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Bonnies back to preparing for (coming?) season
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Aug 21, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — Make no mistake, Mark Schmidt would rather have been in his normal routine. He’d have preferred to be out unturning stones in search...
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Prato remembers the good in 2OT loss to Kentucky
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Aug 10, 2020
(Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series centering on St. Bonaventure’s 2000 NCAA Tournament team through the eyes of then-freshman gua...
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Schmidt remains unsure of fate for 2020-21 season
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Aug 04, 2020
( Editor’s note: This is the second in a two-part series centering on last Friday’s conference call with St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach Mark S...
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Bona slowly, safely making return to hoops
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Aug 01, 2020
(Editor’s note: This is the first in a two-part series centering on Friday’s conference call with St. Bonaventure men’s basketball coach Mark Schmidt....
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Nease reflects on 25 years as ‘Voice of the Bonnies’
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jul 23, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — His favorite player, or one of them anyway, wasn’t an All-Time Team selection and likely wasn’t chosen on many ballots. He never mad...
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Uncertainty is starting to set in for Bona hoops
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jul 13, 2020
First, let’s address the good news, those little tidbits of information that help bridge one St. Bonaventure basketball season to the next, but have b...
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Fiske readies for new challenge upon Bona return
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jul 08, 2020
(Editor’s note: Following is the second of two-part series centering on St. Bonaventure master strength and conditioning coach Darryn Fiske. Today: Ho...
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Bona team left out of reduced TBT 2020 field
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 17, 2020
It was a roster made in St. Bonaventure basketball heaven. And it was as tantalizing for the curiosities it would have quelled as it was for its talen...
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Picking the four best Bona players — of the 2000s
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 16, 2020
( Editor’s note : This is the sixth in a seven-part weekly series in which the Times Herald will unveil its “Mount Rushmore” of St. Bonaventure men’s ...
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After workouts with brother, English eager for RC return
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 15, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — It was his silver lining to being quarantined — prevented from his normal basketball routine — for the last three months. Time. Time...
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Bona’s Curran talks enjoyable present, potential future
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(Editor?s note: This is the second in a two-part series centering on Bona men?s basketball assistant coach Steve Curran. Today: Curran reflects on a decade with the program and what his future holds.) By J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 12, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — There was a time when Steve Curran could never have envisioned being at St. Bonaventure. The Bonnies’ associate head coach visited t...
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East recalls ‘unreal’ rise of NBA’s Pippen
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 09, 2020
For a moment, my mind wandered to an otherwise forgettable day in Conway, Arkansas, on Jan. 3, 2009. It was my first year as the TH’s beat writer for ...
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A Bona-inspired call for change
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J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
Jun 03, 2020
The hatred was evident in Tampa’s Hixon Hall on Dec. 18 and 19, 1967. The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team, amid an unbeaten regular season behin...
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Picking the four best Bona players — of the 1970s
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(Editor?s note: This is the third in a seven-part weekly series in which the Times Herald will unveil its ?Mount Rushmore? of St. Bonaventure men?s basketball ? that is, the most notable four players ? with the caveat of going decade by decade. Today: The 1970s.) By J.P. BUTLER Olean Times Herald 
May 27, 2020
ST. BONAVENTURE — It remains the most prosperous decade in program history. In the 1970s, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team achieved its two g...
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