LOUDONVILLE, NY – The Siena women's basketball team will lace up their shoes in the Alumni Recreation Center for the final time in 2019, as they get set to play host to the Quinnipiac Bobcats at 2 p.m. Saturday afternoon. This will be Siena's final regular season game before next week's MAAC Championship at the Times Union Center.
Tune into Siena All Access on either video or audio, where
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 Saturday's game versus the Bobcats:
- The Saints will celebrate Senior Day Saturday, with fifth-year seniors Aaliyah Jones & Joella Gibson and seniors Deja Rawls & Karolina Severova receiving recognition prior to tip-off.
- Wrapping up a two-game road trip, the Green and Gold fell to Rider Thursday evening, 77-54, in Lawrenceville, NJ. Junior Maddie Sims recorded her seventh double-double of the season with 16 points and 10 rebounds in the loss, while Jones added 12 points.
- Heading into the final game of the regular season, Seina's postseason seed outcome is still very much up in the air. With a win over the Bobcats the team can be as high as the No. 4 seed and as low as No. 6, while a loss could put them as high as No. 6 and potentially as low as No. 9. If the Saints finish tied with multiple teams in the standings, those teams will form a "mini-conference", with the squads with the highest combined record against the others receiving the tiebreaker advantage. Each of the first five seeds in 2019 MAAC Tournament will earn a first-round bye, while seeds 6 through 11 will face off next Thursday at the Times-Union Center in Albany.
- With a win over Niagara on Feb. 16, Head Coach Ali Jaques became the third coach in program history to ellipse the 100-win threshold, joining Gina Castelli (1990-2012, 336) and Joe Hogan (1980-85, 115) as Siena coaches to do so. Currently in her seventh year at the helm, Jaques holds a 101-117 all-time record.
- Siena has accumulated a 294-219 (.574) record in MAAC play all-time, including a 64-69 (.485) outcome under head coach Ali Jaques.
- Adding one assist to her total on Thursday, senior Deja Rawls sits in 13th place all-time in the category with 306. Rawls needs 16 more helps to tie Siena Athletics Hall of Famer Gunta Basko (1999-03, 322) for 12th.
- Adding two blocks to her career total on Thursday, Maddie Sims is now in 9th place all-time in the statistic with 92. The junior needs two more swats to tie Ann Marie Graney (1981-95, 94) for eighth. Sims is also currently fifth in program history for the most blocks in a single season with 44 this year.
- Maddie Sims is tied with Canisius's Sara Hinriksdottir for first in the MAAC in double-doubles, with seven so far this season, including five in conference play.
- Entering Saturday's game, redshirt-senior Joella Gibson is fifth in career games played with 120, while senior Deja Rawls is sixth with 119.
- Dating back to the 2013-14 campaign when the Bobcats joined the MAAC, Siena is 0-12 all-time against Quinnipiac, the only conference opponent that they have not defeated. QU took the first head-to-head meeting of the season back on Jan. 25, winning, 68-31, in Hamden, CT.