The 2025–26 Buffalo Bulls men's basketball team represented the State University of New York at Buffalo during the 2025–26 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Bulls, led by third-year head coach George Halcovage III, played their home games at Alumni Arena located in Amherst, New York as members of the Mid-American Conference.
They finished the 2025–26 season 17–15, 7–11 in MAC play, to finish tied for 7th place. They qualified for the MAC tournament as the 7th seed where they lost in the quarterfinals to Akron
Previous season The Bulls finished the previous season 9–22, 4–14 in MAC play, to finish in eleventh place. They failed to qualify for the MAC tournament.
Offseason
Departures Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Reason for departure Anquan Boldin Jr. 4 G 6'4" 195 Sophomore Delray Beach, Florida Transferred to Florida A&M Tyson Dunn 5 6'3" 190 Senior Newmarket, Ontario Transferred to UC San Diego Brayden Jackson 7 6'8" 185 Freshman Milton, Ontario Transferred to St. Bonaventure Ben Michaels 8 F 6'8" 210 Ipswich, England Transferred to Vermont Lloyd McVeigh 9 G 6'6" 205 Sophomore Brooklyn, New York Signed with Cairns Taipans of the NBLhttps://www.taipans.com/players/lloyd-mcveigh-69a189c4-7bfb-11f0-ba24-a338a0968f69 Eric Kenesie Jr. 10 6'0" 180 Freshman Kenosha, Wisconsin Transferred to Upper Iowa Bryson Wilson 11 6'5" 210 Sophomore Washington, DC Transferred to Binghamton Frederiks Meinarts 14 C/F 7'0" 196 Freshman Riga, Latvia Transferred to Lynn Sam Akot 15 G/F 6'7" 180 London, Ontario Left program Kavon Bradford 22 G 6'2 180 Portland, Oregon Transferred to Northern Arizona
Incoming transfers Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous school Mikhail Pocknett 3 F 6'6" 235 Junior Wilmington, North Carolina King University Daniel Freitag 5 G 6'2" 192 Sophomore Bloomington, Minnesota Wisconsin Derrick Talton Jr. 10 5'10" 157 Graduate Fort Worth, Texas Oklahoma Wesleyan Kyle Jones 12 G/F 6'5" 195 RS Junior Frisco, Texas St. Thomas Aquinas Ezra McKenna 13 F 6'10" 243 Graduate Fort Walton Beach, FloridaMobile Angelo Brizzi 14 G 6'3" 193 Warrenton, Virginia Longwood
Preseason On October 21, 2025, the MAC released the preseason coaches' poll. Buffalo was picked to finish eleventh in the MAC regular season.
Preseason rankings MAC preseason poll 1 Akron 143 (11) 2 Miami (OH) 133 (2) 3 Kent State 122 4 Ohio 108 5 UMass 98 6 Toledo 95 7 Bowling Green 73 8 Ball State 62 9 Eastern Michigan 52 10 Western Michigan 46 11 Buffalo 37 12 Central Michigan 31 13 Northern Illinois14
MAC Tournament Champions: Akron (8), Miami-Ohio (2), Kent State (1), Ohio (1), UMass (1)
Source
Preseason All-MAC No Bulls were named to any of the Preseason All-MAC teams.
Roster
Schedule and results
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