TEAM ROSTERS
ST. BONAVENTURE BONNIES
0 Chance Moore G, Sr., 6-6/210, Brookhaven, GA
1 Duane Thompson F, R-Fr., 6-8/210, Boston, MA
2 Jaxon Edwards G, Jr., 6-5/195, Indianapolis, IN
3 Miles Rose G, So., 6-4/195, Rochester, NY
4 Ebrahim Kaba G/F, Fr., 6-9/200, East Orange, NJ
5 Dasonte Bowen G, Jr., 6-2/175, Boston, MA
7 Michael Folarin C, R-Jr., 6-11/225, London, ENG
8 Jonah Hinton G, R-So., 6-3/185, Chicago, IL
10 Lajae Jones G, Jr., 6-7/220, Jacksonville, FL
11 Melvin Council Jr. G, Sr., 6-4/180, Rochester, NY
15 Jack DeRose G, So., 6-0/175, Olean, NY
21 Xander Wedlow PF/C, Fr., 6-10/230, Detroit, MI
23 Noah Bolanga G, Fr., 6-8/180, Poitiers, FRA
24 Noel Brown C, Gr., 6-11/255, Leesburg, VA
30 Broek Ostrom G, Jr., 6-2/180, Holley, NY
GEORGE WASHINGTON REVOLUTIONARIES
0 Trey Autry G, So., 6-4/200, Jamesville, NY
1 Trey Moss G, R-Jr., 6-3/185, Orlando, FL
2 Christian Jones G, R-Fr., 6-2/190, Stratford, CT
3 Darren Buchanan Jr. F, R-So., 6-7/235, Washington, DC
4 Jacoi Hutchinson G, So., 6-3/185, Laurel, MD
5 Gerald Drumgoole Jr. G, Gr., 6-5/210, Rochester, NY
7 Dayan Nessah F, Fr., 6-7/210, Geneva, CHE
8 Zamoku Weluche-Ume F, So., 6-8/220, London, ENG
9 Garrett Johnson G/F, R-So., 6-8/210, Oakton, VA
10 Laziz Talipov G, Sr., 6-1/165, Orlando, FL
11 Ty Bevins G, Fr., 6-5/200, Clinton, MD
14 Keegan Harvey F, R-Sr., 6-11/230, Newcastle, AUS
Mohamed Binzagr G, Jr., 6-2/190, Jeddah, SAU
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TEAM STATISTICS
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GAME NOTES
OPENING TIP
St. Bonaventure returns home to the Reilly Center to host George Washington on Sunday afternoon. The last time the Bonnies were home, they scored a pair of home wins last week, handing Dayton its largest margin of defeat this season in a 75-53 victory last Tuesday before holding off Fordham for a 74-72 victory Saturday afternoon to improve to 5-5 in Atlantic 10 play.
STARTING FIVE
• Bonnies head coach Mark Schmidt scored his 400th career head coaching win in the victory over Dayton Tuesday last week, becoming the 47th active Division I coach to reach the 400-win plateau. Schmidt has scored 319 wins on the sidelines with the Bonnies.
• Senior captain Melvin Council Jr. averaged 15.5 ppg, 7.0 apg and 4.0 rpg in two wins last week. He handed out 14 assists and recorded just two turnovers in the two games.
• The Atlantic 10 ranks seventh nationally as a conference in the NCAA NET rankings and eighth according to KenPom.
• The Bonnies are in the midst of a challenging stretch where they play three out of four games on the road. Beginning Tuesday at Loyola Chicago, the Bonnies next have a week on the road with a Northeastern swing to Rhode Island and UMass before finally returning home Feb. 22 vs. Duquesne. After Sunday, the Bonnies have just two more remaining home contests.
• Lajae Jones is shooting a team-best 54 percent from behind the arc in 12 home games this season (26-48). Jonah Hinton, meanwhile, has drained a team-high 28 triples in home contests. For Hinton, 28 of his 45 total 3-pointers on the year have come at The RC.
SERIES HISTORY
This will be the 68th meeting between the Bonnies and Revolutionaries with GW owning a 37-30 lead all-time in the series. Bona has won 19 of 31 meetings on home court, but GW has dominated in Foggy Bottom with an all-time lead of 23-8 on its home floor.
In recent years, Bona has had the best of the series, winning six of the past seven games over GW prior to a recent run that has seen the Revolutionaries take the past two meetings since Chris Caputo took over. In the last meeting at the Reilly Center, GW handed the Bonnies a heartbreaker in overtime, 83-81. Last year, the Revs scored an 86-75 win on their home floor. The 86 points scored by GW in last year’s meeting represent the most by an Atlantic 10 opponent vs. the Bonnies in a regulation contest in the past five seasons.
ABOUT GW
• Darren Buchanan Jr. was selected to the preseason A-10 Second Team after being named to the All-Rookie Team last season when he averaged 15.6 ppg.
