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BUFFALO — I will say this, the crowd at the First Niagara Center during the Syracuse/Western Michigan NCAA Regional basketball game was enthusiastic. ...

Talk about a flashback. When ESPN revealed late last week that St. Bonaventure’s Mark Schmidt had met with Boston College about the Eagles’ open men’s...

This much is certain, nobody will be picking the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team to finish ninth in the Atlantic 10 next season. That’s where ...

BOWLING GREEN, Ohio — As his Bonnies fell behind, 35-7, with 3 1/2 minutes to play in the first half, coach Jim Crowley had a flashback. He recalled t...

For many college basketball fans, there’s a particular enjoyment in watching Duke get bounced from the NCAA Tournament in the early stages. Whether it...

So the question is, what’s the Bowling Green women’s basketball team doing in the WNIT? After all, the Falcons’ 28-4 record is better than 52 of the 6...

BUFFALO — In this business, we don’t root for teams — no cheering in the press box, remember — but we do root for stories. As we often joke, it’s all ...

BUFFALO — Vee Sanford hit the biggest shot of the game when his Dayton Flyers visited the Reilly Center in early February. With 1:12 remaining and UD ...

There are two different ways of viewing the 2013-14 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball season, which came to a rather surprising end Sunday night. The f...

Some bits and pieces on St. Bonaventure basketball ... both genders: THE COACHES , players and many Bonnie fans are miffed that Mark Schmidt’s squad d...

Greg Gumbel sounded a bit surprised by what he was reading ... on more than one occasion. “And Connecticut will be facing 10th-seeded Saint Joseph’s, ...

The Olean High boys basketball team never forgot the nightmare that was March 9, 2013. That’s because the Huskies’ bad dream was real. Burned into the...

RICHMOND — It’s hard to imagine the emotional swing Jim Crowley has endured since Tuesday. That was the day the Atlantic 10 named him the Women’s Bask...

Eventually, the women’s basketball coaches in the Atlantic 10 will figure it out. Maybe. After all, how many times does Jim Crowley have to be named A...

ST. BONAVENTURE — It was one of those games that kind of left you feeling empty. The reality is, no matter what happened on Saturday afternoon at the ...

Some observations from a weekend of varied sports, live, televised and in print: Full disclosure, this column was supposed to be on the Daytona 500 un...

ST. BONAVENTURE — In a season of almosts and what ifs, of St. the Bonaventure men’s basketball team’s eight heart-breaking losses — six points or fewe...

CLEVELAND — It could have been the momentum shifter to spoil St. Bonaventure’s non-conference finale on the eve of New Year’s Eve. A common foul on Bo...