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Offense?! Scored 106 and 78 in Cancun.

Played a great 1st half vs Illinois State. Can certainly strain defenses with his ability to hit the three ball. His continued development on defense will be key.

Lose a game, 9 page game thread. Win a game, 2 page game thread and people still making posts complaining.

19 more to go to get that 20 game win streak

What a nice addition to the Bulls. Maceo has certainly filled the void left by Jayvon Graves. Although he doesn't quite log the minutes that Graves did in his senior year, he has been efficient. His three point shooting has been good at 37% His calm demeanor is strikingly similar to Jayvon's. His 11.8 PPG is currently a career high. What a great move for everyone.

Just seeing this topic now. Coach Quarles had a large role in the success of our offense under Oats. Oats and Quarles together masterminded that beautiful offense and he is young and has plenty of experience. If we were to move on from Whitesell and were to hire from within, he would be smart to give him the nod.

Correct.

The more he plays, the better he will get, he needs to be on the court as much as possible. Having him be a leader in the front court is gonna be key the next couple of years after this season.

Having Nate as your head man, with a tremendously fun offensive system, and a winning program, several NBA players over the past couple of years, combined with the allure of a huge name program in Alabama doesn't hurt your recruiting ability. No knock to BH as he clearly did a great job here and is continuing to do so, but let's not forget those points. If he was at the helm at Canisius, the recruiting ability surely goes away swiftly. One would believe that he'd be able to draw here as he did in the past, but the current staff has been drawing some solid guys as well.

This times 1,000! There’s a reason teams have coaching staffs. The obsession with Hodgson was that he was just named one of the best recruiters in the nation and he’s largely responsible for Alabama having the 3rd best class in NCAA. He’s not just a good recruiter, he’s one of the best in college basketball. That’s a game changing attribute. You can mask his deficiencies by surrounding him with a well rounded staff. After a few years, I’m sure he’d be caught up. I don’t think he’ll ever coach UB but his naysayers are being ignorant if they don’t understand his appeal.

I think it depends on what you mean by actual coaching. Neither Hurley nor Oats were a head coach at the Collegiate level prior to UB. I don’t think that’s a prerequisite for getting the position. If you’re a basketball mind, have good energy, connect with your players, and recruit well you can be a damn good head coach.

Sounds like Brooklyn Bull to me

This isn’t a knock on Bertram…but notice how Skogman (a stretch 4) spaced the floor with his perimeter shooting thus opening the paint for Mballa to do work (where he belongs). Then as the game progressed Skogman’s shooting opened up driving lanes for him off a shot fake. ABC basketball. Want to see more of this. It’s pretty basic concepts but with out athletic ability the basics along with hustle should win most nights.

Nice to see Brewton getting untracked

Can we play St. Louis tomorrow?

He's done much better since then. Knowing what he's capable of, makes the times when he doesn't focus more infuriating.

Things have changed a lot in the past decade or so, and they're never going back to the way there were. Mid-majors are crucified for losing Q3/Q4 games, which unfortunately will happen even if you're a good team. Meanwhile, it's much harder to get quality home games if you're UB, Bona or Murray State, etc. Not too long ago Buffalo hosted UConn and Bona hosted Miss State. That ain't happening again, unless you want a low level P5 at home. The powers know they don't need to schedule a ton of quality OOC games as virtually their entire conference schedule is filled with good games, and they sure as hell aren't going on the road to a mid-major unless the team is amazing (Q1). With conferences likely going to 20 game conference slates, it'll be even harder to schedule going forward. We are living in an age where a P5 can get an at large with 15 + losses...AND STILL AVOID DAYTON! To your point, while it IS possible to get an at large out of the MAC, it is very, very difficult and is only getting harder. You have to be virtually perfect and probably win 30 games with maybe one or two bad losses. I try to tell this to Bonnies fans, but your Q3/Q4 games don't matter...unless you lose. When Bona was rolling through a crappy A10 in 2018, people thought we were a lock after being URI. Unfortunately, that was not true. If we had loss one more game the rest of the regular season, we would have been in the NIT 100%. That's the one thing the separates bubble teams on Selection Sunday. The power bubbles rarely have bad losses, the mid majors usually do have a couple. Add in the fact that mid majors usually get most of the quality games away from home and it makes things so much more difficult to compete for at larges. Sorry for the rant!

Getting an at large bid out of the MAC is extremely difficult. You could likely only afford 1-2 losses max in conference play. Add in the fact you probably have to win every OOC save maybe one or two, and it seems unlikely. Monmouth won what, 27 games a few years back and still got sent to the NIT despite a few good wins OOC. Until the MAC reduces the number of Q3/4 teams in conference, or at least adds to the number of Q1 games in conference play, at an large is extremely difficult.

This is getting ridiculous. SFA winning 20+ games in one of the worst conferences in Div1 hoops has nothing to do with the fact that they are ranked somewhere in the 100-150 range this season. If anyone thought this Buffalo team was going to challenge for an at-large then this loss destroyed that opportunity. Not to mention, we basically just missed the front end of a 1-and-1 because now we get to play #228 Illinois State instead of #94 St Louis. It is an incredibly bad loss and it basically ended anyone's need to watch the rest of the regular season. I still don't understand how anyone can say that this team isn't a complete disappointment so far. We are down in nearly every statistical category YoY - PPG, Rebounding, Assists, Steals, Blocks... and if it weren't for a miracle comeback against UNT we would be 1 and 3. If you told me a couple of weeks ago that we would go 2-2 in our first 4 games and get completely outplayed by everyone except Rider then I would've been pissed. We have started every game completely flat-footed and we look like we don't have a strategy or even an identity yet - which is extremely disconcerting since this is one of the oldest, most experienced teams in the country.

20 to 9 that is the difference right there we can not expect to win if we do not take care of the ball -

Couldn’t agree with you more here. Do you remember when the team actually used to draw charges couple years ago? It’s almost like the coaches forgot to coach this, no one looks to take a charge anymore, and we usually have 4 or 5 called against us every game. It’s a huge factor in college basketball when players only have 5 fouls. That whole blue collar system is out the window now.

Congratulations on 1,000 points 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 Looking forward to a great senior season from him.