By Chuckie Maggio @chuckiemaggio
For the first time in St. Bonaventure men’s basketball program history, the Bonnies reached 20 wins in a season but will not participate in a postseason tournament.
After Friday’s Atlantic 10 Tournament quarterfinal loss to Rhode Island ended Bona’s chances of getting an automatic bid to the NCAA Tournament, SBU learned Sunday night that it would not be receiving an invite to the National Invitation Tournament (NIT).
At 20-12, with a fifth-place finish in the Atlantic 10, Bonaventure had a case to be one of the 32 teams in the NIT field. However, the Bonnies had no wins over teams in the top 100 of the KenPom ratings. Also, 10 teams received automatic bids by virtue of winning their conference’s regular season championship but failing to win their conference tournament.
Bona has a policy against accepting any invitation to the College Basketball Invitational (CBI), so the careers of seniors Denzel Gregg and David Andoh came to an end on Friday. The brown and white won 20 games in back-to-back years for the first time since the 1976-77 and 1977-78 seasons.
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