The Buffalo Bulls men’s basketball team made its mark on college basketball last March when it stampeded all over fourth-seeded Arizona Wildcats in the 2018 NCAA Tournament. Buffalo shattered Arizona and future No. 1 NBA Draft pick DeAndre Ayton’s hopes of reaching a Final Four, beating Sean Miller’s club by 21 points.
Championed by head coach Nate Oats, the Bulls won its first ever NCAA Tournament game in emphatic fashion just three years after making the team’s first March Madness appearance in 2015. In that year, Nate Oats was Bobby Hurley’s top assistant and three years before that, Oats was coaching high school basketball just outside of Detroit.