ST. BONAVENTURE (11-6, 2-3 A-10) at DUQUESNE (9-8, 0-5 A-10)
Tuesday, Jan. 23 - 7:00 p.m. 
Pittsburgh, Pa.
TV: ESPN+ 
Radio: Bonnies Online Network

OPENING TIP

• St. Bonaventure wraps up a quick road trip that started Saturday at George Mason with the first of its two yearly matchups with Duquesne as their home-and-home series starts in the Steel City this year.
• Chad Venning is on this week's Atlantic 10 Weekly Honor Roll for the second consecutive week. He averaged 16.0 points, 6.0 rebounds and 3.5 blocks in two games last week, including a game-high 17 points at George Mason Saturday and a career-high six blocks vs. Rhode Island last Wednesday. 
• Charles Pride scored a season-high 25 points in last Wednesday's win over Rhode Island, his best scoring effort since a 21-point game in the season-opening win vs. Longwood. He had 23 games of 20 or more points scored during his four seasons at Bryant. This season, he ranks second among all A-10 players in 3-point percentage (47.7%).
• Pride has just six turnovers in over 451 minutes of game time, ranking fifth nationally in turnover rate. Point guard Mika Adams-Woods also has 61 assists against 24 turnovers. 
• Daryl Banks III scored 15 points in both games vs. Duquesne last season, leading the Bonnies in scoring vs. the Dukes last year. Venning also averaged 13 points and six boards, scoring in double figures in both contests vs. Duquesne in 2023.
• The Bonnies have not lost back-to-back trips to the Steel City since dropping the second meeting of the 2010-11 season and the first matchup of the 2011-12 campaign. 
• A key for the Bonnies could be their ability to get to the foul line - when they get there, they're one of the best in the nation, shooting 78.8% (8th nationally), but their 16 foul attempts per game rank just 260th in the country. 
• Three of the four players who entered the season with the most career points in the Atlantic 10 will be in Tuesday's game: Duquesne's Dae Dae Grant and Bona's Daryl Banks III and Charles Pride (GW's James Bishop is the fourth). 

SERIES HISTORY
This will be the 132nd meeting between the longtime A-10 rivals. St. Bonaventure leads the series, 70-61. St. Bonaventure has won 14 of the last 16, and 20 of 24, but 10 of the last 16 games have been decided by six or fewer points.

In 104 seasons of basketball, the Bonnies have only played Western New York rivals Canisius (171 meetings) and Niagara (161) more than Duquesne. 

St. Bonaventure is 11-2 vs. the Dukes since Keith Dambrot took over in 2017-18, falling in overtime in 2020 at the Reilly Center as well as last year's heartbreaker, 56-54, in Pittsburgh after a win in the first matchup on home court a year ago.

TRENDING NUMBERS 
3  – The Bonnies are doing well both in shooting from beyond the arc as well as limiting opponents from deep. Bona ranks third among A-10 squads in three-point percentage at 37.2% while holding opponents to 30.7% in their long range attempts. For three-point percentage defense, only Richmond (29.7%) and VCU (30.1%) have been better at limiting teams in 3-point tries.
3  – Charles Pride finished with a season-low three points at George Mason over the weekend. Previously this year, he had finished in single-digit points just four times including six points vs. FAU when he was fresh off missing three games due to an ankle injury in December.
10.8  – Bona is averaging 10.8 turnovers per game, which stands 70th in the country out of 362 Division I teams for fewest miscues per contest.
18 – Chad Venning has at least one block in 18 straight games dating back to last year. He also has at least one swat in 26 of the last 27 contests. He had a career-high six blocks Jan. 17 vs. Rhode Island, the most by a Bonnies player since Osun Osunniyi's seven vs. Siena in November 2021.
78.8%  – St. Bonaventure ranks eighth nationally so far this year in free throw percentage at 78.8% on the season. Daryl Banks III is best on the team, sinking 89% of his tries at the line (31-35). 
80  – Moses Flowers joined the starting lineup for the first time this year Jan. 17 vs. Rhode Island, but being in the starting five is hardly anything new for the fifth-year guard. He started the last 11 games of last season and his first start this year was the 80th of his career as he started 66 of 69 games in three seasons at Hartford.
99  – St. Bonaventure's offense produced 99 points in a 99-64 win over Rhode Island, which entered the day 3-0 in the A-10, on Jan. 17 at home. It was Bona's highest scoring game in regulation vs. an Atlantic 10 opponent since Jan. 5, 1981 in a 104-80 win vs. UMass and the most points for Bona in any regulation game since scoring a 102-71 win over Central Michigan Nov. 22, 2016. The Bonnies have now tallied 90 or more points four times this season, the most since hitting that total four times as well in 2016-17. 
4,000 – Daryl Banks III recently surpassed 4,000 career minutes played, a milestone that Charles Pride will also likely match in Tuesday's game. Pride enters the game with 3,992 career minutes across 126 career games while Banks has played 4,054 minutes in138 games.

ABOUT DUQUESNE

• The Dukes enter this week looking for their first Atlantic 10 win despite being picked fourth in the A-10 preseason poll.
• Duquesne's 0-5 A-10 record is a bit deceiving though as three of their conference losses have come by five points or less including a 71-69 loss at Saint Joseph's over the weekend when the Hawks hit the game-winning layup with 0.3 seconds to play.
• Senior guard Dae Dae Grant, who entered the year with over 1,700 career points to lead all A-10 players, paces the team with 18.3 points per game while fellow senior guard Jimmy Clark III adds 16.2 ppg. Grant missed the last two games due to a concussion. Grad forward Fousseyni Drame who, along with his brother Hassan, were teammates with Daryl Banks III at Saint Peter's, recently cleared 1,000 points for his career and leads the Dukes on the boards at 5.4 rpg.