Although the Buffalo Bulls men's basketball team is only losing two players that played sparingly in their careers after this season, the rest of UB's squad was determined to make sure its teammates' final home game went in the Bulls favor.

"I have said that Senior Night is just not for seniors," said Buffalo head coach Reggie Witherspoon. "It's a chance for all of us to represent those seniors...It's also an opportunity to show your perseverance."

Buffalo more than accomplished this feat as it beat the Bowling Green Falcons by its largest margin of victory ever in a Mid-American Conference game, 95-50, at Alumni Arena on Tuesday night.

"There has really been a focus on getting everyone to play as hard as they can and not worrying about mistakes and then seeing what happens," Witherspoon said.

The Falcons entered the contest fresh off an upset victory of the then nationally ranked Kent State Golden Flashes.

"When (BGSU) came here, at first I felt a little disrespected because they thought they were going to roll in here and have an easy win tonight coming off beating a Top 25 team," said junior guard Greg Gamble. "I just tried to accept the challenge as a captain on this team and I think a lot of my teammates followed."

The Bulls trailed only once through the entire contest when Bowling Green's forward Chris Knight put away a lay-up on the opening basket just seconds into the game. UB responded by scoring the game's next eight points, but the Falcons cut the lead down to two on a tip-in by Knight at the 17:14 mark to make it 8-6.

After that, Buffalo went on a 25-3 run over the next six minutes to extend their advantage to 24. UB pushed their lead to as much as 32 before going into halftime up, 52-26.

The dominance continued into the second half, as the Bulls trailed by no less than 25 points during the period. Buffalo extend their advantage to 40 on a three-pointer by sophomore guard Sean Smiley with 3:09 remaining in the contest and went up by as much as 48 on a jumper by Gamble with about half a minute to go in the game.

"I have to give Buffalo credit," said Bowling Green head coach Louis Orr. "They played much harder and they were the hungrier team in all aspects. I don't know what happened to us. One thing I know is that win, lose or draw, Buffalo plays hard and we didn't do that today."

Buffalo's efforts were also carried over into other stats as they out-rebounded Bowling Green, 48-34, and made 13 steals compared to BGSU's seven.

"We really did a great job defensively but the fact we scored 96 points will overshadow that," Witherspoon said. "One of the reasons why we scored 96 was because we made it difficult for them to play zone and made them play man-to-man."

For the second game in a row, Gamble led the Bulls offensively with a game-high 23 points. Junior guard Andy Robinson also reached double-digit scoring with 18 points off the bench while freshman forward Jawaan Alston had a career-high 13 points.

"Jawaan (Alston) has been doing it at practice, too," Witherspoon said. "There have been times at practice that he's looked like a one man team the last two, two-and-half weeks."

Robinson came off the bench for the first time this season to make room in the starting five for departing junior forward Christian Schmidt. This was Schmidt's last home game as he plans on concentrating on his academic work next season. It was the final home game for senior forward Andrew Atman, as well.

"Playing this game on Senior Night meant a lot to (the seniors)," Gamble said. "For us to get this win was real big for them."