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Post by MTS on Mar 6, 2018 9:24:51 GMT -5
Lot of short memories here. That 2010-2011 team was preseason pick to finish 2nd narrowly beaten out for first by Fairfield 96 votes to 91. In addition to Rossiter and Jackson as seniors you had the savior freshman duo of Cheech and Chong coming in, our Seton Hall transfer big man that was a sure thing in the MAAC, upcoming sophomores Anosike, Martens, and Breeden, and nice role players as juniors in Wignot and Downey. Expectations were sky high that they would make it four in a row, land another big recruiting class, and it would be on to the A10. Every year after year one of the Patsos era was a massive disappointment but no single year was even in the same ballpark as the level of disappointment when that 2010-2011 team tanked. Yup and St. Peter's won it that year as a #4 seed. A competent coach and Siena might have four-peated. |
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Post by mjs72 on Mar 6, 2018 9:42:44 GMT -5
I picked the Beyer year. With Matt Gras and Tom Huerter coming back, I never saw that 8-19 record coming.
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Post by Quackman on Mar 6, 2018 9:48:12 GMT -5
Not sure which is the most disappointing but one interesting feature of many of the years on this list (and discussed in the threads) is that the majority of these disappointing seasons came just after the graduation of the prior year's point guard with no one in the program ready to replace them.
1994/1995 was the year after Bennerman graduated.
1999/2000 is the year after Freeney graduated.
not included but 2001/2002 was the year after Stewart and Knapp graduated. (Lanier's first year)
2010/2011 was year after Moore graduated.
2017/2018 was year after Wright graduated.
I'd put the Orr year in the mix as well. Yes, they finished with 20 wins but I can't remember a more disappointing regular season loss than the one at URI that year when they were up big and URI was like a 6 win team. Kept them out of the NIT.
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Post by gorvy on Mar 6, 2018 10:00:31 GMT -5
I meant to include Orr but forgot. It was suppos d to be one year for each coach.
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Post by MTS on Mar 6, 2018 10:59:55 GMT -5
I picked the Beyer year. With Matt Gras and Tom Huerter coming back, I never saw that 8-19 record coming. Huh? Tom was long gone by then. |
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Post by saints22 on Mar 6, 2018 13:14:00 GMT -5
Not sure which is the most disappointing but one interesting feature of many of the years on this list (and discussed in the threads) is that the majority of these disappointing seasons came just after the graduation of the prior year's point guard with no one in the program ready to replace them. 1994/1995 was the year after Bennerman graduated. 1999/2000 is the year after Freeney graduated. not included but 2001/2002 was the year after Stewart and Knapp graduated. (Lanier's first year) 2010/2011 was year after Moore graduated. 2017/2018 was year after Wright graduated. I'd put the Orr year in the mix as well. Yes, they finished with 20 wins but I can't remember a more disappointing regular season loss than the one at URI that year when they were up big and URI was like a 6 win team. Kept them out of the NIT. Doremus never graduated. His playing eligibility was up, but he didn’t graduate. That’s why he isn’t in Siena’s Athletic Hall of Fame. I keep hearing that he is working on getting his degree, but it hasn’t happened yet. Hopefully soon. |
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Post by gorvy on Mar 6, 2018 13:17:11 GMT -5
My choice was 89-90. Picked by some to be a top 25 team, it would later be on espn’s list of most disappointing. Since I still remember that nearly 30 years later, I figure it’s a worthy candidate.
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Post by CellarRat on Mar 6, 2018 15:07:23 GMT -5
Not sure which is the most disappointing but one interesting feature of many of the years on this list (and discussed in the threads) is that the majority of these disappointing seasons came just after the graduation of the prior year's point guard with no one in the program ready to replace them. 1994/1995 was the year after Bennerman graduated. 1999/2000 is the year after Freeney graduated. not included but 2001/2002 was the year after Stewart and Knapp graduated. (Lanier's first year) 2010/2011 was year after Moore graduated. 2017/2018 was year after Wright graduated. I'd put the Orr year in the mix as well. Yes, they finished with 20 wins but I can't remember a more disappointing regular season loss than the one at URI that year when they were up big and URI was like a 6 win team. Kept them out of the NIT. Doremus never graduated. His playing eligibility was up, but he didn’t graduate. That’s why he isn’t in Siena’s Athletic Hall of Fame. I keep hearing that he is working on getting his degree, but it hasn’t happened yet. Hopefully soon. I didn’t know that. I hope he gets that done. Doremus deserves to be part of the HOF club. |
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Post by sky on Mar 6, 2018 15:53:30 GMT -5
www.espn.com/mens-college-basketball/playbyplay?gameId=300782509Yes referring to mcafferys last season final game coaching was Purdue. Had three point half time lead but was down 15 in second half before cutting it to 3 late. A disappointment only in the sense that if Jackson wasn’t hurt they might have won their third straight round of 32 NCAA tourney game and of course was the last big time Siena game played to date. The game you reference was a first round game - had we beaten Purdue, we would have drawn Texas A&M in the Round of 32 - his reference to being so close to the Sweet Sixteen threw me a curve ball...I was having a little fun as I still maintain we never played "Perdue" in the NCAA's - guess that attempt failed... I'm proud of my senility and inability to use Spell check |
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Post by siena95 on Mar 6, 2018 16:13:19 GMT -5
My senior year 94-95... that was a really bad season, and showed just how valuable Doremus was.... w/o him (and Deane) that team completely fell apart. Deane prob would have won a few more games, but the overall talent on that team was exposed when you take away an NBA type talent. They had role players, that was it.
This year wasn't necessarily disappointing, as the writing was on the wall before the season ever started, so I didn't expect much.
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Post by mjs72 on Mar 6, 2018 17:42:53 GMT -5
I picked the Beyer year. With Matt Gras and Tom Huerter coming back, I never saw that 8-19 record coming. Huh? Tom was long gone by then. My bad, Mike, you are absolutely right. Maybe I was thinking about Brian Bidlingmeyer |
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