a large group of obnoxious fans from BFE New York to Dayton.
http://www.toyota.com/sienna/
I'll be thete the whole day since I live like ten minutes from UD arena. Make sure to visit Tank's bar and grill on Wayne Ave. about a five minute drive from the arena. Good food, cheap drinks, tall shots, and loose women.
11 warriors is a good site for buckeye information and its free - you guys need to clean your act up and get off the michigan crack and just talk buckeye sports - osu gave the game away 1. turner is a ball hog 2. mullens is scared 3.matta needs to show them how to set a good pick 4. matta needs to show them how to pick and roll - haven't seen that play all year 5. press - why wait until the end of the game
Cap grad shout out! Sorry, my alma mater pops up in conversation and internets articles about once a year so I gotta get my shout out it when it happens.
I am assuming that you know Capital is not a Catholic school ala Siena, right? The similiarity was size(ish) and proximity to capital city? Also, Cap says they are a 3900 student school but that's BS, that includes everyone in all the off-site campuses, law school, grad programs, non-traditional programs, etc. The on-campus traditional undergrad population is more like 1600.
I did not realize Siena was that small. How the hell do they manage to play D1 sports at a school so small? At Cap...Geez, everything there is D3.
why get off the Michigan cracks??? A true Buckeye fan would love and appreciate ANY and ALL cheap shots directed at Michigan!!!! Clean up our act.... who are you anyway?? Is this your first post??? We have fun on this site..... Matta needs to show them??? Give me a break... this is one of the most successful coaches in the country and he nearly won a NC a few years ago.... this is a team of Freshman and Sophmores-- our Starting five would be Oden, Cook, Conley, Koufos, Turner if Matta were not so successful in the recruiting of talent.
Siena plays D1 because their home court is the Times Union Center, a HUGE arena in the heart of Albany, and they joined the MAAC conference due to the success of the b-ball program. Alot of talented, yet poor income wise, b-ball players from upstate NY.....
hey palm beach go to don shulas and cry to him - this is anybodys site. just clean it up and get over your self. we do miss matta's assistant coach - where did he go. nearly only counts in horse shoes and hand grenades - we lost the nc because we didn't show up just like in football
Agreed 100%
with PB to clarify....if this site was "cleaned up" we can all just go read the dispatch............
1 Turner is are best player... so ya he might shoot alot. 2 You failed to talk about PJ Hill in you post-fail! 3 You made some good points.
are you a fan?? did you watch the NC game?? we lost by 3 3-point shots?? not show up?? come on. You are an SEC plant.
thank you ski!!!!!!!! This is THE best site -- the Dispatch is garbage compared to 11W
Louisville lost to notre dame 90-57!? and they get a number 1 seed? I think the buckeyes get to the sweet 16 and lose to Wake.
Poor income wise? Siena's tuition is four times that of ohio state
....um they beat Notre Dame, but lost to Minnesota, western Kentucky and UNLV---- break out film of the Minnesota game!
http://louisville.rivals.com/b...
The beat the Domers Jan 12th, but got housed by them one month later in South Bend. For all we may want to rag on their loss to Notre Dame however, they beat West Virginia twice, while we got dumptrucked by the 'eers.
thank you sir, I stand corrected. And that is a good observation about West Virgina,,,,, we did however beat Nortre Lame as well.
hey palm beach go to shulas and cry to him. or go to marinos. the buckeyes folded just like they did against fla. even in football they don't show up. you live in retirement land - i live in ga. and i have to put up with so much smack about the bucks. people in ohio all they do is go and crawl in a snow bank - they bury their heads like a groundhog
Thanks for the correction.
Yes, Capital is a Lutheran school, right? Which is like Catholicism light. :)
Really?!?!?!
???????????? if you have read this blog for anytime, you would see that we have talked about all these issues at length. Why all the hostility? Don't be a hater--- Buckeyes don't hate their own!
Retirement land?? not all of Palm Beach florida is retirement land... that would be like me saying that Georgia is full of Goober and Gomer Pyles......... not true at all (lol)....
lighten up please and realize that we (in this blog) are keenly aware of the defencies of Buckeye sports and we choose to engage in many topics of discussion and not just saying things like "they folded".
You do keep making me think that you are a closet SEC fan..... go to the dark side if that is where you need to be.
