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St. Bonaventure Starters: #3 G Marcus Posley, #10 G Jaylen Adams,  #21 F Dion Wright, #23 G Andell Cumberbatch, #35 C Youssou Ndoye

The Short Story:
St. Bonaventure dropped an 82-77 decision at Delaware on Tuesday night, falling to 7-4 on the season.  The Blue Hens, who were 0-10 coming in, shot 54 percent from the field including 10-17 (58%) from three-point range. 

The Bonnies led 63-54 with 9:12 left in the game when Delaware began to mount a comeback and St. Bonaventure went cold. The Blue Hens scored 12 unanswered points to take their first lead of the half at 66-63 with 6:01 remaining. The lead grew as large as six with 2:09 left, but the Bonnies fought back to make it a 75-74 game on a Dion Wright layup with 1:10 to play.

Delaware went ahead by four before Jaylen Adams converted a three-point play with 18 seconds left to again pull the Brown and White within one, but Delaware went 4-4 at the free throw line after that. Marcus Posley, who led the Bonnies with 22 points, got off a three-pointer that would have tied the game with four seconds left but it missed to the right. 

Dion Wright scored 16 points and grabbed eight rebounds, while Andell Cumberbatch had 15 points. Youssou Ndoye grabbed a game-high 12 rebounds and scored six points. 

How It Happened:

• The Blue Hens hit a pair of early three-pointers and jumped out to a 12-8 lead.
• Iakeem Alston came off the bench to spark St. Bonaventure with a steal and four quick points that tied the game at 14.
• Midway through the first half, Marcus Posley got hot and fueled a 13-0 run that saw the Bonnies turn a three-point deficit into a 33-23 lead. Posley had five of his 14 first-half points in the surge.
• Delaware answered, however, and closed the first half on a 12-4 run to make it a 40-38 game at halftime. In the first half, the Blue Hens made six of their 10 three-point shots.
• St. Bonaventure started out quickly in the second half and opened an 11-point lead by the first media timeout at 53-42.  Posley scored six points in the first five minutes of the half.
• The Bonnies maintained control through the mid-point of the second half, using Delaware turnovers to score. For the game, St. Bonaventure scored 26 points off of 18 Blue Hen turnovers.
• Cumberbatch slammed home a dunk off a Posley feed that made it a 61-51 game with 10:27 left.
• Cumberbatch's score with 9:12 remaining made it 63-54, but St. Bonaventure did not score again until the 5:35 mark. Delaware went on a 12-0 run to take a 66-63 lead with 6:01 left.
• The Bonnies fell behind by as many as six points, trailing 75-69 after a layup by Marvin King-Davis with 2:09 to play.
• The Bonnies cut the margin down to one on two occasions, the last after a three-point play by Jaylen Adams with 18 seconds remaining.
• After two Delaware free throws put the Blue Hens ahead 80-77, the Bonnies ran a play for a Posley three-pointer, but his contested shot was just off to the right side.
• Delaware sealed the win with two Anthony Mosley free throws.
• St. Bonaventure attempted a season-high 80 field goals, connecting on 32 (40 percent). Bona went 5-15 from three-point range.
• Delaware outscored the Bonnies 14-8 at the free throw line and blocked 11 Bona shots.

Beyond the Box Score:

• This was the second game in a row that the Bonnies have surrendered 82 points and allowed their opponent to shoot over 50 percent from the field.
• Posley now has six 20-point games this season, including three in a row.
• With 12 boards, Ndoye extended his streak of double-digit rebounding games to nine. The A-10's leading shot-blocker had also three rejections.
• Adams, playing close to his hometown of Baltimore, had eight points and four assists in 23 minutes as he was saddled with foul trouble.
• Iakeem Alston, who is also a Baltimore native, provided 17 solid minutes in relief of Adams with four points and four assists.
• St. Bonaventure's 14 steals and 17 assists are both season highs.

Up Next: St. Bonaventure begins Atlantic 10 Conference play this Saturday, Jan. 3, at UMass. Tip-off will be 4 p.m. at the Mullins Center.