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Two wins away from title, Bonnies return home to host George Washington
By CHUCKIE MAGGIO
The St. Bonaventure Bonnies make no bones about it: they scoreboard-watch like the rest of us.
“We’ll be in the back of the bus or in the locker room checking, or at the houses watching games and checking scores, stuff like that,” Dominick Welch remarked. “Just keeping ourselves updated.”
The scenario is simple now, simpler than it was when St. Bonaventure split the Atlantic 10 regular season title in 2016. The Bonnies have the right to cut down a net at the Reilly Center and claim the outright No. 1 spot if they win two home games against 3-4 George Washington and 8-7 Dayton.
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Four years ago, The George Washington University was coming off an NIT championship and optimism for the future of the program was in the air. It was great to see from my alma mater.
A couple months later, head coach Mike Lonergan was fired after allegations of verbal and emotional abuse of players on the team. From there, the team struggled to be relevant with the team bottoming out at 9-24 in Maurice Joseph’s final season before he was let go.
Last year, things seemed to turn the corner with the announcement of Jamion Christian as the new head coach. The DMV native took on the role with enormous enthusiasm that had the fanbase fired up. Christian inherited a team that had some great returning pieces and exciting freshmen, including Jameer Nelson Jr. and Jamison Battle. The Christian Era got off to a rocky start in 2019 with early losses to Towson, American, Morgan State, and UMKC. It seemed like every Jon Rothstein “e