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2023–24 SIENA MEN’S & WOMEN’S BASKETBALL

QUICK FACTS LOCATION LOUDONVILLE, NY NICKNAME SAINTS COLORS GREEN AND GOLD YEAR FOUNDED 1937 PRESIDENT CHUCK SEIFERT, PH.D VICE PRESIDENT/ATHLETIC DIRECTOR JOHN D’ARGENIO HOME ARENA MVP ARENA (6,879) – MEN UHY CENTER (2,148) – WOMEN

PLAYER TO WATCH The lone senior on Siena Women’s Basketball’s roster for the 2023-24 season, Ahniysha Jackson has stepped up her game this season as one of the team’s top offensive performers. The Watervliet, New York product became the program’s first player to score 30 points in a game with a 31-point outburst in the Saints’ 64-45 win over Saint Peter’s on January 6. A Third Team Preseason All-MAAC selection, Jackson is averaging double digit scoring this season and has also recorded career-bests for a season in assists per-game and shooting percentage. NOTABLE ALUMNI Siena Women’s Basketball saw a pair of recent alumni enter the Siena Athletics Hall of Fame this year, with the induction of Tehresa (Coles) Massena ’14 and Kollyns Scarbrough ’18 on February 3. Coles was the 2024-15 MAAC Defensive Player of the Year, and remains one of just four players in MAAC history to eclipse 1,000 points, 500 points, 300 steals, and 250 assists over a career. Scarbrough took home three All-MAAC honors and finished her collegiate career top-ten in both scoring and rebounding. The former Coles currently serves as a member of the Siena College Board of Trustees.

MEN’S ROSTER

WOMEN’S ROSTER No. Name Cl.

No.

Name

Cl. So.

Pos. Ht.

Wt.

Hometown/High School/Last School

Pos.

Ht.

Hometown/High School/Previous School

0 1 2 3 5 7

Zek Tekin

G 6-2 166 Istanbul, Turkey/Ozel Esenkent Okyanus Anadolu Lisesi G 6-5 216 Harlem, NY/Canterbury School (CT)/Austin Peay G 6-5 171 Grand Prairie, TX/St. Benedict’s Prep (NJ) G 6-4 178 Fort Wayne, IN/Veritas Prep Academy (FL)

0 1 3 4 7

Ahniysha Jackson

Sr.

G 5-7 Watervliet, NY/Albany

Sean Durugordon R-Jr.

Nikola Zdenkova

R-Fr.

G 5-9 Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic/Gymnazium Pripotocni

Bralyn Smith Michael Eley

Fr.

London Gamble

So.

G 5-8 Westlake Village, CA/West Lake

So.

Valencia Fontenelle-Posson Jr.

G 5-10 Guilderland, NY/Guilderland

Giovanni Emejuru R-So.

F

6-11 265 Leicester, England/Charnwood College/Sam Houston

Teresa Seppala

So.

G 6-0 Tampere, Finland/Makelanrinteen Lukio

Mosi Clayton

Fr. Fr.

G 6-1 180 Brooklyn, NY/Believe Prep (SC)

10 Constance Ogbeide

Fr. Fr. Fr. Fr.

F

6-1 Lleida, Spain/INS Almata

11 12 13 15 20 21 22 24 33 34

Michael Ojo

F F

6-7 212 Virginia Beach, VA/Moravian Prep (GA) 6-8 196 Reykjavik, Iceland/South Iceland College

11 Ciany Conyers

G 5-8 Pittsfield, MA/Taconic

Sveinn Birgisson

So.

12 Alden Yergey

G 5-9 Nokesville, VA/Brentsville District G 5-9 Ripollet, Spain/Institut Can Mas

Kyle Winters

Fr.

G 6-3 198 Corte Madera, CA/New Hampton School (NH)

13 Esther Rodellar

Mason Courtney Killian Gribben Brendan Coyle

So. So. So.

G 6-4 176 Clifton Park, NY/Shenendehowa

21 Anajah Brown

Jr.

F

6-1 Norristown, PA/The Baldwin School

F F

6-10 215 Letterkenny, Ireland/Choate Rosemary Hall (CT)

24 Elisa Mevius

So.

G 5-10 Rendsburg, Germany/Theo-Koch School

6-7 207 Niskayuna, NY/Cushing Academy (MA)

25 Eszter Turi

Fr.

