PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR If St. Bonaventure men’s basketball head coach Mark Schmidt has access to a panic button, now’s the time to hit it. With a 54-50 loss to Duquesne Tuesday night, Bona has lost four of its last five. In a pivotal Atlantic 10 Conference matchup — and…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR PITTSBURGH — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team managed a season-low 50 points Tuesday night in the UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse, losing to Duquesne 54-50. The Bonnies (11-7, 2-4 A-10) won the rebounding battle — and little else. The Dukes (10-8, 1-5) forced 16 turnovers while holding…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR PITTSBURGH — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team visits Duquesne Tuesday night, looking to improve to .500 in Atlantic 10 Conference play. Winless in January, the Dukes (9-8, 0-5 A-10) have dropped each of their last two contests by just two points. The Bonnies (11-6, 2-3…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR ST. BONAVENTURE, NY — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team snapped its two-game losing streak Wednesday night in the Reilly Center with a 99-64 domination of visiting University of Rhode Island. The Bonnies (11-5, 2-2 A-10) jumped out to a 26-point first-half lead, scoring 21 of…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF ST. BONAVENTURE, NY — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team returns home Saturday to challenge Siena in the annual Br. Ed Coughlin Franciscan Cup game. The Bonnies (6-2, 0-0 A-10) enter Saturday on a four-game win streak and have won their last three games by an average…
BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LEWISTON, NY — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team routed Little Three rival Niagara 94-60 Wednesday in the Gallagher Center, shooting over 60% from the field and from deep en route to its fourth-straight victory. The Purple Eagles (1-6, 0-2 MAAC) opened the game on an 8-2 run. But over the…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF LEWISTON, NY — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team visits Little Three rival Niagara Wednesday in the Gallagher Center, playing its second of three-straight games against in-state rivals. The Bonnies (5-2, 0-0 A-10) have won each of their last two games by an average of 22.5 points,…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AMHERST, NY — Four St. Bonaventure men’s basketball players scored double figures in the team’s first true road game of the season as Bona dominated University at Buffalo Saturday in Alumni Arena 80-65. The Bulls (1-7, 0-0 MAC ) won the offensive-rebounding battle (13-10) — but little…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF AMHERST, NY — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team plays its first true road game of the season Saturday at Alumni Arena, challenging University at Buffalo for the second-straight year. The Bonnies (4-2, 0-0 A-10), coming off their biggest win via margin of victory this season with…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY ALLIE ELKINS, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team fell to Little Three rival Canisius 63-56 Thursday Night in the Reilly Center. Despite a 20-point performance by junior guard Isabellah Middleton, the Bonnies (2-5, 0-0 A-10) couldn’t catch up offensively with the Golden Griffins (3-3, 0-0 A-10). Bonaventure…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY ALLIE ELKINS, SPORTS ASSIGNMENT EDITOR The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team hosts Little Three rival Canisius in the Reilly Center Thursday after ending its three-game losing streak with a road victory over Loyola Maryland on Saturday. The Bonnies (2-4, 0-0 A-10) were blown out, 85-47, by the Golden Griffins (2-3, 0-0…
BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR On a sunny afternoon, the Reilly Center had a storm full of threes as the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team defeated Miami (OH) 90-60 on Saturday. Unlike the last game, the Bonnies came out the gate on a 7-3 run started by a redshirt senior guard Daryl Banks III 3-pointer…
BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR On Thanksgiving Eve, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team defeated 65-61 to Bucknell Wednesday night in the Reilly Center. The game started out slow with both teams shooting a combined shooting 1-15 from the field at the under-16 media timeout. The Bonnies saw their first point of the night with…
Photo courtesy of GoBonnies BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF In the first opportunity to prove itself against a Quadrant 1 opponent this season, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team trailed for all but 54 seconds, losing 77-60 against Auburn in Friday’s Legends Classic Championship game. Outside of forward Chad Venning’s 14 points on 7-8 shooting, the…
BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR The Legends Classic Championship game pitted two of the most successful coaches in college basketball for their respective programs in Bruce Pearl and Mark Schmidt. What many people might not know is that they have a history together. Growing up in the Boston, Massachusetts area, Schmidt and Pearl became close…
BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team fell 77-60 to Auburn in the Legend Classic Championship game Friday night in the Barclays Center. Brooklyn native and redshirt junior forward Chad Venning got the Bonnies on the board early, scoring the team’s first four points. The Bonnies saw shades of their opening-round…
Photo: Justin Cleaver BY ANDREW HALE, SPORTS EDITOR A 1994 graduate of St. Bonaventure University, Jess Williams has become a staple of the Wolf Pack, a nickname given to the school’s student section at its men’s basketball home games. Williams throws obscure hats to fans sitting in the endzone section of the Reilly Center, hoping…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY WILL POLADIAN, MANAGING EDITOR With only ten rostered players to begin the season, the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team boasted the smallest roster of any Atlantic 10 Conference team. Since then, the roster has only gotten smaller. Four of the team’s ten players have carried injury designations into games this…
Photo: St. Bonaventure Athletics BY KYLE MAIER, CONTRIBUTING WRITER The St. Bonaventure men’s and women’s cross country teams finished their 2023 seasons last Friday at the Northeast Regionals in the Bronx. Eleven Bonnies qualified for the event. Junior Clay Peets continued to break records, running the Van Cortland Park 10k course in 31:07.3, the best…
Photo courtesy of GoBonnies BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team entered the 2023-24 season as the nation’s most-experienced team, according to KenPom. But that experience didn’t truly show until Thursday night — three games into the season — as the Bonnies gutted out a 66-64 win over Power Five-opponent Oklahoma State…