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 Spectrum Sports Desk recaps this weekend in sports.
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.
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.
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 last place team in the MAC, Miami Ohio (5-20, 2-12 MAC), defeated the Bulls (15-10, 8-6 MAC) 78-68 in Alumni Arena Saturday afternoon behind an 8-of-10 three-point shooting performance.
On Wednesday, the Bulls (15-9, 8-5 MAC) narrowly defeated Kent State (4-20, 2-11 MAC) in Alumni Arena.
Junior guard Mackenzie Loesing and the women?s basketball team defeated
Junior guard Mackenzie Loesing goes for a layup in Buffalo's 73-64 victory over Niagara on Nov.
Freshman guard Lamonte Bearden scored a career-high 23 points in a 72-57 victory over Canisius this past Saturday.
Head coach Felisha Legette-Jack speaks with junior guard Karin Moss. Their season begins on Friday when they play Siena at Alumni Arena. Chad Cooper, The Spectrum
As the men?s and women?s basketball teams prepare for their 2014-15 campaign, The Spectrum?s sports staff gives its prediction for each team?s record, breakout player and Mid-American Conference Tournament finish. The Spectrum picks freshman guard Lamonte Bearden as the breakout player for the men?s basketball team.Chad Cooper, The Spectrum Men?s basketball predictions Record: 15-16, 9-9 MAC It?s going to be hard for this year?s squad to match the success of last season?s MAC East regular season title and 19 wins.
Spectrum File Photo Championship or bust. Did you ever think these three words would describe a Buffalo women?s basketball season? I sure didn?t.
Sophomore midfielder Russell Cicerone and the men?s soccer team?s season ended Saturday night with a 4-0 loss to Akron. The loss combined with a Bowling Green victory knocked Buffalo
Margeaux Gupilan is a statistical anomaly. She's 5-foot-7, Filipino and plays Division I basketball. In the 2010-11 season - Gupilan's freshman year at UB - less than 1 percent of Division I women basketball players were Asian (45 of 4,820 players, totaling 0.93 percent). In the 2012-13 season, this number dropped to 0.5 percent.
N'Dea Johnson knew she was going to get better. The more time she spent in the hospital, wondering what was wrong with her and when she would get better, the more set she became on her goals. Her hospital bed was not going to hold her back - not after the redshirt sophomore had overcome a torn ACL and become the women's soccer team's leading goal scorer.
Men's Basketball (1-2) The Bulls return to the floor for the first time since Nov. 16 when they host Robert Morris (3-3) on Tuesday at 7 p.m. The Colonials have been a strong team in recent years, appearing in five postseason tournaments in the last five seasons, including back-to-back NCAA Tournament appearances in 2009 and 2010. Guard Karvel Anderson has been the Colonials' go-to scoring threat this year, averaging 18.2 points per game. Senior forward Javon McCrea should be able to dominate on the boards against a Colonials team that doesn't have a single player over 4.7 rebounds per game.
The men's basketball team opened its season on Friday night, but they couldn't close. The Bulls (0-1) led multiple times over power conference opponent Texas A&M (1-0), including 25-17 late in the first half and 49-48 midway through the second.
As the men's and women's basketball teams prepare for their 2013-14 campaigns to get underway, The Spectrum's sports staff gives its prediction for each team's record, breakout player and Mid-American Conference Tournament finish. Men's basketball predictions Record: 18-11, 11-7 MAC The arrival of Bobby Hurley has led to some of the biggest expectations in Buffalo men's basketball history.
Football (6-2, 4-0 Mid-American Conference) Two seniors, running back Branden Oliver and linebacker Khalil Mack, were named MAC Offensive and Defensive Players of the Week, respectively, following Buffalo's 41-21 victory at Kent State (2-7, 1-4 MAC) on Saturday.
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