Wrestling Releases 2013-14 Schedule

BUFFALO, NY - An expanded Mid-American Conference schedule and a rigorous non-conference dual slate, the 2013-14 UB wrestling schedule was announced Wednesday afternoon. With 13 duals and a pair of dual meet tournaments, with young Bulls will face five teams that finished 2012-13 in the NWCA Top 25.

The season begins with a pair of tournaments, with the Oklahoma Gold in Brockport, NY on Nov. 9 and the New York State Collegiate Tournament two weeks later, on Nov. 23. To cap off the opening month, the team will head to Albany for the Northeast Duals on Nov. 30.

The MAC season begins the following weekend, with grueling back-to-back matches at Kent State and at Central Michigan within a 24-hour span. The team will then head into the winter holiday break with a trip to the historic Carver-Hawkeye Arena, where UB will face the Iowa Hawkeyes. The Dec. 12 dual will begin at 7 pm. To end the month of December, select wrestlers will compete at the Lock Haven Invitational on Dec. 29.

After competing together at the MAC tournament this past season, the Bulls will welcome the Northern Iowa Panthers to Alumni Arena as conference rivals for the first time ever on Jan. 4. It will be just the second meeting between the two programs, with the inaugural dual coming in the 2008-09 season. A week later, the team will compete in the Pitt Duals, a round-robin duals tournament hosted by the Pittsburgh Panthers.

A cross-state rivalry will be renewed on Jan. 17, when Buffalo travels down to New York City to take on the Columbia Lions. Though the two teams have long competed in the NYS Tournament, this will be the first dual since the 2000-01 season. January will be capped by a pair of home conference duals, with new member Old Dominion at 7 pm on Jan. 25, and the Ohio Bobcats the following afternoon.

Buffalo will then go back out on the road with a pair of teams that finished last season high up in the national rankings. First will be Edinboro on Feb. 1, and then a trip to Columbia, MO to take on Missouri in a MAC dual. The Tigers did not formally compete in the conference's dual meet season last year, but did win the postseason tournament to snap Central Michigan's long-standing reign.

Following two more non-conference duals, the regular season will come to a close with a pair of conference matches. The team will travel to Ypsilanti for a dual against Eastern Michigan, then end the season at home Feb. 22 against Northern Illinois.

This season, the postseason MAC tournament will be hosted by Kent State. The one-day event will be held March 9. Two weeks later, the NCAA tournament will take place in Oklahoma City.

"Being the young team that we're going to be, I wanted to develop a schedule that would challenge our guys but allow them to succeed," head coach John Stutzman said. "There are no breaks in our schedule, and we need to be ready, but this will prepare us for the goals we want our guys to achieve."

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