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It's not every day that a college football game goes into triple overtime. It's not every day a college football game is delayed twice due to lightning. It's not everyday that two times in one season a basketball game between the same two teams would come down to the very last milliseconds, each game ending in controversy. This was the 2006-07 season for Buffalo vs. Bowling Green.

Buffalo Football at Bowling Green, Sept. 9, 2006

"It was a very, very long game, four of five hours by the time we got done," said Bulls head coach Turner Gill about the game. "The three overtimes and two delay of games, so it was just a long game, an exciting game, a fun game to coach."

Gill's first road game as a head coach did not get off to a bright start, as the Falcons took the opening drive 71 yards in under three minutes, opening up the scoring with an Anthony Turner nine yard touchdown run.

Immediately following the touchdown, the players and coaches were rushed off the field due to lightning. During the over-one-hour delay, all of the fans were evacuated from the stadium, save one crazed student who eluded security and sat shirtless through the hounding weather.

When the teams finally returned to the field, receiver Naaman Roosevelt made his presence known returning a kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown.

Over 90 minutes had passed since the opening kickoff yet only three minutes had ticked off the game clock, and the game was tied at 7. Then-junior defensive end Trevor Scott remembers the game as one of the craziest experiences he's had on the football field.

"They had just scored on us. Then Naaman returned the kickoff for a touchdown. Then I think we had another lightning delay; that game was just crazy," Scott said.

Overall, the Bulls blocked four punts, field goals, and extra points, scored on a kick return, and held a seven-point lead with less then two minutes left in the game.

"You are experiencing a new brand of football; this is exciting," said an anonymous person affiliated with Buffalo athletics.

It turns out that he was a year early with his proclamation as the Bulls went on to give up the game-tying touchdown and lose one of the most exciting football games in Buffalo history.

In overtime, the Bulls appeared to be dead cattle walking after missing an extra point. The Falcons answered the Bulls' touchdown with one of their own and were a chip-shot extra point away from winning. But a Bulls' defensive lineman saved the day when he blocked the extra point forcing a third overtime.

Once the Falcons scored a third touchdown in as many overtimes, it was up to the Bulls to answer. On fourth down and one, the Bulls gave the ball to then-senior Steven King who fumbled the ball. Drew Willy picked it up and appeared to score the tying touchdown. However, an obscure rule states that on fourth down, only the person who fumbles the ball can advance the ball. Thus ended the craziest football game most have never seen, with the Bulls losing 48-40.

"It was just a crazy game for us, you had to be really mentally focused out there because it was easy to be distracted out there," Scott said.

Buffalo Basketball at Bowling Green, Jan. 7, 2007

"It was kind of a helter-skelter game," Witherspoon said. "Obviously you had two guys shooting the ball at an incredibly accurate rate, and it had such ebbs and flow, they would go up double digits, then we would go up double digits."

In the game, then-Bulls guard Eric Moore set the school record for most three pointers in the game hitting 11 of 16 on his way to 35 points.

This was not enough to hold off the Falcons as Martin Samarco torched the Bulls for 43 points, including a game-ending miracle shot.

"Obviously, in the end it looked like we were in control. Then they used a couple of timeouts, they take a shot that looks like a desperation shot but goes in...and puts them ahead," Witherspoon said. "We took the basketball out of bounds quickly and throw it long and while the ball is in the air, there is nine Bowling Green players on the court. The ball goes out of bounds and the game ends."

Buffalo Basketball vs. Bowling Green, Feb. 13, 2007

The Bulls jumped out to a 2-0 lead, but did not lead again for the rest of regulation. Bowling Green was either in the lead or tied for the remaining 39 minutes and 51 seconds of regulation, but still managed to lose the game. Down 77-75 with 38 seconds left, the Bulls had one last chance to force overtime, but could not get a shot off. The buzzer sounded apparently ending the game.

Falcons head coach Dan Dakich rushed his team off the court after apparently getting confirmation from the referee that the game was over. This was news to Buffalo head coach Reggie Witherspoon because there was more time on the game clock than there was on the shot clock. Thus, when the shot clock expired there should have been time remaining on the game clock.

"My emotions went from one, disputing the call, to the game should be resuming at this point and there's only one team on the floor. How much time are we going to give them? It seemed like it was an eternity," Witherspoon said.

The game stood in pause for over 20 minutes as the officials tried to find how much time was left on the clock, and then gather the Bowling Green players and bring them back to the court.

During the hiatus Witherspoon grew frustrated with the situation and began to bang on the time out buzzer to signal to the Falcons that they had to get back on the court. In a tactical move, Witherspoon also ordered the band to cease play.

"I didn't want anyone to be entertained by our band at that point. I wanted it to seem like it was a lot of time going by without the opposing time returning to the floor," Witherspoon said. "I wanted it to be quiet and I wanted it to appear that it was what it was, which was that a lot of time was going by and there was nothing going on."

Once the Falcons were finally wrangled back onto the court, they were given a delay of game technical foul allowing the Bulls' then-senior center Yassin Idbihi to attempt two free throws to tie the game.

"The most underrated aspect of everything that took place was that you're sending a six-foot-ten-inch kid to the line and he has to make two free throws or else the game is over," Witherspoon said. "He makes them both; he didn't get enough credit for that. That was very difficult to do with everybody in the building stopped, frozen, looking at him."

The Falcons had lost all of their momentum and were dead birds walking in overtime, eventually losing 98-90.

Witherspoon is in his ninth season as Bulls head coach and has been involved in basketball most of his life, yet he claims that the combination of the two Bowling Green basketball games from the 06-07 season were something he had never before witnessed.

"I can't say that we've seen it go right down to the buzzer twice it's pretty unusual, and even more unusual that controversy surrounds the finish (both times)," Witherspoon said.