• This year, Buchanan ranks second on the team at 12.7 ppg behind Gerald Drumgole Jr.’s 13.4 ppg. Buchanan also adds 6.9 rebounds per contest while Rafael Castro is one of the A-10’s top rebounders (9.2 rpg).
• GW ranks third in A-10 scoring (75.7 ppg) and fifth in points allowed (68.1 ppg) and limits opponents to just under 30 percent shooting from beyond the arc for the season which stands 28th nationally. They also force more turnovers than any A-10 team other than VCU (13.5) as they lead the league in steals (9.3 spg).
• Assistant coach Dwayne Lee served as a Bonnies assistant from 2017-19 and was on the bench when SBU won a program-record 26 games and beat UCLA in the 2018 NCAA First Four. He is in his third season at GW.
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GAME SCHEDULE
OCTOBER
30 vs. Alfred (Exhibition) W, 63-39
NOVEMBER
4 vs. CSUN ........................ W, 70-56
9 at Canisius W, 87-78
13 at FGCU W, 74-65
16 vs. Le Moyne ................ W, 71-52
20 vs. Mansfield W, 76-54
24 vs. Bryant .........................W, 85-70
ESPN NIT SEASON TIP-OFF
28 vs. Utah State L, 67–72
29 vs. Northern Iowa W, 68-56
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
decEMBER
4 at Bucknell ...................... W, 64-47 7 vs. Buffalo W, 65-55
BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME SHOWCASE 14 vs. Providence W, 74-70 17 at Siena W, 65-48
21 vs. Niagara W, 71-52 31 vs. VCU W, 77-75
january
4 at Fordham ...................... W, 86-66
8 at Saint Louis L, 73-68
11 vs. La Salle L, 83-82 (OT)
15 vs. Richmond ............... W, 63-49 18 at Duquesne L, 75-57
21 vs. George Mason............L, 75-62
24 at VCU L, 75-61
28 vs. Dayton W, 75-53
february
1 vs. Fordham.................. W, 74-72
4 at Loyola Chicago L, 77-53
9 vs. George W. 12:00 pm
12 at Rhode Island .................. 7:00 pm
15 at Massachusetts 12:00 pm
22 vs. Duquesne ................ 4:00 pm 26 at Saint Joseph's 7:00 pm
march
5 vs. Massachusetts 7:00 pm 8 at Davidson ........................ 2:00 pm
12 Atlantic 10 Tournament TBD
FOUR NEW MEMBERS
TO JOIN ST. BONAVENTURE ATHLETICS HALL OF FAME
Four new inductees will join the St. Bonaventure University Athletics Hall of Fame this June as John Closs, ’76 (men’s swimming/track), Christine Hanley, ’11 (women’s lacrosse), Delmar Harrod, ’80 (men’s basketball) and Sean McNamee (men’s swim and dive) have earned selection as the 46th induction class.
This year's induction ceremony is set to take place Saturday, June 7 as part of St. Bonaventure's Alumni Reunion Weekend. The ceremony will be held in the Quick Center for the Arts on campus at a time to be determined at a later date and will be free and open to all.
The new inductees join 159 previous St. Bonaventure Athletics Hall of Fame honorees, continuing a tradition which dates to the inaugural induction class in 1969. Induction into the Hall of Fame recognizes and honors those individuals who have made exceptional contributions to the intercollegiate program at St. Bonaventure University, and who have continued to demonstrate in their lives the values imparted by intercollegiate athletics.
“I’d like to congratulate Delmar, Christine, Sean and John on their selection to the St. Bonaventure Athletics Hall of Fame,” said St. Bonaventure Vice President & Director of Athletics Bob Beretta. “Each personified excellence during their time in the ‘Brown and White.’ There is no higher tribute we can pay to a member of our Bona Athletics family, than to be chosen for this esteemed honor. We look forward to celebrating their induction into the St. Bonaventure Athletics Hall of Fame in June.”
JOHN CLOSS
Closs was a standout of the Bonnies men’s swimming program during the 1970s. He stepped on campus in 1972 and immediately made an impact as a freshman, winning four state titles in the butterfly. He was also part of a state crown-winning squad in the 400-medley relay.
At the time of his graduation, he held seven school records – five individual (100-fly, 200-fly, 50-free, 100-free, 100-breast) and two relays (400-medley relay and 400-free relay). During his Bonaventure career he broke the school’s butterfly records a whopping 11 times and on 10 occasions he set new school standards at the Eastern Intercollegiate Championships. He placed fourth in the 100-breaststroke at Eastern Intercollegiate Championships in 1976 as a senior, becoming just the second Bonnies swimmer to place in the top-six at the meet, breaking current Hall of Fame member and All-American Rich Bohan’s school record in the process.
In 1976, he scored 26 of Bona’s 41 total team points at the Eastern Collegiate Championships, 23 of which came in individual events.
A multi-sport athlete, he also ran for Bona’s track and field team as a sophomore where he competed in the 400-meter hurdles and the long jump.
