Roc City Hoops Classic

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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

DateScoreBonnies RecordAttendanceNotes
November 25, 2000St. Bonaventure7978Charlotte1-06,678Winning basket in final seconds
November 30, 2002St. Bonaventure5456Saint Louis1-16,575
December 3, 2003St. Bonaventure7887#16 Syracuse 1-211,650Blue Cross Attendance Record [3]
November 30, 2005St. Bonaventure6166West Virginia1-35,162
November 17, 2009St. Bonaventure6869 St. John's 1-44,181Winning basket in final seconds
December 23, 2010St. Bonaventure6876 Virginia Tech 1-55,285Overtime
December 20, 2011 St. Bonaventure 6567#16 NC State 1-65,802
November 24, 2012 St. Bonaventure 8075 Niagara 2-64,758
January 14, 2015 St. Bonaventure 7555 George Mason 3-64,032Start of A-10 series
March 2, 2016 St. Bonaventure 9890 Saint Joseph's 4-66,734 Posley scores D1 High 47 points [4]
January 14, 2017 St. Bonaventure 7353 Fordham 5-66,386National Broadcast on NBCSN [5]
December 16, 2017 St. Bonaventure 8179 Vermont 6-65,828Winning basket in final seconds [6]
January 12, 2019 St. Bonaventure 7164 Fordham 7-64,914
January 15, 2020 St. Bonaventure 7461 UMass 8-64,276

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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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