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St. Bonaventure Starters: #10 G Jaylen Adams, #3 G Marcus Posley, #1 G Idris Taqqee, #21 F Dion Wright, #20 F Derrick Woods 

The Short Story
For the first time in as long as many fans can remember, St. Bonaventure lost a close game. This one was especially tough to take as the Bonnies dropped a 90-86 overtime decision to Davidson late Friday night in the quarterfinals of the Atlantic 10 Conference Championship. 

The Bonnies (22-8), the co-champions of the A-10 in the regular season, will now see if they receive at at-large bid to the NCAA Tournament.

St. Bonaventure led by 10 points with 6:30 left in regulation, but foul troubles attributed to some offensive droughts down the stretch. Both Jaylen Adams and Denzel Gregg fouled out prior to the overtime. 

The Bonnies held a 75-72 lead after Marcus Posley scored with 33 seconds left in regulation, but Dion Wright was called for a foul on Peyton Aldridge as he attempted a three-pointer. With just 11 seconds remaining, Aldridge made all three free throws to tie the game. Posley had a shot to win the game, but his floater with two seconds left bounced off the rim.

The Wildcats went 3-5 from three-point range in the extra period to hold off the Bonnies. The key shot was a three-pointer by Brian Sullivan that stretched Bona's deficit from 85-83 to 88-83 with 1:11 remaining. 

Wright set career highs in both points (32) and rebounds (15), while Posley also scored 32 points as the senior duo was brilliant all night. Idris Taqqee added nine points while Gregg had six. Adams was limited to three points; he was 1-10 shooting. 

How It Happened:

• Dion Wright led the Bonnies to an early lead, scoring 10 points in the game's first 4:53 as St. Bonaventure started with a 14-8 advantage.
• Davidson surged back and used a 6-0 run to take a 19-17 lead.
• The Wildcats' lead grew to seven points at 29-22 after a Jack Gibbs three-pointer at the 5:28 mark.
• St. Bonaventure responded with six straight points, capped by a three-pointer by Jaylen Adams, to pull within 29-28.
• It was a 32-28 Davidson lead when Idris Taqqee made a three-pointer from the left corner.
• Marcus Posley then drained three-pointer at the 2:22 mark to put the Bonnies back in the lead at 34-32. Posley added another triple 32 seconds later to make it 37-32, and the score remained that way into halftime.
• The Bonnies started hot after the break, scoring seven straight to expand the lead to 44-32 after Posley's three-pointer at the 18:21 mark.
• Davidson trimmed its deficit down to 48-45, but the Bonnies answered with field goals by Wright, Denzel Gregg and Posley – the latter a three-pointer that made it a 55-45 game.
• The Bonnies' lead grew to 12 points at 61-49 with 11:24 left after free throw by Wright.
• Davidson chipped away at the lead, cutting it down to a seven-point Bona lead, but Wright scored to push the lead back to 70-61 with 5:31 left.
• The Bonnies then saw the Wildcats score six straight points to make it a 70-67 game with 3:16 left.
• It was a four-point Bona lead when Sullivan made a three-pointer to bring Davidson within 73-72 at the 2:11 mark.
• Neither team was able to score over the next 1:40 until Posley drove and scored to put the Bonnies up 75-72 with 33 seconds left.
• In overtime, the Bonnies fell behind 83-77 just 1:26 into the extra session as the Wildcats made their first two three-point shots of the stanza.
• Even without Adams and with Posley hobbled by a sprained ankle, the Bonnies cut their deficit down to 85-83 on Posley's layup at the 1:40 mark.
• Sullivan answered with his 30-foot three-pointer.
• Wright scored with 53 seconds left to make it 88-85.
• After Jack Gibbs missed a shot, the Bonnies had a chance to tie but Posley's three-pointer came up short.
• Wright's and Posley's 32 points set a school record for most points in an A-10 Tournament game.

Up Next: St. Bonaventure's postseason hopes will await Selection Sunday.

Post-game Quotes:
Q. Marcus, did you get a sense early in the game when this guy (Dion Wright) got off to such a great start that he was out there possessed with something to prove?
MARCUS POSLEY: "Yeah, that's why we kept going to him. Dion had the hot hand, so every time we got in a two-man game we would look for the throw back, because they were protecting drives a lot, so the throwbacks were open the whole night and Dion took advantage of it, so that's why we kept going to him early. It was the more they sagged off to help Dion on the throw back then we started attacking the basket. It worked out for us for the most part, but just execution on defense, we didn't execute like we were supposed to towards the end of the game."

Q. Coach, the play at the end of regulation, Marcus made that drive and -- was that what you drew up?
MARK SCHMIDT: "Yeah, we put Dion and Marcus in a two-man game, and then Marcus was going to make a play. If he wasn't open he was going to kick it to Dion, stuff that we were doing the whole game that was effective. I thought it was a good shot. It just didn't go in."

Q. Can you talk a little bit about Dion?
MARK SCHMIDT: "He was tremendous. Both him and Marcus were tremendous. Got off to a good start. We knew the ball screen stuff was going to be effective, but I thought Dion played terrific offensively. He's really hard to guard, and we said from day one he's unorthodox, but he puts the ball in the basket. We got off to a good start because of him. Both of those guys who were sitting up here, both our seniors, they helped us get to this point and they've had great careers, great years, but both of them played extremely well tonight."

Q. You guys had pretty good control of the boards early, but it seemed to fuel their comeback when they started getting a lot of offensive boards. Did you kind of feel like the game was slipping then?MARK SCHMIDT: "No, long shots create long rebounds, tight rims, and they got a lot of long rebounds. There was a couple times where they had two or three shots at it. I don't know, I didn't see the stats, so I don't know what the rebounding situation was. Like I said, we don't have anything to be ashamed about. I thought we gave great effort. It was a good college basketball game. Like I said, they made some really good plays at the end to win it."

Q. 64 points from the two gentlemen that were up here with you. Can you talk about just not getting that third guy going, whether it's Jay or someone else?

MARK SCHMIDT: "Yeah, we shot -- yeah, you're right. Jay struggled today. His back has been bothering hima little bit, so he struggled. We didn't have that third and fourth guy like we usually do, and so the load went really on Dion and Marcus. If we could have got a third or fourth guy, that would have helped. But again, we were right there. We had the shot to win the game. You can say all you want to say, but we were right there. It was just -- we just didn't make the play when we needed to and they did."

Q. What's going through your head in terms of thetournament? Is anything at all?
MARK SCHMIDT: "Nothing really goes through my head. (Laughter). No, we're disappointed, and like I said, our goal was to come here to try to win the Atlantic 10 Tournament. That was our goal. And it's disappointing that we lost. Proud of our guys' effort, but really haven't thought about anything besides what to tell the team after the game to make sure they understood how proud we were."

Q. But after all you've accomplished this year, even with a loss tonight, you guys have to feel like you're pretty deserving to hear your name called on Sunday?
MARK SCHMIDT: "Yeah, we hope. As I said, we said that the end of the year we were going to throw our résumé on the table and hopefully itwas good enough. I think being co-champion of the Atlantic 10 speaks volumes. We're one of the top seven conferences in the country. We've had some really good wins against some top-50 teams. I think we're deserving, but I'm just the coach at Bonaventure. I'm not in that room, but hopefully I think we're deserving. But we'll see on Sunday."