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.