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https://www.audacy.com/stations/wgr550/shows/the-extra-point-0c7a6/episodes/a5bf26990792 Pete was on WGR today. 11:30am mark

I hope they do nothing. The government should stay out of operations of the public universities unless there is a need to control a major scandal. Chris Christie got involved in the athletic department at Rutgers and messed it up by putting political flunkies in high positions.

I’m too far away to show my support by attending games so contributing this way is the least I can do to help these young women out as they bring a little Blue Collar pride back to the UB hoops program. Go Bulls! 🤘

Up coming home game against Eastern Michigan I have Watson +33.5

Yeah, this sounds way, way better than the Mo-xperience already.

watched him play in HS at St Joe's Prep - wore the prestigious #10 on the same team as Jeremiah Trotter Jr.; All-Ivy LB too - would be a 'smart' pick up.

Looks like the ladies need our help. Kind of surprised the program doesn't have this already but I contributed what I could. Anything to help get them ready for another trip back Cleveland 🤘 https://x.com/UBwomenshoops/status/1753086232110714950?s=20

Get bent RF

Agreed. Zid had a lot of negatives but also a good number of positives that averaged into a below average but decent player. You're right, he'd be the clear best guard on this roster. He was also a junkyard dog and this team could use a half dozen more of those. It's just disheartening to be wishing on massive improvement just to become a middle of the pack team. I like our lone recruit for next year and we'll see what the portal brings, but it's hard not to feel like the cupboard is bare. We need to figure out NIL sadly.

Powell and Hardnett also would have? I feel like people aren't fully grasping how bad this year's team is. Powell was a player everyone complained about last year and he'd be the best guard on this team by a mile and a half. Like many things, college basketball talent is normally distributed. Last year we were somewhere in the middle of the pack where most teams fall and it felt bad. Now we are nearly at the very tail end of the college basketball talent distribution with no sign of water meeting its level analytically, as we are still underperforming projections and still falling. Per KenPom we are closer to the worst team in the country this year (+15.06 AdjEM) than we are to last year's team (-15.25 AdjEM), a performance that got Whitesell fired and was UB's worst in ~20 years. This team would be a 10.5 or 11 point underdog to last year's team. Edit: EvanMiya's BPR is the best all-in-one CBB stat I've found. A BPR of 0.0 is D1 average with a BPRof 1.0 meaning that the player is 1 point per 100 possessions better than an average player. This year's team has 1 player that is considered above D1 average (barely). Shawn Fulcher is rated as the 5th worst player in the country who has played at least 250 possessions. Change is since the preseason. The transfers' current ratings: Jones: 4.70 BPR Hardnett: 1.69 BPR Jack: 1.46 BPR Powell: 1.02 BPR Ceaser: 0.85 BPR Mading: -1.92 BPR Blocker: -2.82 BPR

Chatman didn't play last year - he missed the entire season with a torn ACL. Frankly, he could've been the missing piece that the team needed to get over the hump last year.