2021 Hercules Tires MAAC Basketball Championships Program

2020–21 SIENA MEN’S & WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

MEN’S ROSTER

QUICK FACTS LOCATION LOUDONVILLE, NY NICKNAME SAINTS COLORS GREEN AND GOLD YEAR FOUNDED 1937

No.

Name

Cl. Gr.

Pos.

Ht.

Wt.

Hometown

0 1 3

Nick Hopkins

G 6-0 174 Fayetteville, TN

Colin Golson, Jr. Manny Camper* Bennett Kwiecinski

Fr.

F

6-7 222 Detroit, MI

Sr.

G/F 6-7 216 Chestertown, MD

INTERIM PRESIDENT CHRISTOPHER P. GIBSON, PH.D ATHLETIC DIRECTOR/VICE PRESIDENT JOHN D’ARGENIO HOME ARENA TIMES UNION CENTER (7,146) – MEN UHY CENTER (2,148) – WOMEN

11 12 14 15 20 22 24 25 33 42 55

Fr.

F F

6-8 185 Wilmette, IL

Kyle Young

So. So.

6-9 240 Stewartsville, NJ

Jordan King

G 6-0 175 Albany, NY G 5-5 170 Jackson, NJ

Robert Mahala*

Jr.

Denzel Tchougang

Sr.

F

6-10 229 Geneva, Switzerland

Jalen Pickett

Jr.

G 6-4 202 Rochester, NY

Harrison Curry

Gr. Fr. Fr. Sr.

F

6-7 257 Ann Arbor, MI

Aidan Carpenter

G 6-5 185 Hamden, CT

Steven Lazar

F F F

6-8 174 Toronto, ON

Kyle Arrington

6-10 262 Council Bluffs, IA 6-9 247 Santa Barbara, CA

Jackson Stormo

Jr.

Captain*

PLAYER TO WATCH Junior guard Jalen Pickett is the reigning MAAC Player of the Year and unanimous MAAC Preseason Player of the Year. Named to both the 2020–21 Lute Olson Award (Top Division I Player) and Lou Henson Award (Top Division I Mid-Major Player) Preseason Watch Lists, Pickett was ranked the 61st best player in Division I by HoopChain and 99 th by CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander entering the 2020-21 season. Pickett became the 45 th player in Siena history – and eighth fastest – to score 1,000 career point on Jan. 9 at Fairfield. Pickett scored both the second most points (959) and dished out the second most assists (396) by any Siena player by the end of his sophomore season in program history (Marc Brown: 1987–89 – 979 points, 421 assists). NOTABLE ALUMNI The all-time leading scorer in Siena Basketball history with 2,284 career points, Marc Brown ’91 was inducted into the 2017 MAAC Hall of Fame Honor Roll. Brown led Siena to three national postseason tournament appearances highlighted by the program’s first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance in 1989. He was named the 1991 MAAC Player of the Year and a First Team All-MAAC and MAAC All-Tournament Team selection in each of Siena’s first two seasons in the conference. A 1998 Siena Athletics Hall of Fame inductee who played 15 years professionally overseas, Brown has spent the past decade as the head coach at Division III New Jersey City University.

Head Coach: Carmen Maciariello (Siena ’01) – 2 nd Season Assistant Coaches: Harley Fuller (Molloy ’10) – 3 rd Season, Bob Simon (Eastern Michigan ’89) – 2 nd Season, Antoni Wyche (Notre Dame ’99 ) – 2 nd Season Director of Basketball Operations : Greg Fahey (Marist ’13) – 2 nd Season Special Assistant to the Head Coach : Matt Miner (St. Edward’s ’14) – 1 st Season Team Managers: Justin Caulfield ’22, Carter Morelli ’22, Miguel Washington ’22, Michael Campbell ’23, Aidan Khoury ’24, Michael McLoughlin ’24

HEAD COACH CARMEN MACIARIELLO It’s taken Siena Basketball alumnus Carmen Maciariello ’01 less than two years to restore his alma mater to prominence. The native of nearby Clifton Park, New York helped guide the Saints to the 11th best turnaround nationally as an assistant coach in 2018–19, before taking the reins and leading Siena to both a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Regular Season and Tournament Championship in his first season as head coach in 2019–20. Named the 18 th head coach in Siena Men’s Basketball history on March 25, 2019, the now 42-year-old Maciariello achieved an unprecedented first season leading the Saints. Siena posted a 20-10 overall record including a stellar 15-5 record in the MAAC, culminating with the program’s eighth MAAC Regular Season Championship while also being awarded its sixth MAAC Tournament Title. The only of the 61 new Division I head coaching hires during the 2019–20 season to lead his team to an outright conference regular season championship, Maciariello was named one of the “Top-12 Most Immediately Successful Hires of the 2019–20 Season” by CBS Sports’ Matt Norlander.

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