St. Bonaventure Basketball: Bonnies VS Rams, Jan. 30

TEAM ROSTERS ST. BONAVENTURE BONNIES NO. PLAYER 0 Barry Evans

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Kyrell Luc

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Assa Essamvous

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Mika Adams-Woods

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Moses Flowers

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Daryl Banks III

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Charles Pride

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Miles Rose

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Duane Thompson

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Jack DeRose

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Noel Brown

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Anthony Belardinelli

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Broek Ostrom

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Chad Venning

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FIELD GOALS

HEAD COACH: Mark Schmidt

F, So., 6-8/215, Baltimore, MD G, Jr., 5-11/165, Dorcester, MA F, So., 6-6/210, Libreville, Gabon G, Gr., 6-3/180, Syracuse, NY G, R-Sr., 6-3/185, Dorcester, MA G, R-Sr., 6-3/175, Somerset, NJ G, Gr., 6-4/200, Syracuse, NY G, Fr., 6-4/190, Rochester, NY F, Fr., 6-8/205, Boston, MA G, Fr., 6-0/172, Olean, NY C, R-Jr., 6-11/265, Leesburg, VA Melian Martinez F/C, R-Fr., 6-10/225, Santo Domingo, Dominican Republic G, Sr., 6-3/185, Upper Saddle, NJ G, So., 6-2/185, Holley, NY F, R-Jr., 6-10/255, Brooklyn, NY

3-PT. FIELD GOALS

FREE THROWS

FOULS

POINTS

ASSOCIATE HEAD COACH: Sean neal -- ASSISTANT COACHES: chris lowe -- dana valentine -- Mike Schmidt

VCU RAMS

HEAD COACH: RYAN ODOM

NO. PLAYER 1 Jason Nelson

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2

Zeb Jackson

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Roosevelt Wheeler

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Alphonzo "Fats" Billups III 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10

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G,R-So., 5-10/175, Richmond, VA G, Sr., 6-5/185, Toledo, OH F/C, Jr., 6-11/245, Richmond, VA

G/F, R-Fr., 6-7/180, Richmond, VA

FIELD GOALS

3-PT. FIELD GOALS

FREE THROWS

FOULS

Sean Bairstow

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Michael Belle

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Toibu "Tobi" Lawal

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Max Shulga

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Kuany Kuany

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Connor Odom

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Christian Fermin

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Joe Bamisile

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Obinnaya Okafor

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G/F, Gr., 6-8/205, Brisbane, AUS G/F, Fr., 6-7/215, London, ENG F, So., 6-8/200, London, ENG G, Sr., 6-5/200, Kyiv, UA F, Gr., 6-9/200, Melbourne, AUS G, Sr., 5-11/165, Annapolis, MD F, So., 6-10/225, Tobyhanna, PA G, Sr., 6-4/190, Chesterfield, VA F, R-Fr., 6-9/220, Hampton, VA

POINTS

ASSISTANT COACHES: MATT HENRY -- BRYCE CRAWFORD -- DARIUS THEUS

2023-24 St. Bonaventure bonnies

2023-24 St. Bonaventure Men's Basketball Combined Team Statistics All games

Page 1/1 as of Jan 27, 2024

TEAM STATISTICS Game Records Record

Overall

ALL GAMES CONFERENCE NON-CONFERENCE

Home

12-7 3-4 9-3

Team Box Score No. Player

GP-GS

MIN

Away

7-2 2-1 5-1

AVG

Neutral

3-3 1-3 2-0

2-2 0-0 2-2

Score by Periods Team St. Bonaventure Opponents

Total 3-Point F-Throw Rebounds FG-FGA FG% 3FG-3FGA 3FG% FT-FTA FT% OFF DEF TOT AVG

