Keith Connors, Chris Simmons, Ben Doody and Tom Cleary cover all the action as the Fairfield Stags face the Siena Saints in the MAAC Championship game from Albany, N.Y.
He yelled. He screamed. He jumped up and down. Typically, that really isn’t the sort of public display you’d like to see from your freshman point guard, whom a few hours earlier head coach Ed Cooley depicted as one of the team’s “two main cogs,” only a few hours from the biggest game of his blossoming collegiate career.
With eight minutes to play, just moments after Niagara guard Head coach Ed Cooley had seen enough. Anthony Nelson connected on a three-point shot to stretch the lead to eight, Cooley tossed the clipboard and coach speak aside and turned to his trusted senior.