Leonardo Marini will be representing Mens Sana Basket at the Nazionale Under 20 gathering in Roseto, Abruzzi June 15th-18th, and the following Torneo Internazionale June 19th-21st.

The FIP has released groups for day one of the National Finals of the Under 15 Championship, which takes place in Padua at Padiglione 7 Padova Fiere in Via Nicolò Tommaseo 59, from June 29th to July 5th,. Mens Sana Basket was placed in Group C with Pall. Aurora Desio, Victoria Libertas Pall. Pesaro and […]

Niccolò Carapelliwill be representing Mens Sana Basket at the Trofeo Bulgheroni, for athletes born in 2001. The event is in Bormio from June 17th-22nd.

Another win for the Esordienti who bring him the Torneo del Golfo di Follonica. The green-and-whites beat Don Bosco Livorno in the semifinals, despite a lackluster performance. It’s different in the finals against Grosseto, where Mens Sana immediately starts off strong and decisice, and soon take a double digit lead, which they are able to […]

The Under 17s end the 2013/2014 with a win by beating Slovenia’s KK Grosuplje taking the  ”Brothers & Basketball” International Tournament for the third year in a row. MENS SANA SIENA - KK GROSUPLJE : 84 – 71 (19-21; 41-17; 57-58) MENS SANA SIENA : Tonini 4, Pannini, Banchi 3, Cecchi, Neri 12, Pedroni 18, Ceccarelli 7, Campelli 2, Bartalucci, […]

  Under 17 Eccellenza Day 2 Torneo Internazionale Brothers & Basketball The Under 17s win both of their matches on day two and finish out with full points to make the tournament finals, where they’ll meet up with Slovenia’s KK Grosuplje. MENS SANA SIENA - SANCAT FIRENZE : 130 – 30 (34-6; 64-14; 99-20) MENS SANA SIENA : […]

As part of the Progetto di Qualificazione Territoriale (PQT) and in preparation for the Bulgheroni Tournament in Bormio June 17th-21st, the Tuscan Regional committee has organized Day Stage for 2001 athletes on Sunday, June 8th at 9:45am. Representing Mens Sana Basket is Niccolò Carapelli.

This weekend, the Under 17 team will be participating in the 4th annual Brothers & Basketball International Tournament at PalaCoverciano in Florence. The first game is at 7pm against Spain’s Barrena Berri from Ortuella, They’re on double duty Saturday, first against the home team, Associazione Firenze ’98, then later that evening’s against Pistoia. Other tournament participants are […]

Great results for Mens Sana Basket’s Under 15s:  the young green-and-whites make the  Finali Nazionali (Padova, June 19th-July 5th) after a heart-racing time in Interzone.  

Under 15 Eccellenza – Interzone Game 3 VIRTUS ROMA – MENS SANA BASKET: 72-73 (23-18; 37-45; 53-63) VIRTUS ROMA: Margarita, Micozzi 2, Ragnisco L. 18, Ragnisco G.n.e., Miele n.e., Ilo Chukwuemka 10, Gaska n.e., Ranocchia 13, Saccone 19, Coluzzi 4, Guarnacci n.e., Garofolo 6. Cch.. Briscese MENS SANA BASKET: Pannini 9, Panichi 12, Meiattini n.e., D’Agostino […]

La Nazione VIGGIANO 6 Not a lot of minutes spent on court for Brindisi’s ex player, but his presence is still precious. HUNTER 8.5 Scores his team’s first eight points and immediately after shows off with a huge block on Samuels. Not satisfied, he transforms Janning’s assist into a dunk. That’s how he starts. During […]

La Nazione NOW MORE than ever it’s time to rally around this team that, despite the first two losses at the Forum,  are going to try to beat every prediction, to get back in the series in order make it to Saturday to play for the chances of returning to Milano on Monday night. Sure […]

La Nazione VIGGIANO 4.5: very nervous, has a rather long physical duel with Samuels where he even gets called on a technical. However, he uses up a lot of precious mental energy because he closes out with 2/8 at shooting (his is the game’s last basket) and struggles unduly with Gentile on defense. HUNTER 5: the only […]

La Nazione TOO UGLY to be true, the Mens Sana we saw Sunday in game one at Assago against a solid Ollimpia able to take advantage of every little mistake on defense and a bad day at shooting by Ress and teammates. However, after a loss like that, you can pick back up with even […]

