Despite what UB Athletics has been preaching the past three years, New York’s real college team resides two-and-a-half hours east of Alumni Arena.
This isn’t to knock what UB Athletics has been doing. The program has won five team Mid-American Conference Championships over the past year, including three for basketball – the second biggest platform in Division-I sports.
Basketball, for the time being, is Buffalo’s best opportunity to make a nationwide stand. And it doesn’t need to relocate to the Atlantic 10 to do so. What the Bulls have done in the MAC the past two years is exactly what they need – a winning culture.