Sweet home Alabama: Bulls invited to play in Camellia Bowl
By RYAN TANTALO | Dec. 9The game will mark UB’s sixth bowl-game appearance in program history. The Bulls barely made the cutoff for bowl eligibility this year.
The game will mark UB’s sixth bowl-game appearance in program history. The Bulls barely made the cutoff for bowl eligibility this year.
With the win, UB secured its fourth bowl-game appearance of the last five years. Though the story had a happy ending for the Bulls, victory didn’t come easy in their contest against the Zips.
Men’s basketball (4-4) stole the show Saturday afternoon at Alumni Arena, handling Western New York rival St. Bonaventure (5-3) 83-66. In a season that has been anything but smooth for UB, the win brings the Bulls back to .500 heading into the holiday stretch.
It remains to be seen whether the game will be rescheduled.
Hector Vargas, a fifth-year exercise science major at UB, Antonio Vargas, a UB graduate architecture student, and their brother Daniel took the ice for Puerto Rico at the 2022 LATAM Cup.
UB Volleyball (18-12, 10-8 MAC) swept Akron (6-23, 3-15) at Alumni Arena Wednesday night to clinch the No. 6 seed in the upcoming Mid-American Conference Tournament.
Men’s basketball (1-2, 0-0 MAC) fell to No. 25-ranked Connecticut (3-0), 84-64, at the XL Center in Hartford on Tuesday night.
Women’s soccer (15-2-4, 7-0-4 MAC) lost at Pittsburgh (13-4-3, 5-3-2 ACC) 1-0 in the first round of the NCAA Tournament Saturday evening.
Women’s basketball (1-1, 0-0 MAC) defeated the Stonehill Skyhawks (0-3), 62-56, Monday night at Merkert Gymnasium in Easton, Massachusetts. The victory marked head coach Becky Burke’s first career victory at the helm of the Bulls.
The Bulls lost to the Central Michigan Chippewas 31-27 Wednesday night after being outscored 24-3 in the second half.
Women's soccer won the MAC Championship after defeating Ball State last Sunday. The Bulls will face No. 4 seed Pittsburgh in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday.
UB won both matches by scores of 3-1 and 3-0. The games this weekend mark six consecutive victories for the team, increasing their overall record to 17-10 and their conference record to 9-6.
Women’s basketball (0-1, 0-0 MAC) dropped its first game of the season to the Canisius Golden Griffins (1-0, 0-0 MAAC), 57-55, in Becky Burke’s UB head-coaching debut.
The Bulls kicked off the 2022-23 season with a win Monday night, beating the Colgate Raiders, 88-87, at Alumni Arena.
Despite a historically bad beginning to the season, Maurice Linguist and the Bulls turned things around. They won five consecutive games (before losing to Ohio Tuesday night) and are in contention for the top spot in the conference.
With first place in the MAC East on the line, UB (5-4, 4-1 MAC) fell to Ohio (6-3, 4-1 MAC) at Peden Stadium Tuesday night, 45-24.
Women’s soccer (13-1-4, 7-0-4 MAC) defeated Kent State (4-7-7, 4-2-5 MAC) 2-0 to claim the Mid-American Conference regular season title Thursday.
Guy Allegretto, a Vietnam War veteran, has been giving motivational speeches to the UB football team for the last 11 years.
The introduction of a mindfulness coach and a balance of youth and experience has turned women's soccer into the favorites to win the MAC.
Women’s soccer (12-1-4, 6-0-4 MAC) secured a spot in the Mid-American Conference tournament after defeating Central Michigan, 2-1, at UB Stadium on Thursday. UB then tied against Ball State on Saturday, which brought the Bulls to a 14-game unbeaten streak, tying the record-breaking 2014 UB team.