LOUDONVILLE, NY — Siena Women's Basketball heads to Fairfield, CT, for a Monday afternoon matchup with the two-time defending Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference (MAAC) champion Fairfield Stags. Tipoff is scheduled for 2 p.m. on Jan. 19 at Leo D. Mahoney Arena.
JJ Duke and Edona Thaqi will call the action on SNY and ESPN+, while Joe Puccio and Steve Amedio provide the radio broadcast on WVCR 88.3 FM. Tickets, live statistics, and courtside updates on X are available via the corresponding links.
SNY is available through participating TV providers across New York and Connecticut, as well as select counties in New Jersey (Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Hunterdon, Middlesex, Monmouth, Morris, Ocean, Passaic, Somerset, Sussex, Union, and Warren) and Pennsylvania (Carbon, Columbia, Lackawanna, Luzerne, Lycoming, Monroe, Montour, Northumberland, Pike, Schuylkill, Snyder, Sullivan, Susquehanna, Union, Wayne, and Wyoming). Availability varies by location.
Siena enters the matchup with momentum after snapping a three-game losing streak in a 74-47 win over Saint Peter's on Saturday at the UHY Center. The Saints held the Peacocks to a season-low 47 points while posting their highest shooting percentage in a quarter (66.7% in the third) and best shooting percentage in a half (64%).
Francesca Schiro and
Nicole Melious led the way in the victory. Schiro recorded her sixth 20-point performance of the season with a team-high 20 points, while Melious scored 18 to reach double figures for the ninth time this year. Melious has scored in double figures in each of Siena's last 10 games and is averaging 15.2 points per game during that stretch.
Fairfield enters play with a 14-3 overall record and an unblemished 8-0 mark in MAAC action. Riding a 10-game winning streak, the Stags are tied for the eighth-longest active streak nationally, while their 11-game conference winning streak ranks ninth in the country. Fairfield is led by MAAC Preseason Player of the Year Meghan Anderson, the league's leading scorer at 18.8 points per game, along with Preseason All-MAAC First Team selections Janelle Brown and Kaety L'Anoreaux, who ranks second in the MAAC at 18.1 points per game. The Stags lead the conference in scoring at 79 points per game—31st nationally—and rank first in the nation in three-pointers made per game (12.4) and third in three-point percentage (39.5%).
Monday's contest marks the 88th all-time meeting between the programs. Siena looks to improve upon its 35-52 record in the series, which has been evenly split at 4-4 since the 2021-22 season. Each team has enjoyed a three-game winning streak during that span, with Fairfield currently in the midst of one. No team has won four straight in the series since the Stags claimed eight consecutive victories from Feb. 17, 2018, to Dec. 12, 2020.
The Saints remain on the road following Monday's matchup, traveling to Poughkeepsie, NY, to face I-87 rival Marist at 6 p.m. Thursday.
