POUGHKEEPSIE, New York – The Marist men's basketball team rallied from a 15-point deficit against Siena, but Jalen Pickett's basket as time expired lifted the Saints to a 52-50 victory in a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference game at McCann Arena on Friday night.
 

Summary

• Siena scored the game's first eight points, which led to a Marist timeout at the 17:09 mark.
• Tobias Sjoberg scored six straight Marist points, which cut Marist's deficit to 18-12 at the 12:20 mark.
• Siena led by as much as 15 on two occasions in the first half, and took a 33-18 lead to the locker room.
• Jordan Jones scored Marist's first four points of the second half, and a three-pointer by Braden Bell brought the Red Foxes into single digits at 37-28.
• An 8-0 Marist run brought the Red Foxes to within three at 41-38, as Marist held Siena scoreless for 6:11.
• Donald Carey's three-pointer lifted Siena to a 49-41 lead with 4:06 to play. However, the Red Foxes held the Saints without a field goal for the next four-plus minutes, and Matt Herasme's three-pointer from the left corner tied the game at 50 apiece with 25.8 seconds to go.
• On the game's final possession, Jalen Pickett's long two from the left wing bounced off the rim and dropped through the net as time expired.

 

Key Stats

• Jones and Sjoberg led Marist with 12 points apiece, followed by Herasme with 11.
• Bell had seven points, led Marist with seven rebounds, and had a game-high four steals.
• Siena's Donald Carey led all scorers with 14.
• Siena shot 6-for-15 (.400) from three-point range, while Marist was 4-for-19 (.211). The Red Foxes missed all eight of their three-point attempts in the first half, but were 4-for-11 (.364) in the second half.
• Marist was 8-for-27 (.296) from the field in the first half, and .520 (13-for-25) in the second half.
• Siena outscored Marist 33-18 in the first half. The Red Foxes outscored the Saints 32-19 in the second half.

 

Notes

• Sjoberg's 12 points were a season high.
• The last 10 Siena-Marist games at McCann Arena have been decided by an average of 4.8 points. Siena has won six of them.
• Bell's four steals tied a career high.
• Herasme did not come out of the game. He has played at least 40 minutes three times this season, and has played at least 35 minutes in 10 straight games.

 

Records

• Marist is now 7-20 on the season and 6-12 in conference play.
• Siena is 17-10 this year and 13-5 in the MAAC.

 

Up Next

• Marist travels to Quinnipiac on Sunday, March 1. Tip-off is set for 2 p.m.
• In the first meeting between the teams this season, the Bobcats prevailed 63-58 in Poughkeepsie on Jan. 3.