Theyll be in the Pacific Coast League next season. I'm a college/high school sports enterprise reporter at The Buffalo News. The Bonnies were badly outrebounded, 42-23, with Oregon star and second team USBWA All-American Greg Ballard nearly matching the Bona total with 15 rebounds. On your next view you will be asked to log in or create an account to continue reading. Lanier was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1992. In the end, Lucas collected 21 rebounds and missed only seven shots from the field in scoring 32 points. At one point during the run, the Billikens went without a successful shot from the floor for nearly six minutes. Of course I had kept the copy of The Olean Times Herald on the day after SBU beat Houston for the 1977 NIT championship. They made me so proud. Satalin led a 20-6 squad to Princeton, NJ, to face Rutgers, a matchup with a team that the Bonnies had lost to 374 days prior in the previous season. In three seasons at St. Bonaventure, the 6-foot-11 center became one of its most prolific players and became a hallmark not just of the basketball program but as the longtime face of the schools athletic program. Crawford didnt remember a unique strategy designed to stop Lucas and the other Ohio State stars. A game that St. Bonaventure should have won, remarked Tommasino. He was picked to the SBU Athletics Hall of Fame in 1988 and his No. More than anything else, I was petrified that I wouldnt get on the air or something would go wrong. According to the Bennett Alumni Associations Sports Hall of Fame page, Lanier was an All-High selection as a junior and as a senior for the Tigers, averaging 25 points per game his senior year. The Universitys webpage of Stith offers an apt description: When the game was on the line, he became the Go To Guy, and he seldom disappointed. Win #73 included. He also became the first player in the history of the league to earn four straight Player of the Week awards. NBA Commissioner Adam Silver called the Hall of Fame player among the most talented centers in the history of the NBA, but that his impact on the league went far beyond what he accomplished on the court. Afterward, according to an OTH story, both Bona and Niagara fans stopped by the Niagara locker room to say nice going to a nice guy. The story added that Gallagher was as gracious in beating the Bonnies than he was in his previous nine losses or so to them. $3.00 Had he missed that shot, there was still time for us, he said. The key to SBU's 1970 Final Four team, his No. The 1966 Bennett High School graduate was a three-time Converse college All-America selection who helped the Bonnies reach the 1970 Final Four, and he became a Hall of Famer. In a game with likely NCAA implications, Syracuse enacted revenge in the ECAC tournament game at the Manley Field House in Syracuse in early March. 49-40 (L) Brea Olinda vs. Orange Lutheran. Bona also retired his uniform number, 31. For the second consecutive year, the Bonnies accumulated a winning record but did not receive an invite the postseason; the team failed to qualify for the National Invitation Tournament and, in accordance with school policy, preemptively ruled out participating in either the College Basketball Invitational or CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament.[1]. Lanier was also in the movie, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, about a losing basketball team that attempts to reverse its fortunes with the help of an astrologers advice. Dan Albano has been a high school sports writer at The Orange County Register since 1993. A silky-smooth left-hander with a lethal hook shot and mid-range jumper, Lanier averaged 27.2 points and 15.5 rebounds a game his junior year and 29.1 points and 16 rebounds his senior season. Thank you for reading! He spent the 2018-19 season in the NBA with the Atlanta Hawks. In 32 games (all starts), he averaged 18.5 points and 8.4 rebounds in 30.1 minutes per game. He became an eight-time NBA All-Star who averaged more than 20 points and 10.1 rebounds per game, and had his uniform number (16) retired by the Pistons and the Bucks. The following season in the NCAA Tournament, he poured in 19 points vs. Penn. OC Varsity Scores and Schedules If you have any comments, questions, feedback or corrections for the information related to the scores or schedules, please contact our high school sports department There was a problem saving your notification. Would you like to receive our daily headlines? The Bonnies had just come off consecutive road losses to two Top 20 teams. Looking back 45 years later, Satalin recalled, It was certainly a challenge for me to coach against someone of that stature, but I felt ok going into the game. Athletes also will be tested when they arrive on campus, and they will complete a daily health screen through an app before they attend classes or team activities. He was an intern at The Buffalo News in the summer of 2006, and served as an intern in the Sports Department of the Olean Times Herald his junior and senior years. In his three seasons, the Bona teams coached by Eddie Donovan amassed a record of 62-13, good for a .827 winning percentage. Lanier was a longtime spokesperson and chairman of the NBAs Stay in School program, later renamed Read to Achieve, a year-round initiative supported by all 30 NBA teams, 13 WNBA teams, and 6 NBDL teams that promotes the value of reading and online literacy and encourages families and adults to read regularly with young children. 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A positive test will require each player and staff member on a team to also be tested. The win against Bradley, played before 15,497 in Madison Square Garden, came after it ended the Bonnies season in the 1960 NIT. He was 73. Greg at that point just got ridiculous, Satalin said with a chuckle. The final 14 seconds were sweat-producing, as described by The Times Herald, and found Weise, the 5-11 senior guard and subsequent Bona head coach, sinking two foul shots in the final two seconds to seal the win. 1 overall pick by the Detroit Pistons in the 1970 NBA draft, after a season in which he averaged 29.1 points a game. No, we didnt think about that, Crawford said. Hollis scored 27 of Bonnies first 50 points as they headed into halftime with a comfortable 52-33 lead. He went on to play in the NBA and later, a long and successful professional career overseas. 