Brooklyn Bound Bonnies Face Iona at Barclays Center

[Jack Milko]

BROOKLYN, N.Y. – The St. Bonaventure Bonnies face their toughest test of the season on Sunday at the Barclays Center. No, they do not play a Power Five team. Nor is this a team that went to the 2022 NCAA Tournament. But this team causes a lot of problems. The Bonnies play Rick Pitino’s Iona Gaels, a group that might be the best mid-major team in the country not named Gonzaga.
This game, the first of four at the Basketball Hall of Fame Invitational, tips off at 11:30 a.m. It will air on the YES Network, the television home of the New York Yankees and Brooklyn Nets. If you do not have the YES Network, try downloading the YES app on your television and connecting it to your cable provider.
“[The Gaels] have really good players that are athletic and have good size,” said St. Bonaventure Coach Mark Schmidt when I asked him about this Iona team. “They have outstanding guards that get downhill. They can shoot it. They have a middle game and can get the ball to the basket. They’re good...

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