Formerly known as the Lightower Conference Classic, the Roc City Hoops Classic is an annual collegiate men's basketball event. The event formerly featured a game played between two Atlantic 10 Conference NCAA Division-I member schools at Blue Cross Arena.[1]

The event, started by St. Bonaventure University, brings NCAA Division-I basketball to Rochester, New York, the largest city in the United States of America without a full NCAA Division-I member school (however the RIT (Rochester Institute of Technology) Tigers have a men's and women's ice hockey program in Division I (Atlantic Hockey) in Henrietta, New York, along with the SUNY Brockport Golden Eagles in women's gymnastics and the Hobart College Statesmen in men's lacrosse (Northeast Conference) in the Rochester area (Brockport and Geneva, New York, respectively). While the early contests featured non-conference games, often with power conference teams, in 2014, with the rise of Atlantic 10 Conference's success in the NCAA National Tournament, the event moved to feature a conference matchup for the Bonnies men's basketball program.

Alesco Advisors is the presenting Sponsor for the event.[2] Lightower Fiber Networks (formerly Fibertech), a Boxborough, MA based provider of fiber networks has held the title sponsorship from 2002-2016.

Classic History

Date Score Bonnies Record Attendance Notes
November 25, 2000 St. Bonaventure 79 78 Charlotte 1-0 6,678 Winning basket in final seconds
November 30, 2002 St. Bonaventure 54 56 Saint Louis 1-1 6,575
December 3, 2003 St. Bonaventure 78 87 #16 Syracuse 1-2 11,650 Blue Cross Attendance Record[3]
November 30, 2005 St. Bonaventure 61 66 West Virginia 1-3 5,162
November 17, 2009 St. Bonaventure 68 69 St. John's 1-4 4,181 Winning basket in final seconds
December 23, 2010 St. Bonaventure 68 76 Virginia Tech 1-5 5,285 Overtime
December 20, 2011 St. Bonaventure 65 67 #16 NC State 1-6 5,802
November 24, 2012 St. Bonaventure 80 75 Niagara 2-6 4,758
January 14, 2015 St. Bonaventure 75 55 George Mason 3-6 4,032 Start of A-10 series
March 2, 2016 St. Bonaventure 98 90 Saint Joseph's 4-6 6,734 Posley scores D1 High 47 points [4]
January 14, 2017 St. Bonaventure 73 53 Fordham 5-6 6,386 National Broadcast on NBCSN[5]
December 16, 2017 St. Bonaventure 81 79 Vermont 6-6 5,828 Winning basket in final seconds[6]
January 12, 2019 St. Bonaventure 71 64 Fordham 7-6 4,914
January 15, 2020 St. Bonaventure 74 61 UMass 8-6 4,276

References

  1. ^ "Lightower Conference Classic To Feature St. Bonaventure vs. Saint Joseph's In Rochester March 2". 24 September 2015.
  2. ^ "Alesco Advisors Named Presenting Sponsor for Annual @BonniesMBB Game in Rochester". 15 June 2017.
  3. ^ "Second Half Run Leads Orange Past Bonnies".
  4. ^ "Saint Joseph's vs. St. Bonaventure - Box Score - 3/2/2016".
  5. ^ http://www.atlantic10.com/pdf9/4971921.pdf[bare URL PDF]
  6. ^ "It's Bonnies at the buzzer as Mobley makes only 3 points of game count against Vermont".
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