bull_trojan

Only problem with sr celebration after the game is you cant storm the court and let the seniors crowdsurf around ala the Watt senior day.

AT OHIO #1

Plus/Minus: game (conference, season)

T1) Massinburg: +11 (+197, +333)
T1) McRae: +11 (+139, +248)
3) Graves: +3 (+150, +273)
4) Jordan: +2 (+187, +376)
5) Segu: 0 (-32, -18)
6) Wiliams: -1 (+10, +26)
T7) Perkins: -3 (+176, +273)
T7) Caruthers: -3 (+141, +208)
9) Harris: -5 (+220, +379)

*One cell was off in yesterday's calculation of conference plus/minus, so the numbers are corrected here. Harris is still #1 in conference and overall, with Massinburg at #2 in conference. Jordan moves within 3 of Harris for the season lead.

Overall UB is +425 on the season and +238 in conference games.

Best line: "Starting lineup" Jordan - Graves - Massinburg - McRae - Harris

This line started the game by going plus 6 plus/minus but after their first 4:18 shift, the line only saw the court one more time for 18 seconds, where they went 0 plus/minus and +1 corsi. In this case, Jordan's injury was probably the main reason our top line saw limited minutes.

Surprising line: "Long, Strong and Wrong" Graves - Massinburg - McRae - Perkins - Segu

Coming into the game this line was -13 plus/minus and -2 corsi on the season, but at Ohio, the line was +4 plus/minus and +2 corsi over 2:02 on court.

Worst line: Massinburg - Harris - Perkins - Segu - Williams

-3 plus minus and -3 corsi over 3:46 on court.

Corsi: game 

1) Graves: +4
2) Jordan: +3
3) McRae: +2
4) Wiliams: -1
T5) Harris: -3
T5) Massinburg: -3
T7) Segu: -5
T7) Perkins: -5
9) Caruthers: -7

Overall UB was -4 in Corsi for the game.

Game MVP: CJ Massinburg

McRae was +11 / +2 but only played 14 minutes. Harris had his 2nd best game in conference play, but his plus/minus and corsi was uncharacteristically way down. 

CJ played 34:11 and while he was on the court UB outscored Ohio by 11, while putting up 3 fewer shots.

During the five times CJ was not on the court, a total of 5:49, Ohio outscored UB by 8 points.

#11 Purdue, #13 Kansas, and #15 VaTech go down

BGSU got Zipped 

#1 Seed

That was like racing a child, knowing you can win while jogging, but the child is right behind you and you're like i should go next gear, but you're like meh i didnt stretch so I'll just try to leg it out with this jog. 

2 minutes ago, UBigbobby said:

Survived.  Very low energy game.  Just zombies for most of it. 

2 minutes ago, bull_trojan said:

Thanks for 2 more points.

Jinxed it.

Thanks for 2 more points.

SAD!

oh Jeremy

I don't know if this game is poorly officiated, but it feels strangely officiated

Wake up 2 at Duke last in the 1st. Ikenna Smart 6 pts, 6 boards

05 is in the past, but it still hurts.

Key lineups:
Jordan - Graves - Massinburg - McRae

+ Harris, The starting lineup was +12 plus/minus and +5 corsi over 11:22 played vs Ohio.

Oats replaced Harris with Caruthers on this line for 2 minutes, and they went +6 plus/minus and +5 corsi.

I'd love to see the starting lineup get UB to a huge lead again, and if Harris shot isn't falling, get Caruthers in to see if that line can continue to perform that well with extended minutes.

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Harris - Perkins - Caruthers - Williams

Was another foursome that dominated vs Ohio.

With Segu, the lineup went +7 plus/minus and +2 corsi over 5:48.

With Graves, the lineup went +6 plus/minus and +1 corsi over 1:22.

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I think having two completely separate foursomes that played so well is why the Ohio game was the most dominate game of the year, and I'm excited to see how our lineups fare against Ohio's gameplan the second time. I think it will tell us a lot about what UB should expect in Cleveland.

