PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR After his St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team got knocked out of the Atlantic-10 Tournament Saturday afternoon by Duquesne, head coach Mark Schmidt summarized the result rather simply. “We had open shots — we missed them. They had open shots — they made them,” Schmidt said. “That…
BY WILL POLADIAN, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF In a game where St. Bonaventure only led at the 17:08 mark of the first half, redshirt senior guard Daryl Banks III did all he could, scoring 14 points and going 6-for-6 from the free throw line in a 70-60 loss to Duquesne. “We weren’t good enough and a lot had…
BY: ANDREW HALE, MANAGING EDITOR The No. 7 seeded St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team fell 70-60 to the No. 6 seeded Duquesne Dukes in the Atlantic 10 Semifinal game. The semifinal matchup was the third time the two teams played each other in three months. Bonnies sophomore forward Assa Essamvous drove to the lane, converting…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR NEW YORK — Two games away. For the first time since 2021, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team advanced to the Atlantic 10 Championship Semifinals, defeating Loyola Chicago in double overtime, 75-74, Thursday night. But without late-game heroics from guard Daryl Banks III, Bonaventure’s season likely…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR ST. BONAVENTURE, N.Y. — Despite trailing by as many as 20 Tuesday night in the Reilly Center, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team prevailed over Virginia Commonwealth, 67-62, in a game that featured six lead changes in the final five minutes. The Bonnies’ (13-7, 4-5 A-10)…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR He did it again. Last season, Daryl Banks III dropped a career-high 36 points on Saint Joseph’s, giving the Hawks an extra-long flight back to Philadelphia. On national television Friday night, Banks eclipsed the 25-point mark for the first time this season, again sending the Hawks…
PHOTO COURTESY OF GOBONNIES BY JONNY WALKER, ADVISORY EDITOR ST. BONAVENTURE, NY — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team snapped its two-game losing streak Wednesday night in the Reilly Center with a 99-64 domination of visiting University of Rhode Island. The Bonnies (11-5, 2-2 A-10) jumped out to a 26-point first-half lead, scoring 21 of…
BY JONNY WALKER, EDITOR-IN-CHIEF The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team steamrolled Division III Alfred University 80-41 in the teams’ annual exhibition game Wednesday night at the Reilly Center. The Bonnies bested the Saxons in nearly every key metric, including field-goal percentage (57.1 – 30), total rebounds (37 – 30) and turnovers forced (19 – 11). …
By Jonny Walker, Sports Assignment Editor Just under five minutes into the second half of Saturday’s game against Bowling Green (2-2, 0-0), St. Bonaventure (2-2, 0-0) guard Daryl Banks III grabbed a defensive rebound, pushed the ball up the right sideline and pulled-up from three. Banks nailed the transition jumper with a hand in his…