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I don’t think he’ll get a long leash at Auburn. A lot of boosters want Gus gone

lol @ Leipold’s statement, reminds me of what Evans said when he was trying to leave. 

9 hours ago, John said:

The Canisius, Niagara and Bona women are really bad with no big time players or impact players. 

It's telling when the women's game to sweep the Big 4 is over at tip off.

Nice recap.  With UB's success this year (both men's and women's + football) I haven't paid too much attention to the rest of the Big 4 this year.  Pretty disappointing to see the other schools struggle this season after such good records last year.

If UB stays in the top 25 multiple years, we can build a good college basketball culture in Buffalo.  But this is unrealistic - the rest of the Big 4 needs to be at least around the NIT level.  There's no reason why any Big 4 team should not sell out most home games given the population of the Buffalo metro area and talent of UB/SBU.

6 hours ago, verandaman said:

He will want to play and all the marquee programs have better options than betting on a "project".

I don't disagree with you on Tyree, but it worked for Minshew this year.  I don't think WSU would take Tyree given their roster situation (2 RS-Sr QBs next year), but Tyree would do so well in that offense.

Dillard played 19 minutes total and scored 26 points

Bonaventure played 0 minutes total and managed to score 43 points

Real talk I don't think I've ever seen as many air balls as bona threw tonight.  Not even good shots, just something to say they put one up in the air.  At times we would leave their players wide open for a three and they wouldn't even attempt it, electing to move up for the mid range jumper or pass it.

Bona also dressed 10 players, 12 total on the team (scholarship limit for WBB is 15).  With all due respect to the 4 cut sports, I am glad that we put some form of resources towards more than one sport here.

Close one at the half: Cierra Dillard 20 - St. Bonaventure 17

11 minutes ago, UBigbobby said:

Blow out crap FCS and MAC teams and when they face anything resembling a real test the wheels fall off.

We beat 8-4 Temple

We must have offered 5 different big guys last spring and couldn't get a single one to sign with us.  So much for the UB Bag Man that Bona thinks exists.

8 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said:

Its nice knowing we control our own destiny.

Well this is true for every sport and every team.  If you win your conference you can compete for the championship.

I'm glad that such a system exists that even the lower conference schools can have a shot at winning it all.

wait a second........

This is where Alnutt needs to advocate to the University for some money.  We have proven that we can have success in multiple sports - do we linger around in the MAC or push for something better?  This is regardless of what happens with Leipold - right now I think we give him a small raise and maybe another year or two.  I'm not impressed with the coaching, especially given the talent we have.  I feel like I said this 5 years ago (minus the extension part).....

The SIU basketball game I talked to a couple of alumni in their forties who seemingly haven't been on campus in a couple decades.  Our alumni donations/engagement is towards the bottom of the AAU.  This is how we get alumni back on campus.

I'm very excited for the Canisius game.  Hoping that there's a lot of UB blue in the crowd.

18 minutes ago, dutchcountry7 said:

Over 3,000 in attendance!  That rivals the men’s games. 

 

Impressive!

A decent amount of that was schools that brought their kids to the game (Stanford's coach's alma mater seems to have brought the entire school).  However I'm not discounting the public turnout.  I think that was the first time I saw people in the 300's for a women's game.  We also got the last of the shirt giveaways 20+ minutes before tip.

FLJ is building a heck of a WBB culture here in Buffalo.  I'm excited to see it grow.

2 hours ago, ed said:

We’ll definitely drop down in net once conference play starts, no might about it. 

So this is what it's like to play in the Pac 12

Conference play we can give Jeenathan and Rondo some decent minutes though.

Get me UB (blue) vs Canisius (gold) again 😍

Highly doubt GA is sold out.  They haven't been selling anything except the 300's online for some reason

5 hours ago, ChubbyHubby said:

One silly question.  Do we now have to root for Cuse to win so that our win against them looks better?  That's gonna be a tough one.

Or we can win vs Marquette and root for them

1 minute ago, BrazenBull said:

I think CJ was caught up in the moment, waving to someone in the stands, and realized that he'd unintentionally been dismissive of Boeheim. 

Oh yeah, I completely agree.  I was thinking of it more as one of historically the best coaches in college basketball recognizing a great player (that kicked his team's ass).

Love 1:24:20.  CJ does a haphazard handshake to Boeheim.  Boeheim grabs his hand and says "good job"

Sold out. See y’all there

We are the best MAC team right now, but that doesn’t mean we run through MAC play. Remember we lost @NIU last year

2 hours ago, Jeseph said:

Hey, we travelled WELL for this one. Listen to the crowd in this one http://www.espn.com/video/clip?id=25569529

The little whimper that dumb orange does during the Jordan 3 is perfect.  Might need to gif that

Might have just been where I was sitting (ok I admit, I used an expired UB ID to get $10 tickets) but it did not feel like we had that much of the crowd.  We had a decent crowd, but that sounded like a home game.  Also huge shout out to True Blue keeping it loud the entire game.

We got GA tickets, but the Canisius ticket office was still selling reserved as of last Monday.

Planning on getting there close to doors and being behind the UB bench next to section 5. I figure they wouldn’t allow UB to take over an entire set of baseline bleachers though we probably have the numbers to. 

On 12/12/2018 at 10:51 AM, Kevin said:

I think you can always get GA by calling the ticket office, I enjoy the view for $15

1-877-UB-There

Is this for the SU game?  Seems like SU sells tickets for $20 + fees, haven't seen anywhere for $15.

I stupidly didn't buy tickets when they were $9 on stubhub...

1 minute ago, bull_trojan said:

I think it's because we're missing open shots. I think we could have scored 100 in most of our games if we hit our shots, of course we'd have probably called off the dogs and put in the subs after scoring like 80 anyway... 

I stand by the idea that right now we all -9 to the score. When we're even we feel like we're down 9. When we're up 9 it feels even. When we're up 15 I'm up on the edge of my seat like it's a two possession game. Bona hits a 3 to bring it to 12 and I'm like uh oh...then I realize, it's still a 4-6 possession lead, and then we hit back to back 3's.

I love this team.

I've had to stop myself from surrender cobra-ing when our lead gets down to 6 or 7.  We are so spoiled.