Posts under ‘UB Bulls Beat’

The Big Picture: Defensively-challenged University of Bulls allow very average Western Michigan side that was coming off a two-game losing streak to shoot 60% from the field on their way to a 85-70 rout of UB. The loss, Buffalo’s third in their last four games, has the Bulls back in the middle of [...]

Pound-for-pound, Ricardo Patton’s Northern Illinois Huskies might be the most talented team in the MAC. There’s little doubt that junior guard/wings Darion “Jake” Anderson and Xavier Silas are two of the more explosive players on the offensive side of the court in the MAC. While not among the league’s best soph point Mike [...]

Fear the Roo my ass!

Sunday’s rematch of the 2009 MAC tournament final represents the Buffalo Bulls first chance to gain a measure of redemption for their 65-53 loss to the Zips in Clevo. Put simply, this is THE statement game for Coach ‘Spoon’s squad in January.
Rodney Pierce and Co. are 5-1 in [...]

The Big Picture: Bulls take care of business, leading from buzzer-to-buzzer in 93-65 win over D3 Buffalo State in what we call the Youngman Expressway Derby. The win, UB’s second in a row, improves the Bulls record to 5-3 on the season. With a nine day break for Fall semester finals before [...]

Not sure what Brent Musgerger’s track record is on this sort of thing, but The Sporting News is reporting that Musberger said Turner Gill is the leading candidate for the Kansas job during yesterday’s Big 12 football championship game.
Although some guy in Lawrence isn’t paying much attention to this and the UB Fan community is [...]

The Big Picture: Buffalo overcomes start of game siesta and countless ineffectual stretches on offense to overcome what seems to be a decent Army

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The University of Buffalo’s 2009 football season officially ended today with a 9-6 win over Kent State that really encapsulated this Bulls season. As has been the Bulls custom the past two seasons, today’s win came in a game decided by a touchdown or less; the eighth such game Buffalo played this season (they [...]

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 and slopfest of a win at Navy. [...]

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!), missed free throws (UB finished 16-of-25), and three-point shooting [...]

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, it shouldn’t [...]

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, [...]

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 [...]

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 Alumni Arena [...]

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 must-win for Turner Gill’s University of Buffalo [...]

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 Gill’s 1-4 (0-2) squad in the challenging and [...]

It’s not a must-win for UB (1-3, 0-1) today; not by a long shot. And that’s a good thing since Central Michigan (3-1, 1-0) and record-setting quarterback Dan LeFevour seem to be the class of the MAC this season. Even if the Bulls weren’t coming into this game with a three-game losing streak, [...]

Saturday’s 37-13 loss at Temple should make any Buffalo fan start to worry that this season is quickly looking like it could finish more like 4-8, 5-7 than 8-6 with a MAC title and trip to a bowl.
It isn’t quite 1997 through 2005 — aka B.T.G. — yet, but there are enough worrisome trends four [...]

James Starks busts off a 93-yard touchdown run against Miami (OH) in 2007
There’s really not too much more I can say other than that this really sucks.
While, as a proud Buffalo alum who has been reveling in the Bulls ascent to the (relative) upper reaches of big-time college football, I’m concerned about what [...]

The 2008-08 Buffalo Bulls basketball season.
Unable to string together consecutive stops, the Bulls suffered an 84-73 loss at Wichita State to a Shockers squad that could very well challenge for The Valley championship next season. Considering that Buffalo could very well challenge for the MAC championship, the youthful Shockers convincing victory says [...]

Have to admit I was pretty giddy about getting to see my Bulls play at Wichita State in the first round of the College Basketball Invitational tonight. A lot of the giddiness had to do with the fact the game was going to be shown on HDNet, which meant that not only would I [...]

Watching the play-in… err I mean “opening round” game between Morehead State and Alabama State, I’ve been seething ever since that greasy douchebag Steve Lavin said, “The NCAA Tournament Selection Committee nailed it this season.” To his mind, those of the former BCS league players and coaches that comprise 99% of college hoops talking [...]

After having a few days to reflect on my UB Bulls losing to a hot-shooting Akron side in the MAC championship game Saturday night, I’ve finally realized why this was, as I said in text to a buddy from Buffalo after the game, not that “bad a loss” and “maybe not in the top ten.”
See, [...]

My intention was to do some posts while in Cleveland watching the MAC basketball tournament. Doing so requires some degree of sobriety, which my UB Bulls have made completely impossible by turning my first three days here into a balls-to-the-wall par-tay thanks to dipsatching Kent State on Thursday and beating Ball State 64-52 last [...]

The Big Picture: Bulls (11-5, 19-10) come from behind to knock off Miami (10-6, 17-12) in overtime 70-67 and claim a share of the MAC East regular season title and the all important MAC Tournament first round bye. Unfortunately and not surprisingly, Ohio (7-9, 14-16) did Buffalo no favors today, running for the [...]

The Big Picture: Bulls (10-5, 18-10) blow what was their best opportunity to all but clinch first place in the MAC East and the coveted MAC tourney bye in heartbreaking 77-71 loss to Kent State. Being that UB has never won at the Kent, the result shouldn’t be that much of a surprise; [...]