1st 681 566

2nd 728 687

OT 0 0

TOT 1409 1253

PF DQ

A

TO BLK STL PTS

36

55

91

4.8

59

3

13

47

35

10

272 14.3

.860

7

34

41

2.3

25

1

63

25

3

13

242 13.4

.829

36

68 104

6.5

24

0

29

7

1

21

189 11.8

26-33

.788

10

37

47

2.6

41

3

20

17

1

13

189 10.5

.333

37-41

.902

4

28

32

1.7

26

0

48

33

3

13

163

8.6

23-75

.307

16-25

.640

22

81 103

5.4

50

2

17

14

6

22

127

6.7

.695

0-0

.000

29-34

.853

20

19

39

2.1

37

1

10

21

9

3

111

5.8

28-50

.560

4-16

.250

3-8

.375

28

76 104

5.5

34

1

27

11

10

24

63

3.3

32 VENNING, Chad

19-19 475:45 25.0

113-211

.536

0-3

.000

46-65

.708

3 ADAMS-WOODS, Mika

18-17 531:40 29.5

88-168

.524

29-64

.453

37-43

7 PRIDE, Charles

16-16 500:22 31.3

62-137

.453

31-67

.463

34-41

4 FLOWERS, Moses

18-4

422:51 23.5

64-149

.430

35-87

.402

5 BANKS III, Daryl

19-15 554:58 29.2

49-151

.325

28-84

2 ESSAMVOUS, Assa

19-19 498:30 26.2

44-114

.386

20 BROWN, Noel

19-0

250:27 13.2

41-59

0 EVANS, Barry

19-3

356:49 18.8

AVG

1 LUC, Kyrell

13-2

157:18 12.1

13-44

.295

2-12

.167

10-13

.769

4

18

22

1.7

16

1

21

14

4

6

38

2.9

10 ROSE, Miles

1-0

10:35 10.6

1-5

.200

0-1

.000

0-2

.000

1

1

2

2.0

0

0

0

0

0

1

2

2.0

21 MARTINEZ, Melian

5-0

13:30

2.7

3-6

.500

0-0

.000

0-0

.000

0

2

2

0.4

5

0

0

3

2

1

6

1.2

30 OSTROM, Broek

6-0

12:09

2.0

2-4

.500

1-3

.333

0-0

.000

0

3

3

0.5

1

0

0

1

1

0

5

0.8

23 BELARDINELLI, Anthony

5-0

07:42

1.5

1-2

.500

0-1

.000

0-0

.000

1

0

1

0.2

0

0

0

0

0

0

2

0.4

15 DEROSE, Jack

5-0

07:25

1.5

0-1

.000

0-1

.000

0-0

.000

0

0

0

0.0

0

0

0

1

0

0

0

0.0

23

18

41

Team

13

Total

19

3800

509-1101 .462 153-414

.370 238-305 .780 192 440 632 33.3 318 12 248 207 75 127 1409 74.2

Opponents

19

3800

443-1017 .436 128-406

.315 239-354 .675 169 423 592 31.2 286

Team Statistics

SBU

Scoring Points per game Scoring margin

OPP

1409 74.2 +8.2

Field goals-att Field goal pct

509-1101 .462

3 point fg-att 3-point FG pct 3-pt FG made per game

153-414 .370 8.1

Free throws-att Free throw pct F-Throws made per game

238-305 .780 12.5

2023-24 VCU Rams

1253 65.9 -

Team Results Date

11/06/2023 11/11/2023 11/16/2023 11/17/2023 443-1017 11/22/2023 .436 11/25/2023 128-406 12/02/2023 .315 12/06/2023 6.7 12/09/2023 239-354 12/16/2023 .675 12/22/2023 12.6 12/30/2023 592 01/03/2024 31.2 01/06/2024 01/13/2024 249 Score by Periods 01/17/2024 Neutral 13.1 Team 1-2 01/20/2024 VCU 258 0-0 01/23/2024 13.6 Opponents 1-2 01/26/2024 1.0

0 249 258 53

Opponent

2023-24 VCU Men's Basketball Combined Team Statistics All games 632

Longwood Canisius vs Oklahoma St. vs Auburn Bucknell Miami (OH) at Buffalo at Niagara Siena vs Fla. Atlantic Binghamton vs Akron at VCU at Richmond Fordham Rhode Island1st at George Mason 678 at Duquesne 634 Saint Joseph's

Rebounds Rebounds per game Rebounding margin

33.3 +2.1

Game Records Assists Record

Overall

Assists per game

ALL GAMES Turnovers CONFERENCE Turnovers per game NON-CONFERENCE

13-7 5-2 8-5

Turnover margin

Team Box Score ratio Assist/turnover Steals Steals per game

No. Player

Blocks 11 SHULGA, Max

per game 22 Blocks BAMISILE, Joe

Home 9-5 2-2 7-3

248 Away 13.1 3-0

207 3-0 10.9 0-0 +2.7 1.2

Score

W L W L W W W W W L W W W L L W 2nd L 780 L 689 W

TEAM STATISTICS

88 1253 65.9

Att.

