Robert Pape made some interesting points in his column on April 19 entitled, "A matter of trust." Mr. Pape did a great job outlining the harm that Don Imus caused to the industry of journalism.
Last weekend, the softball team lost three out of four games at home, two to the Bowling Green Falcons, and one more to the Toledo Rockets.
The men's tennis team won four non-conference match-ups over the last week, including a 7-0 home victory over Duquesne.Buffalo played three of four scheduled matches in South Carolina, recording wins against Dayton, Bloomsburg and Denison, with a game against Marist rained out.
In its first home playoff game in four seasons, women's basketball succumbed to foul trouble and was eliminated by the Toledo Rockets in the first round of the conference tournament on Saturday, 70-58.The game was close throughout, but in the end, the Bulls were unable to survive early foul trouble, as sophomore forward Heather Turner sat out most of the first half.For the Rockets (10-17, 5-12 Mid-American Conference), Turner's absence provided an opportunity for junior forward Savannah Werner to abuse the Bulls under the basket.When Turner collected her second foul, over 13 minutes remained in the first half, but it seemed like much more to Bulls head coach Linda Hill-MacDonald."Heather was sitting on the bench for I don't know how many minutes.
In their final game of the regular season, women's basketball came out playing timid and suffered a scoring drought from the end of the first half until five minutes into the second half.With the game mattering little in the standings and Buffalo having already clinched a home playoff game, the Bulls lost to the Kent State Golden Flashes on Tuesday by a final score of 73-59.Senior forward Lindsay Shearer, who recorded game highs in points with 24 and rebounds with 13, led Kent State.Bulls senior guard Brooke Meunier, who finished the game -- and her Buffalo regular season career -- with nine points and four rebounds, said that Shearer has been getting better with every time they play."She's definitely gotten better every year," Meunier said.
When a team lives by the three, as the men's basketball team does, it doesn't usually pull off a victory shooting nine percent from beyond the arc.On Sunday, Buffalo men's basketball overcame shooting 1-for-11 from the three-point line to defeat Bowling Green 81-67 at Alumni Arena.
It was a lot closer than it should have been at the end, but women's basketball pulled through 84-77 in a nail biter against Ohio University at the Convocation Center on Tuesday night.The Bulls went on a 9-4 run to take an early 12-8 lead, but Buffalo gave up that lead on the road and the game saw multiple first-half ties before junior forward Viorica Badinici hit a three-pointer at the end of the half to give the Bulls a two-point lead of 32-30.Buffalo's 32 first-half points were the most points the Bulls have scored in a half since their conference opener against the Miami RedHawks."It was nice to see them put up some points.
When a game is tied with less than four minutes left in the second half, it's usually anybody's game.
Having built a strong reputation on the road this season, UB women's basketball started its home game Wednesday night with a surge of promise, opening a 7-1 lead in the first four minutes.
Buffalo's reign as road warriors came to a halt on Saturday.The Bulls headed to Kent State with a 5-1 record away from Alumni Arena, but were greeted with a blowout loss to the Golden Flashes, 73-56.Buffalo didn't trail the whole way, leading with just over 14 minutes left in the second half at 35-34.
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