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Seriously? Even coming off the fumble, we had all 3 timeouts left. At least try to get in position for a field goal!

Yikes. And BSU gets first ball in the 2nd half. Yikes.

6 minutes ago, squire17 said:

Why did Buffalo challenge that TD? There is no way to determine that it was or wasn’t a TD.

We didn't challenge, it was a booth review.

Hopefully with a few games under his belt now, Brewton can step up and be the zone-buster we'll need him to be. Rondo should be good for some drive-and-kick action, just need to cash in. 

It's too bad this has to overlap with the Bills game. Start time should line up with halftime of that game, but will have to make it a 2 screen experience for the 2nd half.

12 minutes ago, MuchMany said:

I'm excited for him still. Has a bit of Lou Williams to his game, instant offense. Not sure we've had a guy like him in a while.

We heard you the first 3 times 😜 (glitch I assume)

Interesting game so far, some sloppy play and took 12 minutes for any of our guards to score, yet we're up 13. I'll take that shooting percentage/rebounding margin any day.

At the 10 minute mark: Jeenathan Williams 12, Miami 10. His 3 point stroke's looking good. Rest of the team needs to pick it up

On 6/25/2020 at 4:25 AM, DocCas86 said:

Nigel John will begin his collegiate career at Clarendon College.  Wish this young man success.

Wow, all that only to end up in JUCO with our old Coach Jenkins. Probably not the worst decision with all the uncertainty right now, hope he finds the right situation from here.

8 minutes ago, Jeseph said:

Would he have transferred to us if he had to sit? Or did Jenkins get him under the notion that “I can get you on the floor”

Guess we'll never completely know. Without "testimony" that he was being forced out at TTU, it seemed reasonable that he would have to sit out given that he played in about half their games (even in very limited minutes) including the tourney game against us. But I also see Dutch's point - while not on that scale, violations like this can be a slippery slope.

27 minutes ago, Bill said:

Just realized we beat out ole miss for both Robinson and Zachery 😃

I'm sure they never thought they'd see the day we'd be legitimately competing with them for recruits. 2 for 3 UB in the last two years and the guy they beat us out for last year is already in the transfer portal. 😆

He'll be back. Kinda surprised CJ, Perk and/or Harris didn't do this after their junior seasons. Good chance to get feedback from NBA scouts with little to no downside.

Just now, Kevin said:

The coach defending will still be strong

Gotta be less strong after this. Not even making it to Cleveland? Unacceptable and flat out embarrassing. 

5 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said:

God this crowd sucks.

These refs, too. Probably the scariest thing about being in a game this close is the possibility (likelihood?) that this game comes down to a late crucial call that goes against us.

Just now, UB05 said:

Just buried one. He’s playing fine

It's all good when he's making shots, but it's pretty understandable that neither he nor Johnson gets the benefit of the doubt on this board at this point when they're not.

Grant and Bertram's presence seems to have coincided with our defense falling off again as well.

Just now, DooleyBull06 said:

He’s on the restricted line. Horrible call. Nonetheless to the bench.

Blessing in disguise. They certainly didn't mean to help us there but I'd say they just did haha

2 minutes ago, dbburns said:

I don’t understand why JW plays Johnson.  He is literally the worst shooter UB has had in 10 years.   And he sucks at defense....but somehow gets 30+ minutes a game.  

Must be a hell of a practice player - rarely seems to translate when it counts though. On the bright side, he's the first to get in serious foul trouble. Looks like that's what it was gonna take for Jim to do the right thing.

1 minute ago, UB05 said:

This game is far from over, but I’d be a lot more comfortable if Johnson doesn’t get near sibande for the rest of the game

Sibande has as many points in the 1st half as he did in the 2 earlier games combined. Gotta make someone else beat you. Defense needs to show up in a big way from here and hope we don't get screwed with early foul calls.

Massive win for seeding purposes (among other things). All kinds of positive seed possibilities open to us now. With a loss here, not so much. 

4 minutes ago, Kevin said:

Don't you dare do this to me

Trust me, I hope it doesn't come to that. Now for the love of God let's close this thing out

1 minute ago, Kevin said:

SO if Johnson fouls out here, who do we bring in? Segu? 

Somehow Roberts has survived 13 mins on 4 fouls

Dare I say Gabe Grant? Lol he did make the big plays at the end of the Akron game, no one else has shown the ability to make winning plays at the end of games recently.

1 minute ago, BasketBull said:

Hey guys did you know he played just 53 minutes at Texas Tech last year? 

Tournament whooping aside, at least they were kind enough to give us that. Had they given him much more playing time he'd either still be there or be sitting out this season.

MBALLA

Just now, skrabukes said:

Now that's Buffalo Basketball. 

Toledo has 15 free throws to UB's 1.

UB has 14 fouls to UB's 5.

But who's up by 24 at half? Buffalo. F-U refs and your BS.

Picked a great time to shoot the lights out - we'll need that big lead with all the damn fouls. More than half the team is in foul trouble but at least Mballa isn't one of them. And this is the Jayvon Graves we need the rest of the season if we're gonna make a real run at this thing.

10 minutes ago, SGBull said:

Free throws are going to lose us the game.

Crazy how in a game with so few free throws, it still managed to cost us. Couldn't finish a 3 point play to save our lives tonight. And you can even add an extra "miss" in there for the lane violation on Segu's at the end of the 1st half.

5 hours ago, Ubbulls84 said:

Why is Johnson in this game? He can’t do anything.

And he ends up as our leading scorer for the game...our chances of winning have to be pretty close to zero when this happens. His playing time isn't going anywhere though - guess the same can't be said for Grant (mercifully). This team seems comparable to Oats' first season in many ways, but sadly these guys are not Blake Hamilton and Willie Conner and most likely we will not see similar success come March.