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UB Bulls Beat: Best Team in Baltimore
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The Big Picture: Bulls can claim mantle as the best team in Mobtown, after surviving overtime scrap with an experienced Towson to emerge victorious 78-69. Coach ‘Spoon’s squad stands at 2-1 and seems to be officially over both woulda, shoulda, coulda, opening loss to Vermont...
UB Bulls Beat: Beauty is in the Eye of the Beholder
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The Big Picture: Bulls survive a knife fight of a basketball with Navy, winning 63-53 at Alumni Hall in Annapolis. Coach ‘Spoon’s squad overcame a myriad of maladies, including turnovers on five consecutive possessions in the first half (UB had 22 of them… 22!),...
On The MAC: Nothing to Get Excited About
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Four MAC teams took the floor on Wednesday night and three finished the night with wins. For a league — currently rated 24th by Ken Pomeroy — that needs to start racking up OOC dubbyas, this is, well, only kind of good news.
Of Wednesday’s wins, only one, Western...
An Upset A Day…
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Junior guard Roderick Pearson and the Golden Eagles handed Stanford its second loss of the season to a team from the Mid-Major ranks
May not keep the doctor away, but it might very well be the biggest reason why I watch college hoops.
For the second time this season, Stanford has...
As Luck Would Have It…
6 days ago by
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Score one for the good guys!
I’ve managed to catch some sort of nutty bacterial infection that has inflated my schnozz to Jimmy Durante-like proportions that is contagious on the very same day that ESPN’s 24 hour college hoops marathon tipped off. My doctor said I needed...
On The MAC: Living Up To His Rep
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Kentucky’s frosh guard John Wall, a certain one-and-doner, hits a game-winning jumper with about a second left to allow Kentucky to escape Miami’s upset bid, 72-70.
Like usual, the bad guys beat the good guys tonight. Like usual, the Mid-major in the battle is left with...
On The MAC: Miami Still Leading…
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But barely.
It’s 50-48 Redhawks with 9:32 left to play.
On The MAC: Miami Clinging to…
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A halftime lead so slender that it should be starring in The Hills. Thanks to Nick Winbush’s lights out 6-of-6 shooting from triple-land, the Redhawks are leading 39-36.
However, Kentucky closed the half on a 18-3 run so it looks like John Wall and Co. are about to take control...
One The MAC: Is Lexington, Kentucky Going to be Upset City Tonight?
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Miami’s Nick Winbush has nailed six first half triples, as the Redhawks are leading Kentucky in Lexington, 36-28 with 2:35 to play in the first half. Miami went on a massive 19-2 spurt to take an 18-point lead, which the Wildcats have steadily cut into.
Solving The Butler Enigma
7 days ago by
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The always prescient John Gasaway explains why the Butler Bulldogs defy the odds and just seem to get better and better.
Hint… it has something to do with playing defense. Something their fellow Indianans down the road in South Bend don’t do.
UB Bulls Beat: Cover Your Eyes
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The Big Picture: Is it winter already? Bulls start the 2009-10 season with a shooting performance so frigid that it made John Starks’ 2-for-18 night in game seven of the 1994 NBA Finals seem, ummm, not so bad. Given that UB shot only 44% in their exhibition win over Daemen,...
On The MAC: Where are the Miami Redhawks and What Have You Done With Them?
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While there a few scores on the first Friday of the college hoops season — Rider thumping 19th-ranked Mississippi State, San Diego knocking off Stanford, the Idaho Vandals pillaging Utah — the result that almost shocked me enough to put down my beer, turn the LA Galaxy...
On The MAC: The 2009-10 MAC West Preview
10 days ago by
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The big question about the MAC West this season is whether anyone other than those with a close — i.e. friends and family — relationship to coaches and players in the league should really care what happens. And, to be honest, I don’t know that anybody else should...
