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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