Posts Tagged ‘Ball State’

To anyone that had the misfortune of being at Rose Arena tonight for Central Michigan playing host to Ball State. I didn’t see the game, but the final box yields me to conclude that the Chippewas’ 53-38 win set basketball back about 3000 years. The ancient Mayan ballgame had to have more artistry [...]

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. The six sides in [...]

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 [...]

Please, someone, put the MAC West out of it’s misery. The six teams that did their level best (or is it worst) to drag the entire league out of Mid-Majordom and into Low-Majordom — Ken Pomeroy ranks the MAC 18th overall, percentage points above the Southland — went at it tonight. While the [...]

Buffalo’s nine-game winning streak ground to a halt in Muncie today, as Ball State held off the Bulls 53-51 in a low-scoring, MAC dogfight. This was just one of those games where the Bulls weren’t able to survive a rare off game from Rodney Pierce, nor overcome missed freebies and missed blockouts down the [...]

The Big Picture: Bulls improve to 9-1 in the MAC (17-5 overall) by putting the defensive clamps on Eastern Michigan (1-9, 3-21) to win 58-49 at Ypsilanti. While beating an Eagles squad that’s been pretty terrible all season wouldn’t normally be that big a deal, but with both Miami (7-3, 14-8) and Ohio [...]

Every now and then during the college hoops season there will be a score that crawls across across the bottom of the telly and grabs your attention the way a preggers MIA rocking Paper Planes in your work cube would. Ever since MAC squads started playing intra-division matches, the only reason MAC scores have [...]

Another night and another pair of crushing routs for the MAC West sides in cross-division play.
Miami (6-2, 13-7) dismantled Ball State (5-3, 10-10), the West’s best team, 59-41, in a game that I thought would be a lot closer. Instead, it seems that the Cardinals couldn’t handle Michael Bramos — few teams in the [...]

Make it seven wins in a row.
Tonight’s 56-55 victory over Central Michigan at Alumni Arena was win number two that came entirely because of the way the Bulls defended for 40 minutes. My internet connection decided to shut down at halftime and I wasn’t able to get it sorted until the game had [...]

After starting MAC play 0-8 and not having won a road game since dinosaurs roamed the earth, UB (7-14, 1-8) got it going tonight in DeKalb, leading by double digits most of the game, as they cruised to a 89-81 win over the Northern Illinois Huskies (5-16, 2-7).

At first, I wasn’t going to make too much about Buffalo’s tonight because NIU is a truly terrible team but then I decided that, hell yeah, this is a huge win for coach ‘Spoon’s side. So pardon me while I get bit carried away.

my UB Bulls (0-5, 6-11) might just be the worst team in the MAC. The Bulls are winless in league play for a simple reason: they don’t know how to win games.

Against the Bobcats, the Bulls had several chances to cut into Ohio’s second-half lead or even overtake them but came up empty each and every time. I don’t know what it is — inexperience and a lack of talent certainly come to mind — but the 2007-08 UB Bulls have a seemingly innate knack for making the wrong play at the wrong time.

What can we say about the MAC West other than that it’s made less sense than a Matthew Barney flick — yeah, that’s right, I called the Cremaster Cycle a flick — since league play started? Perhaps, this hump day’s results have helped things to make at least some semblance of sense.
Pre-season West faves [...]

The first weekend of 2008 saw a full slate of MAC games, with all 12 teams playing league games. Like usual, per the MAC, there a couple of surprises that showed just how tough and wide open the race for the MAC East is going to be while Toledo and Central Michigan, the faves [...]