On The MAC: The 2009-10 MAC East Preview
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As with the start of any college hoops season, there is a clear favorite to win the MAC — Akron in this case — but there are also plenty of reasons to think that the Zips won’t repeat as MAC champs. The most important of which may be the fact that the MAC has [...]
UB Bulls Beat: Better Than ‘Cuse
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While an 82-67 victory over D3 Daemen — a school known more for it’s physical therapy program than hoops — isn’t exactly the most inspiring of preseason performances, given the Orangemen’s loss to LeMoyne, those of us in the Bulls Nation should be plenty...
UB Bulls Beat: All About The International Bowl
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It’s really simple: Buffalo needs to run the table to finish the season with a 7-5 record, which should be enough to get them a second straight invite to the International Bowl in Toronto. With Temple running away with the MAC East, and Central Michigan doing the same in the MAC West, [...]
On The MAC: The Hoops To-do List for New Commish Jon Steinbrecher
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Don’t ask me why, but opening night of the 2009-10 NBA season has me thinking hoops… Just not pro hoops. Instead, I’m thinking of the massive job new MAC commish Jon Steinbrecher has in front of him when it comes to reversing the league’s slide to college basketball...
File This Under Huh…
October 22, 2009 by
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March Madness All Season is one of my favorite college hoops blogs for the simple reason that Jeff seems to know his stuff and is not a power conference sycophant. All the more reason that I’m puzzled by his labeling teams like Butler, Siena, Creighton, Virginia Commonwealth...
UB Bulls Beat: Still Relentless to the Finish…
October 17, 2009 by
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Even if it ain’t so pretty to watch this season.
Today’s 21-17 win over Akron (1-5, 0-3) was a critical dubbya for Turner Gill’s Buffalo Bulls. Not only did it get them off the snide in the MAC — UB is now 3-4 overall and 1-2 in the MAC — but it came on a [...]
UB Bulls Beat: No Such Thing As An Ugly Win
October 17, 2009 by
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Turns out I was wrong (sort of). Akron managed to play itself out of the redzone and settled for a 40-yard field goal attempt, which they missed.
Buffalo ended up capitalizing on the Zips ineptitude, as Zach Maynard tossed his second touchdown pass of the day to Naaman Roosevelt....
UB Bulls Beat: How Do You Spell Ugly?
October 17, 2009 by
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Today you can spell it A-K-R-O-N-v-s-B-U-F-F-A-L-O, as the Zips and Bulls are engaged in a pretty ragged scrap at UB Stadium. Game is knotted at 7, but the Zips — who were 9-point ‘dogs entering the game — seem on the verge of taking an early second half lead. So...
UB Bulls Beat: Unsolved Mysteries… Solved
October 17, 2009 by
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With the release of the 2009-10 University of Buffalo basketball schedule, one of the best kept secrets in college basketball is no longer a secret. Judging by the lack of non-league home games — the Bulls have a mere four on their 28-game schedule, one of which is a visit to...
UB Bulls Beat: No ******** Here
October 10, 2009 by
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I like to think that I’m not big on hyperbole, exaggeration, and the false sense of urgency that a lot of sportwriters at major — and not-so major — dailies and mags traffic in. That’s why when I say that today’s homecoming scrap with Gardner-Webb is a...
On The MAC: Beasts In The MAC East?
October 05, 2009 by
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MAC football power rankings are up at Van Delay Sports and it looks good for the MAC East, with Ohio (3-2, 1-0) ranking second after Central Michigan, and with five other sides from the MAC East ranking in their Top 10. While I’ll readily admit that I’m not remotely as...
UB Bulls Beat: A Loss Is A Loss But…
October 05, 2009 by
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We don’t believe in moral victories at Notes From A Basketball Junkie, but only the most hard-ass and pessimistic of UB Bulls fans wouldn’t find some things to like in Saturday’s 20-13 loss to Central Michigan (4-1, 2-0) at UB Stadium. While the defeat leaves Turner...
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