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Atlantic 10 Tournament Central

St. Bonaventure's Top 10 Tournament Notes:
1.  Friday night, St. Bonaventure plays the winner of the Davidson-LaSalle matchup in the quarterfinals of the 2016 Atlantic 10 Championship. A record-breaking regular season culminated with the Bonnies as A-10 co-champions for the first time. St. Bonaventure is the No. 3 seed in the tournament.
2.  This is the first time since 1976-77 that St. Bonaventure has won 20 games in the regular season.  Overall, it is the 14th season of 20 wins or more in school history. St. Bonaventure also set a program record for Atlantic 10 Conference wins (14).
3.  As of March 7, St. Bonaventure is 27th in the Ratings Percentage Index list on NCAA.com. The Bonnies are 3-2 against top 50 teams and 3-2 against teams 51-100.
4.  St. Bonaventure has won its last five games and 10 of its last 11. During the season, the Bonnies had three five-game winning streaks.
5.  St. Bonaventure got two critical wins last week.  The Bonnies defeated Saint Joseph's 98-90 on March 2 at Blue Cross Arena in Rochester as senior guard Marcus Posley scored 47 points, the most scored in a Division I game this season and four shy of the school record. Saturday night, they topped Saint Louis, then watched Dayton top VCU in overtime to create the three-way tie for the regular season title.
6.  Bona's "big three" of senior forward Dion Wright, Posley and sophomore point guard Jaylen Adams is the second-highest  scoring trio in the A-10. The three combine to average 53.9 points per game. They all rank in the top 15 scorers in the Atlantic 10 with Posley (19.3) second, Adams (18.2) fifth and Wright (16.4) 15th.
7.  Adams certainly has played at an all-conference level. His three-point shooting percentage has improved from .324 last year to .448 this season, contributing to his 8.2 points per game jump in scoring. He also ranks second in the A-10 in three-point percentage and assists.
8.  The backcourt tandem of Adams and Posley averages 37.5 points, 8.4 assists and 5.2 three pointers per game. They both shoot better than 36 percent from deep.
9.  Dion Wright has 12 double-doubles this season, the most in the Atlantic 10.
10.  Junior forward Denzel Gregg plays a key role as the Bonnies' sixth man, typically playing starters' minutes.  He averages 9.4 points, 5.4 rebounds and 1.3 blocks per game. 

Schmidt Named Coach of Year; Adams, Posley, Gregg Receive A-10 Awards
Following their most successful Atlantic 10 Conference season ever, three St. Bonaventure players received All-Conference honors, and Mark Schmidt was named the 2015-16 Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year, the A-10 announced today. Sophomore point guard Jaylen Adams was named to the all-conference first team and senior guard Marcus Posley was selected to the second team. Junior forward Denzel Gregg was chosen the co-winner of the Sixth Man of the Year award. Read more

20 Regular Season Wins For Just Sixth Time
This is only the sixth St. Bonaventure team to reach 20 wins in regular season play -- and the first since 1976-77.
20 Win Regular Seasons, St. Bonaventure Basketball History (95 seasons)
Wins       Season                   Postseason
22           2015-16                
22           1969-70                 NCAA
22           1967-68                 NCAA
22           1960-61                 NCAA
20           1976-77                 NIT
20           1958-59                 NIT 

Record For Atlantic 10 Wins
St. Bonaventure's 14 Atlantic 10 Conference wins this season set a school record. The top A-10 win totals and winning percentages in the program's history:
Wins       Season                   W-L  (Pct.)
14           2015-16                 14-4  (.777)
11           1999-00                 11-5  (.687)
10           2014-15                 10-8  (.555)
               2011-12                 10-6  (.625)
               1985-86                 10-8  (.555)
               1982-83                 10-4  (.714)

Quality Wins (6-4 vs. Top 100)
St. Bonaventure has three wins over top 50 RPI teams: Dayton (currently #21) and Saint Joseph's (33) and three more over top 100 teams, GW (63), Davidson (65) and Ohio (80). In all, the Bonnies are 6-4 against Top 100 teams. The Bonnies have also beaten Rhode Island (106), Buffalo (114), and Richmond (124). Five of the Bonnies' seven losses came to top 100 teams including two inside the top 50, Dayton and VCU (41). 

Three-Point Threat
Thanks to a hot streak the last five games, St. Bonaventure now leads the A-10 and ranks 37th nationally in three-point field goal percentage at .380. Over their last five games, the Bonnies made 48 of 103 three-point attempts -- a 46 percent clip. As the season percentage attests, that kind of shooting is not an abberation. The Bonnies have a chance at the school record for three-point percentage of .378 set by the 1988-89 team. 

Third In Nation In Free Throws
Traditionally a strength of Mark Schmidt's teams, St. Bonaventure has taken its free throw shooting to a new level this season. As of March 7, the Bonnies rank third the nation in free throw percentage at 77.7 percent. Guards Jaylen Adams and Marcus Posley both shoot better than 80 percent at the line and are in the top five in the A-10 in free throw percentage. At .878, Adams leads the A-10 and is 16th nationally. 

Offense Trending Toward Best Under Schmidt
The Bonnies are averaging 77.5 points per game, which is on pace for the best average during coach Mark Schmidt's nine seasons. Schmidt's highest-scoring team to this point was in 2013-14 when the Bonnies averaged 73.4 points per game. 

Feeling Confident At A-10s
St. Bonaventure has won at least one game in each of its last three A-10 Tournament appearances. Last season, the Bonnies topped Saint Joseph's before falling to Dayton in the quarterfinals. At A-10 tourney games played at Barclays Center, St .Bonaventure is 3-2.