Former Corning Hawks standout Isaiah Henderson is headed to the NCAA Tournament as part of Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference men's basketball champion Siena University.
Third-seeded Siena, near Albany, captured the MAAC title Tuesday, March 10 with a 64-54 victory over regular-season champion Merrimack in Atlantic City, New Jersey.
Henderson, a 6-foot-6 freshman forward from Painted Post, did not see action in Tuesday's win but has been a regular contributor for the Saints this season. He is averaging 3.8 points per game and scored 6 points against Fairfield in a 76-61 win in the MAAC semifinals after playing nine minutes in a 63-58 victory over Mount St. Mary's in the quarterfinals.
He has had four double-figure scoring games this season, led by a 15-point effort in a 74-62 loss to Quinnipiac.
Henderson averaged 18.7 points per game and was a ninth-team all-state selection for Corning as a sophomore in 2021-22. He played the first half of the 2022-23 season for the Hawks before transferring to La Lumiere School in Indiana his junior year.
He played the past two seasons at Kimball Union Academy in New Hampshire, scoring 1,1168 points. Henderson had 1,749 career points at the high school/prep level.
This will be the first NCAA Tournament appearance for Siena since 2010 and it's the program's first MAAC title since 2020, when there was no NCAA Tourney because of the pandemic. The Saints, coached by former Syracuse star Gerry McNamara, will find out their opening-round foe when the field is announced Sunday, March 15.
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