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The UMass men’s basketball team was unable to overcome a slow start against West Virginia on Friday. The Mountaineers roared out to a 25-10 lead with just over 10 minutes to go in the first half before taking a 45-28 lead into the intermission. The...
By GARRETT COTE
NORTHAMPTON — The Smith College women’s basketball team only has one destination in mind after losing in the NCAA Division 3 championship game last season, and that’s making yet another deep postseason run come next March.The Pioneers have become a...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — Clinging to a one-point lead over New Hampshire with 12 seconds remaining in the game, the UMass women’s basketball team was set to inbound the ball after head coach Mike Leflar called a timeout to advance it into the frontcourt.On the...
By RYAN AMES
The UMass women's basketball team fell in its season opener to Harvard, 71-58, on Monday at Lavietes Pavilion in Cambridge.The Minutewomen led, 15-12, after the first quarter, however the Crimson outscored UMass, 20-6, in the second frame in what...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — It can be a difficult task for college basketball fans to learn the players on the teams they root for year in and year out. Every season, programs across the country are gutted and rebuilt.UMass men’s hoops fans got quite the introduction...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — They always say to save the best for last, right?Frank Martin’s crew is certainly hoping so, as the third-year UMass men’s basketball head coach leads the Minutemen into what will be their final season in the Atlantic 10 – a conference in...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — There’s no way to sugarcoat it, last year was a disappointment for head coach Mike Leflar in his first season leading the UMass women’s basketball team. The expectations weren’t necessarily through the roof after Tory Verdi left Amherst for...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — Unlike a lot of Division 1 men’s basketball players in 2024, UMass senior guard Rahsool Diggins didn’t demand anything from his head coach when making his decision on whether or not he would stay put in Amherst or test the waters of the...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
Though it’s been more than two decades since Ross Burns played under John Calipari on UMass’ 1996 “Refuse to Lose” Final Four team, the former walk-on still carries with him lots of lessons from his time with one of the giants of college basketball...
The Northampton Parks & Recreation Department (NPRD) is collaborating with the Northampton Police Department and the Massachusetts State Police to bring the Unity Basketball League to Northampton. The NPRD will host two Unity Basketball Community Days...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
UMass men’s and women’s basketball took on Atlantic 10 media day in Washington, D.C. on Monday as UMass prepares for its 49th and final season in the conference it helped charter.The UMass men’s basketball team was voted to finish ninth in the...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
UMass men’s basketball on Tuesday released its conference schedule for its 49th and final season in the Atlantic 10, beginning with a road conference opener against Saint Joseph’s on Dec. 31.UMass released its non-conference schedule earlier in...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
UMass men’s basketball on Wednesday earned its first verbal commitment of the 2025 class in Archbishop Stepinac point guard Danny Carbuccia.The class of 2025 is significant for UMass because it will be the first class of players to play in the MAC,...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
The UMass men’s basketball team will play Providence in 2024, after all.The Minutemen and the Friars on Monday announced a charity exhibition game between the two New England foes on Oct. 26 at 4 p.m. at the Amica Mutual Pavilion in Providence,...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
The UMass men’s and women’s basketball teams on Wednesday released their non-conference schedules for the 2024-25 season.The men’s basketball team faces 13 teams in its non-conference slate from Nov. 4 to Dec. 21, including six games against foes from...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
For over 30 years, Northampton High School alum Joe Mantegna Jr. has coached a basketball camp with the Northampton Parks and Recreation Department.This summer will be the first time he won’t be coaching the camp, but he’s got an excuse. He’s at the...
By CONNOR PIGNATELLO
AMHERST – Daniel Rivera was changing his oil in a Rhode Island parking lot when his phone started ringing with the news that could change UMass’ fortunes for the 2024-25 season.Frank Martin was on the other end of the line.“I’m changing the oil, I...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — When UMass men’s basketball head coach Frank Martin was first hired in March of 2022, very rarely would he hear the noises of bouncing basketballs, squeaking sneakers and loud chatter from his office – which overlooks the practice court...
The Amherst Hurricanes were the best team all season long in the Pioneer Valley Youth Baseball League Sandy Koufax Division, and they proved it in a dominant run through the league’s playoffs over the weekend.During the title game at Deerfield Academy...
Add another medal to the local list for the 2024 Bay State Games.After an 0-2 start to the girls basketball tournament, Team West won their next two games to clinch a spot in the gold medal game at Babson College over the weekend.In Sunday’s final,...
By EMILEE KLEIN
HOLYOKE — All children deserve the best and nothing less. That’s the message LaTasha Monroe, a hip-hop artist from Springfield who performs under the name Mz. Tash, celebrates in the theme song she wrote for Parent Villages, a Springfield grassroots...
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