..and you keep telling me to go to shula's and cry to him... do you mean his steak house?? which one, there are 3... and I am originally from Columbus, I am not a native floridian.
If Ohio State shoots well they can beat anyone in the country. Diebler and Buford are the keys to a tourney run. If they get hot I think we can get two wins. That would be a very good year for this team and set them up for a big year in 09-10'.
It wouldn't shock me to see Mullens start playing like a Lottery Pick. He knows he can make some major cash if he plays well in the next couple games.
yea
You guys are in for a shock once we Saints role into town....
Let's Go Saints! Let's Go Saints!
I'm sure you guys can mourn with Commodore Fans, you guys will have something in common....
Good luck to you... the best team will win. I for one am not taking the game lightly. You are outsized in the game, and I hope that is an advantage for OSU.
Ahhhh, the trash talking Saints, you gotta love it.
Mourn with Commodore fans? V Langs...Buckeye Nation has been the best at mourning over the last three years, we don't need to group with anyone, we have become professional mourners. LOL
Corey who you got in the final four?
I'm going with
Wake
Memphis state
Pitt
UNC
Carolina vs Memphis State in the final. Im going with UNC to win it.
Memphis State?
Ya Memphis State.
They changed their name to University of Memphis in 1994. That's before Tommy Boy came out.
Louisville, Memphis, Pitt and UNC: Louisville and UNC in title game, UNC wins it. I think UNC has the most talent and just breezed through the regular season. Lawson should be back and if he is, no one can stop his speed. I think credit has to go to the Big East teams, they are all battled tested.
I watched Memphis for the first time in a while this weekend, they always fly under the radar because of C-USA, but they have some quickness, length and a damn good coach. If they play under control and not act like it is the And 1 Mixed Tape Tournament, then they could sneak all the way to the title game again.
Bobby knight calls them Memphis State. I'm sticking with Memphis State.
UNC plays the least amount of defense of all the no. 1 seeds. If Lawson comes back, will he have his speed? But they do have a weak bracket.
Memphis has the "disrespect card" in their hand.
Enough with the Final 4, who's gettin upset??
I say scUM beats Oklahoma.
Purdue beats Uconn, goes to Elite 8.
W, Kentucky beats Illinois.
lol...that spinning sound is Martin Luther rolling in his grave.
I have 3 kids in elementary, middle school and high school in the ATL - when the Buckeyes get beat - humiliated - they catch so much crap it is not even funny. So palm beach guy put yourself in their position. We cheer and root like crazy for the bucks - i have done a great job of brain washing them - you get a little tired of getting beat on.FLa fans are horrible - chomping in your face and handing you tissues. I will even go back to this past football season when I knew we were in trouble when we couldn't block ou and the sc kills us.
No offense, but from how you sound in previous posts, you definitely sound like you can use a break from Billy Bob and Cletus doing the gator chomp in your face.
Dont fret, just log onto 11W everyday, and live your life in denial here with the rest of us homers.
Perception is 99% of the game, just cuz a few plays didnt go our way here and there, doesnt mean the B10 is gone forever.
Why, even one of our former QB's is always on tv talking about how great a guy Teblow is, or how sexy a USC player looks in his uniform.
Don give in!! Fight it man!!! Tell em how they're "johnny come lately's" or how Urban Meyer got his inspiration from Earle Bruce. That'll buy you enough time until Tress works his magic and the Bucks are singin Carmen Ohio again in the first week of January.
Buckeyes never die.
haha, nice call Jason. Yes, Cap is lutheran and the seminary across the street (both my alma maters) is also lutheran. What is it they say...Lutheran, Cathlic Lite: All the grace, half the guilt.
amen!
Nice spelling (it's Siena).....OS must be proud to call you an alum.
That's funny, all you ever hear at our games against UAlbany ( a large state school in NY) is we are all a bunch of spoiled rich kids (they made up some silly cheer). For the most part you'll find that the students there are the son or daughter of a Siena Alumni who is a Dr., Lawyer, Government official, or most likely a very successful business person because Siena has one of the best business schools going. We are laughably tiny, but alot of the student athletes are local, knowing most well the girls soccer team, the highschools around us are huge and win state championships on a regular basis and place high rankings nationally. We are looking forward to the challenge of playing against THE Ohio State. Lets hope its a great game