UBinMD Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Vegas has us as a 3 point favorite, I was not expecting that. Hopefully they are right! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big 4 Hoops Blogger Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 (edited) 1 hour ago, UBinMD said: Vegas has us as a 3 point favorite, I was not expecting that. Hopefully they are right! Both teams are close in the metrics despite their records and the game is at Buffalo. Makes sense that UB would be favored but it could go either way. Edited January 28, 2022 by Big 4 Hoops Blogger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird96 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Feels like we’re due for a breakout, all-around solid game. Hopefully there’s a good crowd on hand for a nationally televised Friday night game. GO BULLS!! 🤘 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ubbulls84 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 2 hours ago, Bluebird96 said: Feels like we’re due for a breakout, all-around solid game. Hopefully there’s a good crowd on hand for a nationally televised Friday night game. GO BULLS!! 🤘 Hope you are right. If don’t win this one than clearly cemented as the 3rd or 4th team in conference. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 7 hours ago, Bluebird96 said: Feels like we’re due for a breakout, all-around solid game. Hopefully there’s a good crowd on hand for a nationally televised Friday night game. GO BULLS!! 🤘 That would be wonderful to watch. This team needs to know it can beat a a top tier MAC team. We have all been waiting for what this team could do if Williams plays his typical good game, and Segu returns to form, they get a game where Mballa and Skogman complement each other and they get solid contributions from Brewton / Jack. Winning games has to be a team effort - this team needs to figure that out. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird96 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Nipping at our heels in the standings are the mid-tier MAC teams with much lower NET rankings than UB: Kent, Ball, BG and Miami. Just above us is Akron who in the past couple weeks barely managed to get past WMU at home by 1 pt….and beat lowly CMU and EMU by a combined 6 pts their last 2 games, averaging 53 pts in the process. Time for UB to play up to expectations and re-assert itself as one of the top 3 MAC teams! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 53 minutes ago, Bluebird96 said: Nipping at our heels in the standings are the mid-tier MAC teams with much lower NET rankings than UB: Kent, Ball, BG and Miami. Just above us is Akron who in the past couple weeks barely managed to get past WMU at home by 1 pt….and beat lowly CMU and EMU by a combined 6 pts their last 2 games, averaging 53 pts in the process. Time for UB to play up to expectations and re-assert itself as one of the top 3 MAC teams! Agree 100% with your statement 'Time for UB to play up to expectations'. Comparing standings at this point is a bit tricky, as Akron has gone 4-1 at home vs our 2-1. Also, the quality of opponents is different - here is breakout of records by group: The loss at Akron is something that will work against us if tiebreaker occurs. The loss to Miami also hurt - so we will need to beat them on their court. Most ranking have us a notch above Akron, but w/l is what determines seedings. More importantly, as you stated, the team needs the 'w' to play closer to our potential. Preseason we were expected to be where Toledo is, a win tonight would inch us closer to that expectation. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bluebird96 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 You’re right, nothing makes sense this year. We have a late lead on the road vs Toledo, only to collapse down the stretch and lose by 11. Four days before that, a very solid Ohio team gets blown off their home court by Toledo where it was never even close. And Akron beats us handily with plenty of offense, but recently can barely get past the lower tier MAC teams and struggles to score 60 pts. If there’s anything to be said about UB, as inconsistent as the team has played, we’ve been competitive in pretty much every single game this season….just rarely for a full 40 minutes. A little luck here and there and a couple more shots fall in (SFA, SBU, Canisius), instead of 10-7 we could easily be sitting at 13-4 right now….which is exactly what’s driving us all crazy! But there’s still plenty of hope to finish this year strong, with several games coming up against those lower tier teams. 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
John Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 1 hour ago, Bluebird96 said: You’re right, nothing makes sense this year. We have a late lead on the road vs Toledo, only to collapse down the stretch and lose by 11. Four days before that, a very solid Ohio team gets blown off their home court by Toledo where it was never even close. And Akron beats us handily with plenty of offense, but recently can barely get past the lower tier MAC teams and struggles to score 60 pts. If there’s anything to be said about UB, as inconsistent as the team has played, we’ve been competitive in pretty much every single game this season….just rarely for a full 40 minutes. A little luck here and there and a couple more shots fall in (SFA, SBU, Canisius), instead of 10-7 we could easily be sitting at 13-4 right now….which is exactly what’s driving us all crazy! But there’s still plenty of hope to finish this year strong, with several games coming up against those lower tier teams. Totally agree. Just a crazy year that started with high expectations for both our men and women and even Bona. Then with covid and the injury bug and players not playing up to our expectations just one crazy year so far. Can’t let frustration get the best of us and will try to enjoy the joy of watching good athletes perform and keep all in perspective. Let the frustration get to me with the women losing to Ball State and no fouls called on the last play and trying to talk to the Ball State coaches and they just smiled sarcastically. More important to stay healthy and enjoy each day as it comes. Go Bulls!