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2004-05 BUFFALO BASKETBALL Schedule/Results NOVEMBER Fri., 19 at No. 4/4 Connecticut# L, 40-107 Sun., 21 at Holy Cross$ L, 42-73 Sat., 27 LAFAYETTE# (at HSBC Arena) W, 54-45 DECEMBER Wed., 1 at Northeastern L, 41-77 Sat., 4 MAINE# L, 57-69 Tues., 7 at Bucknell L, 56-68 Sat., 11 NIAGARA# (Adelphia 13) L, 65-68 (OT) Tue., 14 at Youngstown State L, 43-75 Sat., 18 at Canisius# L, 65-81 Tue., 21 at Oakland L, 54-93 JANUARY Sun., 2 EAST CAROLINA W, 50-48 Wed., 5 BOWLING GREEN* L, 45-70 Wed., 12 MIAMI (OH)* W, 80-61 Sat., 15 BALL STATE*# L, 55-75 Wed., 19 at Akron* L, 63-71 Sat., 22 MARSHALL* L, 51-72 Wed., 26 at Toledo* L, 60-81 Sat., 29 at Ohio* L, 69-73 FEBRUARY Tue., 1 AKRON*# 7 pm Mon., 7 WESTERN MICHIGAN*# 7 pm Wed., 9 at Eastern Michigan* 7 pm Sat., 12 at Central Michigan* 2 pm Wed., 16 KENT STATE*# 7 pm Sat., 19 at Marshall* 2 pm Wed., 23 at Miami (OH)* 7 pm Sat., 26 NORTHERN ILLINOIS* (FSN Ohio/Adelphia 13) 2 pm MARCH Tue., 1 at Kent State* 7 pm Sat., 5 MAC Tournament First Round (campus sites) Wed., 9 MAC Tournament Quarterfinals (Cleveland, OH) Fri., 11 MAC Tournament Semifinals (Cleveland, OH) Sat., 12 MAC Tournament Final (Cleveland, OH) * Mid-American Conference Games All times Eastern and subject to change # Live radio broadcasts on WLVL-AM 1340 $ Tape-delayed radio broadcast on WLVL at 5 pm The Bulls on the Radio A total of 10 UB women’s basketball games during the 2004- 05 regular season will be heard on the Bulls’ flagship radio station, WLVL-AM 1340. Jim Rosenhaus, long-time UB men’s basketball play-by-play announcer and the play-by-play voice for the Buffalo Bisons, will call all the women’s action in 2004- 05, with UB Assistant Athletic Director for Communications Paul Vecchio handling the color commentary. In addition to the 10 regular-season games, any Mid-American Conference Tournament games the Bulls play in will also be broadcast on WLVL-AM 1340. In addition, all radio broadcasts of UB women’s basketball on WLVL can be heard for free via the internet by going to www.buffalobulls.com/womensbasketball and clicking on the Teamline logo. Quick Bits • The Bulls dropped to 3-15 overall and 1-6 in the MAC with a 73-69 loss at Ohio on Saturday afternoon. The loss was Buffalo’s fifth straight. Sophomore Belinda Gibb had a career day, leading the Bulls with career highs of 19 points, nine field goals, nine rebounds, six assists and two blocked shots. • The Bulls were without senior Talia Merlino (recovering from surgery on a broken nose) and junior Brooke Meunier (hamstring) for their game at Ohio on Saturday. Both are expected to dress for tonight’s game against Akron. • A win for the Bulls tonight would be a nice present for freshman Flynn Pyykkonen who will celebrate her 19th birthday on Wednesday. • Senior Allison Bennett enters tonight’s game just nine points away from the 700- point mark for her career. • Five of Buffalo’s six returning letterwinners have set career highs in scoring so far this season – seniors Allison Bennett (21 vs. Miami) and Talia Merlino (13 vs. Akron), juniors Brooke Meunier (25 vs. Niagara) and Amy Kucheran (8 vs. Canisius) and sophomore Belinda Gibb (19 vs. Ohio). The only exception is junior Lauren Burd, who has seen limited playing time after joing the team in January to give the Bulls more depth at the post after competing on Buffalo’s volleyball team in the fall. • Freshman Flynn Pyykkonen became the third Buffalo player to have a 20-point game this season when she scored a career-high 22 points on 9-of-13 shooting off the bench to lead the Bulls’ effort in their 81-60 loss at Toledo last Wednesday. Pyykkonen’s performance marked the first time a UB freshman scored 20 or more points since March 3, 2001 when Virginia Jennings scored 20 versus Akron in the first round of the MAC Tournament. Pyykkonen’s 22 points are also the most scored by a UB freshman since February 19, 2000 when Kim Kilpela netted 33 against Marshall. Pyykkonen added 13 points at Ohio on Saturday, giving her a 17.5 ppg scoring average for the week. She entered the week averaging just 3.3 ppg in the first 16 games of the season. • Freshman Heather Turner has scored in double figures in five of the last six games and