The Siena men’s basketball team received a verbal commitment on Monday from Max Frazier, a 6-foot-8, 195-pound power forward and center from Northwood High School in Pittsboro, N.C. He’ll join the Saints next season.
Frazier averaged 8.6 points, 6.5 rebounds and 1.2 blocks per game for the Chargers this season. He visited the Siena campus this weekend.
“I just liked the campus,” Frazier said. “It’s small. It’s compact. You can meet a lot of people. The people, the coaches were all very welcoming and like a family. We already felt like a connection with the team and the coaches and I felt like it would be a good spot for me.”
Frazier said Siena was his first Division I offer. He previously had an offer from Division II Catawba in Salisbury, N.C. He said Siena assistant Bobby Castagna first contacted him about four months ago.
Frazier plays his AAU ball for the Durham Hurricanes.
“Yeah, I feel like I was a little late bloomer,” Frazier said. “I just started developing at the wrong time and due with COVID and the transfer portal and all that, it didn’t really help anything.”
Last year, Michael Eley was lightly recruited, partly because of an intense focus on older players in the NCAA transfer portal. Eley signed with Siena and won Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Rookie of the Year this season.
Frazier described himself as an athletic player who can run the floor, rebound and “do a little bit of everything.” He said he’s a versatile player whom the Siena coaches project as a stretch power forward or center.
“Like a 4 and a 5, just be able to stretch out the floor and maybe have me at the 3 (small forward) in years to come, too,” Frazier said.Â
Frazier said the possibility of going to prep school next season came up, but he was ready to accept a Division I offer.
“It’s a…
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