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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 [...]

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 [...]

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; [...]

Another rough shooting night, combined with a complete lack of concentration on offense that has led to 10 turnovers, has Buffalo trailing Akron 30-22 with about 90 seconds left to play in the first half.
Simply put, the Bulls need to win this one.
Let’s see what happens in the second half.

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Almost always, Kyle Whelliston at Mid-Majority comes up with a compelling daily post, but what caught my attention in
Tuesday morning’s take on things in Mid-Majordom was the bit about teams that have outrebounded their opponents winning about 65% of the time while teams that have fewer turnovers win about 55% of the time. [...]

The Big Picture: Bewildered, befuddled, and undone by Bowling Green’s 2-3 zone defense, a frigid Buffalo Bulls (9-3, 17-7) squad loses it’s second MAC game in a row, falling to the Falcons (8-4, 15-10) 59-48. This being the fifth time in six games that UB was held to less than 60 points, I’d [...]

Not really when it comes to the regular season.
At this point, with the possibility of an At-Large invite to the Big Dance all but impossible for the league — my Buffalo Bulls are probably the only team that could end up in a position to make the case for an At-Large bid, but they [...]

From the get-go, I was pretty sure he wouldn’t get the Auburn gig. There was no way I ever thought those boosters, and the chickenshit administration at the deep south school for that matter, were going to accept a black football coach. Particularly when his wife happens to be white. However, and to their credit, fans, students, and the media didn’t share those views, as Gill was their choice to be the Tigers next coach. By now we know those voices weren’t heard, as Auburn hired a guy who’s Iowa State squad went 2-10 and lost 10 games in a row when he was given the keys to a program that was 13-0 a four seasons ago. With University presidents, athletic directors, and boosters again showing their unwillingness to hire a black football coach, Turner Gill re-upped with UB through 2013, effectively ensuring that he’ll back coaching the Bulls next season.

While I really would like to see Turner get the opportunity to coach some big-time ball — I think the Bills should hire him as their coach and I’m not fucking kidding — and I find the message his getting interviews but not jobs says about our society to be troubling, I’m glad he’ll be back next season. It gives me the chance to fantasize about winning back-to-back MAC championships; bowl game road trips; and, possibly, depending on how the rest of the UB basketball season goes, the possibility of the Turner Gill-coached Bulls going 12-0, wining the MAC title, and being the non-BCS school that gets invited one of the big money bowl games.

This site tends to lie pretty fallow during the summer and there are some good and bad reasons for that. The best reason — from my perspective at least — is that the sun’s shining during the day and the nights are made for drinking outside. Meaning that I’m just not in front [...]

It’s nice to see the Bulls (9-17) get a win and to have done it in a way the entertained another meager crowd at Alumni Arena but at the end of the day, beating a bad Penguins squad that’s 2-10 in it’s last 12 games and hasn’t won on the road since November just doesn’t mean that much. A win over an opponent like Youngstown State is not the kind of galvanizing and confidence-building win that the Bulls need to get going in the MAC. Had they beat Kent State or Miami at Alumni recently that would be the type of victory that UB could build on come the MAC tourney.

More so than any team I’ve seen this season, Billy Taylor’s squad plays like their scholarships are on the line every second of every game. I don’t know that any team competes as hard as Peyton Stovall, Anthony Newell & Company do. Ball State doesn’t back down and they compete for the full 40 minutes.

Like sitting next to screaming, crying kids on a 20-hour flight, the end to the Bulls’ losing streak is nowhere in sight. Saturday’s disaster at Toledo (6-12, 3-3), a 76-63 loss in a game that was there for Buffalo (6-12, 0-6) to win it, makes it pretty clear that the Coach ‘Spoon’s side is the worst in the MAC.

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.

Make no mistake about it, tonight’s scrap with the detested, vile Ohio Bobcats (2-2, 11-6) is a must-win game for my Buffalo Bulls (0-4, 6-10). Reggie’s side can’t afford to go winless after their first five in MAC play if they want to avoid getting bounced from Clevo midweek again.
More importantly, with [...]

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 [...]

Gotta love Buffalonians!
They celebrated in my hometown of Buffalo by turning out en masse to watch the beloved Buffalo Sabres lose 2-1 to Pittsburgh in the second NHL Winter Classic
Whatever you did to ring in the New Year, I wish everybody a happy, healthy, and prosperous 2008!

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