73-69 67-70 66-64 60-77 67-61 90-60 80-65 94-60 89-56 54-64 90-64 62-61 89-78 54-65 74-80 99-64 OT 60-69 8 50-54 13 91-72

3577 4850 5524 4849 3497 3433 3324 1494 4022 2745 3965 12211 6348 6619 3819 3881 TOT 4614 1466 2489 1336 4396

Page 1/1 as of Jan 28, 2024

Total 127 3-Point 88 F-Throw Rebounds FG-FGA FG% FT-FTA FT% OFF DEF TOT AVG 6.7 3FG-3FGA 3FG% 4.6

PF DQ

A

TO BLK STL PTS

20-20 656:26 32.8

80-191

37

0

70

37

7

10-0

GP-GS

MIN

AVG

75 .419

46-119

53 .387

88-102

.863

5

87

92

4.6

AVG

20

294 14.7

202:01 20.2

46-103

3.9 .447

25-60

2.8 .417

18-24

.750

5

27

32

3.2

9

0

4

12

6

8

135 13.5

18-17 535:58 29.8

76-195

.390

27-95

.284

41-50

.820

5

70

75

4.2

37

0

67

35

3

24

220 12.2

9-9

295:30 32.8

37-89

.416

2-14

.143

.778

8

31

39

4.3

17

0

43

16

1

3

97 10.8

10 Home LAWAL, Toibu 20-0 games-Avg/Game

379:59 19.0

63-92 9-3938 .685 41-97 .423-

27-46

.587

39

76 115

5.8

48

2

7

26

21

11

156

7.8

23-30

.767

3

26

29

1.5

39

0

41

25

1

26

128

6.7

45-77

.584

24888 .500 6-4148 23-59 4-6332 .390

21-27

0-0

.000

38-52

.731

52

52 104

5.2

45

2

10

24

36

5

128

6.4

Winning streak 2 JACKSON, Zeb Home win streak

7 BAIRSTOW, Sean

Attendance

1 Neutral NELSON, Jason site-Avg/Game

19-3

448:14 23.6

1 2

35440

-

3-6

21 FERMIN, Christian

20-20 495:24 24.8

13 KUANY, Kuany

20-19 325:06 16.3

43-83

.518

20-45

.444

20-24

.833

14

41

55

2.8

47

0

11

15

5

9

126

6.3

5 BILLUPS III, Alphonzo

18-0

262:10 14.6

35-82

.427

17-47

.362

12-16

.750

8

21

29

1.6

18

0

11

16

6

9

99

5.5

8 BELLE, Michael

20-12 378:24 18.9

23-72

.319

6-23

.261

28-36

.778

25

46

71

3.6

22

0

19

27

9

10

80

4.0

4 WHEELER, Roosevelt

10-0

44:20

4.4

1-3

.333

0-0

.000

1-2

.500

2

5

7

0.7

16

0

0

4

1

2

3

0.3

14 ODOM, Connor

1-0

01:29

1.5

0-1

.000

0-0

.000

0-0

.000

0

0

0

0.0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0

0.0

24

48

72

Team

13

Total

20

4025

490-1085 .452 169-468

.361 317-409 .775 190 530 720 36.0 335

4 283 250 96 127 1466 73.3

Opponents

20

4025

458-1144 .400 115-394

.292 305-411 .742 206 453 659 33.0 361

6 197 215 45 145 1336 66.8

Team Statistics Scoring Points per game Scoring margin Field goals-att Field goal pct

VCU

OPP

1466 73.3 +6.5

1336 66.8 -

490-1085 .452

458-1144 .400

Team Results Date

11/06/2023 11/10/2023 11/15/2023 11/18/2023 11/23/2023

Opponent

McNeese Samford Radford Seattle U vs Iowa St.

L W W W L

65-76 75-65 73-50 60-56 64-68

Score

Att.

7637 7114 7045 6421 2458

GAME NOTES

BONNIES HOST VCU AIMING FOR SEASON SWEEP

• St. Bonaventure eyes back-to-back victories after bouncing back from consecutive road losses in a big way with a 91-72 win over Saint Joseph’s Friday night.

• Bona is aiming for its first-ever season sweep of VCU. The Bonnies took a 9-8 alltime series lead over the Rams with an 89-78 win in Richmond earlier this month.

SBU previously scored two wins over VCU in the same season during the 2020-21 campaign, splitting the season series with the Rams before winning the rubber match in the 2021 Atlantic 10 Championship Game.

• SBU enjoys one of the best home court advantages in college basketball. Since 2015-16, the Bonnies are 54-15 (.782) at home in Atlantic 10 games.

• The Bonnies bettered their offensive output from last Tuesday’s 54-50 loss at Duquesne by 41 points in Friday’s 91-72 win over Saint Joseph’s. That represents the biggest scoring swing in back-to-back Atlantic 10 games, during regulation, since the Bonnies scored 90 in regulation of a 100-97 overtime win at Duquesne on Jan. 22, 2015 before a 53-48 loss at Rhode Island three days later.