8. He scored 19,248 points. The 1994-1995 team brought impressive victories to the Reilly Center that included wins over SEC foes Mississippi State and Mississippi as well as over Louisville, Virginia Tech, and VCU. Niagara just had control of the game., Final score: Niagara 87, St. Bonaventure 77. 5. Neither were we, quite frankly, but we and they were able to outscore teams most of the year. Follow us on Twitter Like us on Facebook Send us Feedback 2005- 2023 SportSpyder, LLC All rights reserved. Over his four seasons, Adams helped the Bonnies to 87 wins, which is the most ever for a graduating class. The University at Buffalo athletic department will begin allowing its athletes to return to campus this week to take part in voluntary workout, Some schools are releasing data in the name of transparency, while at least 13 athletic departments at FBS schools,including UB, are citing s, The NFL intends to play games in full stadiums this season. Athlete, coaches and staff members will be required to wear a mask provided by the school, and equipment such as basketballs will be cleaned before and after each practice or workout. Get up-to-the-minute news sent straight to your device. After all, the game was played a month before I was born, well before I remember listening to Don McLean call games as a kid. We were ready, and they didnt do anything we didnt think they were going to do, Billikens coach Travis Ford said. The only thing is that I came close to charging the other player. (renews at {{format_dollars}}{{start_price}}{{format_cents}}/month + tax). A private, giving nature is one of the many qualities that local basketball dignitaries remembered about Lanier, a Buffalo native and a Bennet, The Bonnies will wear commemorative patches that bear Bob Laniers No. He compiles the Hot 150 list of football players to watch in Orange County before each season. On your next view you will be asked to log in to your subscriber account or create an account and subscribepurchase a subscription to continue reading. Despite an overall winning record that included an upset over top-ranked Saint Louis in the A-10 tournament quarterfinals, the Bonnies were not invited to a postseason bid due to an inability to come to an agreement with the College Basketball Invitational. Bonnies coach Mark Schmidt made sure to honor Lanier during his postgame media session. Lanier returned to campus less than two years later, in December 2019, when Bona honored the 50th anniversary of the 1970 Final Four team. In three years (1971-74), Price played his way into the program record book. He realized that the ending to the game nearly 55 years ago could have been different. It was Crawford, however, who kept St. Bonaventure in the game, as he demonized Ohio States zone in scoring 18 points in the first half. Sorry, no promotional deals were found matching that code. Glenn Hagan Thank you for signing in! Get our expert short-term forecast, summary of the weather details and news of any severe weather. After graduating from SBU (1983), I continued to follow the Bonnies. MAAC athletes must also sign a "Social Responsibility Pledge for Covid-19" as a condition of participating in championship competition. Instead a 16-team NIT opportunity awaited. He actually played in the game. Bill Kalbaugh What they got instead was the actual lights going out. I cant sleep thinking about those memories . The point guard of the 1977 NIT Championship team, Hagan established the career assists record for the program with 486 (4.7 apg), a total that still ranks fourth today. 60 in the NET rankings, the sorting tool the NCAA Tournament committee uses in selecting the 68-team field. St. Bonaventure won convincingly at Niagara, 88-68, about six weeks prior. He ranks third in school history in three-pointers with 223 and also stands sixth in career steals (185) and ninth in assists (334). Tournament Game. The 78-73 setback to Wake Forest in the NCAA East Regional semifinals at the Charlotte Coliseum was unique from the outset. The Hagan-Baron backcourt flourished against Villanova, which ultimately finished third in the tournament. I didnt even know at the time I tore my knee up. In fact, I dont think we ever went into a game not thinking that we had the opportunity to win.. Along with an online fan vote and at games this season resulting in over 2,000 votes, a group of Olean Times Herald columnist and former sports editor Chuck Pollock and former beat writer Mike Vaccaro '89 along with current Olean Times Herald sports editor JP Butler '07 and longtime voice of the Bonnies Gary Nease selected from a group of 60 players for All-Time Team consideration. Greg was a very, very good offensive rebounder, so my guess is, in that game, he got a significant amount of offensive rebounds. During his three years of varsity competition, he totaled 1,738 points and ranks eighth in program history. After all, this first visit to the NCAA tournament featured a Bona team ranked as high as second in the country that season. In an 83-79 win against Saint Louis, the Bonnies saw the Billikens outrebound them, outshoot them and outhustle them in the final seven minutes as Saint Louis cut a 15-point deficit to two with 30.6 seconds left. He really had a terrific game, said Tommasino, and pulled the team through it., Looking back, Tommasino saw the season as a pivotal one, describing it as an uplifting year overall. After all, he noted, By those standards of the time, it [an 18-13 record] was a great turnaround for Bona basketball.. The