2021 Hercules Tires MAAC Basketball Championships Program

2020–21 MANHATTAN MEN’S & WOMEN'S BASKETBALL

MEN’S ROSTER

QUICK FACTS LOCATION RIVERDALE, NY NICKNAME JASPERS COLORS GREEN & WHITE YEAR FOUNDED 1853

No.

Name

Cl.

Pos.

Ht.

Wt.

Hometown

0 1 2 3 4 5

Warren Williams

R-Jr.

F

6-9 240 Kingston, Jamaica

Matthew Glassman

Jr.

G 6-0 175 Bedford, NH

Romar Reid

So.

G 6-2 175 New Rochelle, NY

PRESIDENT DR. BRENNAN O’DONNELL, PH. D. ATHLETIC DIRECTOR MARIANNE REILLY (1982) HOME COURT DRADDY GYMNASIUM (2,520)

Ant Nelson

Jr. Jr. Jr.

G 6-4 180 New York, NY

Samir Stewart

G 6-0 180 Fort Lauderdale, FL

Samba Diallo

F

6-7 195 Rufisque, Senegal

10 11 12 14 15 20 21 23 24 30 32 55

Nehemiah Mack

Sr.

G 6-1 190 Harrisburg, PA

Daniel Schreier

R-So. F

6-9 220 Santa Monica, CA

Ethan Lasko

Sr.

G 6-2 175 Hollywood, FL G 6-5 190 Brooklyn, NY

Marques Watson

Jr.

Amir Britt

Fr.

F

6-7 210 Edison, NJ

PLAYER TO WATCH Ant Nelson has made an immediate impact in his first year at Manhattan after transferring from Seton Hall. He ranks among the league leaders in scoring, assists, free throw percentage and minutes played. MAAC Player of the Week for the period of December 6-12, averaging 23.0 ppg, 3.5 rpg and 3.0 apg while shooting 71.4 percent from the floor, including 85.7 percent from long range, and a perfect 100.0 percent from the line over two games against Rider Scored 19 points in the opener, before notching a career-high27pointswithsix reboundsand four assists in leading the Jaspers to their firstwinof theyear. Notched his second career 20-point performance one week later against Marist, finishing up with 23 in the finale. Recorded his first collegiate double-double with 15 points and 11 rebounds in the opener at Quinnipiac. leading scorer and remains the lone Jasper to earn All- MAAC honors in each of his four seasons in Riverdale. Cain began his illustrious career by being named the MAAC Rookie of the Year while also collecting first team honors after averaging 15.3 points per game and 5.5 rebounds per game as a freshman in 1981–82. He followed that up by notching 17.7 points per game and 5.6 rebounds per game as a sophomore before checking in with a career-high 20.9 points per game and 6.1 rebounds per game as a junior in 1983–84, and was named to the All-Metropolitan First Team. Thanks to a senior campaign in which he averaged 15.5 points per game, he finished his career with a then school-re- cord 1,872 points (currently third) on the strength of a still standing record of 776 field goals. NOTABLE ALUMNI TimCain ’85 graduated as the program’s all-time

Jason Douglas-Stanley

Jr.

G 6-2 190 Mount Vernon, NY

Sean Duke

Fr.

G 6-2 180 Providence, RI

Adam Cisse

So.

C 6-10 220 Bronx, NY

Ebube Ebube

R-Jr.

F

6-7 220 San Juan, Puerto Rico

Elijah Buchanan

Jr.

G 6-5 190 Bronx, NY

Kevin Salis

Sr.

F

6-6 210 Cornwall, NY

Nick Brennen

Jr.

G 6-5 180 Irvington, NY

Head Coach: Steve Masiello (Kentucky) – 10 th Season Associate Head Coaches: Matt Grady (Saint Joseph’s) – 10 th Season, RaShawn Stores (Manhattan) – 5 th Season Assistant Coach: Doug Thibault (Boise State) – 3 rd Season Strength & Conditioning/Director of MBB Operations: Jon Mangel (Florida State) – 2 nd Season Special Assistant to the Head Coach: Tyler Wilson (Manhattan) – 4 th Season

HEAD COACH STEVEMASIELLO Led Manhattan to back-to-back MAAC Championships in 2014 and 2015, and is the longest tenured MAAC Coach in this his 10 th year. Masiello is one of just nine active Division I coaches with a National Title as a player, and one of seven that is 43 or younger with two conference titles and two trips to the NCAA Tournament. A two-time Metropolitan Coach of the Year (2012, 2014) He owns a school-record 11 MAAC Tournament wins. Masiello was an assistant on Manhattan’s 2003 and 2004 MAAC Championship squads. With his victory in January at Quinnipiac, he moved past former student-athlete, coach and MAAC Hall of Fame honoree Jack Powers into third place in school history on the all-time Jaspers’ wins list. Masiello also set a school record for wins at Draddy Gymnasium earlier this year against Rider. During his 25-year collegiate career as a player and a coach, has advanced to the NCAA Tournament 13 times and been a member of eight conference championship outfits.

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