The emotions on sophomore guard Mackenzie Loesing's face told the story. Her eyes were puffy and pink as she sat down at Quicken Loans Arena's press table following the women's basketball team's 74-60 quarterfinal loss to Ball State March 13.
Basketball (19-10, 13-6 MAC) Head coach Bobby Hurley was named one of 10 finalists for the Joe B. Hall award, given to the top first-year head coach in the country.
On Feb. 19, the @UBConfessions Twitter account - which tweets anonymous messages it receives from students - tweeted: "Men's lax and hockey teams: stop acting like you're varsity sports.
Baseball (10-7, 2-1 Mid-American Conference) The Bulls began Spring Break in Virginia, losing to Rutgers (8-12) and Virginia Commonwealth (20-3, 3-0 Atlantic 10 Conference) and defeating Lafayette (6-10). The team returned to Buffalo to take on Canisius (14-7, 3-0 Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference) Wednesday and lost, 12-11.
The men's lacrosse team scheduled five games over Spring Break to open its season. Buffalo ultimately played about six-and-a-half games, though. The Bulls (4-1) traveled to Nashville, Tenn., Tuscaloosa, Ala., Orlando, Fla., and Morgantown, W.Va., over break.
When the buzzer sounded at Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday, March 13, at the end of the Bulls' (19-10, 13-6 Mid-American Conference) 69-64 MAC Tournament quarterfinal loss, it signaled the end of a lot more than just the 2013-14 men's basketball season. It was the last time UB's all-time leading scorer, senior forward Javon McCrea and fellow seniors guards Josh Freelove and Jarod Oldham would play in a Bulls jersey and the end of what many had believed would be a special season. Here is The Spectrum sports staff's analysis of the Bulls' season. Three-point shooting: B Freelove was the Bulls' most prolific long-range shooter and the fourth most efficient three-point shooter in the MAC, hitting 41 percent of his shots from beyond the arc.
One might expect a residence occupied by 1,416 total pounds of football players to be a house filled with talk of X's and O's and copious amounts of food. Only the latter is correct in the case of the house occupied by five Buffalo football players, however, as their home is usually filled with talk of computer programming and coding as opposed to audibles and gap assignments. Senior defensive lineman Colby Way, sophomore running back Anthone Taylor, junior offensive lineman Jake Silas and junior defensive linemen Dalton Barksdale and Kristjan Sokoli live together in the same house two minutes from North Campus.
When head coach Ron Torgalski sat the baseball team down after a blowout loss Friday, he told the players to execute basic plays and play optimistically for the rest of the weekend and beyond. The team's response: A nearly flawless two-game stretch to seal the weekend series. The Bulls (10-7, 2-1 Mid-American Conference) got their first taste of MAC competition this weekend with a three-game series against Northern Illinois (3-17, 1-2 MAC) in Wheaton, Ill.
When the Buffalo women's basketball team began its 2013-14 season, it expected to have 14 players who could contribute.
Spring Break was not all fun for the women's tennis team, as it split four matches. The Bulls (10-3, 1-1 Mid-American Conference) traveled to Florida for the first half of their four-match week and encountered their first losing streak of the season.
The men's tennis team had a nine-day layover between its 6-1 victory in Gulf Shores, Ala., on March 14 and its Mid-American Conference opener Saturday.
CLEVELAND - The men's basketball team had the ball with the opportunity to force overtime at Quicken Loans Arena on Thursday evening by doing what it had done effectively all game - hit a three-pointer. Senior guard Joshua Freelove - who had the hot hand all night - fired a shot with 11 seconds remaining, but it went in and out of the rim.
Baseball (7-3) Coming off their toughest competition and worst weekend of the season thus far, the Bulls travel to Virginia Commonwealth for games against Rutgers (4-8), VCU (12-2) and Lafayette (5-4). Buffalo will then make a stop at Valparaiso (7-7) before heading to Dekalb, Ill., for its Mid-American Conference season opener against Northern Illinois (1-12-1). Softball (9-7) After having all of their games canceled due to weather last week, the Bulls travel to the USF Spring Break Tournament to face Providence (0-5), Bryant (2-8), Iona (0-7), Rutgers (5-7) and Maine (5-5) Friday-Sunday.
CLEVELAND - The women's basketball team had twice as many second-half field-goal attempts as Ball State in Thursday's quarterfinal match of the Mid-American Conference Tournament.
It took the women's basketball team two tournament victories to advance to the Mid-American Conference Quarterfinals last season.
At the men's basketball practice Tuesday afternoon, head coach Bobby Hurley stood silently at center court and watched as ball after ball brushed through the net. It's an appropriate metaphor for Hurley's work with the Bulls this season.
A walk-off homerun is one of the most exciting plays in baseball - except when you have to endure the opposing team corralling a player at home plate after a game-winning bomb. The baseball team experienced that tough predicament this weekend. The Bulls (7-3) dropped two of three games this weekend in the Bulldog Invitational in Athens, Ga.
Baseball (7-3) The Bulls went 1-2 this weekend in Athens, Ga. Buffalo lost to Georgia (9-6), 11-10, Friday.
After winning the Mid-American Conference Championship in 2011, the men's swimming and diving team has remained a top team in the conference but hasn't been able to clinch a championship. The trend continued this season. UB hosted the Mid-American Conference Championships at Alumni Arena Thursday, Friday and Saturday.
The men's tennis team responded from an unsettling Saturday loss to finish its weekend on a high note Sunday. The No.
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