La Nazione “THOSE WHO dream can move mountains,” A key line from the film «Fitzcarraldo» that Marco Crespi’s men need to burn into their memory from now through jump ball tomorrow (time 20,30, at Forum in Assago) because nothing is lost. That’s true even if the mountain to move is the Himalaya of basketball, rather, that’s what Banchi’s […]

La Nazione VIGGIANO 5 His usual energy doesn’t make it to the Forum and he closes out with 0/5 on 3s and doesn’t add anything to Crespi’s team HUNTER 7 He’s the only one who keeps Mens Sana’s honour high by playing a quality game closed out with a double double of 19 points and […]

La Nazione IT CAN’T HELP but be a finals that’s #somethingdirrent for Montepaschi, who’s back playing for the title yet again, but this time after a season that’s been hard-fought, to say the least. In any case, Marco Crespi’s group accomplishing this achievement means that they have the skills and right morale to compete against […]

La Nazione IT WAS a special feeling that Marco Crespi and his men gave fiery, excited Siena fans on Sunday.  A night everyone will remember, – first and foremost Crespi – who, with his motto #somethingdifferent, effectively conveyed how much he and his team wanted to make a finals that were fought for and deserved never […]

La Nazione JOSH CARTER closed out with fourteen points in thirty-one minutes, the last of which were played remarkably well. “We’re played an excellent game, we’re happy with the shots we took, the plays we made and how we handled the challenge.”  According to challenge, it was a challenge won against a tough opponent. “Yes, because […]

Corriere di Siena “A huge compliment to Siena because Mens Sana Basket plays great basketball.” Coach Dalmonte is honest in his comments saying, “Since we have great respect for out season, we have to have great respect for the court, and it told us Siena won. I wish Siena luck. I say they play the […]

Matt Janning is the only player among the finalists to have improved his average with each phase of the playoffs: 7.8 in the quarters, 9.4 in the semifinals, 12.8 in the finals (where he’s scored more points with each game: 8, 10, 13, 20). In Game 4 Janning set his career high for index rating […]

Candles on the cake for Matt Janning. The Montepaschi player born in Watertown on June 22, 1988 turns 26 today. Happy Birthday Matt!

The+21 plus /minus for Spencer Nelson in Game 3 is the highest so far of the three finals games.  Counting all 5 challenges this season, Nelson is the only Montepaschi athlete with a positive plus/minus (+16), and no Milano players have a negative plus/minus (the best is Langford with +43). For the first time this season, […]

Othello Hunter had an Italian career high for dunks (5),  points this season (25), two point shots made (11), total shots (11), and index rating (33). Hunter is at his ninth double double this season (25 points + 10 rebounds), his 33 index rating the highest of all Milano’s opponents this season.Plus, the 5 dunks […]

107th playoff presence for Tomas Ress (101 games played); Mens Sana’s captain is one off from Dino Meneghin and Dan Gay, currently tied in eighth place in the rankings. His 4 blocks in game 2 are a personal playoff high and tie his personal A Series record. Speaking of blocks, with 8 blocks in game […]

In game 1 (where Siena suffered their first loss after 8 in previous game 1s of the finals, scoring at least 80 points)  Hunter had 19 points and 10 rebounds, the eighth double double of the season and a career high, In the 2010/11 playoff series between Sassari and Milano, Hunter set what are still his […]

The time has changed for game 1 of the title finals. The Lega Basket has released the new television schedule for the following playoff game: Game 1 - Domenica   June 15, Game n.   275     EA7 Emporio Armani Milano – Montepaschi Siena – Rai Sport 2 @ 18.45

7 players were on court during the finals last years: 4 play for EA7 Emporio Armani (Kangur, Moss, Hackett, Lawal), 3 for (Ress, Ortner, Janning, in photo). Lavrinovic is Siena’s top scorer against Milano in the playoffs (206 in 16 games), Hairston is Milano’s top scorer against Siena (170 in 12). So far there were […]

Tomas Ress of Montepaschi is one game off from 100 playoff games (105 times present) and is the only player to have played all 23 games between Siena and Milano. Ress is also one of the seven players who was on court for the finals last year: 4 play for EA7 Emporio Armani (Kangur, Moss, […]

Marco Crespi spoke at the Università di Siena as part of the update course for sports management, His lesson was on “Loving a Product.”