3 hours ago, weareub46 said:

I mean I like alumni. I think it’s pretty nice and we just put in a slew of upgrades fairly recently. I would think replacing would cost a ton more money 

I was thinking the time crunch of doing major structural work between March and October would be expensive.. SMU and Houston had to play a season somewhere else... I don't know where we could play that would make sense...obviously we could go Keybank, but goodbye atmosphere.

Also, Alumni has a lot of I assume load bearing columns throughout and a lot of concrete and brick...any move some walls to create space renovations would be costly.  

SMU spent 40 million on a reno, Houston 60 million. For 60 million we could go brand new building and practice courts...

So I guess my question is if costs are the same, would you prefer to trick out Alumni (and spend a season playing at keybank) or do a fairwell season at alumni and move into a new building somewhere nearby in the Athletics area.

Plus/Minus: OOC, Conf = Total.

Harris: +192, +192 = +384
Jordan: +215, +159 = +374
Massinburg: +196, +126 = +322
Perkins: +153, +123 = +276
Graves: +81, +189 = 270
McRae: +10, +227 = +237
Caruthers: +214, -3 = +211
Williams: +47, -20 = +27
Betram: +10, +9 = +19
Johnson: +9, 0 = +9
Fagan: -5, +4 = -1
Segu: -32, +14 = -18

Corsi: OOC, Conf - Total

Harris: +79, +112 = +191
Massinburg: +85, +85 = +170
Jordan: +71, +82 = +153
Graves: +63, +72 = +135
Perkins: +72, +44 = +116
Caruthers: +20, +72 = +92
McRae: +8, +79 = +87
Williams: +14, +9 = +23
Fagan: +5, 0 = +5
Betram: +1, +2 = +3
Segu: +12, -12 = 0
Johnson: 0, 0 = 0

MVP: Harris
Conference Player of the Year: McCrea

Worst lineups:

1) "Long, Strong and Wrong"
Graves - CJ - McRae - Perk - Segu 
OOC plus/minus: -9, corsi -1, time: 0:03:51
conf plus/minus: -4, corsi -1, time: 0:01:51

2) "Big and small ball"
Graves - CJ - Perk - Caruthers - Segu
OOC plus/minus: -11, corsi -1, time 0:08:56
conf plus/minus: -2, corsi 0, time: 0:03:16

3) "Breaking them in before handing them off to DC in 19-20"
CJ - Perk - Caruthers - Segu - Williams
OOC plus/minus: +1, corsi +2, time 0:06:31
conf plus/minus: -12, corsi -5, time: 0:07:45

4) "The real starting lineup if CJ didn't exist"
Jordan - Graves - Harris - Perkins - Williams
OOC plus/minus: -11, corsi -1, time 0:05:50
conf plus/minus: 0, corsi +2, time: 0:02:46

5) "Effort without results"
CJ - Harris - Perk - Caruthers - Williams
OOC plus/minus: -9, corsi +5, time 0:06:55
conf plus/minus: -5, corsi +2, time: 0:02:59

Finally all caught up.

Best lineups:

1) "Battle for the 6th man of the year lineup"
Jordan - CJ - Harris - Perk - Caruthers 
OOC plus/minus: +30, corsi +15, time: 0:59:58
conf plus/minus: +63, corsi +14, time: 1:06:54

2) "Starting lineup"
Jordan - Graves - CJ - McRea - Harris
OOC plus/minus: +31, corsi +21, time 0:46:56
conf plus/minus: +40, corsi +25, time: 1:21:30

3) "Long and Strong"
Jordan - CJ - McRae - Harris - Perk
OOC plus/minus: +31, corsi +1, time 0:18:43
conf plus/minus: +29, corsi +9, time: 0:14:41

4) "The real starting lineup"
Jordan - Graves - CJ - Harris - Perk
OOC plus/minus: +23, corsi +13, time 1:09:14
conf plus/minus: +17, corsi -6, time: 0:59:50

5) "The FT lineup"
Graves - CJ - Harris - Perk - Caruthers
OOC plus/minus: +2, corsi +11, time 0:22:31
conf plus/minus: +10, corsi +8, time: 0:41:41

4 hours ago, rma said:

We had over 7k for Obama in '13, and more for the NIU game 15 or whatever years ago, so I think we're good with maximum capacity.  My problem is we can stuff more people in where there are empty seats.

