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St. Bonaventure uses big 2nd half to top Ohio 80-70

Adams scores 26 to lead Bonnies


ATHENS - Jaylen Adams scored 26 points, Marcus Posley added 20, and St. Bonaventure pulled away in the middle of the second half to beat Ohio 80-70 on Saturday at The Convo.

Maurice Ndour and Javerez Willis scored 16 points each, Antonio Campbell posted a double-double with 14 points and 14 rebounds, and Ryan Taylor added 11 points to lead the Bobcats (2-3).

"It's a learning lesson," Willis said. "We've just got to start getting better. We were having trouble (playing well) in the first half; now we're (playing well) in the first half. We've just got to learn to put two halves together of solid basketball."

Ohio led 44-41 on a pair of Willis free throws with 17:11 remaining, but it did not score again for six minutes and St. Bonaventure (6-1) scored nine in a row to gain the lead.

The Bobcats were back within a possession midway through the second half, but the Bonnies went on another run and went up double-digits 64-53 on a Posley 3-pointer at the 7:22 mark. The lead increased to as big as 73-58 on another Posley trey with 4:30 to go.

Ohio made a late run, but it was not enough. It scored nine of the next 10 points and got as close as 74-68 with 1:35 to go on a fast-break Stevie Taylor layup. St. Bonaventure made all six free-throw attempts the rest of the way, though, and the Bobcats managed only a pair of Ryan Taylor foul shots.

The first half was back-and-forth with the biggest lead of four held by the Bonnies on a few occasions. Ryan Taylor's layup put the Bobcats up 37-35 and they took a one-point lead into the break.

Ndour hit a jumper, and Willis drained a 3-pointer to give Ohio its biggest lead, 42-36, barely more than a minute into the second half.

Both Ndour (4 of 14) and Willis (5 of 14) needed a lot of shots to get their points, while Campbell was more efficient, going 7 of 11.

"(Campbell) has a big, big upside and has a chance to get himself in the kind of conditioning that would make him an absolute difference-maker," Ohio coach Saul Phillips said.

Overall, the Bobcats were 25-of-61 (41 percent) from the field, including just 5-of-19 from long range.

St. Bonaventure went 25-of-56, with a 6-of-13 clip from 3-point range included. It also held an advantage at the foul line, going 22 of 28, compared to 15 of 22 Ohio.

Adams was 12-of-15 from the foul line and 6-of-7 from the field. Youssou Ndoye, like Ndour a native of Senegal, had eight points and 12 rebounds for the Bonnies.

The Bobcats host Alcorn State at 2 p.m. next Saturday.








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