in a team-leading 11 games so far this season. She is currently averaging 10.3 points per game, second on the team and 21st in the Mid-American Conference. If Turner maintains her scoring touch, she will become the first player since Kim Kilpela to average double digits in scoring during her freshman campaign at UB. Kilpela averaged 10.3 points per game as a freshman in 1999-2000. Turner also leads the team in rebounding (7.1 per game, 11th in the MAC) and field goal percentage (.561, 78-for-139, first in the MAC). • The Bulls have scored the first bucket in the game just five times this season. In their other 13 games to date, the Bulls have given up 65 points (5.0 per game) to their opponent before getting on the board themselves. Niagara opened up the biggest lead, 10-0, to start the game on December 11, while Connecticut, Oakland and Akron all opened up 9-0 leads before allowing Buffalo to score. Scouting the Zips After starting the year 0-15, the Zips have won three of their last four games to improve to 3-16 overall and 3-5 in the Mid-American Conference. Their three conference wins are the most they have had since the 2000-01 season when they finished 3-13 in the league. Akron is coming off back-to-back wins over Miami (49-47) and Western Michigan (74-70). Sophomore Jessie Crooks had 21 points in the Zips’ last outing against WMU, and she was named MAC East Player of the Week on Monday. She leads the team with 9.5 points per game, 10.8 in MAC games only. Senior Jae Conn is chipping in 8.2 points per game and has 24 three-pointers on the year, and junior Angie Hutchinson is averaging a team-high 4.8 rebounds per game. Head coach Kelly Kennedy is in her third season at Akron where she has compiled a 12-63 overall record to date. Kennedy came to Akron after a nine-year assistant coaching career at Southwestern (1993-94), Oregon (1994-96), Texas Christian (1996- 99) and Iowa State (1999-2002). While at Iowa State, she helped lead the Cyclones to two Big 12 championship titles and to three NCAA Tournament appearances. Kennedy was a four-year letterwinner at Case Western Reserve where she still ranks fourth in career scoring and seventh in career rebounding. www.buffalobulls.com/womensbasketball
2004-05 BUFFALO BASKETBALL The Series The Bulls hold an 11-7 lead in the all-time series between these two teams following a 71-63 Akron win on January 19 in the first meeting of the season between these two teams. Akron has taken two of the last three meetings after the Bulls won four straight and seven of the previous eight. The Bulls are 6-3 in games played in Alumni Arena. Date Buffalo Result H/A Series February 2, 1992 W, 101-58 H 1-0 December 11, 1992 L, 60-70 A 1-1 December 30, 1994# L, 68-71 N 1-2 January 9, 1999 W, 68-60 H 2-2 February 20, 1999 L, 58-84 A 2-3 January 22, 2000 W, 70-58 A 3-3 February 9, 2000 L, 58-65 H 3-4 February 28, 2000* W, 72-55 H 4-4 January 6, 2001 W, 75-61 H 5-4 February 17, 2001 W, 78-59 A 6-4 March 3, 2001* L, 64-65 H 6-5 January 5, 2002 W, 73-47 A 7-5 January 26, 2002 W, 64-50 H 8-5 January 28, 2003 W, 48-45 (OT) A 9-5 February 26, 2003 W, 67-51 H 10-5 February 14, 2004 L, 59-71 H 10-6 February 21, 2004 W, 61-54 A 11-6 January 19, 2005 L, 63-71 A 11-7 #USAir/Seelbach Cardinal Classic *MAC Tournament The Last Meeting: Bulls Drop 71-63 Decision at Akron The University at Buffalo women’s basketball team got itself in too big of a hole that it could not climb out of despite a gutsy second-half comeback attempt led by senior Talia Merlino that came up short in a 71-63 loss to the Akron Zips at James A. Rhodes Arena in the first meeting of the season between these two teams on January 19. A hungry Akron squad came out looking for its first win of the season and quickly jumped out to a 9-0 lead while the Bulls missed their first six shots from the floor in the game’s first four minutes. Back-to-back three-pointers by Jae Conn gave the Zips their biggest lead of the half at 17 points, 25-8, with 7:46 on the clock, and they took a 35-21 lead into the lockerroom at halftime following a three at the buzzer by Courtney Stewart. The Zips shot 45.2 percent from the floor in the first half (14-for-31), including 6-for-17 from three-point range, while the Bulls made just 