Buffalo Volleyball Team Announces 2010 Schedule
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for the upcoming 2010 season. The Bulls will take part in four tournaments
and will have 17 non-conference matches in addition to their 16-match
conference schedule. For the second straight season UB will be playing four
teams who went to the NCAA Tournament last season.
The Bulls will open the season on the road when they travel to the West
Virginia Tournament the last weekend of August. UB will play Youngstown
State and the host Mountaineers on Aug. 28 and then will face Howard on Aug.
29.
After a road contest at Niagara, UB comes home to host the first of two
straight weekend tournaments. The Bulls will welcome Navy, Delaware State
and Central Connecticut State into town for the UB Invite, which will be
played on Sept. 3-4. Following a mid-week trip to Syracuse (Sept. 7), the
Bulls will host the Blue and White Classic on Sept. 10-11. UB begins the
weekend against fellow SUNY member Binghamton and will face Hampton and St.
John¹s on the second day of the tournament.
The following weekend UB will head to Army for the West Point
Tournament. UB will meet Hofstra and Air Force on Friday, Sept. 17 and then
after an off day will meet Army and Bryant on Sunday, Sept. 19. UB will
host Canisius on Sept. 22 before beginning Mid-American Conference play that
upcoming weekend. To complete non-conference play, UB and Canisius will
meet one more time on November 24 at Canisius, following both team¹s
conference tournaments.
³I am very pleased with the schedule that we have produced for the
upcoming season,² said Kress. ³It will tell us a lot about our team early
on and our non-conference matches will get us well prepared for Mid-American
Conference play. I believe that our two home tournaments in September are
an excellent chance for the Western New York community to come out and see
collegiate volleyball at its finest.²
Buffalo¹s Mid-American Conference schedule will begin on the weekend of
Friday, September 24 and Saturday, September 25 when the Bulls host Miami
(OH) and Bowling Green, respectively. The 16-match conference slate will see
the Bulls play each member of the East Division (Akron, Bowling Green, Kent
State, Miami and Ohio) twice, both home and away, and each member of the
West Division once (home against Ball State, Central Michigan and Eastern
Michigan and on the road against Northern Illinois, Toledo and Western
Michigan). The Bulls end the regular season on the road, traveling to Toledo
on Sat., Nov. 13.
For the eighth season, every MAC school will qualify for the
Mid-American Conference Tournament, and first-round matches will take place
on Tuesday, November 16 on the campus sites of the higher seeds. The
quarterfinals, semifinals and final match will be on Friday, November 19,
Saturday, November 20 and Sunday, November 21 in Toledo, OH.
