ubfan75

It erases a totally meaningless loss in a tournament that didn't exist. It improves their record, and that could make a difference in terms of team morale, recruiting, etc.

I’d love to see MAC vacate the few games played by the women in the MAC tournament.

There are plenty of other reasons aside from living in "Bills and Sabres country". If the Bills and Sabres left does anyone believe that AA or a larger venue would be packed with insane fans and a student section bursting at the seams?

Solution: hold tournament at Alumni Arena. Keep Ohio refs in Ohio.

The author has no appreciation of what real slavery is and the horrors of being a slave with no hope of another life. She, like so many others, cheapens a powerful word for her own benefit. Ms. Dickson, you CHOSE to play basketball at this level and you knew it was going to be 4-5 years of sacrifice and physical and emotional strain and even pain. I'm sorry it was too much for you. But you are free to do something that real slaves (and there are millions of them around the world even today) can never do - and that is walk away and lead a free life.

The game is at 2 pm, right? Not 7 pm?

Umm, yeah. She is the worst. But even worse is when one of the other two officials in the same game is nearly as bad. There's no such thing as "conference" on-court officials. Basketball officials are independent contractors (same as the rugby referee society I'm a member of). You'll see some referees like hometown boy Kevin Ferguson do MAC, MAAC, A10 (mostly) games. Some officials do 2-3 games per week, others less frequently. I'm unsure what refs make for MAC games, but Power 5 conferences can pay refs in the thousands of dollars per game; those refs are generally, but not necessarily, more skilled than the refs we get for our Mid-major games. One big problem I see is that our refs seem to think they need to call something/anything - especially where the players Speed, Quickness, Balance or Rhythm (i.e., incidental contact) has not been changed - in order to be considered a "good ref". That's simply wrong.

Hopefully the ladies won't get Steratore for this game - he's fresh off screwing Razorbacks WBB with a criminally bad outing in Florida.

I’ll take that chance.

UB women may not win another game from the looks of how they've played the last 5. Can't run plays. Can't shoot. No go-to player to be "the man" when things start to sour. Folks are fond of saying "wait until next year" but not knowing how Summer will play and with our most dynamic player graduating that is pretty much a fantasy.

Is it over yet? Can I open my eyes?

A: So far, NO.

Women were outclassed today by Toledo. UB‘s poor shooting and inability to defend the 3 sealed their fate. Worse though is almost total lack of team chemistry. It seemed as if every possession began with a plan but then devolved into panicky playground ball. Granted, this might be due to youth and inexperience, but they are 21 games into the season and that excuse is wearing thin. A weak bench (only 8 points today, I think) doesn’t help, the unwillingness of Hannah to shoot 3’s continues to baffle (she has an outstanding stroke), Gaba’s slow hands (she can’t manage to gather rebounds that come right to her) are tough to watch. Fingers crossed that it’ll all come together before tournament time. Finally, it didn’t affect the outcome, but having game killers like Felicia Young and Frank Steratore officiating was not ideal. BTW, I counted 47 bodies aside from the band in the student section. Too bad.

Links to TBN are worthless to those who have enough sense not to subscribe to this rag.

Fair looking angry but focused. Extra pass to Christie was assist of the game.

Agreed. BTW, I really hate the intentional fouling in the backcourt at the end of most games. I'd love to see a rule that modifies that.

No Summer (likely for the season), no Fair (even I would be afraid to back-talk coach Jack) and no Gaba (a coaching decision) made for a tough out against a veteran, athletic team. The good news is that the team fought back to within 5 from a considerable deficit, that Schiffer appears to embrace her current roll as a 3FG specialist, and that Christie has shown steady improvement over the past few months. Finally, the officials are indeed pathetic. The lack of an obvious charge call late in the game really killed any momentum UB had.

Exceptional teams have exceptional coaching, exceptional team leader(s), exceptional athletes, exceptional recruiting, exceptional buy-in from the school and an exceptional fan base. Many other teams, good teams that make the NCAA tournament, can't have all those things but still find a way to play like they do. Poor teams can be missing most of those advantages, but OTOH they also could have many of those advantages but they are negated by destructive elements. I, too, have no idea what's going on with the present team. I see play where they look lethargic, as does the coach. I see times where instead of a player slapping his chest to say "that mistake was on me" he instead openly blames another player. These might be hints...

It was Alnutt who said “It’s not a dollar-for-dollar match, but it’s an opportunity for us to continue what we all think this program can be, a Gonzaga of the world" and that way of thinking was 100% incompatible with the earlier NYBI.

Key Bank arena has 1 concession per 500 seats, and you might even argue that is inadequate. AA has about 1 concession per 1500 seats. The building is not designed to expand concessions. I’m pretty sure there’s no major fix for the traffic problem after the games, but having one way traffic would help for sure.

How is attendance determined since no tickets? I attend every home game but fans are few and far between. I can’t imagine RPI influencing attendance...UB is a perennially mediocre team in a mediocre conference.

As long as the selection committee uses this metric of offensive efficiency, and as long as MAC teams have to scratch and claw and pray for at-large bids, I say “shoot away”.

I’m not sure why we care about A10. We are never giving up football in order to move to the A10.

I believe Oats was referencing "offensive efficiency", a statistic used by the selection committee. That is why so many teams keep several starters or hot shooters on the court in garbage time.

What was the cause?