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When you are a team playing for a potential at-large bid, every point counts...I believe Oats said something like that a year or two ago. This isn't middle school...if the opposition is still playing hard, you still play hard. Could she have been taken out of the game with a minute to play, sure, but that is on the staff not the player. If you are still in the game, you play hard. Not playing hard on the floor creates more bad habits than "rubbing it in." Also, to say you do not like the way Fair plays...what would you prefer? A less athletic, less confident, less skilled player who contributes fewer points, makes fewer good passes and opens up fewer easy shots for her teammates? If that was the case, UB would be a much worse team.

My key to the game is to score more points that St. Bonaventure. If we do then we will win.

I'm an old fart who attended a lot of those basketball games. The Aud was expanded upward around 1971 (my first year at UB) to 17,000 seats for basketball and a few thousand less for hockey. As fun as those games were, I enjoy AA more. It's far more intimate, and I find the energy from you young whipper-snappers contagious. If you respond, please type loud...we old farts are hard of hearing.

Agree with the comments above by ubbulls08 and TML1000. She is just in her first year but the first time we seen her we all said we had not seen a player with the overall athletic ability she has except for a few UB players. The players and coaches have to know who are the best players on the team and play the game to those strengths. The only player on the team that should possibly take more shots is Onwuka. There players all over the country that are the best players on a team and they are not asked to take less shots. Dillard was a great player but she did not stop taking shots even if she had a tough game. She helped her team in other ways just like Fair does and will in the future with her passing, rebounding and overall play. I only hope more fans will come out to see this team and how Coach Jack makes decisions in games especially without Summer. It is exciting to see the improvement of many of these players and how the MAC season will play out. Go Bulls!!!!

Over the years I got really sick of hearing from old fart Little Three fans whenever the topic of basketball came up, "you know, Bonaventure went to the Final Four in 1970." Again and again, as if you didn't know this. It once had relevance in a discussion; fifty years later, it no longer does. It's usually part of a desperate pining for "the way things used to be." Usually paired with, "in my day, they used to fill the Aud for these games!" HALF A CENTURY AGO, which is nothing to use to brag about anymore. Well, the average fan at a Niagara or Canisius game actually IS old enough to remember such things. Bona fans want to both convince you they're a huge deal (around here) but also poor plucky little Bona (everywhere else). It's gotten old. I agree with those who say, no excuses for the poor support the program gets from the student body over break. Which, by the way, seems to get longer. It feels like they're gone for a third of the season (thanks to that winter session thing?). Once upon a time you could say they stunk, or they weren't interesting, but they've won the MAC, gone to the NCAA's 4 of the past 5 years and won a game in the NCAA's the past 2 years. THAT has current relevance. The excuses over the years, like "they're not good", "they're boring", kinda like what I hear for football ("I don't like the stadium"), for most people that's crap, it's merely that it's easier to sit at home and watch power 5 conferences on TV. You had a perennially competitive team for some time; now you have one that's been winning things for several years, you got what you wanted, no more excuses. How many of these people will make the time and effort over break to go to a day-long Bills game or to a Sabres game, but going to a UB game is too far, no time. Oh and please get rid of the DJ's in the end zone, what's the nicest way I can put this?....they're not helping. See? I made it through the entire post without ripping on Olean.

She's listed as 5th in the nation in shots. Regardless, she created a lot of great opportunities for her teammates over the final 3 quarters today. Schiffer doesn't get those open looks from the corner without her and Hall creating them, the open layups by a few today were great as well.

I guess I never saw going to watch my school/team play a game as a "job". Evidently others do. I never would've even considered that as a thought, seeing as it was a great form of entertainment, while supporting my school, guys/girls/coaches that you saw in class/on campus...and this was during a time period where UB was in a 3rd rate conference (Mid-Con) playing against really trashy teams in league, with a team that was pretty good (at least seemed like it at the time, but would get smoked by the current product).

I've heard that excuse for years. When I went to school there, I still went to all of the games, even over the break. I remember going to a women's game vs. Louisville back in 96 or 97 and there was a total of 20 butts in the stands (it was easy to count them). Now there's a 6 week break, which is basically 7-8 home games for the season, which is close to half of the home games. I looked at the end zones during the last couple of games and there were single digit student numbers, it's just an excuse. There's plenty of students who live nearby. You don't need a t-shirt giveaway to go to the games, go support your teams and school!