MAAC_Program_2025_V4_Pages

2024–25 SIENA MEN’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

MEN’S ROSTER

No.

Name

Cl.

Pos. Ht.

Wt.

Hometown/High School/Last School

0 1 2 3 5 7 8

Justice Shoats

Jr.

G 5-11 175 Wilkes-Barre, PA/Holy Redeemer/Lock Haven

Chris Torres

Fr.

G 6-2 175 Suffern, NY/Millbrook

Bralyn Smith

So.

G 6-5 175 Grand Prairie, TX/St. Benedict’s Prep (NJ)

Major Freeman Myles Wilmoth

Jr.

G 6-3 190 Atlanta, GA/Archer/Spartanburg Methodist JC

Gr.

F F

6-10 220 Chestnut Ridge, NY/St. Andrew’s (RI)/Hofstra

Tajae Jones

Fr.

6-8 205 Waterbury, CT/Long Island Lutheran (NY)

Mosi Clayton

So. So.

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

11 12 13 14 15 20 21 22 24 44

Michael Ojo

F

6-7 210 Virginia Beach, VA/Moravian Prep (GA)

Reid Ducharme

R-Fr.

G 6-7 190 Milton, MA/Brewster Academy (NH)/Xavier

Peter Carey

R-So.

C 6-11 205 Sunderland, MA/Northfield Mount Hermon/Syracuse

Gavin Doty

Fr.

G 6-5 185 Fulton, NY/Fulton

Luke Cecchi Kyle Winters Brendan Coyle Devin Brafford Cooper Nadler

Gr.

G 6-2 185 Cazenovia, NY/Tyburn Academy/Thomas Aquinas College (MA)

So.

G 6-3 200 Corte Madera, CA/New Hampton School (NH)

Jr.

F

6-7 205 Niskayuna, NY/Cushing Academy (MA)

PLAYER TO WATCH Lock Haven transfer Justice Shoats has made an immediate impact in his first season donning the Green and Gold. The Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania native burst onto the scene, earning both USBWA Oscar Robertson National Player of the Week and MAAC Player of the Week honors after coming off the bench to average 27.0 points, 3.0 assists, and 3.0 steals, while shooting 51% from the field in a pair of overtime victories against Brown and Bryant to open the season. Shoats scored his 1,000 th collegiate point at Niagara (Dec. 6) and swiped his 100th steal at Quinnipiac (Jan. 10). He registered his first Siena double-double with 16 points and a collegiate career-high tying 10 assists at Cornell (Dec. 30), becoming the first Saint to dish out double digit dimes in a game in five years. 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 appear-ances, 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.

Fr. Fr.

C 7-1 205 Waynesville, NC/PHHoenix Prep (AZ)

G 6-5 195 Lake George, NY/Glens Falls

Marcus Jackson Jr.

G 6-2 185 Amsterdam, NY/Cushing Academy (MA)/UAlbany

Head Coach: Gerry McNamara, Syracuse ‘06 – First Season Assistant Coaches: Ben Lee, Union (NY) ‘19 – First Season, Ryan Blackwell, Syracuse ‘00 – First Season, Arinze Onuaku, Syracuse ‘10 – First Season

Director of Basketball Operations: Ryan Beaury, Syracuse ‘21 – First Season Special Assistant to the Head Coach: Brian Beaury, Saint Rose ‘82 – First Season

HEAD COACH GERRY MCNAMARA Syracuse legend and 2003 National Champion Gerry McNamara was named the 19 th head coach in Siena Men’s Basketball history on March 29, 2024. The 41-year-old Scranton, Pennsylvania native took over the reins of the Siena program after spending the past 15 years on staff with the Orange. McNamara reunited with his Basketball Hall of Fame Head Coach Jim Boeheim as a graduate assistant in 2009 at his alma mater, before being promoted to a full-time assistant in 2011. This past season, McNamara was elevated to associate head coach under new Syracuse Head Coach Adrian Autry. In his 15 seasons on staff, McNamara helped guide Syracuse to nine NCAA Tournament appearances, highlighted by trips to the Final Four in both 2013 and 2016. One of the most decorated players in the storied Syracuse history, McNamara is the program’s all-time career record holder for made threes (400), free throw percentage (.888), and minutes played (4,799). McNamara had his No. 3 jersey retired by Syracuse on Mar. 4, 2023.

2025 | HERCULES TIRES MAAC MEN’S & WOMEN’S BASKETBALL CHAMPIONSHIPS 63