• Buffalo enters the NCAA Tournament as a #6 seed in the West Region, the highest by a MAC program since the field expanded to 64 teams in 1985. This is the second straight year UB is in the NCAA Tournament and the fourth time in five years. Buffalo is one of just 25 teams that has made four tournaments over the last five year period.
• The meeting against Arizona State will be a reunion between current UB head coach Nate Oats and his predecessor Bobby Hurley, who is in his fourth season at Arizona State after spending two years as the head coach at Buffalo, leading the Bulls to their first NCAA Tournament in 2014-15.