Gavin Doty
Episode 377
27 APR 2026
He last month led Siena University to the NCAA men’s college basketball tournament for the first time since 2010, by way of capturing the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference championship. He was the MAAC Tournament MVP, after having been the first Siena University player in five years to earn First Team All-MAAC honors. He also set a record for the most points scored by a Siena Saints player through their first two seasons. Earlier this month he announced that he is transferring and will go play at Syracuse University. Before all that he had a record-setting high school career and even starred on the Nike EYBL circuit for the Albany City Rocks.
Notable guest quotes:
“All of us are firm believers in Jesus Christ. And my mom and my grandma did a great job just being the leaders of the household, getting us all to church. I remember, ever since we were young, newborn babies, me and my siblings were always in Mass every Sunday, and just making sure our faith was a priority growing up.”
“The people I surrounded myself with, I had really good friends growing up and it really helped me to stay firm in my faith.
“My mom was my basketball coach… But I also played basketball, soccer, lacrosse, football, hockey. My dad was my hockey coach growing up too, so that was super cool. And then I had to make a decision if I wanted to choose basketball or hockey.”
“Weighing out my options and choices and stuff, seeing Jerry McNamara when he got the job (at Siena) and just him being such a faithful family-oriented guy, it made it an easy choice and then on top of it, it’s a Franciscan Catholic school. That was just another plus about it. So, I was really excited about that.”
“I took a visit to Siena with my family, my siblings and that was just great, seeing the campus, seeing what it’s about. And then obviously a lot of prayer too and it helped me make the right choices down the line.”
“We do a team prayer every day before practice, just to make that our foundation of the team, put God first and we also did some Bible studies… anybody that wanted to go and we ended up having like 15, 20 guys at each Bible study, just sharing our faith, learning differences and similarities about each other throughout the lives we’ve been through and that was the foundation for us all year is, we’re going to put our faith first. We’re going to believe in each other. And that led to a lot of success for us.”
“It’s all about spreading God’s love and I’ve been blessed with a platform to be able to do so. So that’s what I’m all about is just looking to help people find their faith.
“My faith is my foundation. My personal performance on the court and my worldly accomplishments will not define who I am as a person, but my faith in Jesus Christ will.”
“There’s Mass at Noon every day here on campus. So, every game day, I would go to Mass.”
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