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GAME DAY CENTRAL

St. Bonaventure (13-4, 1-1 A-10) vs. Dayton (13-3, 1-0 A-10)

DATE: Saturday, January 16, 2010
SITE: UD Arena (13,409)
LOCATION: Dayton, Ohio
TIP-OFF: 4:05 p.m. ET
WEB AUDIO: www.DaytonFlyers.com
LIVE STATS: www.DaytonFlyers.com
TV: CBS College Sports Network
Direct TV Channel 613
TALENT: Play-by-Play - Jason Knapp; Color - Ann Schatz
SERIES: St. Bonaventure leads 8-7
LAST TIME: Feb. 4, 2009
St. Bonaventure 55, Dayton 45
UP NEXT: at La Salle
Wednesday, Jan. 20, 2010 at 7 p.m. at Tom Gola Arena

BONA Bullets

• Even with two Bonnies are originally from the Buckeye State - Jessica Jenkins (Marion) and Chelsea Bowker (Salem), the Brown and White are 6-0 at Dayton.
• St. Bonaventure has not won a game inside UD Arena.
• The Brown and White's 52 points are a season-low as the Bonnies shot just 17-of-47 from the field.
• The Brown and White have let three of their last four opponents score more than 60 points.
• Coach Jim Crowley is two wins away from his 125th at St. Bonaventure and three from 165 career wins.
• Senior Dana Mitchell is second in the A-10 in scoring, averaging 17.1 points per game. She has put up 18 points or more in eight out of the last 10 contests.
• Senior Andrea Doneth entered the top 10 list in assists with 273. She leads the team with 54 and is 27 away from moving into ninth.
• St. Bonaventure's 12 non-conference victories matches the program best set by the 2007-08 squad.
• St. Bonaventure's 11-game winning streak to begin the season is a program best.
• The Bonnies have had at least two players score in double figures in each game. In the Christmas City Classic game against IUPUI, four Bonnies scored double-digits.

Head Coaching Match Up
ST. BONAVENTURE HEAD COACH
Jim Crowley
@ St. Bonaventure: 123-154 (10th year)
Overall: 162-204 (13 years)
vs. Dayton: 4-6

DAYTON HEAD COACH
Jim Jabir
@ Dayton: 103-98 (7th season)
Overall: 310-318
vs. St. Bonaventure: 3-3

Scouting the Flyers
Dayton opened A-10 play at GW last Saturday with a tight 59-55 victory. The win was the first time the Flyers beat the Colonials as they were 0-24 all-time against them. squad is receiving votes in the AP and USA Today/ESPN Polls for the ninth consecutive week. Coming off the first postseason win in the program's modern history, Dayton, was selected to finish tied for third in the 2009-10 Atlantic 10 Women's Basketball Preseason Poll. Sophomore Justine Raterman leads the Flyers scoring 12.5 points per game. She also helps on the defense, rebounding 6.1 per game, for third best on the team.

This Day in BONA BASKETBALL
The Bonnies are 2-6 on January 16, dating back to the 1986-87 season - the last actual recorded dates. St. Bonaventure beat Siena 88-79 in 1996 on Jan. 16.

Series Note
The Flyers and Bonnies have split the last four games 2-2 each winning on their home courts.

LAST TIME against the FLYERS
Redshirt sophomore Armelia Horton was the big shot in last season's match up against the Flyers posting game-highs with 13 points and nine rebounds. Nine of the 10 Bonnies to see time in the game registered a bucket.

UNDER PRESSURE
The Bonnies scoring defense ranks 10th in the nation and first in the Atlantic 10 allowing 52.5 points per game. Only five opponents have scored more than 60 points against St. Bonaventure.

Super SATURDAY
St. Bonaventure is 3-0 when playing on Saturdays. The Bonnies beat Saint Louis in the A-10 opener on Saturday, January 9, 75-63.

Breaking the NORM
Virginia was the first team to shoot better than 45 percent against the Bonnies. The Cavaliers 26 made field goals and 50 percent shooting were game-highs for St. Bonaventure's opponents.

SIX Minutes left to Go
The team explodes in the second half, outscoring opponents 580-458. With six minutes left in the second half, the Bonnies have held a double-digit lead in all of their victories except Saint Louis. The biggest lead (31) with six minutes left was against IUPUI at the Christmas City Classic.

It's Raining Threes
The Brown and White have scored at least one three-pointer in 179 games dating back to 2004. The last time the Bonnies failed to convert a three-point basket in a game was on February 14, 2004 against Temple.

In the nation
In the Jan. 11 NCAA statistics, the Bonnies ranked in the top-10 in the nation in four categories 10th in scoring defense (52.2), seventh in field-goal percentage (47.2), third in free-throw percentage (79.4) and sixth in three-point field-goal percentage (41.1).

“Three” to be you and me
Sophomore Jessica Jenkins scored six three-pointers against Virginia to match the ninth spot on the all-time list with 84. She needs 17 more to move into eighth to match former teammate Erica Schiefen's spot with 101.

Minimal MINUTES
No player on the Brown and White is averaging more than 30 minutes a game. Seven of the 14 teams in the A-10 have at least one player averaging more than 30 minutes.

DOUBLE your pleasure, DOUBLE your fun
In each of the Bonnies' victories, the scoring margin has been in double figures. Quinnipiac was the closest win at 77-67 while St. Bonaventure beat Akron and IUPUI by 30 points each.

Now BOARDING
The Bonnies have out-rebounded their opponents in 12 of their 17 contests by an average of 3.7 per game.

Sixth Woman
Freshman Chelsea Bowker has been the Bonnies' go-to woman off the bench. Bowker has a knack for long range to assist in averaging 5.9 points per game, shooting 42 percent from the floor and 44 percent from beyond the arc.