St. Bonaventure's N.C.A.A. Double Feature St. Bonaventure doesn't get to celebrate many moments of basketball glory, but suddenly, it's luck has runneth over. Not only has the women's team risen to a new level, grabbing a No. 5 seed in the N.C.A.A. tournament after a 29-3 season, even after losing the conference tournament final to Dayton, but the men's team made a surprising run through the Atlantic 10 tournament and grabbed an automatic bid when it toppled Xavier in the final on Sunday. So, in tiny Olean, N.Y. (pop. 14,452), fans have twice the reason to throw themselves a party this week. About 2,000 of them gathered in the Riley Center to watch the women's tournament selection show Monday, when the Bonnies received their first N.C.A.A. bid ever and found out they would play No. 12 seed Florida-Gulf Coast in the first round in Tallahassee, Fla. on Sunday. They were there to cheer the men's team too, which had arrived home by bus from the conference tournament in Atlantic City in the wee hours of Monday, only to find several hundred students at the arena to greet them at 2:30 a.m. "Who would have thought?" said J.P. Butler, who covers the St. Bonaventure men's team for the Olean Times Herald. I don't think this ever happens again. The women have had a good season and we've known they were going since February, but then the men go on this incredible run over 48 hours. It's all anybody is talking about. I think most people are taking the rest of the week off. The men's team is seeded No. 14 and will play No. 3 Florida State Friday afternoon in Nashville. The Seminoles are coming off a surprise win in a conference tournament as well, having knocked off North Carolina to win the Atlantic Coast Conference title, but the Bonnies know a little something about playing up. Many of their conference rivals have much more lavish facilities and recruiting budgets and did not take seven-hour bus rides home from their tournament. The Times Herald got a bit of a star power boost too. It found out that St. Bonaventure alum Mike Vaccaro, a columnist for The New York Post, would be in Atlantic City and asked if he would write a story for the paper. When the Bonnies won, it was featured on Page One. Vaccaro had written in The Post in February the pride he had for his alma mater's rebound. The last time St. Bonaventure made this much news, it was of a much different sort. Back in the 2002-3 season, the men's team had boycotted the final two games of its season in the midst of a scandal over player eligibility that landed them with N.C.A.A. sanctions. For the N.C.A.A. tournament, Butler and Times Herald sports managing editor Chuck Pollock are on their own to cover the men's and women's teams. Both will be in Nashville for the men's round of 64 game and Pollock will head to Tallahassee for the women's opener, Butler said. Normally, the paper employs a student to cover the women's team by watching video streaming of the games and talking to Coach Jim Crowley afterward. Butler covers the men's team at home and on the road. Now, he and Pollock have their hands full. So do St. Bonaventure fans.