Head Coach
Fran McCaffery
Fifth Season
Fran McCaffery has reenergized Siena’s
storied program in his four years at the
helm and taken it to new heights. Under
his direction, the Saints have enjoyed
as much success as they have in the
70-year history of the program.
McCaffery’s Saints own an 85-44 record
in his four years with the program and
have posted consecutive league titles
and NCAA Second Round appearances.
After orchestrating the fifth greatest
turnaround in all of Division I in his first year, McCaffery led Siena
to a 20-win season and a MAAC Championship game appearance
in his second. In 2007-08, Siena took the biggest step forward under
his direction, earning the MAAC Regular-Season and Tournament
Championship as well as an NCAA Tournament First Round win
over Vanderbilt. Last season, Siena repeated the feat, winning the
regular-season title outright before capturing the Tournament crown at
Times Union Center. The Saints went on to defeat Ohio State 74-72
in double overtime in one of the Tournament’s most exciting games.
The 2009 MAAC Coach of the Year is the eighth winningest coach
by percentage in league history (.659). He is the only coach to guide
a MAAC program to two NCAA Tournament wins.
In 2008, McCaffery became just the 31st coach (15th active) to take
three different programs to the “Big Dance,” and he is the first to do
so with three programs from one-bid leagues (conference’s that sent
just one team the year his program advanced). He also boasts a 100%
graduation rate among student-athletes he has recruited who have
exhausted their eligibility during his tenure.
Last season the program enjoyed unprecedented success. McCaffery
challenged the Saints with the most difficult schedule in program
history and Siena responded by equaling a program-record with 27
wins. For the second straight year, the Saints captured the hearts of
college basketball fans across the country by advancing to the Second
Round of the NCAA Tournament with a breathtaking 74-72 double-
overtime win over Ohio State in Dayton, Ohio. In the Second Round,
Siena nearly missed an upset of epic proportions, leading top overall
seed Louisville late in the second half. Siena became a household
name as the team performed against the country’s elite under the
spotlight of 10 nationally-televised games. Siena claimed its second
title game on its home floor to earn the MAAC’s automatic bid.
straight MAAC Tournament title and finished the season ranked
Less than two weeks later, McCaffery put together the perfect game
28th in the USA Today/ESPN Coaches Poll and 19th in the final RPI.
plan and Siena led from start to finish in an 83-62 win over SEC
The Saints received votes in the Associated Press top-25 poll eight
power Vanderbilt at the St. Pete Times Forum in Tampa, Fla. Many
times and in the ESPN/USA Today Coaches’ poll six times during
considered the victory the greatest in school history, challenged at
the season.
the time only by the program’s 1989 upset of Stanford in the NCAA
First Round. Despite a Second Round loss to Villanova, McCaffery
The 2007-08 season will also go down as one of the most memorable
and the Saints had made a statement the college basketball world
in Siena basketball history. The regular season featured a home win
could not ignore: Siena Basketball has arrived.
over No. 20 Stanford, a third straight victory over crosstown rival
UAlbany before over 13,000 fans in the annual Albany Cup and a
McCaffery inherited a depleted Siena team that was picked last in the
BracketBusters Saturday win at WAC Champion, Boise State. The
10-team MAAC in 2005-2006. Instead, the Saints finished conference
Saints also rallied to earn a share of the MAAC regular-season title
play in fourth place, earning a bye to the quarterfinals of the MAAC
and the #1 seed in the MAAC Tournament with late season wins at
Tournament. Siena showed steady improvement under McCaffery’s
contenders Rider and Marist as well as a Senior Day home victory
tutelage in 2006-2007, posting a 20-12 overall record and tying for
over Niagara. But it was Siena’s postseason run that would turn the
third place in the MAAC with a 12-6 finish. McCaffery’s Saints were
season into a breakthrough year. After rallying from 17 points down
the highest scoring team in the league, and they peaked at the right
in a semifinal win over Loyola, Siena pounded Rider in the MAAC
time, winning seven of their last eight regular-season games and
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