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BUFFALO — Buffalo State’s Lovell Smith (Buffalo/McKinley) garnered All-East Region third team honors from D3Hoops.com as he closed out his career ranked eighth in school history with 1,303 career points.
The senior electrical engineering major finished the year fifth in the SUNYAC averaging 19.9 points-per-game, and was second in overall field goal percentage, shooting 56.6 percent. He also averaged 6.8 rebounds and had 46 steals and 19 blocks. Smith was named to this year’s SUNYAC All-Tournament Team and was also named first team All-SUNYAC.
Buffalo State finished 17-9 (10-8 SUNYAC) and made it to the conference semifinals as the No. 5 seed before falling by one point in overtime to eventual SUNYAC Champion Oswego. It was the third-consecutive year that the Bengals advanced to the postseason, and the playoff win was the program’s first since capturing the SUNYAC title in 2011.