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ATHLETES OF THE WEEK
The GoBonnies.com Student-Athletes of the Week presented by CPL are women’s track freshman Madeline McKillop and men’s basketball graduate student Noel Brown.
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McKillop had a hand in two school records for the Bonnies at the Youngstown State MidMajor Invitational this past Saturday.
She shattered the school record for the 800 meters, clocking in with an impressive mark of 2:21.27 to stand fourth in Saturday's race of 57 competitors. The Sayville, N.Y. native topped the existing Bonnies record mark of 2:23.64 posted last year by Adria Magnusson by over two seconds and bested her previous PR of 2:25.35 set a week ago.
McKillop also teamed with Magnusson, Jenna Wyant and Madison McMahon to set a new Bonnies record time in the 4x400 relay. Their mark of 4:16.00 easily broke the previous school record of 4:21.59.
Brown matched his career-high of 22 points, adding eight rebounds in a Saturday win over Fordham. He drew 12 foul calls against him, most by any Bonnie this year, and went 8-for-12 at the foul line.
In a win over Dayton last Tuesday, he recorded eight points and nine rebounds to start a 2-0 week for the Bonnies.
For the season, Brown ranks fifth among all Atlantic 10 players in field goal percentage.
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CHRISTINE HANLEY
Hanley stands as not only one of the top women’s lacrosse players in St. Bonaventure history, but one of the most decorated athletes across the board in recent Bonnies athletics memory.
A four-time Atlantic 10 All-Conference selection, she was named First Team All-A-10 in both 2010 and 2011 after being a Second Team honoree in 2009 and an All-Rookie Team pick in her debut season of 2008.
Hanley is the program’s all-time leader in goals with 154 while her 195 total points rank second in Bonnies history only to fellow Hall of Fame member Kelly Chevez. Her senior year, she shared the department’s Letterwinner Award with Anna Cunningham and graduated as the program’s leader for games started (60), groundballs (124) and caused turnovers (88) – totals she continues to rank top-10 in for Bonaventure all-time ranks. She tallied 48 or more points in each of her final three seasons, including 63 as a sophomore in 2009 and 57 the following year.
Following her graduation, she spent time on the sidelines as an assistant coach for the Bonnies.
In the classroom, she was also a standout by earning Atlantic 10 All-Academic Team honors.
DELMAR HARROD
Harrod ranks as one of the most complete all-around players statistically in Bonnies men’s basketball history.
He graduated with 1,378 career points despite sharing the court with fellow Hall of Fame members Greg Sanders, Essie Hollis, Earl Belcher and Glenn Hagan during his Bonaventure career.
Called by legendary coach Jim Satalin as "one of the best forwards to ever play at SBU," he was on the roster for the 1977 NIT Champions as well as the 1978 NCAA Tournament and 1979 NIT squads including a 13-point effort vs. Penn in the ’78 NCAA tourney.
One of seven players to record over 1,300 points and 700 rebounds in a Bonaventure uniform, he shares that distinction with program greats Bob Lanier, Andrew Nicholson,
Essie Hollis, Fred Crawford, Glenn Price and George Carter – all Bonnies Hall of Fame members.
Today, Harrod stands fourth in the Bonaventure career record book for field goal percentage (55.4%), ninth in rebounds (739), and 22nd in scoring (1,378). He played in 113 career games between 1976-80, tied for 21st in program history.
He is also remembered for hitting two of the most clutch shots in program history: a topof-the-key bucket over Syracuse’s Roosevelt Bouie while Bona was down a point to send the Bonnies to the ECAC Tournament finals and onto NCAAs as well as a full-court buzzer-beater at Niagara which helped Bona to another postseason berth.
SEAN MCNAMEE
Perhaps St. Bonaventure’s most decorated coach of all-time in any sport, McNamee helped create and maintain a powerhouse in the pool for Bonnies men’s swimming.
Over his 26-year tenure, McNamee guided the Bonnies to five Atlantic 10 Conference championships and 15 runner-up finishes.
He was named the A-10 Coach of the Year six times, a record for the department, and 74 of his swimmers won gold medals at the A-10 championship meet while four of those earned A-10 Performer of the Meet honors. In addition, McNamee coached the Bonnies to a third-place finish or better in 23 of his 26 seasons at the helm with 40 A-10 Academic All-Conference selections, eight All-Atlantic 10 Rookie performers and four A-10 Most Outstanding performers.
McNamee carried on the storied legacy of his family name at St. Bonaventure. His father, John, and brother, Kevin, are both Hall of Fame members. John was the founder of the Bonnies men’s swimming program while Kevin inherited the reins before Sean’s historic tenure.
A native of Olean, McNamee graduated from St. Bonaventure in 1986. He began his coaching career at West Virginia University as a graduate assistant, then became the head coach at Potsdam before returning to St. Bonaventure as head coach in 1992. He replaced his brother Kevin, who left to become an administrator at George Mason University.
He retired from his coaching role in 2018 and currently serves as Bona’s Associate Athletic Director for Major Gifts.
