Marist set to clash with rival Siena

Marist will travel to the Times-Union Center tomorrow night to face off against conference-rival Siena. This will be Marist's toughest challenge of the young season as the team has to play the MAAC preseason favorite in a hostile environment. Both teams are 1-0 in MAAC play.
Marist will have its hands full with Siena, a team that boasts three preseason first-team players, including preseason player of the year, Kenny Hasbrouck (pictured below). Forwards Alex Franklin and Edwin Ubiles join Hasbrouck on the first team.
Ubiles, the Poughkeepsie native, is coming off a week in which he was named MAAC player of the week for averaging 21.5 points and five rebounds against Albany and Loyola.
Marist lost to Siena twice last season. Siena slipped past Marist at the Times-Union Center, 76-72, then won an overtime thriller at the McCann Center, 97-88. Siena eventually won the MAAC Tournament and went dancing at the NCAA Tournament. Siena upset Vanderbilt in the opening round before falling to Villanova.
A key match-up to watch will be David Devezin against Ronald Moore. Both point guards are two of the MAAC's finest. Iona coach Kevin Willard said that he voted for David Devezin as a first team point guard in the preseason. Devezin made the third team. Moore is second in the MAAC in apg with 5.3 while Devezin is fourth with 3.9. Devezin is second on the Red Foxes in scoring with 12.7 ppg while Moore boasts the best assist-to-turnover ratio in the conference. The two players will be key to their respective teams' success.
Marist and Siena are virtually even in most statistical categories. The two categories where there are large disparities are three-point field-goal percentage and field-goal percentage. Marist ranks second in the MAAC in three-point field-goal percentage with 36.9 percent while Siena ranks second in overall field-goal percentage at 46.3 percent. Since Siena has a much larger team, it is evident that Marist will need to shoot the ball well from beyond the arc to have success. This means forward Ryan Schneider and guard Dejuan Goodwin will need to continue to have three-point success in order to have a chance. Goodwin currently leads the MAAC in three-point field-goal percentage with 55.6 percent. He leads Manhattan's Antoine Pearson and Fairfield's Jonathan Han. Ever since Chuck Martin inserted Goodwin into the starting lineup, the Baltimore product has been a catalyst for the Marist offense. Tomorrow night will be no different when Goodwin matches up against Kenny Hasbrouck.
Dejuan Goodwin scored 12 points in Marist's last game, a 51-50 win over Iona. Goodwin nailed the game-winning jumper with 1.4 seconds left in regulation.