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Upset city
By JOE KONZE JR | Mar. 3, 2013The last time the men's basketball team played Akron, it had a chance to end the Zips' 10-game winning streak.
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Filling the void
By MARKUS MCCAINE | Feb. 28, 2013Editor's note: Markus McCaine was on the lacrosse team in 2011 Students don't hear about athletic teams chasing a third-straight conference championship very often around UB.
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Sour 16
By JON GAGNON | Feb. 28, 2013The men's basketball team appeared to be on its way to its first-ever victory in Kent State's MAC Center. That is, until Kent State (16-12, 6-7 Mid-American Conference) senior Chris Evans hit a buzzer-beating bank shot in overtime.
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Lucky No. 3
By JEFF PLACITO | Feb. 26, 2013The men's tennis team seems to have found its stride. The squad has attained three straight wins, after back-to-back victories against Niagara and Duquesne this weekend. The Bulls (5-2) started strong on Friday against the Niagara Purple Eagles (4-3) and never looked back. Sophomore Damien David and freshman Akhil Mehta won the first doubles match 8-4, and senior Vusa Hova and sophomore Sebastian Ionescu won 8-3 in the second match. "The team played well against Niagara, especially in the doubles matches," Hove said.
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Bulls lose three of four in Louisville
By JON GAGNON | Feb. 26, 2013The softball team traveled to Louisville, Ky., this weekend for the second of its five tournaments to open the season - Buffalo's first home game isn't until March 27. The Bulls (2-7) opened the tournament with an extra-inning win but proceeded to drop their next three games. In the opening showdown, the squad defeated Mid-American Conference opponent Kent State (2-6), 3-2 in eight innings.
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Without a paddle
By MARKUS MCCAINE | Feb. 26, 2013Many of them travel over 9,000 miles from Southeast Asia. Some navigate the Pacific, traverse the Rockies or cross the Mississippi. But they couldn't go the last 86 miles. Last Saturday, four of the table tennis club's top players could not make the trip to Mississauga, Ontario, to play in the Great Lakes Regional Tournament.
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Pushing on without Pollock
By BEN TARHAN | Feb. 26, 2013When the baseball team loses an All-Mid-American Conference first-team player for five of its first seven games, struggles would be expected. When senior outfielder Matt Pollock, who sat out most of last weekend with a wrist injury, struggled to swing the bat on Friday, the Bulls' long weekend in Lexington, Va., did not look promising. But Pollock's replacement, junior outfielder Jimmy Topps, went 5 for 11 and scored two runs in Pollock's absence, helping the Bulls (4-3) to a 3-1 record on the weekend and giving them their best seven-game start since 2009. The Bulls swept Maryland Eastern Shore (1-5), 9-6 and 6-3, and split with Virginia Military Institute (3-5), 4-6 and 10-3.
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Bulls boiled down by Purdue
By Tom Dinki | Feb. 26, 2013The wrestling team finished its season with a situation that has been familiar all year: an injury-filled lineup with wrestlers competing out of their weight classes leading to another loss on the team's record. The Bulls (1-11, 1-4 Mid-American Conference) lost their last dual of the season 31-10 against 14th-ranked Purdue (17-6, 5-3 Big Ten) in the Regional Duals in Lancaster, Pa.
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Bracket busted
By BEN TARHAN | Feb. 24, 2013On Saturday afternoon, the men's basketball team hit as many field goals as, twice as many 3-pointers as and six fewer free throws than their opponent. They played well enough to win in every phase of the game, except one: turnovers. The Bulls (11-16, 6-6 Mid-American Conference) turned the ball over 24 times against Manhattan (11-16, 8-8 Metro-Atlantic Athletic Conference), including 18 times in the first half as they fell 65-64 in the Ramada Worldwide BracketBuster game. "We didn't think they were a pretty good basketball club, so we probably came out not as focused as we should have been," said junior forward Javon McCrea.
