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Junior forward Jeremy Harris looks for the layup in heavy coverage. The men’s basketball team is looking to repeat its success from last season this year
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Meet the 2018-19 Bulls

Football (Last year’s record: 6-6, 4-4 Mid-American Conference) The football team had one of its strongest seasons since joining Division I in 1999, becoming bowl eligible for the first time in four years.


UB's Heroes of the Storm team "Improbabull Victory" prepares for Heroic Four tournament this weekend. From left to right: Junior English major Robert Sands III, pharmacy graduate Justin Goo, sophomore accounting major Allen Hu, senior math major Jianyu Zhang and pharmacy graduate student Marc Coiro. 
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UB Heroes of the Storm team prepares for Heroic Four tournament

LOS ANGELES -- Allen “FantaFiction” Hu, started playing Blizzard Entertainment’s popular video game, Heroes of the Storm six months ago for fun. Now, he and his teammates are two victories away from winning over $500,000. Hu, a sophomore accounting major, and his four teammates are competing this weekend in Blizzard’s Heroes of the Dorm competition, the March Madness equivalent of collegiate esports. Over 1,000 students comprising over 300 teams competed for the top 64 spots during the tournament’s regular season. The top 64 teams then played best-of-three matches to advance up the bracket.


Defensive lineman Chris Ford pushes for the tackle against the running back. Ford is one of three former Bulls to be invited to NFL mini camps in the passing weeks.
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Bulls trying for the big leagues

Three former Bulls were recently invited to an NFL minicamp, while former defensive end Derome Harris signed with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. Former Bulls safety Tim Roberts earned an invitation to attend Washington’s rookie camp.


Junior forward Jeremy Harris drops in the finger roll layup. In his first season as a Bull, the JUCO transfer started every game averaging 15.5 points and 5.9 rebounds per game.
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Spring check-in: Men’s basketball

Buffalo men’s basketball has never been better, with a third Mid-American Conference Championship in four years, five All-MAC players, MAC coach of the year, MAC sixth man of the year and its first-ever NCAA Tournament win. “We’re trying to make our ceiling, our new floor,” said junior guard CJ Massinburg, after the No. 13 seed Bulls broke brackets across the country defeating the No. 4 seed Arizona. With 10 players returning and the highest rated recruiting class in program history, the Bulls are on track to do just that.


Sophomore forward Summer Hemphill goes for the layup in the crowded paint. Hemphill will look to start next season as the Bulls make adjustments after the departure of five seniors and the addition of six new players.
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Spring check-in: Women’s basketball

The Bulls will start next season in unknown territory for the program as a nationally ranked team. Coming off the two biggest wins in program history this past March at the NCAA Tournament, Buffalo is hoping to build with the upcoming recruiting class.



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