squire17

How many season ticket seats are there for UB basketball? If there are, say, 2500 season ticket holders and a seating capacity (including SRO) of 6500, that means roughly 4000 available seats each game. I would estimate that over the past eight years the number of times that the ‘True Blue’ student attendance has approached or slightly exceeded 1000 has been, perhaps, 3 times per year. If by changing the venue to KBC one hopes  for a student turnout of 10,000, I would call that dream hallucinatory. Are there any schools anywhere where 10000 of the students attend a basketball game?

I admire the goal of luring top tier opponents here, and, even though I consider Key Bank Arena a poor platform, it would be great to host a doubleheader/tournament there with the blue blood programs. I don’t have faith in that happening.

3 hours ago, weareub46 said:

Why don’t you like the Hilltoppers?

Bearden and Rick Stansbury.

25 minutes ago, UB92 said:

ODU is like "what about us"?  Maybe it will help their CIT ranking...

ODU just beat W Kentucky at home. CUSA is a one bid. Hope it’s ODU or N Texas. Anyone but W Kentucky.

Yup. Never want to see anyone hurt. And as good as Williamson is, Jones is probably their MVP.

When a player that was recruited, signed, coached, nurtured at UB decides to fly the coop - regardless of whether that player was a star a bench warmer or bailed really early - I hope that player falls flat on his face. I will never root for him. He’s a traitor.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=qtYe43v86po

syracuse just knocked off the Dukies at Duke.

Sweet sixteen! Hmmm...quite a nice ring to that. Hope we’re sweet 16 in late March. Please no illness no injuries. Keep your heads on straight and play each game like it’s the last time you’ll be putting on that uniform! Go Bulls!!

44 minutes ago, rma said:

It looks like student season tickets are $150 for basketball.  For STH it's $305 minimum including the service fee.  And I assume that doesn't include women's game too.

Our daughter better pony up then. The single ticket prices are ridiculous.

I’ll take Jordan 8 days a week. Much better defender. As good at dishing. Better at getting to the basket, and better from the outside. Only advantage that Bearden had is he is a much better free throw shooter. Bearden is injury prone and not a guy whom you can count on. Jordan may not have been as highly rated when he came to Buffalo, but I’m glad that he’s a Bull. Bearden...no thanks.

Bulls win by 20+. Western Kentucky loses again. Arizona St loses again. Keep it going.

My wife and I have enjoyed season tickets for the past 8 years in Section 114 Row P...aisle seats. If they tripled the price, it would still be a bargain. Our daughter will be starting a fellowship in Ann Arbor in July. She wanted to know if we would be interested in going to one of the basketball games there. Until she found out the cost - from 5 to 50 times the cost of a UB ticket.

21 minutes ago, weareub46 said:

Idk I could see Marquette jumping us and I’d be ok with that. Still it’s going to be great. If only Kentucky would’ve lost...lol 

I agree ole miss should be ranked and maybe k-state but I don’t think they could jump us 

Let’s go SF tonight!!!

West Virginia is currently 0 - 4 in Big 12. So our victory there continues to lose its luster. Syracuse is currently an 11 seed per Lunardi...on the bubble. Southern Illinois - nowhere. San Francisco has been dropped from the in crowd by Lunardi. A Doms win against the Zags would bolster the Bulls’ body of work, but I suspect that UB will have to win the MAC conference tournament to qualify for the ‘Dance’. The MAC will get 1 bid.

What was capacity before renovation? 

John Groce...he’s a class act.

Akron : Kent St = A. Thug : Thug Lite or B. Thug Lite : Thug

When Perkins hit the deck, visions of Chris Ford tripping up Bob Lanier flashed through my mind. But he seemed to be walking OKwhen he came back to the bench. Can not afford to lose Perk.

17 hours ago, squire17 said:

 The BN is starting to finally give a little bit better press. 

Scrap that. I look in the paper today and it’s got the Miami game at 2:00. 

The Key Bank Center is antiseptic, sterile, and if only 7 or 8 thousand show up, it will look and feel deserted as well. I can’t see a big enough draw for any MAC opponent this year. I don’t know squat about the financial ramifications, but would hope that AA would be SRO for the rest of this year. You’ve got a top 20 team, for crying out loud! If this program doesn’t regress, I can even see the UB townies starting to jump on the bandwagon. The BN is starting to finally give a little bit better press. The key is retaining Oats and crew, and continuing to nurture interest amongst the students. This is getting HUGE AH!!

In calendar year 2018 the Bulls were 31-5. Miami gave the Bulls one of those losses (84-81). Time for payback.

How is this for a ranking prediction? Kenpom.com ranked Illinois 83rd on Nov 8th. After they lost at home against Michigan tonight they are ranked 109th! Illinois is 4-12. They are 0-5 in Big 10. You can’t make this stuff up. If they win a couple more, they’ll be on the bubble. Pathetic...

Those graphs remind me of the dizzy spins.

8 hours ago, skrabukes said:

Worst decision ever. Just drop the ball into the lane. At worst, they grab the ball and score 2 points and the game ends. To throw it far away with a chance to not be touched is moronic. Regardless, incredible play by MU on the inbounds catch and score. Also, Howard is ridiculous.

Totally agree. This one is all on McDermott.

Watched the entire game. Marquette got its first lead in OT. Creighton had the ball and the lead with .6 sec in regulation. Missed how they blew it.  One of the Hauser kids hit a bomb to tie it. Howard is freakish!

I don’t believe the football polls. Does anyone else believe that the Bulls should be ranked as high as they have been by USA Today? 34th doesn’t seem right...nor does 43rd. It was a great year, but I’ll bet there were at least 50 teams from the P5 that would have beaten the Bulls pretty badly this year.

According to the USA Today poll, as of today the only schools ranked higher than Buffalo in both Football and Basketball are Michigan and Kentucky.