LOUDONVILLE, NY – Coming off a tough loss Tuesday night at Sacred Heart, the Siena Saints women's basketball program gets set to play host to the Harvard Crimson on Friday evening at the Alumni Recreation Center.
2018-19 Siena Women's Basketball season and individual game tickets are on-sale now. Season tickets start as low as $70, and can be purchased by contacting the Siena Fan Relations Management Center at (518) 487-2202, online at sienasaints.com/tickets, by e-mail at sienatickets2@siena.edu. Women's individual game tickets can be purchased online at sienasaints.com/tickets or in-person at the Alumni Recreation Center Box Office on game days. On Friday night, the first 300 fans through the door will receive a Siena Women's Basketball schedule magnet.
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Joe Mixie and Steve Amedio will have the call for WVCR The Saint on today's radio broadcast. Click the corresponding links to follow along with today's game coverage.
Social media updates will be provided courtside throughout the day via the Saints' official twitter page @sienawomenshoop. Join the conversation by using the hashtag #MarchOn during the game.
Ten things to know for Friday's game versus Harvard:
- Looking to avoid its first 0-3 start since the 2015-16 season, Siena returns to the ARC for the first of two Friday evening primetime contests at home this season.
- With both teams meeting in each of the previous two seasons, Harvard holds a 4-2 advantage over Siena in the all-time series, which began during the 1996-17 slate. The Crimson have taken the last three matchups in the series and hold a 2-0 at Siena.
- One of six returning non-conference opponents to the Saints' schedule, Harvard took a 75-67 victory in Cambridge, MA on 11/15/2017.
- Harvard is the second of four teams who participated in the 2018 WNIT that Siena will face this season, the others being Penn, (Nov. 10), Drexel (Nov. 23) and MAAC Foe Marist (Jan. 17 & Feb 1, 2019)
- Siena is 19-13 all-time against Ivy League opponents, having already faced Penn in its season opener on Nov. 10.
- Siena stands tied with Monmouth in offensive rebounding among MAAC teams, with both averaging 18 offensive boards per-contest through two games.
- Junior Sabrina Piper went 4-6 from the free throw line in Tuesday's loss at Sacred Heart, setting a new career-high in free buckets made exactly one-year after she set the previous mark.
- Redshirt-senior Joella Gibson (4-4) is one of 92 players nationally who have connected on every free throw taken this far this season.
- Siena is competing in its 45th season in program history and 36th at the NCAA Division I level in 2018-19.
- The team has compiled a 667-550 (.548) all-time record, including a 320-229 (.583) mark in MAAC play since joining the conference in 1990.