Olean, N.Y. ? One day after St. Bonaventure players voted to boycott the remainder of the season, the school backed them and said the final two games would not be played.

The school was forced Monday to forfeit six Atlantic 10 Conference wins for using an ineligible player. The Bonnies then voted to skip the rest of the season.

St. Bonaventure was scheduled to play tonight at Massachusetts and at home Saturday against Dayton.

The A-10 also barred the Bonnies from the conference’s postseason tournament for using center Jamil Terrell, who failed to meet NCAA junior-college transfer guidelines.

After the players voted, school administrators and coaches decided Tuesday to support them, school spokesman David Ferguson said.

“With all the attention this has gotten, and the series of decisions that have taken place, (the players) just felt angry, frustrated and confused, and they just didn’t have the enthusiasm or the motivation to concentrate on a game,” Ferguson said.

St. Bonaventure player Robert Cheeks talks with reporters after a meeting Tuesday with coach Jan van Breda Kolff. The team voted in Olean, N.Y., not to play the final two games of its season one day after the announcement was made that the Atlantic 10 Conference was taking away six of the Bonnies' conference wins and barring the team from the postseason for using an ineligible player.

Some players already had left the school campus for spring break, he added.

“I don’t want to put blame on anybody, because I don’t have all the facts yet,” senior co-captain Patricio Prato said Tuesday morning. “This is sad. It stinks, but there’s nothing I can do about it. It’s out of my hands.”

Coach Jan van Breda Kolff declined to comment.