ST. BONAVENTURE (2-2) vs. BUCKNELL (2-4)
Wednesday, Nov. 22 - 7:00 p.m.
Reilly Center
TV: ESPN+
Radio: Bonnies Online Network

OPENING TIP
St. Bonaventure hosts Feast Week at the Reilly Center as they have a pair of home games sandwiching the Thanksgiving holiday. First up is a date vs. Bucknell Wednesday night with another home game scheduled for Saturday afternoon vs. Miami (OH). 

FEAST WEEK TICKET DEAL
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TOYS FOR TOTS
Wednesday's game will be a Toys For Tots donation night at the Reilly Center. Fans are asked to bring a new toy to donate at one of the entrances which will go to a needy child in the area to help brighten their holiday season.

GAME NOTES

• St. Bonaventure went 1-1 last week in the Legends Classic played at Barclays Center in Brooklyn. The Bonnies advanced to the Legends Classic Championship Game via a 66-64 win over Oklahoma State last Thursday but fell to Auburn in the finals, 77-60. 
• Graduate guard Mika Adams-Woods was named to the Legends Classic All-Tournament Team and is on the Atlantic 10 Weekly Honor Roll this week after a strong Brooklyn performance. He keyed the OSU win with 17 points and averaged 14.0 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.5 assists in the tournament. 
• Adams-Woods also surpassed 1,000 career points in Friday's game vs. Auburn. The Bonnies now have four 1,000-point scorers as he joins Charles Pride, Daryl Banks III and Moses Flowers in the 1K club. Among all Division I teams, only St. John's (6) and TCU (5) have more active 1,000-point scorers.
• The Bonnies continued their impressive play in recent years against power conference opponents. Following the Legends Classic, the Bonnies are 7-4 against teams from the Power 6 in the past three seasons combined. Included in that run are victories over the ACC (3-1), Big 12 (2-0), Pac-12 (1-0) and Big East (1-2).
• The loss to Auburn snapped what was a nine-game winning streak for the Bonnies in multi-team events dating to 2019. In that time, Bona's won three games on the way to last year's Gotham Classic title and also captured in-season tournament championships at the 2021 Charleston Classic (3-0) and the 2019 Boca Beach Classic (2-0). Bona did not compete in an MTE during the 2020-21 season due to the pandemic.
• St. Bonaventure looks to get back on the right track at home following a setback vs. Canisius last time at the Reilly Center. The Bonnies have lost back-to-back home games just twice since the 2019-20 season. 
• Bona played a bit short-handed in Brooklyn as both Kyrell Luc and Moses Flowers dealt with ankle injuries suffered in practice. Flowers returned vs. Auburn after missing last Thursday's game vs. OK State while Luc remains day-to-day.
• Bonaventure is one of just seven teams across all of Division I to return at least 75% of its points, rebounds, assists and blocks from last year, joining Marquette, Wisconsin, Purdue, Columbia, Drexel, Northern Iowa and Saint Joseph's.

TRENDING NUMBERS
7  – Barry Evans had seven rebounds in each game of the Legends Classic vs. both Oklahoma State and Auburn.
19 – Noel Brown played 19 minutes in both the Oklahoma State and Auburn games. He provided valuable bench minutes, posting three points and two rebounds, including a key rebound late in the OSU win, then registered eight points and three boards vs. Auburn.
26  – Noel Brown played a career-high 26 minutes in the season-opener Nov. 6 vs. Longwood. 
40  – Daryl Banks III played the full 40 minutes in last Thursday's win over Oklahoma State. It marks the 20th time that Banks has played the entire game during his 35 career games with SBU.
50  – Mika Adams-Woods registered his 50th career game of double-figure scoring vs. Oklahoma State Thursday.
86%  – The Bonnies return 86% percent of their minutes from last year, sixth-most in the country among all Division I teams according to T-Rank.
167 – St. Bonaventure has an active streak of 167 consecutive games with at least one 3-pointer made dating to Nov. 25, 2017. The last time Bona finished a game without a trey was the day before, a win over Maryland on neutral court Nov. 24, 2017.

SERIES HISTORY
St. Bonaventure leads, 5-2

• Wednesday will be the eighth meeting all-time between the Bonnies and Bison. Although St. Bonaventure has won five of the previous games, they're looking to avenge an overtime heartbreaker on home court in the last meeting. Bucknell scored an 88-85 win on Nov. 7, 2018 in the '18-19 season-opener at The RC, spoiling a night where the Bonnies unveiled their 2018 NCAA Tournament banner. A shorthanded Bonnies squad, which was playing without All-Conference performer Courtney Stockard and also lost LaDarien Griffin to injury in the extra period, saw Bucknell go 5-for-5 from the floor in overtime. That was the first game for then-freshmen Kyle Lofton, Dominick Welch and Osun Osunniyi who would, of course, go on to outstanding Bonnies careers over the next four years.
• The Bonnies are 3-1 all-time on home court vs. Bucknell, first winning the initial meeting between the programs at home on Dec. 3, 1988. Bucknell grabbed a home court victory in Lewisburg, Pa. on Jan. 4, 1990, but the Bonnies won four in a row over the Bison prior to 2018, which happened to be the first meeting between the teams in a decade. The last two meetings have needed extra time as the Bonnies won, 90-82, in double overtime Dec. 30, 2008.

 
ABOUT BUCKNELL

• Bucknell is under first-year head coach John Griffin III who is looking to lead the Bison back to the top of the Patriot League as the program was when he was a player there. Griffin helped the Bison to back-to-back Patriot League titles in 2005 and 2006 when Bucknell beat Kansas and Arkansas in the NCAA Tournament in consecutive seasons. He also helped the program to two more league titles as an assistant coach in 2017 and 2018. Griffin has experience in the Atlantic 10 as well: he served as the associate head coach at Saint Joseph's for the last four years.
• Bucknell lost its top three scorers last year to the transfer portal.
• The Bison won at Niagara, 73-64, on Nov. 11, but that was the squad's only win in their first five games as they fell at home to Delaware (78-57) and on the road at Penn (80-61), La Salle (69-57) and No. 9 Duke (90-60). Bucknell got back on the right side of the scoreboard Monday night, though, as they rallied from down double digits to defeat Southern Indiana, 67-56, behind a career-high 20 points from junior Josh Bascoe. Bascoe played prep at Putnam Science Academy, which has turned out several Bonnies products in recent years including current Bona's players Charles Pride, Barry Evans, Miles Rose and Duane Thompson.
• Senior guard Jack Forrest (16.3 ppg, 6.2 rpg) and sophomore 7-footer Noah Williamson (11.3 ppg, 7.0 rpg) have filled the stat sheet thus far.

 
BONNIES VS. PATRIOT LEAGUE

• St. Bonaventure is 21-16 vs. Patriot League members all-time, having played nine of the current 10 PL members at least once. The Bonnies have winning records vs. American (1-0), Army (2-1), Bucknell (5-2), Lafayette (1-0), Loyola MD (8-1) and Navy (3-1), are .500 vs. Boston (2-2) and only have losing records vs. Colgate (4-7) and Holy Cross (2-3). The only Patriot League team the Bonnies have never faced is Lehigh.

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