The softball team and women’s tennis team will not play Ball State in Indiana this weekend due to Gov. Andrew Cuomo’s ban of New York State-funded travel to Indiana.
While stricken with cancer her junior year, Kelsey Barbour used running as a mechanism to cope. Now a graduate student, Barbour is set to compete in the “4K for Cancer,” a cross-country relay-style event across the United States which will raise money for the Ulman Cancer Fund for Young Kids.
The Spectrum breaks down this week in UB sports, including men's and women's tennis, men's basketball and softball.
Bobby Hurley announced on Colin Cowherd’s ESPN Radio show, “The Herd,” that he will return as Buffalo’s men’s head basketball coach next season.
On Sunday, the Bulls (6-14, 2-4 Mid-American Conference) concluded a three-game series against Ball State (18-8, 5-1 MAC) with a 16-8 loss, giving the Cardinals the series victory. Buffalo dominated on Saturday with a 14-1 win that included 10 runs in the final inning, but the Bulls still failed to win their second MAC series in as many tries.
The softball team was in position to win its first game since March 18. During the bottom of the seventh inning of Buffalo’s game against Kent State Saturday, the Bulls trailed by two when freshman infielder Sarah Edwards stepped to the plate with the bases loaded and two outs.
Despite her talent, Megan Burns wasn’t planning on swimming after high school until she found passion and fun in UB's swimming and diving team.
On Wednesday, the Lance Leipold era officially began in Buffalo as the Bulls held their first spring practice under the first-year Division-I head coach and the new staff at the ADPRO Sports Training Center in Orchard Park, New York.
With the men’s basketball team 2013-14 season finished, it’s time to look ahead. If the Bulls are to make another run at a Mid-American Conference championship and NCAA tournament appearance, they are going to have to replace the talent they lost. Bobby Hurley can help with this.
The Top Ten moments in UB sports the past two weeks.
Following the Bulls' first visit to the NCAA Tournament, will Hurley stay or will he go?
UB Athletics is ready to make men’s basketball coach Bobby Hurley the highest paid coach in the Mid-American Conference.
Despite playing in a Mid-Major conference and having a small amount of success throughout its Division I history, UB Athletics has said it’s building “America’s next big-time college athletics brand” for the past two years under the New York Bulls Initiative or #NYBI. After the men’s basketball team’s historic season, maybe it’s finally on its way to doing it.
Women’s tennis (5-7, 1-1 Mid-American Conference) The women’s tennis team earned its first MAC victory over Easter Michigan (5-10, 1-1 MAC) this past Sunday at the Miller Tennis Center.
The men’s basketball team (23-10, 12-6 Mid-American Conference) ended its season with a loss to West Virginia (25-9) 68-62 in the first round of the NCAA tournament last Saturday.
For the second consecutive year, the women’s basketball team finished its season fourth in the Mid-American Conference.
You never exactly know when a team or player is ready to take the leap. Take this year’s men basketball team.
Former football head coach Jeff Quinn took a job as an offensive analyst for Notre Dame last week.
How Buffalo did in the NCAA Tournament was never going to define this season. The road to the tournament will define it. Getting the program’s first conference championship, an appearance on the national stage and possibly a permanent place within the Buffalo sports community is how this season is going to be remembered.
The No. 12 seeded Bulls (23-10, 12-6 Mid-American Conference) were eliminated in the second round of the NCAA Tournament Friday, as they fell to No. 5 West Virginia (24-9, 11-7 Big 12) 68-62 at Nationwide Arena in Columbus, Ohio. The loss ended a historic season for Buffalo in which it won its first-ever MAC Tournament championship and made its first-ever NCAA Tournament appearance.
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