UB leads BSU by 7 with ten minutes to play.
Kinda ironic upstart MAC member UB Bulls beat BSU in MACC football & are about to head for bball title game if they beat BSU -again.
Might UB become the first MAC school since the ICE AGE to win both football and hoops in same year?
It honestly is somewhat depressing. When I started at NIU I would've laughed if someone told me Buffalo would win the MACC in basketball and football...ever. NIU really has been so stagnant for the last few years.
Buffalo is the flagship public university in the 3rd largest state in the nation. They're in a large metro area and are the only public university in New York to be D1 in football and basketball. With an overload of MAC programs in MI & OH plus BSU having to fight ND, U of IN & Purdue for talent in football plus Butler, Valpo and Evansville in hoops; it's not that surprising that Buffalo has risen up the conference ranks. If the Bills ever leave Buffalo for Toronto, you'll see a huge upsurge in their program.
Spoken like a genuine Novak disciple.
Yes, 248, it is frustrating, maybe even somewhat painful, to measure UB vs NIU.
BTW: 'Cuse beat UConn in a classic last evening, has won national championships and has a D-1 football program now in shambles but will again rise some day with the right leadership.
Akron leads #1 seed BGSU early.
This fan's interest and preferred team tomorrow nite would be somewhere between a rock and hard place if UB plays Akron for MAC title. YEASH !
Guessing I would feel better about having beaten the MAC champ than losing badly to UB.
It's official.
Pasturechips vs Caughtinzips for title.
(03-13-2009 08:04 PM)armour248 Wrote: [ -> ]It honestly is somewhat depressing. When I started at NIU I would've laughed if someone told me Buffalo would win the MACC in basketball and football...ever. NIU really has been so stagnant for the last few years.
The basketball turn-around was not a huge surprise, coaches around the MAC knew Buffalo was on the come well before they turned it around. In fact, the make-up of their team at the time when they were being talked about as up and coming is very much like the Huskies right now. The football thing is what has kind of shocked me.
This MAC tournament has made me realize, there is not a really big discrepancy between NIU and the elite MAC teams, even with NIU's youth. This has to bode extremely well for the next few years.
(03-13-2009 11:51 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-13-2009 08:04 PM)armour248 Wrote: [ -> ]It honestly is somewhat depressing. When I started at NIU I would've laughed if someone told me Buffalo would win the MACC in basketball and football...ever. NIU really has been so stagnant for the last few years.
The basketball turn-around was not a huge surprise, coaches around the MAC knew Buffalo was on the come well before they turned it around. In fact, the make-up of their team at the time when they were being talked about as up and coming is very much like the Huskies right now. The football thing is what has kind of shocked me.
This MAC tournament has made me realize, there is not a really big discrepancy between NIU and the elite MAC teams, even with NIU's youth. This has to bode extremely well for the next few years.
Espeically when we won't have to see Jerome Tillman, Michael Bramos, Jonathan Lampley, Marcus Van, Al Fischer, Tyrone Kent, Jonathan Amos, and Tyler Dierkers anymore.
(03-14-2009 09:45 AM)goniu1523 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-13-2009 11:51 PM)MaddDawgz02 Wrote: [ -> ] (03-13-2009 08:04 PM)armour248 Wrote: [ -> ]It honestly is somewhat depressing. When I started at NIU I would've laughed if someone told me Buffalo would win the MACC in basketball and football...ever. NIU really has been so stagnant for the last few years.
The basketball turn-around was not a huge surprise, coaches around the MAC knew Buffalo was on the come well before they turned it around. In fact, the make-up of their team at the time when they were being talked about as up and coming is very much like the Huskies right now. The football thing is what has kind of shocked me.
This MAC tournament has made me realize, there is not a really big discrepancy between NIU and the elite MAC teams, even with NIU's youth. This has to bode extremely well for the next few years.
Espeically when we won't have to see Jerome Tillman, Michael Bramos, Jonathan Lampley, Marcus Van, Al Fischer, Tyrone Kent, Jonathan Amos, and Tyler Dierkers anymore.
Agreed.
This year we are just seeing some very very sublte hints that power balance is going to be shifting the next few years. If I had to predict right now I'd say NIU and Ball State are the up and coming programs in the conference.