ST. BONAVENTURE — Earlier this month, Anthony Roberts went home to address a family matter.
Jalen Adaway wasn’t entirely sure he’d even play.
The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, to be sure, is content.
ST. BONAVENTURE — The signs had been there since before Christmas.
BRONX — The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team is set for a double dose of Atlantic 10 action with road games on back-to-back days. The Bonnies (2-6, 1-4) are scheduled to play at Fordham this afternoon (2 o’clock) before traveling to Rhode Island for a Saturday matchup with URI at 4 p.m.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Seth Greenberg pointed it out during a pregame press conference last week.
ST. BONAVENTURE — All wins aren’t created equal.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Normally unflappable in these situations, Mark Schmidt was overjoyed.
ST. BONAVENTURE — By any measure, it’s an objectively big game for St. Bonaventure.
ST. BONAVENTURE — What an awful time to be at Bills or St. Bonaventure men’s basketball fan.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Its offense, on this night, was mostly absent.
ST. BONAVENTURE – The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team got off to an impressive start before hanging on for a 65-60 Atlantic 10 victory over La Salle on Friday at the Reilly Center.
ST. BONAVENTURE — For once, the window was tight.
ST. BONAVENTURE — The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team (1-6, 0-4) wraps up a four-game homestand with a pair of matchups in the Reilly Center over the weekend.
It began in rather unexpected fashion.
The numbers are a bit skewed due to the Saint Joseph’s game, an outing in which it accumulated 27 assists and had a player score 38 points.
John Joseph McGraw was in over his head.
ST. BONAVENTURE — For the second time in three days, the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team had a chance to win at the final buzzer.
ST. BONAVENTURE — For a moment, it appeared as if Jesse Fleming’s team had completed a double-digit comeback.
ST. BONAVENTURE – Mere minutes after Wednesday’s victory over Saint Joseph’s, Jalen Adaway was already looking ahead.
ST. BONAVENTURE – The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team desperately needed a spark. And before it became the Jaren Holmes show, Jalen Adaway was the one who provided it.
ST. BONAVENTURE – The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team opens its Atlantic 10 home schedule with a pair of games this weekend in the Reilly Center.
ST. BONAVENTURE – That’s how you take care of business.
ST. BONAVENTURE – As his night began to unfold, Jaren Holmes recalled the words of his former AAU coach.
The question was posed in this space on Dec. 23 and my answer came the very same day.
ST. BONAVENTURE — On the whiteboard, Kyle Lofton had a couple of options.
ST. BONAVENTURE — The difference seems substantial.
Kyle Lofton was one of four returning point guards to make the Atlantic 10’s All-Conference First Team last spring.
Mark Schmidt noted it ahead of Wednesday’s game at Rhode Island.
The list of factors working against it was seemingly endless.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Justin Winston, presumably, wasn’t happy.
It’s about as unfavorable a situation as it gets.
ST. BONAVENTURE — It wasn’t without its blemishes.
Random thoughts on the Bills, St. Bonaventure’s men’s basketball team and Reilly Center history:
QUEENS — The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team took another step in the right direction Tuesday, taking Big East foe St. John’s to the wire on the road. The Bonnies were denied a victory after taking a double-digit second-half lead before falling to the Red Storm, 60-57.
ST. BONAVENTURE — It’s become far more common a theme than both the St. Bonaventure basketball team and its fans can stomach:
The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team will take on St. John’s in Queens today. Tip is slated for noon in what will be the Bonnies’ final non-conference game of the season.
ST. BONAVENTURE — For the first 20 minutes, its rematch with Hofstra closely resembled last year’s contest.
ST. BONAVENTURE — The victory itself, an 81-74 season-opening win over Akron, under the circumstances, was certainly special.
ST. BONAVENTURE — The last time the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team played a game in the Reilly Center was Feb. 29, 291 days before yesterday.
CLEVELAND — The scene, at first, was surreal.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Tori Harris had waited over a year-and-a-half to play her first game at the Reilly Center.
CLEVELAND — It was his No. 1 priority in the offseason.
CLEVELAND — His career outing behind him, Osun Osunniyi had no problem acknowledging it.
ST. BONAVENTURE — The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team makes its home debut tonight when Binghamton visits the Reilly Center for the first time since 2014. Tip is slated for 4 p.m.
CLEVELAND — Mark Schmidt sat at his desk, conducting the next of what has likely been dozens of Zoom sessions since the spring.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Their relationship was supposed to only be the time between games.
ST. BONAVENTURE — It was the operative phrase in the myriad answers that Mark Schmidt tried his best to supply.
ST. BONAVENTURE — As with almost everything else in this COVID-19-altered season, Mark Schmidt’s pregame media availability on Friday was … delayed.
PITTSBURGH, Pa. — The St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team led for much of the day in its long-awaited season debut, but a 15-0 early fourth-quarter run from Duquesne proved the difference in a 71-63 decision on Friday at La Roche University.
