The University at Buffalo is set to cut four varsity sports by the end of the 2017 academic year, per a release issued by the university this morning.
UB will cut men’s soccer, men’s swimming and diving, women’s rowing and baseball, reducing the university’s sponsored varsity sports from 20 to 16, the NCAA minimum to achieve Division 1 standing. Baseball is currently in season for Buffalo, with a game vs. cross-town rival Canisius scheduled for Wednesday.
“This has been a very difficult decision made only with extensive deliberation,” UB President Satish K. Tripathi said in a press release.