Prelude
The Saints square off against top-ranked Louisville in the Second Round of the NCAA Tournament on Mar. 22, 2009 at UD Arena in Dayton, Ohio.
team from the cellar of the MAAC to the darlings
of college basketball? How can it be that Siena
Basketball has assumed a role so important in
New York’s Capital Region that two resolutions
have been formally read into the State Senate and
Assembly books lauding the team’s accomplish-
ments, and the Town of Colonie (wherein Siena
resides) literally handed the Saints a ceremonial
Key to the Town?
Siena is an institution that was founded (on an
asparagus field) by seven Franciscan friars in 1937.
The friars on campus will tell you faith played a
part in this turnaround. For certain, something
special is happening.
Hasbrouck who didn’t know much, if anything, about
Siena, he now walks into living rooms of many who can
name the team’s starting five. Shortly after taking over the
Siena program, a local columnist pondered whether the
Saints would even win a game in his first year (they posted
the fifth greatest turnaround in all of Division I that season).
Now, McCaffery’s media interactions include campus visits
from Sports Illustrated and ESPN.
As he was whisked through a “Car Wash” at ESPN Studios in
Bristol last March, just days before the Saints would knock off
Ohio State University in The State of Ohio, McCaffery was
asked time and again how this all happened. How did you take a
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