Roc_City_Hoops_Classic References

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). 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] ttp://www.atlantic10.com/pdf9/4971921.pdf ^{[
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[6] "It's Bonnies at the buzzer as Mobley makes only 3 points of game count against Vermont".

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