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Wonder if the students still want UB.

Yes we're rivals. Bona fans like to act like we're not because "history" is the one thing they can hold over our head. It eats them alive that we have the more recent tourney win (nobody counts your de facto home play in game against a UCLA team that got in based on name). We have as many tourney appearances in 4 years as they have in 40. We land better recruiting classes (thus accusations that we're dirty), I mean they start a kid from Amherst that we weren't even bothered to offer. Imagine chanting "we want UB" and then turning around and acting like you don't care about this game because we're not rivals. I've never participated in a "we want Dartmouth" chant.

Nope, just hate them and want to Beat them. Also, aside from beating us they’ve done nothing more impressive than us since the 70s

I don't care if this counts as a quality win at the end of the season or not. This was a great win for UB.

Nothing is sweeter than silencing those shit talking bunch of the Bonnies fans. My goodness.

Boom. On to the next one!

They'll probably want to go drinking tonight

That crowd is great. Can you imagine if alumni had crowds like that?

We are playing Canisius. We asked Niagara to play and they said no.

Statue of Turner Gill? Yes. 100%. At an appropriate time, invite him back to campus and unveil the statue. It is hard to oversell his importance to UB athletics and UB football.

Check it out! http://www.oleantimesherald.com/sports/butler-southern-tier-native-hodgson-making-big-impact-at-buffalo/article_50fdc6d4-fa68-11e8-8ac5-030bb2fc24dd.html i didn’t know Bryan was adopted. He’s done a helluva job. UB is lucky to have such a great stable of coaches.

Who cares, message boards are usually filled with biased pettiness. Its been that way since well forever. I remember how bad the Syracuse message boards were back in like 2002. I actually grew up in a SYR fan household as a kid and I almost gave up on them completely when I joined their message board one year. Ill always give local teams a bit of a nudge in interest if they are in the NCAA's. But its because of the team and not at all for their fanbase... Are we really shocked that the Bona message board is toxic? I mean that is what happens when you feel threatened by a rising local school. They could always deal with Can/NU because those two schools will always have lower ceilings. UB ceiling because of their conference may not be that of Bona because they are in the A-10, but its certainly high enough to scare their fans. Its killing them UB is ranked and they haven't been in forever. But they have been an excellent team a few times in the last 2 decades. Before the welding scandal they were on track to being a regular St Josephs or Xavier. JR Bremer was actually a player I loved watching. I think they might have upset a ranked Uconn team that year too. But man they are garbage for what seemed like forever until maybe Nicholson came along. All that aside, we are better than Bona this year regardless of their decent roster. You need these type of "turning that corner" type of wins to truly break out this year.

This should be a very exciting game for all involved. This UB team does seem to have a different mental makeup from the last few years. They have been battle tested the last few years and have been in tough games on the road. As long as they keep their composure and play their game we should be successful. Go Bulls!!!!

Unlike bonaking here’s some more arrogance and uppitiness from Bona fans just in case you were not already fired up enough for toda’s game. http://bonabandwagon.proboards.com/thread/16336/ub-st-bonaventure-rivals As they say, when you walk the walk, you can talk the talk even if it’s shabby form. Let’s get a W so we can stifle a bit of their chest thumping. And more importantly to continue this great start to the season.

Hi BullsFan, It should be a lot of fun tomorrow. I always thought UB was a potential sleeping giant. Great to see them getting in the top 20. Hopefully, they can maintain and keep Oates around. The grass is not always greener. on the other side. Stockard has made a huge difference in this team. He's a very good player that I think can carve out a nice pro career. No one really talks about his potential at the next level, but I think he's got a good shot.

Thanks for the info. Great post! Enjoy the atmosphere tomorrow. Just hope you’re wrong about the score. Having Bona and UB as teams excelling can only do wonders for college basketball in WNY.

Hi guys. Bona fan here. Should be a great atmosphere here tomorrow. Just wanted to let you guys know that this team has loads of potential. We have two freshmen that will be 4 year starters and all conference players. The 6' 10" freshmen center Osun Osunnyi will be a big time player. Just ignore our start and 4 -5 record. We were missing our two senior leaders(Stockard & Griffin). Huge losses. If we had both of them we would probably have only one loss. It's a team that could be very dangerous and very, very good by March. Should be a lot of fun tomorrow. Love what Oates has done there and glad to see UB emerge as a quality team. If pushed for a prediction, I say Bona wins 83 - 77. Enjoy!!!

It’s a rivalry. We need to start winning to make it a good one.

Again bringing back wonderful memories of great players. Hope years from now fans will be talking about some of the great UB players and share their memories of seeing great basketball. Go Bulls!!!!