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MuchMany Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Looking forward to this one tonight. Ohio is a good team and their talent always scares me. In other news, the North Texas team we beat on the road, which was pooh-poohed by some, is 14-4 and ranked 39 on BT and 69 on KP. That was a victory to be proud of any season. Hopefully we can get back to that form consistently starting tonight. 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Big 4 Hoops Blogger Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 6 minutes ago, MuchMany said: Looking forward to this one tonight. Ohio is a good team and their talent always scares me. In other news, the North Texas team we beat on the road, which was pooh-poohed by some, is 14-4 and ranked 39 on BT and 69 on KP. That was a victory to be proud of any season. Hopefully we can get back to that form consistently starting tonight. I can admit when I’m wrong and I was clearly off when it came to my assessment of North Texas. I thought they were a decent but not great team. In hindsight, that win has been the high point of the Bulls season to this point. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocCas86 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 16 hours ago, Bluebird96 said: Feels like we’re due for a breakout, all-around solid game. Hopefully there’s a good crowd on hand for a nationally televised Friday night game. GO BULLS!! 🤘 I did some digging on what team ball looks like and what we all hope to see tonight. The above stats show the distribution of scoring contributions when the team wins vs a loss - 2018-19 (gold standard) vs 2021-22. You can clearly see for both seasons when the team relies more on the top 3 people to score - they typically lose. Another thing that is evident in these stats is we currently have not been getting much beyond the top 6 players. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trueblue32 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 (edited) 6 hours ago, Bluebird96 said: And Akron beats us handily with plenty of offense, but recently can barely get past the lower tier MAC teams and struggles to score 60 pts. This one is fairly easily explained away when we had Maceo Jack playing center that game. The MAC screwed us by moving that game up to work around teams on COVID pauses when we had COVID cases of our own (and they didn’t even reschedule any games onto that date) Skogman and Hardnett (clearly he is injured) were our only forwards and we got 29 mins from them and they combined for 9 fouls. Akron shot 57% from 2 when we allow 49% on the season. Akron rebounded 37% of their missed shots when we allow 28% on the season. I don’t really have any concerns about Akron in a rematch. Not to take away from your point, we’re certainly inconsistent, but wanted to vent on how dumb that game was lol Edited January 28, 2022 by trueblue32 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeseph Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 Don’t worry though, the program is in great shape! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UBinMD Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 Williams trying way too hard Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooleyBull06 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 21 minutes ago, Jeseph said: Don’t worry though, the program is in great shape! Let me list the excuses…1) it’s snowing 2) the Sabres are playing 3) bla bla bla…it’s pretty clear the community doesn’t care about this team. Just hope students do when they return. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
121Merrimac Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 21 minutes ago, Jeseph said: Don’t worry though, the program is in great shape! 3 years ago, 8 MAC teams averaged more than 2k/home game. This year? Only 3. As much as people want to blame the coach, it's not only Buffalo. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UBinMD Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said: Let me list the excuses…1) it’s snowing 2) the Sabres are playing 3) bla bla bla…it’s pretty clear the community doesn’t care about this team. Just hope students do when they return. We can’t hit layups, 3s or FT, not good Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UBinMD Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 Great pass by Jones, followed by a brick Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooleyBull06 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 1 minute ago, 121Merrimac said: 3 years ago, 8 MAC teams averaged more than 2k/home game. This year? Only 3. As much as people want to blame the coach, it's not only Buffalo. I’m sure a lot of it is covid fatigue also. But come on. We use to have the best game day atmosphere and we use to be top 3, if not the top, drawing MAC school. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BasketBull Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 Ohio’s defensive intensity is world’s better than Buffalo’s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooleyBull06 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 Can’t let this slip away early. Gotta find a way to keep this close in this next stretch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
121Merrimac Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 2 minutes ago, DooleyBull06 said: I’m sure a lot of it is covid fatigue also. But come on. We use to have the best game day atmosphere and we use to be top 3, if not the top, drawing MAC school. Sure... I didn't post because I was happy... just felt that needed some context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
UBinMD Posted January 29, 2022 Author Share Posted January 29, 2022 1 minute ago, Erie County said: Ohio apparently doesnt foul You mean the guy that ran thru Brock and got the offensive rebound? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DooleyBull06 Posted January 29, 2022 Share Posted January 29, 2022 3 minutes ago, 121Merrimac said: Sure... I didn't post because I was happy... just felt that needed some context. All good…it’s just good conversation. I know we are all frustrated fans. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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