ST. BONAVENTURE (3-17, 0-5 A-10) vs. DAYTON (3-13, 2-3 A-10)
Thursday, Jan. 19 – 7:00 p.m.
St. Bonaventure, N.Y. – Reilly Center
TV: ESPN+
Radio: WSBU 88.3 FM

The St. Bonaventure University women's basketball team returns home to host Dayton Thursday, Jan. 19. Tip is slated for 7:00 p.m. at the Reilly Center.

OPENING TIP

• The Bonnies return to home court after dropping two games on the road at Duquesne and Davidson last week. The Bonnies fell to the Dukes, 69-38, and then fell to Davidson, 73-39.
• Breauna Ware led the Brown and White with 13 points and six rebounds against the Wildcats.
• Thursday marks the first game for interim head coach Erica Morrow after being elevated Sunday afternoon.
• Morrow is in her first season on staff with the Bonnies after spending the prior two years as an assistant at her alma mater Syracuse. While at Syracuse, Morrow helped the Orange to an NCAA Tournament berth in 2020-21.

QUOTE FROM COACH MORROW

• "We want to keep the girls together," Morrow said during a press conference Wednesday. "The one goal here, which when I was a player it was the same goal, is you got to have fun with the game. Starting there, making them understand what it takes and to compete and play hard."

BLOCK PARTY

• With four blocks Saturday afternoon at Davidson, I'yanna Lops became the third player in Bonnies history with 100 career blocks with her career mark now sitting at 102. Katie Healy, '16 (155 155 blocks) and Vachelle Manly, '92 (123 blocks) are the only other players in program history with more than 100 blocks.
• The Stamford, Conn. native ranks second in the Atlantic 10 and 11^th in the NCAA with 41 blocks which is three rejections shy of matching her career-high. She also sits second in the A-10 and 25^th in the NCAA with 2.1 blocks per game.
• Lops has 14 games during her Bonnies career with three or more blocks while also registering four games with five or more. Earlier this season at Bucknell, Lops set the single game record with seven blocks.

SERIES HISTORY

• The Bonnies and Flyers meet for the 32^nd time Thursday evening. Dayton owns the all-time series, 21-10, while winning seven straight matchups over St. Bonaventure. The last time the Bonnies defeated the Flyers was Jan. 20, 2016 at UD Arena behind 23 points from Miranda Drummond and 22 points from Katie Healy.

ABOUT DAYTON

• Dayton enters the week 3-13 overall and 2-3 in Atlantic 10 play. UD started non-conference play 0-10 but have won three out of six games since. The Flyers sport virtually an entirely new roster from the previous season in which they finished 26-6 overall and 14-1 in conference play, earning an at-large bid into the NCAA Tournament. Dayton was picked to finish 10^th in the Atlantic 10 preseason poll.
• Tamika Williams-Jeter is in her first season as head coach of Dayton women's basketball after spending just one season as the head coach at Wittenburg. Williams-Jeter went 18-8 during her one season with Wittenburg and is 21-21 overall as a head coach. As a player, Williams-Jeter was the No. 1 recruit in the nation in 1998 and spent the next four seasons at UConn where she won national championships in 2000 and 2002. She replaces Shauna Green who left for the head coaching job at Illinois after six seasons with the Flyers where she went 127-50 during that span.
• Destiny Bohanon leads the Flyers offensively, averaging 12.7 points per game. Mariah Perez (11.0 ppg), Sydney Freeman (10.1 ppg) and Ariana Smith (10.0 ppg) also average double figures for Dayton. Perez is the team's leading rebounder, pulling down 8.3 board per game.

UP NEXT

• The Bonnies remain at home to host Rhode Island Sunday, Jan. 22. Tip is slated for 1:00 p.m. at the Reilly Center.

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