ATLANTIC CITY, N.J. — The Atlantic 10 title is for the taking along with an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament when #4 St. Bonaventure and #3 Xavier take the hardwood.
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Xavier leads the series 24-15, including wins in each of the last 11 meetings. Xavier is 2-1 against St. Bonaventure in A-10 Championship play, although they have not met in the A-10 Championship since the first round in2004.
Mark Lyons led four Musketeers in double figures as Xavier downed St. Bonaventure 77-64 at the Cintas Center earlier this season. The Musketeers shot 27-54 as a team that afternoon and finished with 20 assists. Andrew Nicholson scored 20 on 6-of-12 shooting from the field and 7-of-8 from the line. Freshman, Youssou Ndoye notched a career-best nine points.
TEAM STATISTICS XU OPP
SCORING 2280 2159
Points per game 71.2 67.5
Scoring margin +3.8 –
FIELD GOALS-ATT 809-1773 733-1841
Field goal pct . 4 5 6 . 3 9 8
3 POINT FG-ATT 159-448 202-660
3-point FG pct . 3 5 5 . 3 0 6
3-pt FG made per game 5.0 6.3
FREE THROWS-ATT 503-728 491-664
Free throw pct . 6 9 1 . 7 3 9
F-Throws made per game 15.7 15.3
REBOUNDS 1173 1094
Rebounds per game 36.7 34.2
Rebounding margin +2.5 –
ASSISTS 435 423
Assists per game 13.6 13.2
TURNOVERS 414 406
Turnovers per game 12.9 12.7
Turnover margin -0.2 –
Assist/turnover ratio 1.1 1.0
STEALS 196 209
Steals per game 6.1 6.5
BLOCKS 123 109
Blocks per game 3.8 3.4
WINNING STREAK 3 –
Home win streak 4 –
ATTENDANCE 162474 127767
Home games-Avg/Game 16-10155 12-8388
Neutral site-Avg/Game – 4-6778
Score by Periods 1st 2nd OT Totals
Xavier 1029 1219 32 2280
Opponents 1026 1114 19 2159
TEAM STATISTICS SBU OPP
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SCORING…………….. 2124 1959
Points per game……. 70.8 65.3
Scoring margin…….. +5.5 –
FIELD GOALS-ATT……… 727-1579 675-1611
Field goal pct…….. .460 .419
3 POINT FG-ATT………. 162-474 176-536
3-point FG pct…….. .342 .328
3-pt FG made per game. 5.4 5.9
FREE THROWS-ATT……… 508-672 433-609
Free throw pct…….. .756 .711
F-Throws made per game 16.9 14.4
REBOUNDS……………. 1064 906
Rebounds per game….. 35.5 30.2
Rebounding margin….. +5.3 –
ASSISTS…………….. 413 371
Assists per game…… 13.8 12.4
TURNOVERS…………… 426 383
Turnovers per game…. 14.2 12.8
Turnover margin……. -1.4 –
Assist/turnover ratio. 1.0 1.0
STEALS……………… 173 207
Steals per game……. 5.8 6.9
BLOCKS……………… 122 78
Blocks per game……. 4.1 2.6
ATTENDANCE………….. 51035 89692
Home games-Avg/Game… 13-3926 14-5491
Neutral site-Avg/Game. – 3-4275
SCORE BY PERIODS: 1st 2nd OT OT2 Total
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St. Bonaventure….. 1066 1018 26 14 – 2124
Opponents……….. 904 1026 20 9 – 1959
St. Bonaventure Game Notes
A Matthew Wright jumper puts Bonnies up by 9, 60-51.
A Frease turnover and it is absolutely crazy in here.
Bonnies faithful are extremely loud and are going nuts!!
I can’t believe this!
Lyons fouls out on a play that have a lot of people scratching their heads.
Less than a minute to go and Bonnies lead 63-56.
Lyons clearly fouled Kloof
It is a final!!
St. Bonaventures has won!!
They are the A-10 Tournament Champions and have earned the automatic bid.
Final Score 67-56.
Brother Beh? Are you all right?
Barely!
I’m numb!
It was a great game… I was cheering the Bonnies on because my son is a second semester freshman at St. Bonaventure. Go Bonnies!!!