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Barricading the Bobcats
By OWEN O'BRIEN | Feb. 24, 2013When the women's basketball team hosted Ohio in January, it resulted in Buffalo's largest victory in over three years and its best rebounding performance since 2004. Head coach Felisha Legette-Jack didn't want the team's first matchup to allow for a letdown in the second affair. The Bulls (9-17, 7-6 Mid-American Conference) avoided the trap, as they defeated the Bobcats (6-19, 1-12 MAC), 56-35, on Saturday afternoon in Alumni Arena. "We talk about many things other than basketball [during pre-game]," Legette-Jack said.
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Running of the Bulls
By JARED BOVE | Feb. 24, 2013The men's and women's track and field teams had some very lofty expectations coming into the weekend's Mid-American Conference Indoor Championships. The Bulls traveled to Ypsilanti, Mich., for the two-day competition and found an abundance of individual successes. Three Bulls were crowned MAC champions over the weekend and six others secured finishes inside top three in their respective events. Junior thrower Jonathan Jones and senior thrower Shante' White were named the men's and women's athletes, respectively, of the meet in recognition of their championship winning performances. Jones brought home a familiar title for the Bulls on Friday, as he broke former Buffalo thrower Rob Golabek's school record in the shot-put event.
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Captured
By JON GAGNON | Feb. 21, 2013The women's basketball team has failed to score more than 57 points in each of its five losses in Mid-American Conference play this season.
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Richie Rich
By JOE KONZE JR | Feb. 21, 2013Richie Sebuharara came to Buffalo expecting to run track and field and follow in his brother's footsteps, but his heart was on the basketball court.
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Shooting into an ocean
By JON GAGNON | Feb. 19, 2013There are two things an onlooker notices from senior guard Tony Watson during shooting drills at the end of the men's basketball team's practice: He talks to the ball whenever he shoots.
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Bulls axe Vikings
By JEFF PLACITO | Feb. 19, 2013In front of a record crowd at Cleveland State's Chagrin Valley Athletic Club, the men's tennis team snapped a two-game losing skid and sent the crowd of more than 200 home disappointed. The Bulls (3-2) secured a 4-3 win against the Vikings (2-6) on Saturday, giving the team its first-ever victory against Cleveland State.
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Bulls stay perfect
By MARKUS MCCAINE | Feb. 19, 2013It was a parade of big shots, missed opportunities and forfeits when the women's tennis team took to the court against ASA College.
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Redemption
By JOE KONZE JR | Feb. 17, 2013The baseball team kicked off its 2013 campaign this weekend, traveling to North Carolina to take on North Carolina A&T in a three-game series.
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Payback
By OWEN O'BRIEN | Feb. 17, 2013The men's basketball team may want to consider keeping its record books written in pencil rather than pen after this week's copious cross-outs and torn pages. The Bulls (11-15, 6-6 Mid-American Conference) won only their third game in 15 trips to Millett Hall, a 79-71 victory over Miami Ohio (8-16, 3-9 MAC) on Saturday. Senior guard Tony Watson scored 31 points to lead the offensive assault, shooting 10 of 14 from the field and 6 of 9 from behind the arc while dishing out six assists. "Holy smokes.
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Bulls stay perfect
By MARKUS MCCAINE | Feb. 17, 2013It was a parade of big shots, missed opportunities and forfeits when the women's tennis team took to the courts against ASA College. However, these miscues were not made by the Bulls, and they kept their undefeated start intact. "It was a good win," said head coach Kristen Ortman.
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Sudden loss
By Tom Dinki | Feb. 17, 2013On Senior day, the wrestling team was unable to send off its seniors with a victory in the last home dual meet of their careers in Alumni Arena. The Bulls (1-10, 1-4 Mid-American Conference) lost a heart-breaking match 20-18 to rival Northern Illinois (8-8, 1-5 MAC) on Saturday afternoon.
