First off, hello. I’m Patrick Nolan (formerly known as “pnoles”), and I’ll be recapping some Irish hoops games here this season.
Unfortunately, my first game on recap duty was a much less happy affair than the rout of Stonehill or the exhibition thrashing of Purdue-Fort Wayne. The Buffalo Bulls came in to this contest at 2-0 off of winning a nail-biter against Old Dominion, but ranked in the bottom 50 of the country by KenPom, so this was expected to be a tune-up game more than anything else. It turned out to be anything but that.
One concern that presented itself in the Stonehill contest from last Wednesday was that the Irish have been much less effective so far this season at defending the three point line.