F

6-1 Budapest, Hungary/Hunfalvy Janos Bilingual Secondary School

Michael Evbagharu Fr.

G 6-4 220 Scarborough, ON/Royal Crown Academic School

Carson White Steven Lazar

Fr.

F F F

6-8 223 Phoenix, AZ/Desert Vista

PLAYER TO WATCH Sean Durugordon has made an immediate impact for the Saints since making his debut on Dec. 19. The two-time undergraduate transfer, most recently via Austin Peay, was cleared to suit up for the Saints following the Dec. 13 federal court ruling. Durugordon set a program record by becoming the first player ever to register six straight 20-plus point performances to begin his Siena career. His 155 points scored during that stretch was 57 more than anyone else over their first six games as a Saint. Durugordon’s immediate success was punctuated by back-to-back 30-point performances on the Western New York trip in January. He capped the swing with a collegiate career-high 36 points to go along with 12 rebounds while going a perfect 16-16 from the free throw line (program record) in a 93-88 win at Niagara. 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, and which culminated with a First Round upset of Stanford. He was named the 1991 MAAC Player of the Year and a First Team All-MAAC and All-MAAC 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 more than a decade as the head coach at Division III New Jersey City University.

Head Coach: Jim Jabir (Third Season), Nazareth ‘84 Assistant Coaches: Terry Primm (Third Season), Palm Beach Atlantic ‘97 , Heather Stec (Third Season), Siena ‘09, Sydnie Rosales (First Season), Marist ‘17 Director of Women’s Basketball Operations: Morgan Roche (Third Season), Quinnipiac ‘13

Sr.

6-6 179 Toronto, ON/Crestwood Prep

Max Frazier

Fr.

6-9 196 Pittsboro, NC/Northwood

Head Coach: Carmen Maciariello (Fifth Season), Siena ‘01 Assistant Coaches: Bobby Castagna (Third Season), CSUN ‘75, Antoni Wyche (First Season), Notre Dame ‘99, Andy Farrell (First Season), Dayton ‘07 Director of Basketball Operations: Jonathan Pickett (Third Season), UAlbany ‘20 Special Assistant to the Head Coach: Nick Pederson (First Season), Minnesota ‘21 Team Managers: Fenwick Egan, Aidan Khoury, Michael McLoughlin, Alex Peters

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HEAD COACH CARMEN MACIARIELLO In his first four seasons at the helm, Siena Men’s Basketball alumnus Carmen Maciariello ’01 has restored his alma mater to prominence. The native of nearby Clifton Park, New York has directed the Saints to four straight top-three conference records, highlighted by at least a share of a pair of Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Regular Season Championships, and the awarding of an outright MAAC Tournament Championship in his first year. Additionally, Maciariello has developed a pair of MAAC Player of the Year honorees, with Manny Camper (2020-21) and future NBA Draft pick and current Denver Nuggets guard Jalen Pickett (2019-20) each earning acclaim. The now 45-year-old Maciariello, who was rewarded for his success with a three-year contract extension on Mar. 26, 2021 which runs through the conclusion of the 2025-26 season, has achieved a 64-44 (.593) overall record including a 50-26 (.658) mark in MAAC action entering the 2023-24 season. His 50 wins through his first 76 MAAC Regular Season games coached is tied for the sixth-best start in the league’s 43-year history.

HEAD COACH JIM JABIR Jim Jabir is in his third season at the helm of Siena Women's Basketball after returning to Loudonville in April 2021. A finalist for the 2013 Naismith National Coach of the Year Award, the Brooklyn, New York native has led his programs to eight NCAA Tournament berths highlighted by a 2015 Elite Eight appearance, and won his 550th career contest on January 18, 2024. Jabir coached his 1,000th career game on Dec. 19, 2022, and is one of just 13 active NCAA women's basketball coaches across all levels to have coached more than 1,000 contests. The 61-year-old Jabir previously led the Siena Women’s Basketball program for three seasons (1987–90), while also having served as the head coach at Florida Atlantic University (2017–21), University of Dayton (2003–16), Providence College (1996–02), Marquette University (1990–96), and Division III Buffalo State College (1986–87). Jabir’s current stint at Siena has included coaching the 2022-23 MAAC Rookie of the Year and leading the Saints to their first MAAC Semifinal appearance in five years during the 2022-23 campaign while coaching one of the youngest teams in the nation.

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