Game 19- Buffalo

[clarkwgriswold]

The Zips shuffle off to Buffalo for a Tuesday night contest against the Bulls.  The Bulls are 13-5 coming off of a last second OT loss at Oxford.

 

According to Gross this is the best Bulls team the current has had since his arrival and are very good offensively.  Wisconsin transfer sophomore guard Daniel Freitag leads the Bulls in scoring and rebounding at at 20.3 ppg and 4.5 rpg.  Junior guard Ryan Sabol is second in scoring at 17 ppg.   They are 6th in offense and defense in the MAC.

[csims0917]

Buffalo has some weird games where they look top tier and others where they look like a 6 seed at best. Interested to see which we get 

[RoyalBlu]

Two one-possession losses (Miami-Kent) and I don't think they play either one again (might be wrong) which puts UB in a bind when it comes to tiebreakers down the road. 

 

Edit: 87-81 Kent, one possession game until final seconds. UB does not have another game with Kent, but does have a return home game in a couple weeks against Miami.

 

Edited Saturday at 10:31 PM by RoyalBlu

[Ham]

Miami pulled today's victory out of their butt with a desperation contested 3 to tie The Buffs with 1/2 second in regulation.  I switched back to  Akron/Western skipping the OT.  The Buffs will test us.

[ZipsFan31]

Huge game. A great opportunity to pad our seed line. It will be challenging. Need a “A” game from us ! 

[Zips1991]

Akron currently favored by 8.5 points with an O/U of 169.5

[ZippyRulz]

5 hours ago, Zips1991 said:

Akron currently favored by 8.5 points with an O/U of 169.5

 

Zips will score 90, a little below average. Let's see if they can hold the Bulls under 80.

 

Edited 20 hours ago by ZippyRulz

[tpsjugglerdude]

On 1/17/2026 at 5:17 PM, csims0917 said:

Buffalo has some weird games where they look top tier and others where they look like a 6 seed at best. Interested to see which we get 

We're Akron. We always get everyone's best. Especially on the road in the MAC.

[infofan]

If memory serves me the annual trip to arctic Buffalo has not always been kind to the Zips.  Would be nice to get Sharron and Chabi back.

[Reslife4Life]

51 minutes ago, infofan said:

If memory serves me the annual trip to arctic Buffalo has not always been kind to the Zips.  Would be nice to get Sharron and Chabi back.

2 years ago the 3-22 Bulls kept it really close, a 3 point game at the final media timeout

Last year we took care of business. Let's hope we can do it again tonight

[Zips1991]

I won't pretend to know much about Buffalo. I've watched them a couple times for a few minutes here and there. I do know they have a pretty good offense and with our suspect defense, any good offense concerns me a bit. I also know Freitag is obviously their best player so we'll need to contain him and make others beat us.

[kreed5120]

1 hour ago, infofan said:

If memory serves me the annual trip to arctic Buffalo has not always been kind to the Zips.  Would be nice to get Sharron and Chabi back.

 

Playing international games is always a challenge 😉

[UAZipster0305]

If we play the full 40 minutes, we win. If not, we lose. It's really that simple against teams that have lesser but still moderate talent, especially when playing in Canada.

[Zips1991]

Just saw shootaround photos on IG and Sharron was involved. Doesn't mean he's playing today but it's a good sign for the near-term.

[Reslife4Life]

14 minutes ago, Zips1991 said:

Just saw shootaround photos on IG and Sharron was involved. Doesn't mean he's playing today but it's a good sign for the near-term.

Chabi also still has the splint on his hand

[Zips1991]

47 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Chabi also still has the splint on his hand

I missed that one, good catch.

[Zips1991]

Coach Groce said in the radio Pregame that Sharron is available tonight while Chabi is 1-2 weeks away still. 

[Reslife4Life]

Also said fretag their leading scorer is out

[Zips1991]

4 minutes ago, Reslife4Life said:

Also said fretag their leading scorer is out

I missed that, must've been after I got out of the car. But they did just say that to begin the espn broadcast.

[Reslife4Life]

Gonna need to defend the 3 a little better, they are gonna make those as the game goes on

[Reslife4Life]

Raining threes! 

[MDZip]

15-2 start when will they be able to not let them back in? Especially missing Buffalos leading scorer. 

[zippy5]

Good start!

[MDZip]

Lyles is shooting almost 44% on threes. And it's not a small sample size. 

[MDZip]

One advantage of playing at the JAR. When they show a game on ESPN you can actually identify who the players are.