Posts Tagged ‘Central Michigan’

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 Michigan defending their turf in a [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Despite what Nate Linhart’s over the top WWE-worthy acting job might make you think:
The 2009 MAC tournament tips off today with four games, featuring teams seeded 5 through 12. We’re going to pick the winners in each of those four games.
Game 1: #7 Central Michigan (7-9, 11-18) vs #10 Eastern Michigan (6-10, 8-23)
Vegas [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

One thing that seems certain at this point in the 2008-09 NCAA basketball season, with November behind us, is that the MAC is going to be a one-bid league again. It’s not that MAC sides have been absolutely terrible during the first few weeks of the season, although Western Michigan (2-5) and Toledo (1-5) [...]

But then again, how was I to know that Giordan Watson and Central Michigan were going to put an epic display of offensive impotence, which they did for almost all of the 72-52 WMU win. So ghastly were the Chippewas on O in that first half that

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 [...]