Contenders like Bonaventure, Rhody, Saint Louis, Richmond, Dayton and Duquesne each have generals at the point. Even more impressively, all six followed guards who were among their team’s leading scorers.
Dayton has won just one A-10 Tournament game in the last four years. The Flyers were the No. 1 seed in 2016, but fell in the semis. They were the No. 1 seed again in 2017, but lost to No. 9 seed Davidson. A Thursday eight-nine game loss to VCU followed in 2018 before a quarterfinal loss to No. 6 Saint Louis in their only game last season.
Bona couldn’t recover from that run, falling 81-75 in front of a capacity crowd of 5,480 observers. The Bonnies are now 12-8, 4-3 in the Atlantic 10.
The traditional freshman-senior roles were reversed during the last media timeout of St. Bonaventure’s Atlantic 10 Tournament semifinal against Rhode Island on Saturday, and with good reason…
Rhode Island pulled away late in the second half and upended Saint Louis 65-54 Saturday in Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball action at the Ryan Center…
The Bonnies started the contest with energy, jumping out to an early 12-4 advantage. The Rams began to come back and took their first lead of the game with 7:27 remaining in the first. The teams more or less traded baskets for a while, until Rhody went on a 13-0 run to end the half with a 34-20 lead…
Javon Bess matched his career scoring high with 24 points as Saint Louis registered a 60-53 win over Rhode Island Sunday at Chaifetz Arena in the Atlantic 10 Conference opener for both teams…
The bracket for this year’s Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic was announced on Wednesday, and Bucknell will open the tournament against Rhode Island in a battle of 2018 NCAA Tournament participants…
“We knew it was a big game, that Rhode Island is going to win the league, and it was a barometer to find out where we were playing against the top dog…”
Junior forward LaDarien Griffin was the late-game hero, scoring the go-ahead bucket on a dunk off a Jaylen Adams feed with 21 seconds left that put St. Bonaventure in front 75-74…