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Contact him at Siena basketball coach Carmen Maciariello ponders possibilitiesHead Coach Carmen Maciariello talks to the media as the Siena men's basketball team hold its first official practice of the season at Siena College on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019 in Loudonville, N.Y. (Lori Van Buren/Times Union) The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced on Friday there would be no summer access for basketball players.That certainly didn’t come as a surprise to Maciariello given the impact the virus is having on college sports. LOUDONVILLE, NY – Siena Basketball Head Coach Carmen Maciariello has officially announced the addition of graduate transfer Nick Hopkins. “I’m just being optimistic and hoping we can have a nonconference and conference season and get back to some sort of normalcy.”He can be sure of one thing. But Christian also sees the timing as fitting for the event his coaching staff is producing.“What’s been great about the last few weeks,” Christian said, “is seeing the understanding of what being anti-racist is — and understanding those ideals — grow.”Former Siena coaches Hewitt and Lanier are both speaking during Wednesday’s “Battling Stigmas” discussion. “There’s still a lot to be determined. All these guys are the same like-mindedness where we want to get back to campus so we can start to get to work.”Maciariello agreed with Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard, who told the New York Post it makes more sense to play after Thanksgiving – when non-athlete students will go home for an extended break and players will be isolated on campus – than to wait until January.“You’re just going to wait (until January) and then probably deal with the same problems with a smaller window of time to play games,’’ Maciariello said. The native of nearby Clifton … The place to come and talk about Siena women's hoop and Womens's hoop in general .

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“But it’s navigating in a world that doesn’t want you to navigate.”According to data provided in “The 2019 Complete Racial and Gender Report Card” released last week from The Institute for Diversity and Ethics in Sport, only 23.6% of head coaches in men’s basketball at the Division I level were Black, while 53.2% of the players were Black during the 2018-19 season. While at Mount St. Mary’s, Christian said Lanier was the first person to reach out to him to see if he’d be interested in pursuing the Siena job after Jimmy Patsos resigned following the 2017-18 season.“I wouldn’t have been at Siena without him,” Christian said of Lanier. Now Maciariello isn’t sure when he’ll get his whole team on the court.“When they come back, they’re going to have procedures,’’ Maciariello said. It wasn’t long after he moved into a position of power in men’s college basketball that Jamion Christian started brainstorming an event like the one he’ll deliver Wednesday.Now a young, Black head coach at George Washington University, Christian was a younger coach at Mount St. Mary’s when he came up with the idea that will come to fruition Wednesday as “360 Mentoring,” a virtual event which will feature free-to-watch panel discussions throughout the day on topics, among others, such as “Next Up - The Future of Black Head Coaches” and “Battling Stigmas.”“I’ve always wanted to do something like this,” said Christian, who coached the Siena College men’s basketball team for the 2018-19 season, in which the Saints finished 17-16 after suffering through an 8-24 campaign the previous season.The “something like this” is to provide a platform for people of color to share their experiences and knowledge to help others in the world of college athletics.

Seas. “I am honored and proud to be a member of Coaches 4 Change,” noted Siena Basketball Assistant Coach Antoni Wyche. Former Siena basketball coach Jamion Christian will hold a “360 Mentoring,” a virtual event Wednesday. “I think that’s a positive, even having grad transfers that are used to the college regimen and sit-out transfers used to the college regimen.

(It also wasn’t supposed to be a virtual event, since his original vision nearly a year ago was to hold the event on his school’s campus prior to the advent of the COVID-19 pandemic.) © 1998 - 2020 Nexstar Broadcasting, Inc. | All Rights Reserved. I expect it to be probably some time in September you hope you can start the conditioning piece and gradually get back into it.

“So I’m extremely optimistic about that because I think we’ve hit a threshold where people really want that.” The latest news delivered directly to your inbox every day at 3 p.m. I expect it to be probably some time in September you hope you can start the conditioning piece and gradually get back into it. They include sophomore guard Gary Harris Jr., who’s from California, sophomore forward Kyle Young, who’s with family in Florida, and transfer big man Kyle Arrington, who’s from Iowa. The Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference announced on Friday there would be no summer access for basketball players.That certainly didn’t come as a surprise to Maciariello given the impact the virus is having on college sports.

Former Siena basketball coach Jamion Christian will hold a “360 Mentoring,” a virtual event Wednesday. All these guys are the same like-mindedness where we want to get back to campus so we can start to get to work.”Maciariello agreed with Seton Hall coach Kevin Willard, who told the New York Post it makes more sense to play after Thanksgiving – when non-athlete students will go home for an extended break and players will be isolated on campus – than to wait until January.“You’re just going to wait (until January) and then probably deal with the same problems with a smaller window of time to play games,’’ Maciariello said.