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FOXSports.com's Reid Forgrave On St. Bonaventure Men's Basketball

Reid Forgrave of FOXSports.com wrote an article about St. Bonaventure men's basketball, highlighting the Bonnies' chances of making the NCAA Tournament. An excerpt appears below with a link to the full story at the end.

The most remarkable story among the teams who sit on the at-large bubble for the NCAA tournament doesn't come from bluebloods like Syracuse or UConn, nor from historically overachieving small-school powerhouses like Gonzaga or Butler. Nor does it come from incredibly talented underachievers like Vanderbilt, with two possible first-round picks, or like LSU, with the surefire No. 1 pick in Ben Simmons.

Instead, the most remarkable story among possible at-large NCAA tournament teams comes from the most unlikely of places: St. Bonaventure University, a school with the third-lowest enrollment in Division I, fueled by the lowest basketball budget in the Atlantic 10, and in a part of the country that you've probably never heard of and almost certainly never visited.

St. Bonaventure University is currently 20-7, with an RPI of 35 and impressive road wins over Dayton and St. Joseph's. That's the very definition of a bubble team. This comes from a school with an enrollment of 1,678 undergrads, located in southwestern New York just north of the Pennsylvania border and at the center of a triangle between Buffalo, Erie and State College. It's near the picturesque Allegany State Park, tucked between the small cities of Olean and Allegany, in an area with a shrinking population of around 20,000 people.

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