ST. BONAVENTURE — Kaserra Owens is moving up the coaching ranks.
STATE COLLEGE, Pa. — Before Andy Kotelnicki became Penn State’s offensive coordinator, he admittedly didn’t know much about Drew Allar.
FRANKLINVILLE — With her first year with the St. Bonaventure women’s basketball team in the rearview mirror, Franklinville native Dani Haskell is looking to step up as a leader this season for her “hometown” team.
ST. BONAVENTURE — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team has finalized the non-conference schedule for the 2024-25 season.
OLEAN — Shibo Wang had never heard of this tournament.
SALAMANCA — The first-ever season of the Salamanca Lizards franchise is in the books.
Paul Hoffman, an all-time great St. Bonaventure basketball player and member of the 1970 Final Four team, died Saturday, according to media reports.
DANSVILLE — In the final game of their inaugural regular season, the Salamanca Lizards fell to the Dansville Gliders, following a script they have become all-too familiar with this season.
HOUGHTON — The Olean Oilers had a chance to clinch the NYCBL West Division’s No. 3 seed on Saturday, but fell on the road and will enter the playoffs at No. 4.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Having spent his previous years on the college scene learning, developing his game and becoming a multifaceted weapon, Jaxon Edwards is looking to put it all together with the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team.
ST. BONAVENTURE — While he may be new to the roster, Melvin Council Jr. intends to bring a level of leadership and experience to the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team.
DANSVILLE — The Olean Oilers split a doubleheader on the road Sunday afternoon, finishing the day a game above .500 once again.
HORSEHEADS — The Olean Oilers dropped the first game of a scheduled doubleheader Friday and could not complete the second after taking an early lead.
St. Bonaventure alum Charles Pride has earned a spot on the Charlotte Hornets NBA Summer League roster, team officials announced Tuesday.
OLEAN — Sweeping a doubleheader on Sunday, the Olean Oilers extended their winning streak to five games and climbed to within a point of second place in the West Division.
You might not have known it, but there was actually one former Bonnie who wore an NBA uniform last season.
The schedule in January, February and March will look like a mirror for fans of the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team.
HOUGHTON — The Salamanca Lizards did what only one other team in the league has been able to do all season thus far: take down the Genesee Rapids.
Brandon Barrett marvels at the transformation he’s seen in Xander Wedlow over the last four-plus years.
(Editor’s note: The following is the second in a two-part series relating to a recent on-campus panel discussion, featuring Mark Schmidt and Jim Satalin, on the upheaval that has taken place in college basketball. Today: Schmidt’s thoughts on the by-products of the current NCAA climate.)
(Editor’s note: The following is the first in a two-part series relating to a recent on-campus panel discussion, featuring Mark Schmidt and Jim Satalin, on the upheaval that has taken place in college basketball. Today: Some of the general highlights of their conversation.)
DANSVILLE — Despite having lost the hitting battle in both games on the day, the Olean Oilers managed to take one of two against the Dansville Gliders on the road in a Father’s Day doubleheader.
SALAMANCA — In a game that saw over 30 walks combined by both teams, the Salamanca Lizards were the ones that took advantage, winning by a massive margin Sunday over the Horseheads Hitmen.
Detroit high school senior Xander Wedlow has committed to St. Bonaventure University, the latest member of coach Mark Schmidt’s 2024 recruiting class, a source confirmed to the Olean Times Herald Thursday.
ST. BONAVENTURE — There are plenty of evident reasons why Bob Beretta seems like the right person for the job.
SALAMANCA — As the Salamanca Lizards began announcing their players ahead of the season, some were extended a “Welcome” while others were given a “Welcome (back).”
SALAMANCA — After two rainouts delayed the start of the Olean Oilers’ season, they finally got the summer 2024 campaign off with a road win over the NYCBL’s newest team.
By the end of Friday afternoon’s nearly hour-long introductory press conference, Bob Beretta had smiled, laughed, and broke down at least once with heavy emotions on his face.
For the first time since 2019, the Beimel brothers are again sharing the field together with the Olean Oilers, however this time there is a slightly different dynamic between the two.
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ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure University has its new athletic director in 1987 Bona grad Bob Beretta.
ONEONTA — Hartwick College has announced the appointment of Paul C. Vecchio, an Olean native, as its new executive director of athletics, effective July 1, 2024.
Rochester native Melvin Council Jr. is the latest transfer addition to the 2024-25 St. Bonaventure men’s basketball roster, following an NCAA Tournament season at Wagner College.
ST. BONAVENTURE — St. Bonaventure men’s basketball head coach Mark Schmidt has been named the 2024 honoree for the national Coaches vs. Cancer Circle of Honor Dinner at the 24th annual CvC National Golf Classic June 9-10 at Oak Hill Country Club in Rochester.
SALAMANCA — It all started as a summer pick-up league. Players were unable to commit to a full summer’s worth of games, so they would come and go. Some were regulars, others showed up when they could.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Sophomore Noah Czajkowski struck out eight in a sterling performance on the mound and the Bonnies senior class did the rest as St. Bonaventure capped an Atlantic 10 series sweep of visiting Fordham with a 6-5 victory on Senior Day Saturday afternoon at sun-soaked Handler Park.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Let’s forget, for a moment, about the increasingly unscrupulous nature of college basketball.
ST. BONAVENTURE — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball recruiting profile under Mark Schmidt has almost always included at least one of the following type of player in a given year:
ST. BONAVENTURE — The St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team had already made a couple of big splashes during the spring recruiting period.
ST. BONAVENTURE — In two of these last three springs, the St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team has essentially had to build its roster from scratch.
St. Bonaventure has its first transfer portal addition of the 2024 offseason, with the commitment of former Missouri State guard Chance Moore.
ST. BONAVENTURE — Jim Crowley isn’t entirely sure how he’d game plan for Caitlin Clark. “I wouldn’t know until I had to make the decision,” he said from his Reilly Center office last week.
ST. BONAVENTURE — In a season marked by the myriad Ls in the won-lost column, there were slivers, here and there, that could be viewed as real progress during the return season of Jim Crowley.
Women’s basketball has never been more popular, and the numbers back it up.
ALBANY – Gerry and Katie McNamara were at a Jamesville-DeWitt elementary school dance recital for their daughters Maggie and Grace. It was a Thursday night, a little more than a week after Siena College fired its head men’s basketball coach.
If you played a “six degrees of Kevin Bacon” game with this year’s NCAA Men’s Basketball final four, you’d probably be able to make a map of the nation’s Division I colleges.
On March 16, despite an already-stormy season and still-ominous skies, there was, for an afternoon, a sliver of light.
A St. Bonaventure men’s basketball roster exodus continued Wednesday, with sophomore forward Assa Essamvous the latest Bonnie to opt for the transfer portal
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In his first public comments since the controversy over St. Bonaventure’s withdrawal from a potential NIT appearance, university president Dr. Jeff Gingerich appealed to the Bona fan and alumni base in a recorded video Tuesday.
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ST. BONAVENTURE — Joe Manhertz, St. Bonaventure’s athletic director since August 2021, resigned Friday night, the university announced Saturday morning.
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Update: St. Bonaventure University announced Joe Manhertz's resignation as athletic director Saturday morning.
