St. Bonaventure, N.Y. - American Trappist monk, writer, and theologian, Thomas Merton once said, "I had discovered a place where I was to find out something about Happiness," when speaking of his time spent in Olean, New York. Unfortunately, the Fordham men's basketball team didn't have that same experience tonight at St. Bonaventure, falling to the Bonnies, 76-51, in an Atlantic 10 game in the Reilly Center.
With the loss, Fordham falls to 10-12 overall, 3-7 in the Atlantic 10, while St. Bonaventure, the preseason Atlantic 10 favorite, improves to 13-7 overall, 5-4 in the conference.
Sophomore guard
Antrell Charlton led the Rams with 14 points, and he added six rebounds, three assists and two steals, while graduate student guard
Darius Quisenberry finished with nine points before leaving the game in the second half with an injury. Grad student forward
Chuba Ohams added six points and eleven rebounds for the Rams.
The Rams trailed by five at the break, 34-29, but St. Bonaventure opened the second half scoring eleven unanswered points to take a 43-29 lead 3:18 into the half.
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Kyle Rose three at the 14:47 mark cut the Bonnies' lead to 13, 47-34, and the Rams trailed again by 13 two minutes later following a Quisenberry basket but that was as close as the Rams would get.
The Rams got off to a slow start offensively, trailing the Bonnies 14-7 seven minutes onto the game.
Later in the half, St. Bonaventure took it biggest lead of the half, 23-13, with 7:05 left but an 11-6 Fordham spurt cut the deficit to five, 29-24, on an
Antrell Charlton layup with 2:49 left.
Takeaways
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Chuba Ohams recorded his 13th double-digit rebounding game.
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Darius Quisenberry failed to score in double figure for just the second time in 22 games this year.
• It was the first time this year that
Antrell Charlton led the team in scoring.
• Sophomore guard
Albe Evans made his fourth appearance of the season.
• Fordham assistant coach
Tray Woodall served as an assistant at St. Bonaventure from 2019-2021
• The Bonnies entered the game on a two-game losing streak, the first two-game A-10 losing streak since 2018-2019.
• The five St. Bonaventure starters, all seniors, played a combined 182 minutes.
By the Numbers
6 – Different starting lineups used by the Rams this year.
100 – Career blocks for
Chuba Ohams.
620 – Career rebounds for
Chuba Ohams, 19th all-time at Fordham.
1,593 – Career points scored by
Darius Quisenberry.
What's Next?
• The Rams return to action and continue Atlantic 10 play on Saturday, February 12, as they travel to Pittsburgh to face the Duquesne University Dukes in the UMPC Cooper Fieldhouse at 5:30 p.m.
• It will be the third of three straight road games for the Rams.
• It will be the 46th meeting between Fordham and Duquesne on the hardwood.
• The Dukes lead the all-time series, which started in the 1949- 50 season, 28-17, but the Rams took this year's first meeting, 72-71 on January 12 in the Rose Hill Gym behind 16 points from
Darius Quisenberry and 14 points and 16 rebounds from
Chuba Ohams.
• The Fordham win snapped a six-game Duquesne winning streak against Fordham.