9-of-26 shots (34.6 percent). Junior Brooke Meunier scored seven points during a 9-3 Buffalo run to open the second half that cut Akron’s lead to eight, 38-30, with 16:42 to play. The Zips responded with a 15-3 run to go up by 20, 53-33, at the 10:13 mark, but the Bulls would not give up quite yet. Merlino came off the bench and hit three straight three-pointers for a 9-0 UB run, and she scored four more points as the run extended to 15-4 to cut the Bulls’ deficit to nine, 57-48, with 5:35 on the clock. The Bulls kept chipping away, and a jumper by senior Allison Bennett with 2:04 remaining got them within six, 63-57. Sophomore Belinda Gibb later dribbled the length of the court for an easy layup with exactly 1:00 on the clock that got Buffalo within four, 65-61, but the Zips made 8-of-10 free throws in the final two minutes of the game to hold on for the victory. The Bulls had five players finish in double figures in scoring for the first time since the 2002-03 season, led by Merlino and Gibb with a team-high 13 points apiece. The 13 points is a career high for Merlino, and she also hit a careerhigh four three-pointers in the game. Bennett and freshman Heather Turner added 11 points apiece, and Meunier finished with 10 points and six assists. The Bulls were 24-for-59 from the floor (40.7 percent) and 7-for-23 from threepoint range (30.4 percent) in the game. The Last Time That... ...the Bulls scored 90 or more points in a game? November 17, 2000 vs. North Carolina (W, 95-89) ...the Bulls scored 100 or more points in a game? December 21, 1995 vs. Wofford (W, 103-57) ...the Bulls allowed 100 or more points in a game? November 19, 2004 vs. Connecticut (L, 107-40) ...the Bulls scored 50 or more points in a half? December 13, 2003 vs. Niagara (52, second half ) ...the Bulls allowed 50 or more points in a half? December 21, 2004 vs. Oakland (55, first half) ...the Bulls played an overtime game? December 11, 2004 vs. Niagara (L, 68-65) ...the Bulls played a double-overtime game? February 21, 2001 vs. Ohio (W, 86-83) ...the Bulls won a game by 20 or more points? January 20, 2003 vs. Cornell (W, 61-35) ...the Bulls lost a game by 20 or more points? January 26, 2005 vs. Toledo (L, 60-81) ...the Bulls won a game by 30 or more points? January 16, 1999 vs. Bowling Green (W, 84-51) ...the Bulls lost a game by 30 or more points? December 21, 2004 vs. Oakland (L, 54-93) ...two Buffalo players scored 20 or more points in a game? January 17, 2004 vs. Marshall (Jessica Kochendorfer 24, Brooke Meunier 20) ...three Buffalo players scored 20 or more points in a game? February 19, 2000 vs. Marshall (Kim Kilpela 33, Tiffany Bell 23, Mari McClure 20) ...a Buffalo freshman scored 20 or more points in a game? January 26, 2005 vs. Toledo (Flynn Pyykkonen, 22) ...a Buffalo player scored 30 or more points in a game? February 19, 2003 vs. Ohio (Kate McMeeken-Ruscoe, 30) ...a Buffalo freshman scored 30 or more points in a game? February 19, 2000 vs. Marshall (Kim Kilpela, 33) ...four Buffalo players scored in double figures in a game? January 29, 2005 vs. Ohio (Belinda Gibb 19, Allison Bennett 14, Flynn Pyykkonen 13, Heather Turner 11) ...five Buffalo players scored in double figures in a game? January 19, 2005 vs. Akron (Belinda Gibb 13, Talia Merlino 13, Allison Bennett 11, Heather Turner 11, Brooke Meunier 10) ...two Buffalo players had a double-double in a game? December 11, 2004 vs. Niagara (Heather Turner 13 pts., 16 reb.; Allison Bennett 12 pts., 11 reb.) ...a Buffalo player had a triple-double in a game? March 3, 2001 vs. Akron (Sonia Ortega, 10 pts., 11 reb., 10 asst.) ...a Buffalo player had 10 or more assists in a game? November 21, 2003 vs. Canisius (Hollie Cook, 10) ...a Buffalo player had 15 or more rebounds in a game? December 11, 2004 vs. Niagara (Heather Turner, 16) ...a Buffalo player had five or more blocks in a game? January 19, 2004 vs. Holy Cross (Jessica Kochendorfer, 6) ...a Buffalo player had five or more steals in a game? March 8, 2003 vs. Central Michigan (Kate McMeeken-Ruscoe, 6) ...a Buffalo player had five or more three-pointers in a game? December 11, 2004 vs. Niagara (Brooke Meunier, 5) www.buffalobulls.com/womensbasketball
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