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Wrestling rankings

As of Monday Feb. 13 wrestlingreport.com has named the wrestling team the No. 23 ranked Division-I team in the country.

The same poll has junior Mark Budd ranked at No. 14 in the 133-pound weight class, senior Kyle Cerminara ranked at No. 2 in the 197-pound weight class and heavyweight Harold Sherrell at No. 18. The only other Mid-American Conference team to be ranked in the top 30 on the Internet poll is Central Michigan. The Chippewas are ranked at No. 9.

Bulls to battle Golden Flashes

Buffalo's four-game losing streak came to an end on Saturday and now the men's basketball team looks to Wednesday night's game at home to begin a winning streak.

The Bulls are set to host the Kent State Golden Flashes, who will enter Alumni Arena with an 11-2 Mid-American Conference record, tied for the best in the conference with Akron. Ties are a theme between Buffalo and Kent State (17-7). The team is tied for second place in scoring offense in the MAC with Buffalo (16-8, 6-7 MAC), and both teams average 70.3 points a game.

Jay Youngblood leads the Golden Flashes in scoring. Kent State's top scorer averages 14.1 points per game and has accumulated 14 blocks and 32 steals this season. On the opposite side, Buffalo's senior guard Calvin Cage leads his team in scoring with 17.3 points a game.

The battle of the boards will take place between junior center Yassin Idbihi for Buffalo and Kevin Warzynski for Kent State. Warzynski averages 5.4 boards a game and Idbihi nabs 7.1 rebounds a game.

The conference match-up will begin at 7 p.m.

Athletes of the week

Junior Roy Richards and senior Jen Jezorski of the indoor track and field team were honored on Monday as UB's male and female Athletes of the Week.

Richards' jump of 24 feet, 1.75 inches earned him a victory in the long jump at Penn State's Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup. Richards currently ranks third in the Mid-American Conference with a jump of 24 feet, 3 inches, which he accomplished at the Cornell Invitational earlier in the season.

Jezorski competed in the mile at the Sykes-Sabock Challenge Cup but did not win her race. She finished second, setting a school record time of 4:50.20 in the process. Jezorski's time, six seconds better than her previous career best, broke the old record set in 2003 by Christina Keck by .8 seconds. Jezorski has qualified for the Eastern Coastal Athletic Conference competition in the mile, as well three other single events plus two relays.