JERSEY CITY, N.J. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | New Jersey City University head men's basketball coach Marc Brown, the greatest player in Siena College basketball history, has been named by the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference to the MAAC 40^th Anniversary Men's Basketball Team.
 
Brown, who has received every possible honor from Siena nearly 30 years after he last played for the college, was named by the conference in celebration of its Ruby Anniversary as the MAAC highlights the league's all-time great student athletes and coaches from the 24 sports in which the league crowns champions throughout the 2020-21 academic year.
 
"It's an honor to be named to the 40th anniversary team and to be honored with so many great players means a lot," said Brown, who completed his 13th year as head coach of the Gothic Knights in 2019-20. "I was only in the MAAC for the final two years of my four-year career. I am happy I was able to make an impact on the league and be remembered after all this time."
 

Brown  is one of six Siena legends named to the 40th Anniversary Team, joining Doremus Bennerman, Marcus Faison, Alex Franklin, Kenny Hasbrouck, and coach Fran McCaffery. Siena competed in the North Atlantic Conference in 1988 and 1989 before joining the MAAC in the 1989-90 season.
 
It's the latest lifetime honor for Brown, whose legendary No. 4 jersey was retired on December 13, 2010 as part of a Division III/Division I basketball doubleheader at the Times Union Center in Albany. In 2019, Brown, a former 16-year professional player, appeared on the proverbial 'Mount Rushmore' of Siena College as part of a 'Mount Bernie' figurine gift promotion depicting the likeness of the top four players in school history.
 
On September 16, 2017 he was inducted into the MAAC Honor Roll—equivalent to the conference's Hall of Fame—and enshrined in "The MAAC Experience" exhibit at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame. 
 
Simply known by Siena fans as 'Showbiz', Brown is still the all-time leading scorer in Saints history with 2,284 career points (18.6 ppg) and he helped bring Division I national acclaim to Siena during a four-year career from 1987-91. Known as a flashy, playmaking point guard, Showbiz could do it all on the court and at the time of his graduation was one of only three players in Division I history to score over 2,000 career points and accumulate at least 750 assists. His 796 career assists stood as a Siena record until 2009 and his 6.5 dishes per game remains the program standard.
 
Among his long list of honors, Brown was the 1991 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Player of the Year and a 1991 Division I Honorable Mention All-American by both the Associated Press (AP) and United Press International (UPI). In 1989, he was selected Honorable Mention All-America by The Sporting News. A four-time First-Team All-Conference selection, he was enshrined in the Siena Athletic Hall of Fame in 1998. 
 
In 1989, Brown's play put Siena basketball on the Division I map, when he hit the winning free throws in a 32-point outburst as the #14 seeded Saints stunned #3 Stanford in the opening round of the 1989 NCAA Tournament. He also helped Siena reach the NIT in 1988 and 1991; the 1991 NIT run ended with a two-point overtime loss to UMass in the quarterfinals.
 
Amazingly, 30 years after his collegiate career ended, Brown still holds numerous individual game and season records at Siena, as well as individual NCAA and NIT thresholds. Among the records, he still has the marks for most assists in a game (15) and his 44 points against Fairfield in 1991 are the second most ever in a game for the Saints. That year he averaged 23.3 points per game and scored 816 total points; those single-season records are both now second on the all-time list. His single-season record of 222 assists stood until 2009 before it was broken by a player who played an additional six games. His 7.7 assists per game in 1988 are still a single-season record. He currently ranks fourth in career steals (221) and three-point field goals (224) and sixth in three-point percentage (.423).
 
Brown, who was named the 2019 New Jersey Athletic Conference Coach of the Year for the third time in seven seasons, will enter his 14th season in 2020-21 with a career record at NJCU of 210-144. He is the second winningest coach in program history, behind only his father, Charlie Brown (483 wins). Together they are the winningest father-son combo at one school in Division III history.
 
Brown was previously the NJAC Coach of the Year in 2013 and 2016 and the Met Coach of the Year in 2013 and 2019. He also was named D3hoops.com Atlantic Region Coach of the Year in 2011.
 
Brown succeeded his iconic father, Charlie Brown, for whom the NJCU arena floor is named, as Gothic Knight head coach during the 2007-08 season after concluding a 16-year professional career in the United States, Europe and South America
 
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