Carmen Maciariello

Carmen Maciariello

Current position
Title	Head coach
Team	Siena
Conference	MAAC
Record	20–10 (.667)
Biographical details
Born	(1978-05-27) May 27, 1978 Clifton Park, New York
Playing career
1996–1999	New Hampshire
2000–2001	Siena
Coaching career (HC unless noted)
2008–2011	Fairfield (assistant)
2011–2011	Providence (assistant)
2011–2014	Boston University (assistant)
2014–2018	George Washington (assistant)
2018–2019	Siena (assistant)
2019–present	Siena
Administrative career (AD unless noted)
2005–2006	Siena (dir. of ops.)
Head coaching record
Overall	20–10 (.667)
Accomplishments and honors
Championships
MAAC regular season (2020)
Records
NCAA Tournament Appearance (2020)

Carmen Maciariello Jr. (born May 27, 1978) is a former Italian-American basketball player and college basketball coach. He is the current head coach of the Siena Saints men's basketball team.

Playing career

Maciariello played high school basketball at Shenendehowa High School where he led the school to a Section II Championship, while also being named Albany Times Union Player of the Year. He played his college basketball for three years at New Hampshire where he averaged 8.8 points per game in 77 career games before transferring to Siena for his final season of eligibility.

After graduation, Maciariello obtained Italian citizenship and professional basketball in Italy for four seasons.

Coaching career

Maciariello's first coaching opportunity came with his alma mater as the director of basketball operations at Siena under Fran McCaffery in his first season at the helm. He then went on to work with the Albany City Rocks AAU program until returning to the college coaching ranks in 2008 at Fairfield under Ed Cooley. He'd follow Cooley briefly to Providence to serve as the director of operations, but would ultimately take an assistant coaching position at Boston University in that same offseason. After two years at BU, Maciariello joined the staff at George Washington, where he was on staff for the Colonials' 2016 NIT Championship.

In 2018, Maciariello returned to his alma mater as an assistant coach under Jamion Christian. He was elevated to head coach on March 25, 2019 after Christian accepted the head coaching position at George Washington, making him the 18th head coach in Siena basketball history.

In his first season, he led the Saints to the #1 seed and a regular season championship for the first time since 2010. The Saints entered the MAAC tournament as heavy favorites to advance to the NCAA tournament, Manhattan coach Steve Masiello, went as far to reference the tournament as "The Siena Invitational". In their first game at the MAAC Tournament, the Saints easily defeated Manhattan 63-49. Shortly before their semifinal, the MAAC was forced to cancel the tournament due to the COVID-19 pandemic. As regular season champions, the MAAC announced Siena would be named Conference Champions and were awarded the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA tournament. It was Siena's first bid since winning three consecutive MAAC tournaments between 2008-10. The tournament was later cancelled along with the remainder of the college basketball season as a result of the outbreak.

Despite the cancellation of the tournament, Maciariello became just the second coach in program history to earn a berth to the NCAA tournament in his first season as head coach, and was the first in program history to win the MAAC regular season title in his first year.

Head coaching record

Statistics overview

Season	Team	Overall	Conference	Standing	Postseason
Siena (MAAC) (2019–present)
2019–20	Siena	20–10	15–5	1st	Qualified for NCAA Tournament (Cancelled) 2019-20
Siena:		20–10 (.667)	15–5 (.750)
Total:		20–10 (.667)
National champion         Postseason invitational champion         Conference regular season champion         Conference regular season and conference tournament champion       Division regular season champion       Division regular season and conference tournament champion       Conference tournament champion