men's basketball team's 2019-20 season ended March 12, before it played its first game in the Atlantic 10 Conference tournament. Weve got a lot of games left. Saint Louis began Monday at No. You can find your account number on any recent subscription notice or bill. I enjoyed the enthusiasm and the friendships that were formed. {{start_at_rate}} {{format_dollars}} {{start_price}} {{format_cents}} {{term}}, {{promotional_format_dollars}}{{promotional_price}}{{promotional_format_cents}} {{term}}, City mourns Buffalo firefighter Jason Arno as investigation into fatal fire launches, Buffalo firefighter makes 'ultimate sacrifice' in blaze that may have sparked backdraft, Paula's Donuts to move Clarence store that faced backlash for tax breaks to Amherst, Vandal damages 'brokenhearted' Russell Salvatore's tribute park in Lancaster, Chad Hall's departure from Buffalo Bills to Jaguars remains a bit of a mystery. (); : 25 was retired in 2007. 53 is retired and he was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1988. In late December of that year, the two universities met for the championship of the highly regarded annual Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Holiday Festival in Madison Square Garden. In three seasons on the basketball court, Carter became a member of the 1,000-point club with 1,322 points and averaged 19.4 points per game. After the final buzzer in the Bradley Center, Tommasino signed off for the final time, taking along the fond memories of many Bona games courtside and a most inspiring NIT win over Southern Mississippi. The campaign for A Bolder Bonaventure Tour Stop: San Clemente, CA 4 March, 2023, 4 30 PM-7 30 PM Join us as we celebrate the beginning of Dr. Gingerich's tenure as president and launch the Campaign for A Bolder Bonaventure, the largest fundraising campaign in the university's history. Abdul-Jabbar said Wednesday in a statement that he and Lanier will be "forever linked" by the Milwaukee Bucks, for whom they both played, and the scene in "Airplane!". Sign Up Today! In 1982, he was the A-10's leading scorer at 18.0 ppg and was an all-conference first team selection. Tom Stith Pacifica Christian (18-5): The top-ranked team in Division 4A closes the regular season against 2A Rancho Christian on Saturday. In addition, only five baskets were scored from the field by both teams in the final nine minutes of regulation. We had been doing pretty good, so we werent about to change our gameplan, he said. That Niagara game jump-started my career at St. Bonas, he said. Lettuce, tomato, onionsa nd sour cream will be included. Yet, to the surprise of many, they did get an NIT invite. The losswhat became the last setback of the 76-77 season may have been historic for St. Bonaventure. A part of that seemed to be the respect given to Coach Gallagher, who was carried off the floor by Niagara fans after the game. Price was inducted into the Athletics Hall of Fame in 1994. Love u big guy . Quick to steal the ball, he was the ultimate playmaker and team player. He just looked at it and thought, Im making this thingits my time and Im making this and thats it. And he didhe had the game of his life.. The University's first consensus All-American, he ranks fifth in program history with 2,052 points including the '59-60 season when he averaged 31.5 ppg, the all-time program record. Because I think that's really important -- legacies and tradition. St. Bonaventure had its own challenge in the first round. If it was a different team that might have been able to milk the clock more or wanted to do that, that might have been [different]. The following games against Oregon and Villanova featured three- and four-point wins, respectively. We still have to handle business, do our jobs.. The Times Herald story related that Satalin juggled his lineup like a master magician.. The Bonnies last loss had come to Niagara on February 11, 1948. A player in the NBA for Washington and New Jersey, Vanterpool today is a well-respected NBA assistant coach, today with Minnesota and previous with Portland. In the latter story, Coach Donovan conceded, We were called with an unusually large number of traveling violations, but I guess we were traveling., The Bona defeat was also mentioned in a 1968 Sports Illustrated story by Curry Kirkpatrick, who described it as a game still remembered for its odd officiating and for a Wake Forest fast break started by the coach from his bench. That specific second-half play, as related in an article years later in The Buffalo News, had the Wake Forest coach taking the ball from one of the Bona guards, who was about to offer an in-bounds pass, and throwing it to Packer for a basket. Thosewho have donned the Brown and White over the past 100 years have created memories to last a lifetime with fans of the program. National media, including Sports Illustrated, headed to the corner of Times Square and Barry Street for the February 25 spectacle. On top of that, he hadnt made a basket the entire game. Havlicek won eight NBA championships with the Boston Celtics, and both he and Lucas were named to the 50 greatest NBA player list in 1997. Winn is also second all-time in steals with 319 and first in steals per game at 3.0 - he's also third all-time in Atlantic 10 career steals. 3. 1. A four-year floor general, Winn was a program-changing recruit for Jim Baron. It took so much pressure off the other guys, he added. The final OSU starter that evening, forward Bobby Knight, later became one of the most winning college basketball coaches in history. Hollis was a second round pick of the New Orleans Jazz in 1977 and also played for the Detroit Pistons (1978-79). During his time with the Bonnies, he sank 192 three-pointers, good for fourth in program history. This outcome was different, however, with Glenn Hagan scoring the winning shot in the 79-77 overtime win. 2. Bob Lanier was a standout at Bennett High School, a superstar at St. Bonaventure, and an excellent pro in the NBA.