The University at Buffalo women's basketball team overcame a seven point first half deficit to beat Western Illinois 79-64 before a crowd of 1,113 in Alumni Arena. UB improved to 12-6 overall, and 6-2 in the Mid-Con. Western Illinois fell to 5-11, (3-5).

After a lackluster first half performance, UB found themselves trailing the Westerwinds 35-28 at the half. But the Bulls went on a 30-5 run to open the second half to put the game away. Leading the way for UB was freshman Tiffany Bell who scored 16 points. Guard Catherine Jacob had her usual strong performance scoring 14 points and adding 5 assists. Also scoring in double figures for Buffalo were Charissa Gardner and LaToya Crumpton with 10 points each.

Box Score

Buffalo

	Min	fg m-a	ft m-a	rb o-t	A	PF	TP
Ortega	5	0-0	0-0	0-2	3	0	0
Jacob	34	5-8	1-2	0-3	5	1	14
Blakeslee	18	3-5	0-0	1-2	1	1	6
McCray	21	2-6	2-3	2-5	3	3	6
Bell	27	7-12	2-3	0-2	1	0	16
Perrier	1	0-0	0-2	0-0	0	0	0
McClure	6	3-3	2-2	0-0	0	0	9
Coon	15	1-3	0-0	0-2	1	1	3
Anderson	1	0-0	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
DeYoung	1	0-0	3-4	0-1	0	0	3
Crumpton	21	4-7	2-2	1-6	3	1	10
Gardner	36	4-6	2-3	1-3	6	2	10
Cerny	9	1-2	0-0	1-1	0	0	2
Joseph	5	0-0</TD>	0-0	0-0	0	0	0
Team				0-2
Total	200	30-52	14-21	6-29	23	9	79

Western Illinois

	Min	fg m-a	ft m-a	rb o-t	A	PF	TP
Oberer	27	1-7	0-0	0-1	3	0	3
Davis	40	11-24	3-4	3-8	5	3	28
Johnson	18	1-3	0-0	2-4	0	4	3
Lavan	40	5-10	0-0	6-10	2	3	10
Anderson	26	3-7	0-0	1-4	2	5	7
Morrison	19	1-6	0-0	1-3	5	2	2
Cartmill	17	3-4	0-0	0-1	1	0	7
Darden	13	2-4	0-0	0-1	0	3	4
Team				3-4
Total	200	27-65	3-4	16-36	18	20	64

Attendance: 1113
Officials: John Fitzpatric, Brad Buchanan, Jim Nowicki

	1st	2nd	Total
Buffalo	28	51	79
Western Illinois	35	29	64