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Times Union Center


The Times Union Center in downtown Albany has served as the Saints’ home court the past 13 seasons. Over that time, Siena’s attendance has soared to new heights, bringing national acclaim to the “Mid-Major program that competes in a major basketball setting.”


The Times Union Center has helped Siena basketball grow into the premier sports entity in New York’s Capital Region. With close to 1 million people to draw from, the Albany area has developed a national reputation as a booming college basketball town, and Siena has led the way.


In March of 2003, the NCAA East Regionals were contested in the facility with Siena College serving as a co-host. Last year the MAAC Tournament returned to Albany for the 15th time where it enjoyed record attendances.


It is the support the Siena program has received that has made these


national events a reality. The Saints have drawn over 1.5 million fans and played in 239 games in their downtown home. Since the program made its full-time move downtown in 1997-98, it has been ranked among the top-100 nationally in attendance each year, while surpassing the 100,000 fan mark three times. Additionally, attendance has risen each of the past five years and increased 40% over that time.


This past season, Siena established a new program attendance record for a second straight year as the Saints welcomed 133,505 spectators through the Times Union Center doors for an average of 7,853 fans per game. Siena, which tied a programrecord by ranking 66th nationally in attendance, benefited fromtheir raucous home court advan- tage as the Saints went a perfect 17-0 at home for a second straight year and ran the nation’s second longest active home court win streak to 38 games.


The Saints ranked 66th nationally and sixth amongst mid-majors, averaging 7,853 fans per game on their way to an unblemished 17-0 home record last season.


In 2008-09, Siena set attendance records on its way to a perfect 17-0 season at Times Union Center. A total of 127,453 fans came out for Siena’s 17 home games during the season, an average of 7,497 per game. The average ranked 72nd nationally and sixth among all Mid-Major programs. It marked the third straight season Siena enjoyed a double-digit percentage increase in attendance. The highlight of the home season was the Saints’ 77-70 MAAC Championship victory over Niagara witnessed by 9,744 fans. The win ran Siena’s home-court win streak to 21 games – the third longest in the nation entering the 2009-2010 season.


In 2006-07 attendance topped the 100,000 fan mark for the fifth time in 10 years. The annual game with crosstown rival UAlbany drew 13,262 fans, making it the second largest regular-season crowd in program history. The Saints went on to average


Nation’s Longest Home-Court Winning Streak


(Entering 2010-11 Season) 1.


2. 3.


Kansas Siena Xavier


Kentucky


59 38 24


4. Old Dominion 23 5. Duke


19 19


Murray State 19


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