LOUDONVILLE, NY – Boasting an 8-4 record at home this season, Siena Women's Basketball looks to end its 2023-24 home slate on a high note and continue to build momentum heading into the postseason. The Saints (15-11, 12-6) will aim for their fifth regular season sweep of a conference opponent when they welcome Mount St. Mary's (12-15, 9-9) to the UHY Center on Saturday, March 1, with tip-off set for 5 PM in Loudonville.

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Saturday's game will serve as Siena's Senior Night, with lone senior Ahniysha Jackson honored prior to the start of the game. A four-year member of the program, Jackson is a Watervliet native who attended Albany high school, and will play in her 86^th collegiate contest on Saturday.

Saturday's contest can be viewed on ESPN+, with Emmanuel Berbari and Brian Rubino on the call, and can be heard locally on 88.3 FM The Saints or anywhere on iHeartRadio. Pregame coverage tips off at 4:30 PM, with the radio "Voice of the Saints" Joe Mixie and longtime color commentator Steve Amedio on the call. Fans can also follow along with the corresponding live stats link, while continuous in-game press row updates will be provided via the women's basketball team's official X page @Siena_WBB. Join the conversation by using the hashtags #MarchOn, #SienaSaints, and #MAACHoops.

Siena began its final three-game stretch of the regular season with a 73-62 win over Marist at home on Thursday evening, securing a season-sweep over the Red Foxes for the third straight year. The Green and Gold scored only four points in the second quarter after tying their highest output in a period in the first quarter with 25 points. Siena closed things out with a strong second half after Marist wiped away a 14-point first half deficit, with two players recording a double-double for the second time this season. Jackson led the team with 19 points, while sophomore Teresa Seppala dropped 18 points and 11 rebounds and sophomore Elisa Mevius came one assist away from a triple-double with ten points, 13 boards, and nine helps. Siena recorded a season-high 12 three-points, with redshirt-freshman Nikola Zdenkova going for a career-high 15 points with five triples made.

After averaging 24 points over two games last week, Seppala took home her first collegiate MAAC Player of the Week honors this season, marking the program's first campaign with multiple MAAC Player of the Week honorees since the 2016-17 season. The Tempere, Finland native went for a career-high 29 points on Feb. 22 against Fairfield, while adding 19 points at Saint Peter's two days later.

Siena has now locked up a first-round bye in the MAAC Championship for the third time in as many seasons under head coach Jim Jabir, and can finish anywhere between the No. 2 and the No. 5 spot. The program aims for its first top-3 regular season finish since the 2017-18 campaign, and can lock up a top-4 spot with a win on Saturday, as well as a top-3 seed with a win and a Manhattan loss.

Mevius used only 23 games on the season to set the program single-season record for steals, surpassing Siena Athletics Hall of Fame member Tehresa Coles '14, HOF '23 on Feb. 17 at Canisius with her 99th steal of the year. She continues to rank second nationally in both total steals and steals per-game, and is now third in MAAC history in single-season swipes, just four away from the record.

The Green and Gold started 7-3 in the MAAC in consecutive seasons for the first time since the 2001-02 and 2002-03 campaigns, and started 10-3 in the league for the first time since the 2002-03 campaign. The Saints won seven straight games from Jan 18 - Feb. 10 for the first time since winning ten-in-a-row during the 2002-03 season, which marks the program's most recent appearance in the MAAC Championship Game.

The team also recorded 70 points or more in nine straight games from Jan. 18 - Feb. 15, which tied for the program's second-longest streak and is the longest since a record ten straight games of doing so during the 1994-95 season.

After recording a career-high 33 points on February 8 at Iona, Brown took home her second MAAC Player of the Week award on February 12, becoming the first Siena player to win multiple MAAC Player of the Week awards since the 2016-17 season. No Siena player has won three MAAC Player of the Week awards in a single season since Siena Athletics Hall of Fame member Laura Menty '08, HOF '12 did so during the 2007-08 campaign. Brown's 33-point outburst against Iona on February 8 was good for only the 15th single-game performance of 33 points or more in program history, and just the fourth this millennium. It was the first single-game output of 33 points since 2017, and the second 30-point performance by a Saint this season.

Siena won four games by 18 points or more from January 18 - February 1, marking the first time the team has held that large of a victory margin in four straight games since the 1990-91 season, and only the fifth time in program history.  The Saints also won three straight home games by 20 or more points for the first time since the 2001-02 season from Jan. 18 - Feb. 1.

After averaging a double-double on the week, Brown earned both her first career MAAC weekly award and the team's first accolade of the season when she was named the MAAC Player of the Week on January 22. The Norristown, Pennsylvania product finished off a stretch of double-doubles in three straight games for the second time in her collegiate career, also doing so Dec. 5-19 of 2022.
The team featured nine in the scoring column in a home win over Quinnipiac on February 14, marking the second time this season nine players have scored in a game. The team has had eight or more players score in a game ten times this season. Siena has had at least one player finish in double-figure scoring in 134 straight contests dating back to a 52-48 loss at Manhattan on 2/3/19.

Continuing the program's 50^th varsity season, Mevius and junior Anajah Brown continue to rank at or near the top of the MAAC and among the national leaders in multiple statistical categories. Mevius leads the league and is second nationally in steals per-game (4.42), and in total steals (115), and 35th nationally in minutes per-game (35.6). The Rendsburg, Germany native also now leads the league in both assists per-game (4.8) and total assists (126). Brown leads the league in both blocks per-game (1.68) and total blocks (37).

Siena and Mount St. Mary's meet for the fifth time, with the Mountaineers owning a 3-1 advantage in the all-time series, which began with a non-conference meeting in 1995. Siena will look for its first-ever regular season sweep and first home win over Mount St. Mary's after claiming its first all-time win against The Mount in the first meeting of the season back on Dec. 18, 2023. After holding Mount to only 20 points at the half, the Saints got by off the strength of 16 points from senior Jackson, 12 points from London Gamble, and 11 rebounds from Seppala. The Saints fell in a 77-75 overtime decision last season in the teams' first-ever meeting in Loudonville on Feb. 3, 2023, as part of a Mount regular season sweep. Coach Jabir is 1-2 all-time against Mount St. Mary's with all meetings coming as head coach of the Saints.

Led by third-year head coach Antonie White, The Mount have won five of their last seven contests and have propelled themselves into sixth place in the conference. Mount St. Mary's took an upset 58-43 home victory over Manhattan on Thursday evening, outscoring the Jaspers by a definitive 37-17 in the second half. Jessica Tomasetti leads the team with 13.1 points per-game, while Jo Raflo also averages double-digit scoring at 12.2 points per-game. Raflo is second in the league among qualifiers in three-point percentage (33.7), and is first in three-pointers made at 59.