Damien David is quiet, but you wouldn't know it if you saw him on the dance floor. He was born fewer than 400 miles from Buffalo, but English is not his first language.
The softball team has finished with its most wins (15) before the beginning of Mid-American Conference play since 2009.
The University at Buffalo's men's basketball team finished its 2013-14 season 19-10 and fell in the Mid-American Conference Tournament Quarterfinals.
Men's Basketball (19-11, 13-6 Mid-American Conference) Senior forward Javon McCrea was named one of the 30 finalists for the Lou Henson award Friday.
To some students, mediocrity has become the norm when referring to Buffalo basketball. The men's basketball team's 19-win season and first-ever outright Mid-American Conference East Championship pleasantly surprised those students. The Bulls went 19-10 in 2013-14, including a 13-5 MAC record after a 14-20 2012-13 season.
Despite scoring at least one run in every inning from the third to the ninth on Friday, the baseball team never held a lead until the game's final swing. Senior Mike Burke's one-out double drove in sophomore infielder Tyler Mautner for Buffalo's 14th and game-winning run in the first game of the squad's weekend series, which was split between two days after being delayed by darkness on Friday night. The Bulls (11-9, 3-2 Mid-American Conference) won the first game of a two-game series Friday in an 11-inning marathon against conference rival Ball State (18-9, 4-1 MAC play), 14-13.
The men's lacrosse team took an early 2-1 lead in its game against No. 5 Michigan State (7-2, 3-0 Central Collegiate Lacrosse Association), only to watch its momentary lead evaporate as the team was outscored 11-1 the remainder of the contest. The Bulls (4-2) ended a six-game road trip with a 12-3 loss to Michigan State Saturday in East Lansing, Mich.
The women's tennis team's motto this year has been to play with consistency and discipline. The Bulls (11-3, 2-1 Mid-American Conference) followed this game plan on Saturday, as they took an early lead in the match and never slowed down, defeating Northern Illinois (6-8, 1-3 MAC) 6-1 Saturday afternoon. Head coach Kristen Maines believes the players executed the game plan perfectly, sticking to what has worked for them all season long. "It's been a theme for us on how we work, by being consistent first and then we're able to win the big point," Maines said.
Longtime Buffalo Bills owner Ralph C. Wilson passed away March 25 at the age of 95.
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.
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