The UB women’s volleyball team (3-7, 0-0 MAC) competed in the Ohio State Sports Impact Classic in Columbus, Ohio, this past weekend, where they struggled to find a rhythm and ended the tournament without a win. UB volleyball currently holds a seven-game losing streak.
UB’s football team (2-1, 0-0 MAC) beat the University at Massachusetts Minutemen (1-2, 0-0 A10) at UB Stadium on Saturday afternoon with a score of 34-3. This was UMass’s first appearance at UB Stadium since 2015 and marks their last meeting as a non-conference opponent, as the Minutemen are slated to become members of the MAC in 2025.
Following their success at the Buffalo Invite, the Bulls were unable to secure a win at the Ellis Rowland Memorial Tournament.
The UB football team (1-1, 0-0 MAC) fell to the Missouri Tigers (2-0, 0-0 SEC) by a score of 0-38 at Faurot Field on Saturday night. The Bulls have only won the first two games of their season twice in the last 60 years.
Following last Wednesday’s victory over Canisius (2-1-1, 1-0 MAAC), the UB women’s soccer team (4-0-1, 0-0 MAC) trounced the Colgate Raiders (1-5-1, 0-0 Patriot League) by a score of 3-0 at UB Stadium on Sunday.
The UB women’s soccer team (3-0-1, 0-0-0 MAC) defeated Canisius University (1-1-1, 0-0-0 MAAC) at UB Stadium on Wednesday night, edging the Golden Griffins 1-0 in a highly physical match. An incredible second-half goal from sophomore defender Maya Galko proved to be the difference as the Bulls extended their early season streak to four games.
Former UB Bulls linebacker Joe Andreessen was recently named in the Buffalo Bills initial 53-man roster following an impressive showing in the NFL preseason. He was originally left undrafted in the 2024 draft but was signed by the Bills last May after a successful rookie tryout.
UB volleyball (3-0, 0-0 MAC) kicked off their 2024-25 campaign by winning the Buffalo Invite for the second consecutive year. As hosts of the tournament, the Bulls secured three straight victories, defeating Oakland (1-2, 0-0 HL) on Friday, Hampton (0-3, 0-0 CAA) on Saturday, and Army West Point (2-1, AAC) on Sunday evening.
The UB football team (1-0, 0-0 MAC) defeated the Lafayette Leopards (0-1, 0-0 PAT) by a score of 30-13 at UB Stadium on Thursday night, marking their first win under new head coach Pete Lembo.
The UB women’s soccer team achieved their first ever top-25 national ranking in program history, earning the No. 25 spot in the latest poll from Top Drawer Soccer (TDS). The milestone comes a week after the Bulls’ upset win over Pittsburgh, which marked the first time they had ever beaten a top-10 ranked team.
In the program’s first-ever win against a top 10 nationally-ranked team, UB defeated the No. 7 nationally-ranked Pittsburgh Panthers 2-1 last Thursday. The historic win comes just one week after UB’s home victory over St. Bonaventure on Aug. 15, kicking off the 2024-25 season.
UB’s Student Association (SA) has de-recognized the men’s and women’s ice hockey clubs as of May 1, according to leaders of the men’s hockey club, for a failure to meet a requirement to hold at least three on-campus events.
There was no shortage of success for UB’s outdoor track team at the Mid-American Conference (MAC) championships this past weekend.
Coming to the end of his junior season, Hamel is the school record-holder in the indoor 300m with a time of 33.99 seconds and now second all-time in the outdoor 200m with a time of 21.02 seconds.
Before deciding to come to UB, Choo was a three-time national doubles champion and a two-time national singles runner-up, and she ranked as one of the top 250 junior players in the world.
The team announced the hiring of Kevin Voigt as the director of basketball operations and assistant coach.
Maines is a Western New York native — but her teams from the 2017-18 to the 2022-23 season were composed entirely of players that were born a long way from the Empire State. Until Clarence, New York native Julia Laspro was recruited this season every team member hailed from outside the U.S.
Alexis Lucyshyn heard it so many times: she would never make it to the Division I level for softball — and she started to believe it. Then, at a showcase in Florida during her senior year of high school, UB approached her.
The UB football defense narrowly pulled out the win against the team’s offense during UB’s annual Blue and White spring game on Saturday afternoon at UB stadium. The final score was 40-37.
Vinson spent three years with Cornell University as an associate head coach, where he helped develop four national champions, 10 All-Americans, and 12 Eastern Intercollegiate Wrestling Association (EIWA) champions.
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