CLEVELAND -- Wes Clark scored 26 points, Nick Perkins added 16, including a big 3-pointer, and Buffalo won its third Mid-American Conference championship -- and the league's automatic NCAA bid -- in four years by beating Toledo 76-66 on Saturday night.
The top-seeded Bulls (26-8) were the MAC's best team all season, and it was no different inside Quicken Loans Arena, where Buffalo won its three games by an average of 14.
Toledo gave Buffalo all it could handle despite playing without star senior guard Tre'Shaun Fletcher, who sat out with a left knee injury suffered in the quarterfinals.