Why Did ‘Woj’ Take a 99% Pay Cut? To Save the Team He Loves.

Adrian Wojnarowski at a home game at St. Bonaventure on New Year’s Eve.Adrian Wojnarowski is trying to help St. Bonaventure’s tiny basketball program thrive in the scary new world of college sports.

Adrian Wojnarowski at a home game at St. Bonaventure on New Year’s Eve.Credit...Jonno Rattman for The New York Times

Bruce Schoenfeld, a contributing writer, has been writing about basketball for the magazine since the mid-1990s.

Jan. 22, 2025

One Wednesday last month, Adrian Wojnarowski made the three-hour drive from his home in northern New Jersey to Pennsylvania to see his St. Bonaventure men’s basketball team play at Bucknell. Wojnarowski is the St. Bonaventure general manager, but until…