Buffalo senior guard Byron Mulkey scored a career-high 23 points and the visiting Bulls shot 56.9 percent from the field and 46.2 percent from 3-point range to help lift Buffalo to an 81-64 win over Canisius College Tuesday night in the Koessler Athletic Center. The win improves the Bulls to 3-1 on the year, while the Golden Griffins slipped to 2-2 with the loss.

Mulkey finished the night by shooting 7-for-9 from the floor, 1-for-2 from behind the 3-point arc and 8-for-8 from the free-throw line to go along with five assists and three steals in 35 minutes of action. Buffalo junior guard Zach Filzen chipped in 13 points in the win for UB, while junior forward Mitchell Watt added 12 points.

For Canisius, senior forward Elton Frazier scored a team-high 14 points in the loss despite playing just two minutes in the first half after getting in early foul trouble. Fellow senior Julius Coles posted 12 points, while redshirt freshman Reggie Groves scored 10 points off the bench.

"We didn't play up to our standards and Buffalo came ready to play tonight," Canisius head coach Tom Parrotta said. "They're a good team and they out-did us in every facet of the game, plain and simple."

Buffalo scored the game's first four points, but the Blue and Gold knotted the game at 4-4 2:01 into the contest on back-to-back buckets by Frazier. From there, Buffalo outscored the Griffs 9-2 in a span of 1:11 to take a 13-6 lead, and the Bulls never looked back. Canisius was able to cut Buffalo's cushion to four at 25-21, but UB answered by outscoring Canisius 17-9 in the final 6:46 of the first half to take a 42-29 lead into the locker room at intermission.

The Griffs scored six-straight points to open the second half, highlighted by a dunk by senior Tomas Vazquez-Simmons to made the score 42-35 in favor of the Bulls. But once again, Buffalo answered Canisius' attempted rally by ripping off an 8-0 run over a span of 2:02, and Dave Barnett's offensive rebound and lay-up with 15:41 left in the game essentially wrapped things up for Buffalo. The Bulls ended the night with a 36-25 advantage on the glass and outscored Canisius by a count of 38-28 in the paint.

Canisius will start a stretch of four-straight road games next Tuesday, Nov. 30, when the team travels to meet Binghamton in a non-conference game. Tipoff in Vestal, N.Y. is set for 7 p.m.

Game Notes: This was the 43rd all-time meeting between the two schools, and Canisius still holds a 29-14 lead in the series between the two Queen City rivals... Buffalo has now won three straight in the Koessler Athletic Center... Coles' 12 points gives him double figures in the scoring column a total of 49 times in his career... Sophomore Gaby Belardo led all players with a game-high six assists in the loss for the Griffs... Canisius tallied 25 points off the bench in the losing effort on Tuesday, the fourth-straight game where the team has received more than 20 points from its reserve players.