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ALBANY, NY â€" Seniors Brett Bisping, Lavon Long, Javion Ogunyemi and Marquis Wright all scored in double figures and combined for 67 points to lead Siena Basketball to its second straight win, 81-74 over Quinnipiac at the Times Union Center. Bisping paced the group with his sixth double-double of the season with 19 points and a season-high tying 15 rebounds for the Saints which have now captured seven of the nine all-time meetings between the programs.

Ogunyemi matched Bisping with 19 points of his own, while Wright scored 18 and Long contributed his first double-double of the season with 11 points and 10 rebounds for Siena (6-11, 3-3) which out-rebounded the MAAC's second best team on the glass 48-37.

Freshmen Peter Kiss (17 points, five steals) and reigning MAAC Rookie of the Week Mikey Dixon (14 points) led four Quinnipiac (6-11, 3-4) players in double figures.

Siena came out hot to start a contest which it led for all but 33 seconds. Bisping, who scored 17 of his 19 points in the first half, fueled a 22-9 game-opening run with 12 points in connecting on each of his first five shots over the initial six and a half minutes of play. The Saints would lead by as many as 20 points in an impressive first half, and took a 44-30 lead into the break.

Siena continued to harbor a double-digit lead deep into the second half, and matched their largest advantage of the game at 20 in building a 67-47 margin with 8:48 to go. But Quinnipiac would not go quietly as the Bobcats reeled off 14 unanswered points to rally within 67-61 with 3:33 to play.

Quinnipiac ultimately held Siena scoreless for 5:47 and pulled to within five on several occasions in the waning moments, but the Saints were clutch from the charity stripe late in connecting on nine of their final 10 free throws to make head coach Jimmy Patsos victorious in his 400th career game.

The Saints return to action Sunday when they travel to Fairfield to conclude the regular season series against the Stags at 2 p.m.