They should put those portable bars from the Army football game in the corners

sad what's happening in Ohio... all I read at BA is how the once great atmosphere has died off. How does that happen so quickly? Just wrong coach at wrong time?

I don't really see any upside to renovating vs replacing, unless there is some structural or nostalgic value in keeping the bones or location of current Alumni.

10 hours ago, rma said:

Flint Village is never the only parking lot available. Center for Tomorrow always has parking. There are lots in Ellicott that have parking. The stadium lot has parking, as does the Govonor’s E lot. There has been exactly one time that I remember every spot on campus being full and that was freshman move in day 2013 when Obama came to town. Shitshow doesn’t even begin to describe it.  The football game later that year when we hosted ranked Baylor on a Friday didn’t even fill up the lots.

Unlike many universities, UB is covered in parking spaces, which makes people think that they have to get a spot that is close to their classes. In reality, many schools have less parking (and less centralized parking) so you have to take a shuttle from your parking spot to campus. If you think of the CFT lot as a lot where there’s always parking and just factor that 10-15 minute shuttle wait into your commute, you’ll never complain about parking again.  If for some crazy reason CFT ever gets full, you can park on the street on Amherst Manor Rd, or in the Northtown Center lot.  It’s a 10-15 minute walk to the spine (I used to do that walk every day for 2+ years).

UB is full of smart students that will do great things after graduating. However, every time that I see somebody complain about how they spent an hour looking for parking I wonder if the admissions standards are too low.

I'm on career University #5 and UB is far and away the best and cheapest parking school I have been at. As an always late commuter student however, you play the game between risk "looking" for a good spot close or take the far spot and walk (and then see 12 open spots closer)" As we're in the digital age, an automatic mobile spot counter would be a great solution, as I'm driving up, if I could see on my phone that my preferred lot has only a few spots open, or many spots open, I can make an informed decision that can save me minutes.

Oh and I guess my commute to school at UB was 5 mins, so 10 mins looking for parking or walking to class feels like an eternity, the other 4 I probably had an hour commute at each, so 10 mins looking for parking is a write off. Finally, I've been staff at the other 4 institutions and they dont have the reserved staff lot, I want that sweet sweet reserved Faculty staff parking at UB.

Being there live, it all just happened so fast, I don't remember wanting us to take a timeout, kinda wanted the clock to just bleed out and for us to escape. 

TBatts final shot was cold blooded and gets lost in the loss.

36 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said:

Yea but...the ACC is not gonna want little ole us. The ACC is massive as it is. 

I think the best conference is the Big East. Geographically makes sense. We would move up to a good basketball conference that may be looking to expand. But I just found the problem with the Big East...no football. Ugh. Which takes it back to the Big 10. 

It's incredibly sad that the Big East let themselves get destroyed, NE teams thought the move to the ACC would open them up to Florida talent, but I think the opposite has occurred, Northern talent has gone south and fueled their renaissance..leaving the Northeast schools with the scraps...which fortunately for us, has helped Buffalo compete in the northeast and now we're arguably the best school in the Northeast this year in FBS football + Basketball*.
 
The thing I like about the AAC is it has destinations. Bills fans look forward to trips to cool destinations like Miami, New Orleans, LA etc...and UB could capture some of that if every road game wasn't in Ohio.

What they lack in proximity, Houston, Dallas, Orlando, Tampa, Memphis and New Orleans are at least cool destinations.

*10 Football Wins - 20 Basketball wins Club
Northeast
Buffalo

Southeast
UCF
LSU
Ga Southern

Midwest
Cincy
Michigan
Kentucky

West
Utah State
Fresno
Washington

Watchlist
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Syracuse (19 wins)
Oklahoma (18 wins)
Texas (16 wins)
Ohio State (18 wins)
UAB (17 wins)
Florida (17 wins)
Alabama (17 wins)

11 minutes ago, UB85 said:

Who put this out?

Just my picks. Last week I gout 7 of 17 picks (including UB) correct.