• The last two games represent what has been a bit of an up-and-down season for SBU. In their 12 victories, the Bonnies average 82.5 ppg while shooting over 51% from the field and almost 43% from long distance. In seven losses, however, SBU averages 59.9 ppg while shooting 37% overall and 25% from deep.

• Daryl Banks III is on this week’s Atlantic 10 Weekly Honor Roll after unquestionably his best game of the season Friday vs. Saint Joseph’s. He poured in 29 points while matching a career-high of seven 3-pointers (7-11). He also added five assists in the victory.

• In Friday’s win, the Bonnies had three players top 20 points: Banks (29), Moses Flowers (23) and Chad Venning (21). It was the first time that three Bonaventure

players have topped the 20-point mark during regulation in the same game since November 2016.

• Charles Pride has just seven turnovers in over 500 minutes of game time, ranking eighth nationally in turnover rate. Point guard Mika Adams-Woods also has 63 assists against 25 turnovers. Pride is one of two guards nationally to own over 1,700 career points and 850 rebounds, joining Baylor Scheierman of Creighton.

TRENDING NUMBERS 3 – The Bonnies are doing well both in shooting from beyond the arc as well as limiting opponents from deep. Bona ranks fourth among A-10 squads in three-point percentage at 37.0% while holding opponents to 31.5% in their long range attempts.

For three-point percentage defense, only Richmond (29.8%) and VCU (29.2%) have been better at limiting teams in 3-point tries.

7 – Daryl Banks III sank seven 3-pointers in the win over Saint Joseph’s Jan. 26. That marks the most triples in a game by a Bonnies player since Banks hit six vs. George Mason over a year prior on Jan. 4, 2023.

11 – SBU had a season-high 11 steals vs. Saint Joseph’s Jan. 26, led by three from Mika Adams-Woods. Barry Evans, Assa Essamvous and Chad Venning all had two swipes apiece.

23 – The 23 points tallied by Moses Flowers vs. Saint Joseph’s represent his most in an Atlantic 10 game.

78.0% – St. Bonaventure ranks 12th nationally so far this year in free throw percentage at 78.0% on the season. Daryl Banks III is best on the team, sinking 90% of his tries at the line (37-41).

89 – Bona’s has scored 89 or more points seven times this season, the most times in a season that the Bonnies have reached that total since also doing it seven times during the 2016-17 campaign and finished the year as A-10 regular season co-champs.

2023-24 St. bonaventure men’s basketball

GAME SCHEDULE decEMBER

NOVEMBER

1 vs. Alfred (Exhibition) ��� W, 80-41 6 vs. Longwood ��������������� W, 73-69 11 vs. Canisius ����������������������L, 70-67 16 vs. Oklahoma State # ������� W, 66-64 17 Auburn # �����������������������������L, 77-60 22 vs. Bucknell ������������������ W, 67-61 25 vs. Miami (OH) ���������������W, 90-60 All game start times are listed in Eastern Time and are subject to change.

Home games in bold

# = Legends Classic % = Basketball Hall of Fame Classic

2 at Buffalo ������������������������� W, 80-65 6 at Niagara ������������������������ W, 94-60 9 vs. Siena ������������������������ W, 89-56 16 vs. Florida Atlantic % �����������L, 64-54 22 vs. Binghamton ����������� W, 90-64 30 vs. Akron �������������������������� W, 62-61

january

3 at VCU ����������������������������� W, 89-78 6 at Richmond ������������������������L, 65-54 13 vs. Fordham ���������������������L, 80-74 17 vs. Rhode Island ���������� W, 99-64 20 at George Mason �����������������L, 69-60 23 at Duquesne �����������������������L, 54-50 26 vs. Saint Joseph’s �������� W, 91-72 30 vs. VCU �����������������������������7:00 pm

february

2 at Dayton ����������������������������7:00 pm 7 vs. Massachusetts ����������7:00 pm 10 vs. Duquesne ������������������2:00 pm 14 at Fordham �������������������������7:00 pm 17 vs. Davidson ��������������������3:30 pm 21 at LaSalle ����������������������������6:30 pm 24 at Massachusetts ����������������2:30 pm 27 vs. Loyola Chicago ����������7:00 pm

march

6 at George Washington �������7:00 pm 9 vs. Saint Louis �������������� 12:30 pm 12 Atlantic 10 Tournament ������������� TBD

GAME NOTES SERIES HISTORY This will be the 18th meeting all-time between St. Bonaventure and VCU. The Bonnies have won five of the last seven contests between the two programs since January 2021.

