St. Bonaventure is actively lobbying the presidents of the Atlantic 10 universities to ensure that the conference does not drop the troubled men's basketball program.

Bill Swan, chairman of St. Bonaventure's board of trustees, said Tuesday he is contacting A-10 sitting presidents as well as commissioner Linda Bruno during the next week to plead his case leading up to the board's April 1 meeting. Swan said he also asked Bruno if he could attend a meeting of athletics directors at the A-10 tournament in Dayton, but Bruno said his attendance wasn't necessary.

Swan said the school is pushing to be included on the athletic directors' agenda and the Bonnies will likely have some sort of representation.

"We're trying to build confidence and we have been reassured that we'll be OK," Swan said. "The actions we've taken and the decisiveness and severity and seriousness of it all should mean the A-10 and the NCAA would look on us favorably.''

Multiple sources have told ESPN.com that the conference could expel the Bonnies.

"There is no indication that Bonaventure would be dropped from the league," Swan said. "We've been in the league since 1979. This could happen at any school. This isn't about the institution. It's about good people making bad choices.

"My gut tells me it's not going to happen," said Swan, who added that he does not want to challenge any A-10 bylaws through the legal system to keep St. Bonaventure in the A-10.

On Sunday, St. Bonaventure accepted the resignation of school president Robert Wickenheiser and suspended head coach Jan van Breda Kolff, assistant Kort Wickenheiser and athletics director Gothard Lane.

The moves were made as a result of the Bonnies declaring junior forward Jamil Terrell ineligible for failing to meet NCAA junior college transfer guidelines, and the turmoil that followed. St. Bonaventure was stripped of six conference victories and banned from the upcoming A-10 tournament. Last week, the remaining players voted to boycott their remaining two games at Massachusetts and against Dayton.

"The emotion of this is dying down because of the actions we have taken," Swan said. "Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and they won't consider expelling us from the A-10."

Swan said he was told last Monday that the players had met and were considering not playing out the regular season. With Wickenheiser and Lane out of town, Swan said he was told the players desperately wanted to speak with the university's former president.

"We thought they were going to get on the bus for the UMass game Monday night," Swan said. The players left the team meeting with van Breda Kolff, Swan said, to hold their own meeting in player Marques Green's room.

Swan said van Breda Kolff went to the meeting when he had heard the players didn't want to play. When the coach arrived, a few players already had departed for home for spring break.

"In fairness to Jan, he goes over to Marques' room and they want to talk to the president and he was on the West Coast," Swan said. "They didn't have his cell number, and by the time they got it he then had a 45-minute conversation with Marques.

"But the players weren't going to play and that was it."

Swan said there would not be repercussions for the Bonnies who didn't want to play. He said their scholarships would be honored next season.

"That's not the Bonaventure way. We don't say 'you've got to get on that bus or your scholarship is going to be taken away,' " Swan said. "That's not the culture of this university. But we expected the president, the coach or the assistant coach to dig down and show leadership so they would get on the bus for the honor of the school.

"If the right leadership was provided, this would have been avoided."

Andy Katz is a senior writer for ESPN.com.