The Bulls (21-9, 12-6 MAC) defeated Bowling Green (20-10, 11-7 MAC) 77-75 on Friday night to clinch the MAC East division at a sold-out Alumni Arena on Friday night.
On Saturday afternoon, the Bulls (17-11, 10-7 Mid-American Conference) will take on Kent State (5-23, 2-14 MAC) in Kent, Ohio in the final regular season matchup of the 2014-15 season. Buffalo is currently tied with Toledo, Central Michigan and Western Michigan for fourth place in the conference.
Two weeks ago, the Bulls were on a three-game losing streak and fell into the middle of the pack in the Mid-American Conference standings. It looked like the team was set to play in the first round of the MAC Tournament. But a five-game winning streak heading into the final matchup of the season propelled the team into position to win the MAC East.
In the three games prior to Wednesday’s matchup, the women’s basketball team scored over 70 points in three straight games for the first time since Nov. 18 – Nov. 25.
The Bulls defeated the Bobcats 93-66 on Tuesday evening at Alumni Arena in front of an announced crowd of 3,596, marking the team’s season-high fifth straight win. The team also registered its highest scoring output of the season. If the Bulls win against Bowling Green (19-9, 11-6) on Friday, they will clinch at least a share of the MAC East.
For the first time ever, the men’s soccer team will travel to the United Kingdom to check out the competitive culture of English soccer firsthand.
Reed Sunahara resigned as the volleyball team’s head coach to assume the same position at West Virginia University on Monday after only one season in Buffalo.
The Bulls finished with nine individual first-place finishes and two team relay wins in 20 events, but finished fourth in the competition with 477 points in the women’s MAC Swimming and Diving Championship that began on Wednesday, Feb. 25 and concluded on Saturday, Feb. 28 at the Michael H. Jones Natatorium in Ypsilanti, Michigan.
The Spectrum Sports Desk recaps this weekend in sports.
The men’s basketball team (19-9, 10-6 Mid-American Conference) went 2-0 this week with victories over Akron (18-11, 9-7 MAC) and Kent State (19-10, 10-6 MAC). The Spectrum graded their performance.
The Bulls (19-9, 10-6 MAC) pulled out a victory over Kent State (19-10, 10-6 MAC) 71-65 in the MAC Center in Kent, Ohio in their first four-game winning streak of the season. Buffalo has now moved into a tie with the Golden Flashes for second place in the MAC East.
The women’s basketball team’s head coach Felisha Legette-Jack called a timeout with less than 15 seconds remaining in Saturday’s game, but had no intention of talking to the team or drawing up a play. With the Bulls up by seven points, the timeout was used to make a personnel switch.
Lamonte Bearden's focused path led him from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Buffalo to play basketball.
With three games remaining in the regular season, the men’s basketball team controls its own destiny in the Mid-American Conference East.
When colleges are given the choice to either make a switch to Division II or stay in Division I, most would choose the latter. Not the UB women’s ice hockey team. The team – who made the switch to Division II at the beginning of the year– saw this season as a “rebuilding year.”
But Loesing, a junior guard on pace to be the women’s basketball team’s all-time leading scorer, broke through for a career-high 32 points Wednesday night. It was still not enough for Buffalo to defeat the No. 1 team in the Mid-American Conference: Ohio.
In her first season with Buffalo, Cordoba has been active in recruiting talent from her native Australia to join the Bulls. The Bulls feature four Australian freshmen this season, including Stephanie Reid, Courtney Wilkins and twin sisters Liisa and Katherine Ups. And while the Bulls are aiming to improve their team with international talent, the players are gaining an experience they were uncertain they’d have.
The Bulls (18-9, 9-6 MAC) used their late run to defeat Akron (17-11, 8-7 MAC) 67-62 in front of an announced crowd of 3,541 in Alumni Arena. With the victory, the Bulls are now in third place in the MAC East with three conference games remaining. If the Bulls win out the rest of the season, they will clinch the MAC East title for the second straight year.
In the women’s basketball team’s 78-68 loss to Miami Ohio on Saturday, Buffalo shot just a little over 40 percent from the field and allowed the last place RedHawks to shoot eight of 10 from beyond the arc. But the Bulls (15-10, 8-6 Mid-American Conference) will have to overcome a loss from a team that won three of its last 15 games to face a team that has won 13 of its last 15 games.
The Bulls were banned from both the MAC Tournament and NCAA Nationals due to academic ineligibility. The NCAA requires each team to register a minimum academic performance rate (APR) of 930.
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