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Can Bona make it back-to-back wins over Wildcats?
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Feb 24, 2021
It’s happened once before … by chance. In 2016-17, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team hosted UMass in its regular season finale, then happened ...
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For the Bonnies, it comes down to Atlantic 10 mark
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Feb 22, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Reilly Center would have been bedlam … indeed it should have been. Instead, its 5,480 seats sat empty, as they have been all s...
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Game off: Bona-George Mason rematch canceled
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Feb 18, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Mark Schmidt assumed his team wouldn’t make it through the rest of the year unscathed. “There was going to be pauses, interrup...
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Bonnies drop nail-biter at VCU, 67-64
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Feb 13, 2021
For all that had gone against it, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team was right there. The Bonnies, playing perhaps the league’s hottest team on...
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Bona aims to bounce back vs. La Salle
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Feb 09, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — It’s been in this kind of spot before. Five weeks ago, in what had been its only loss, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball te...
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Billikens buck Bona win streak
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Feb 08, 2021
For the second time this year, it had staged a relentless comeback against one of the league’s better teams, turning an early 13-point deficit into a ...
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Chemistry has been big key in Bona success
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Feb 04, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Matt McCall saw it, this kind of rare intangible, in the 2017-18 St. Bonaventure basketball team. “To me, the most impressive ...
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Bona’s Welch has sizzled since vow to ‘bounce back’
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Feb 02, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Dominick Welch had endured this kind of slump before. And this was another. The junior guard had just turned in his second don...
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‘Big 3’ helps Bona bury Mason
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Feb 01, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Osun Osunniyi found his finishing touch inside. Dominick Welch continued to shoot the ball well against this particular oppone...
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Bona wins slugfest in Steel City
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Jan 25, 2021
Jalen Adaway wasn’t entirely sure he’d even play. The junior forward had suffered a “pretty bad” migraine over the previous few days and was “really f...
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Bona rallies for resounding win over VCU
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Jan 21, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Normally unflappable in these situations, Mark Schmidt was overjoyed. Rather than leaning toward the opposing bench for postga...
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Season-defining win as Bonnies rally past VCU
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Jan 21, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — All wins aren’t created equal. And the St. Bonaventure basketball team proved that emphatically on Wednesday night before a na...
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Bonnies set to take center stage vs. Duquesne
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Jan 15, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — For once, the window was tight. The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team arrived home at about 7 p.m. from its Wednesday road...
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A Bronx win for Bona
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Jan 14, 2021
It began in rather unexpected fashion. A Fordham team, which struggles to score, getting uncharacteristically hot from 3-point range. A high-scoring, ...
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Can Bona continue rise vs. Colonials?
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Jan 08, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team desperately needed a spark. And before it became the Jaren Holmes show, Jalen Adaway...
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Bonnies show talent, depth in beating St. Joe’s
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CHUCK POLLOCK Special to The Era 
Jan 07, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — That’s how you take care of business. If you judge by the record, 0-7 Saint Joseph’s seemed no more an obstacle to St. Bonaven...
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Bona back home to face Hawks
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Jan 06, 2021
ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — The difference seems substantial. Had the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team lost to Richmond, it would have returned from ...
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Point proven: Lofton lifts Bona past Richmond
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Jan 04, 2021
Kyle Lofton was one of four returning point guards to make the Atlantic 10’s All-Conference First Team last spring. He was the only one left off of th...
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Can Bona rebound against Richmond?
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J.P. BUTLER Special to the Era 
Jan 02, 2021
Mark Schmidt noted it ahead of Wednesday’s game at Rhode Island. “They’re a talented team,” the 14th-year St. Bonaventure coach said of the Rams. “The...
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