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By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Only six games remain in the UMass hockey regular season.The Minutemen sit tied for ninth in the Hockey East standings, two points behind No. 8 Boston College, which UMass will face Friday in Chestnut Hill and Saturday in Amherst (both 7...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Two last-second shots didn’t drop, and the UMass men’s basketball game fell 64-62 against Loyola Chicago on Tuesday at the Mullins Center.The Minutemen had the ball with 9 seconds remaining and didn’t call a timeout. T.J. Weeks Jr., who...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
The Cage is dead. Long live the Cage.A $2 million gift from Dr. Jim and Ellen Hunt will serve as the lead gift in the UMass athletic department’s fundraising campaign to renovate Curry Hicks Cage, which last hosted a UMass basketball game in 2011 and...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Welcome to the Atlantic 10, Loyola Chicago.UMass’s next men’s basketball opponent will visit the Mullins Center on Tuesday (7 p.m. ESPN-Plus) for a battle of the league’s bottom two teams. The Ramblers (8-16, 2-10 Atlantic 10) joined the league this...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Too many similarities to the previous night’s effort resigned the UMass hockey team to a second consecutive tie against Vermont on Saturday.The Minutemen took a three-goal lead with 12 minutes, 32 seconds remaining in the third period and squandered...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Another rerun.Just like at Fordham on Wednesday, the UMass men’s basketball team couldn’t hold a second-half lead Saturday at La Salle. The Explorers scored 53 points in the second half of an 86-72 victory over the Minutemen. That’s more points than...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – UMass men’s basketball 3.0 should drop soon.The Minutemen are discovering a new version of themselves for already the third time this season 24 games in ahead of Saturday’s visit to La Salle (2 p.m. ESPN-Plus). They’ve lost their last three...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – The result finally caught up to the UMass hockey team’s process.Beating Providence on the road last Friday snapped a six-game losing streak, the Minutemen’s longest since 2018. UMass (10-13-3, 4-11-1 Hockey East) ascended a spot in the...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Despite how long and how well she’s represented the UMass women’s basketball program, Sydney Taylor hasn’t run out of firsts yet.The senior from Long Island, N.Y., posted her first career double-double with 26 points and 10 rebounds in a 66-42 win at...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Davidson couldn’t be stopped in the second half of Saturday’s 93-78 victory over the UMass men’s basketball team. Not that the Minutemen provided the appropriate resistance.The Minutemen allowed a season-high 93 points. An opponent hadn’t...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – The UMass hockey program’s panic meter hasn’t budged a inch.Despite losing six games in a row, their longest skid since late January and early February of 2018, the Minutemen believe they can turn around the season over the last month.“The...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
The road remained a hostile place for the UMass men’s basketball team in Atlantic 10 play.George Mason took down the Minutemen 70-59 in Fairfax, Va., on Wednesday. It dropped UMass (13-9, 4-6 A-10) to 0-5 away from the Mullins Center in league play...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Youth didn’t serve the UMass football team last season, so head coach Don Brown sprinkled in some experience.The Minutemen announced 13 transfers joined the program Wednesday as part of national signing day. Three are graduate transfers with one year...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Just two games separate the No. 4 team in the Atlantic 10 Conference men’s basketball standings – surprising Fordham – and No. 12 Rhode Island.UMass and its Wednesday opponent George Mason (7 p.m. ESPN-Plus) are among the glut of six teams with 4-5...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – RJ Luis turned out the lights, locked the door, and sent Duquesne home.The UMass freshman guard sank eight free throws in the final 1 minute, 13 seconds against the Dukes on Saturday, as the Minutemen sealed an 87-79 victory at the line....
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – Wildens Leveque’s right index finger pointed to the Mullins Center roof twice in less than a second.Dyondre Dominguez eyed it through the Richmond defense as he pump faked a 3-pointer in the final two minutes of a tie game. After a dribble...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
AMHERST – The trip to UMass Lowell’s Tsongas Center has never been a pleasant or simple one for the UMass hockey program, even when it was firing on all cylinders.UMass has beaten the 18th-ranked River Hawks just twice there in the past decade. That...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
Richmond’s offense might be one of the last things a struggling UMass men’s basketball defense wants to see. The Spiders, which visit the Mullins Center at 7 p.m. Wednesday (NESN), use a version of the Princeton offense with constantly churning...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
STORRS, Conn. – Ryan Lautenbach marked the UMass hockey program’s first visit to UConn’s Toscano Family Ice Forum with a goal just 12 seconds in on Saturday.He skated up the right boards unmolested after winning a puck battle at the blue line and...
By KYLE GRABOWSKI
An identity crisis cost the UMass men’s basketball team another Atlantic 10 road game.The Minutemen fell 74-68 at Saint Joseph’s in Philadelphia on Saturday, squandering late opportunities in a tight game.“Our individual attention to detail on games...
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