By Budd Bailey With less than two minutes to go, the goal seemed almost out of reach for the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team. No, not winning the game….
UB runs past Bowling Green
UB takes care of business
By Budd Bailey Like your college basketball to have plenty of drama? Close finishes? Individual accomplishments? Alumni Arena was not your kind of place on Saturday afternoon. And that’s not…
UB opens MAC play in style
By Budd Bailey In a sense, it was Opening Day – again – for the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team. The Bulls have spent the last two months getting…
Jones paces Bulls to nice victory
By Budd Bailey It seems that the University at Buffalo men’s basketball team has found it “go-to guy.” You know the type. He’s a player who consistently comes up with…
UB is too good for Canisius
By Budd Bailey Call this a Tale of Two Teams. The men’s basketball teams from the University at Buffalo and Canisius College had plenty in common entering the current season….
Book Review: Miracles on the Hardwood
By Budd Bailey College basketball fans probably have noticed something odd and interesting about their favorite sport. Catholic colleges and universities probably punch over their weight, as they say in…
Book Review: Bracketology
Review by Budd Bailey Basketball fans have learned a new word over the past several years: bracketology. If you were trying to define it, you’d say it is the study…
Burke’s lengthy to-do list
By Budd Bailey So you want to be a college basketball coach at a mid-major program? Be prepared to multi-task. That might be the biggest lesson to come out of…
Following the Aggies
By Budd Bailey There are all sorts of interesting stories out there when it comes to NCAA basketball tournament. I had the chance to follow one of them relatively closely,…
More Madness than usual
By Budd Bailey At least the second round of the NCAA basketball tournament is half as long as the first round. It’s tough enough to follow four games in one…
The Madness begins
By Budd Bailey In some ways, it’s the best sports morning of the year. It might be the most romantic, too. The players, coaches and fans of 64 men’s college…
Getting ready for Madness
By Budd Bailey Gentlemen, start your madness. The NCAA men’s basketball tournament gets underway this way. We here in Buffalo are lucky enough to be involved in it again this…
Canisius’ hopes sink a bit lower
By Budd Bailey Tom Petty was right. The waiting really is the hardest part. Canisius College’s men’s basketball team dropped a 65-54 decision to Niagara, its biggest rival, at the…
UB has the right stuff at crunch time
By Budd Bailey For more than 35 minutes, Saturday’s game between the University at Buffalo and Ball State was up for grabs. It was just a matter of asking –…
