By Budd Bailey A regulation college basketball game only lasts 40 minutes. Yet it can take far less than that to hit a decisive stretch. Ask the University at Buffalo men’s team about that. The Bulls head a 16-15 lead over Kent State after 10 minutes, but the Golden Flashes went on a 17-4 run over the next five minutes. That proved decisive, as Buffalo dropped a 87-81 decision in Alumni Arena. This one figured to be a good test for the Bulls, as Kent State has usually been ne

By Budd Bailey Tim Oboh of the University at Buffalo’s men’s basketball team had something of a coming-out party on Saturday afternoon. The 6-foot-11 center came into the game with Ball State averaging a mere 7.6 points per game. But on Saturday, he went off for a career-high 22 points in 21 minutes in an outstanding performance. Oboh was a major reason why the Bulls had little problem in improving 13-2 on the season, 3-0 in the Mid-American Conference. They took an 85-72 win

Feature Image Courtesy of Paul Hokanson/UB Athletics Daniel Freitag was a late commitment to the University at Buffalo basketball team last April, as in, late at night. “It was late ... late,” head coach George Halcovage III recalled on Saturday. “I went nuts. I woke up my son at home. I woke up my wife, too.”Halcovage decided to pull a little prank on assistant coach Jack Fitzpatrick, who had been the lead recruiter on Freitag. He called Fitzpatrick and pretended that Freita