The 2021 Atlantic 10 Championship Game came as the rubber match after two regular season meetings that year. St. Bonaventure captured its second Atlantic 10 title in program history, 74-65, over VCU in Dayton that season.

Prior to their first matchup as A-10 foes in 2013, the Bonnies defeated VCU in backto-back years during the late 70s - a 63-61 victory in the 1978 ECAC Championship Game to reach the NCAA Tournament as well as a victory in the following season on home court. In the 1978 ECAC Championship, Tim Waterman’s buzzer beater sent the Bonnies to victory - and a spot in the NCAA Tournament - in Rochester’s War Memorial Stadium with one of the most memorable shots in program history.

ABOUT VCU

The Bonnies scored 89 points in their win on the road at VCU earlier this month, the most that a Bonaventure team has ever posted vs. VCU. STATS COMPARISON Bonnies Record 12-7 Streak W-1 Points Per Game 74.2 Scoring Defense 65.9 Scoring Margin +8.2 Field Goal Percentage .462 FG Pct. Defense .436 3-Pt. FG/Game 8.1 3-Pt. FG Percentage .370 Free Throw Percentage .780 Rebound Margin +2.7 Assists Per Game 13.1 Turnovers Per Game 10.9 Turnover Margin +2.7

VCU 13-7 W-5 73.3 66.8 +6.5 .452 .400 8.5 .361 .775 +3.1 14.2 12.5 -1.8

• VCU is 13-7 in its first season under head coach Ryan Odom who came to Richmond from Utah State. Prior to his stint out west, Odom coached at UMBC where his squad orchestrated one of the greatest upsets in NCAA basketball history as the 16th-ranked Retrievers knocked off No. 1 Virginia in 2018.

• After an 0-2 start to A-10 play, VCU is starting to hit on all cylinders as winners of five in a row to climb the conference standings. Max Shulga has been one of the league’s top guards after following Odom from Utah State.

He leads the team with 14.7 points and 4.6 rebounds per game, starting all 20 contests. Graduate forward Sean Bairstow, who also followed Odom from Utah State, missed the first 12 games due to injury before making his VCU debut Dec. 22. He averaged over 10 points per game at Utah State last year and is posting 10.8 ppg in his nine games since returning from injury this year. Also joining the roster is Joe Bamisile who missed 10 games waiting for an NCAA waiver decision to grant him eligibility after previously playing at George Washington, Oklahoma and Virginia Tech. Bamisile starred at GW two years ago, averaging 16.3 ppg, and is averaging 13.5 ppg in 10 games with VCU. • Havoc may no longer be the style at VCU under a new coaching regime, but the Rams remain strong defensively, ranking top-70 nationally in scoring defense while holding opponents to 66.8 ppg. VCU also blocks almost five shots per game, 38th in the country. Opponents only shoot 29% from distance as well, standing 20th in Division I.

• VCU has won 11 straight true road games, the longest streak in the country. They’re 3-0 on the road this year and 20-3 in their last 23 A-10 road contests.

ATHLETES OF THE WEEK The GoBonnies.com Student-Athletes of the Week presented by CPL are men’s basketball redshirt senior Daryl Banks III and women’s track freshman Meghan Lex. Banks poured in 29 points in Friday’s win over Saint Joseph’s, going 9-for-13 from the floor and 7-for-11 from 3-point land.

It was his best performance of the season as he also handed out five assists. His seven threes tied a career-high he first set last year vs. Bowling Green.

The fifth-year guard from Somerset, N.J. now has over 1,500 career points and 234 3-pointers entering Tuesday’s game.

Daryl Banks III

Lex had an outstanding indoor track debut in Bona’s season-opener at RIT on Friday night.

She immediately made a mark in the program record book as she set the school record in the mile and also jumped to second all-time in the 800 meters.

Lex established a new school record in the mile with a winning time of 5:18.92 in the RIT Invitational. She beat out 24 other competitors and crossed the finish line over a second quicker than second-place finisher Amelia Gilbert of RIT (5:20.27) as she claimed victory. She also crushed the previous Bona record mark of 5:25.29 set two years ago by Amberlee Robertson at Atlantic 10 Championships.

Meghan Lex

The New Jersey native also ran a strong time in the 800 meters as she finished second out of 30 runners with an effort of 2:28.25.

She was less than a second off the winning mark of 2:27.67 by Mia Vizcaino of Brockport.

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