Kevin

This is a UB board, not sure why we care about this. Send this to other sports section of the board.

We've apparently never seen the bad days. So close to bringing back Slim Charles and Bodie.

Yikes. None of this is good. Thank god we aren’t on the bubble.

I mean I'd take the double bye all day. I was just stating at least reseed. Mid Major conferences need to protect the top of the conference.

Keep going to the well, huh? When in the world is anyone advocating losing anything by 1? This isn't the regular season? You didn't care during the regular season either, so that's useless to bring up. I think you've also mentioned about us coaching the team? Many people are telling you that Oats (the coach) cares about this. He references his seed, efficiencies, and needing to win more on O/D every single opportunity. I'm not sure what else to tell you. They are currently playing this tournament for their seed (for the first time ever). They've already qualified to be at minimum a 7 seed in the NCAA tournament.

lol, ok, good comparison. Nate would prefer to win and win big and efficiently. No one is saying 40+, but I am saying 18-20 where possible, especially against bad teams. Ask him sometime about how important it is to actually win with metrics. He'll gladly talk to you about it.

They don't all count the same, maybe they did for the 2005 UB team. Nate Oats will tell you himself its about efficient and possession quality. Also, Wofford is a great case study again that you don't only win "nailbiters" against bad teams.

I just think it should reseed after campus games. That's my only change that teams who earned top seeds deserve.

This ain’t it lol. https://www.teamrankings.com/ncaa-basketball/team/buffalo-bulls/bracketology ill trust the site with the data, not the Buffalo Snooze who just started covering us this year

Miami, all day. I hate that quarterfinal matchup but love the rest of the bracket.

nice comments tonight from coach. He's here to stay unless a dream job appears. I spoke with him a bit. He wants to be here.

Transfer to Dunder Mifflin Scranton?

Yeah, I'm in pressers and stuff so by the time those are all wrapped up its empty.

I like Tujautae Williams. I covered him here: https://www.trainwrecksports.com/single-post/2019/01/10/Buffalo-offers-Scholarship-to-Tujautae-Williams

These are two blue-chip prospects. We will go to Agee/T. Williams if either of these two chooses elsewhere. Getting into the final 2 for Noah is awesome. Although we have an uphill battle with Washington. Though Williams has a really good shot to get time here ASAP.

I think its technically worse? They just added social media on recently as an extension.

Be careful. BB will be watching with a camera and ready to report to compliance. I'm being serious, that's probably true. Also, with the game pushed up to 6PM on Friday, the lots are going to be an utter mess. I have no idea how they are going to even work this out with the 6800 people coming.

So 4 out of 18? And losing none of them? We’d played many close games, losing 2 of them. Including two bad games against WMU and Ohio, the bottom of our conference.

Wofford hasn't beaten anyone, but managed 3 Q1 wins by virtue of the SoCon road schedule. That's enough to get you in and more than we have. Furman, ETSU, and UNCG all qualify for Q1 road wins. Wofford went and beat them all by double digits on the road. They've won 18 straight and have all the efficiency numbers to push them to 14th net. Their only 4 losses are to P5 tournament teams. Which is also more than we can say with our losses to NIU/BG. They consistently win by 15+. It really isn't asking much to beat the worst team in the conference by 15+ on the road (after winning by 47 at home).

Slightly true (on the just win part) but still totally different and you know that. Ohio is 181 kenpom. Wofford has proven what you do against lesser competition. They are a good case study. Ole Miss - 44 Min - 45 Oklahoma - 35 Florida - 29 Those teams that lost were not changed much in the overall profile, UB dropped FOUR Kenpom spots with an inefficient win.

Which is where? I park on the stadium side, the front of Alumni (baird/jacobs) are terrible

I mean, if they reach the sweet 16, those are my standards and the ones that Coach Oats tells us in every single press conference that I'm in. Those are the standards set by the team and coach, those are the standards I'm holding them to. If they lose during the second weekend, so be it. A three-point win and much of that game were not to S16 standards. The defense was really bad and I think most of this game thread reflects that. I personally think we are just catching up to the fans of major teams. Go visit an ACC board and its similar. Gone are the days of people saying "oh well" when games are bad.

Holy cow. I don't even know where to begin with this. Another "you can't talk negative" about your team. WHAT? How would anyone ever talk about a game? Cover a game? Tell the truth? This is sports, high-level sports now. We all want the same thing, a championship. There are no participation trophies. This isn't your son's local tee ball league. Now, when we know a player isn't playing to their potential, or well at all, we are allowed to comment on a fan board. There isn't an "ENCOURAGEMENT" only rule. The fact that you wouldn't realize people in an open forum have different ways to process sports is absolutely baffling. Mentioning a player by name and how they are/aren't playing isn't irresponsible at all.

Mental note. We aren't allowed to comment on a team message board about freshman, K got it. These aren't the days of Reggie (where two stars need 3 years to be good). These are 3-4 star recruits who are expected to make contributions, without them, we only have a 7 man roster. The team's "best recruits" ever. Graves was much further in his development through his fresh year than either of these two. Either way, the point remains good luck beating out Grant/Johnson/Rojas/Allen/Caldwell This team is too good to wait. Look at James Jones and James Reese. They are good examples of how progress is needed ASAP on a good team.

Good stuff. I can't believe how bad Segu/Caruthers were yesterday. When Jordan went out, that was a totally different game.