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Nick VanTassell picked the perfect time to score his first career goal.The No. 12 UMass hockey freshman forward tallied the game winner on Saturday night against Northeastern to give the Minutemen a 2-1 win on the road at Matthews Arena in...
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AMHERST — UMass freshman guard Jayden Ndjigue stripped George Washington’s Zamoku Weluche-Ume, Jaylen Curry picked up the loose ball, and sprinted the other direction – leading a four-on-two fastbreak.Instead of taking it himself, which he certainly...
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Josh Cohen stepped to the line with his UMass men’s basketball team tied against Loyola Chicago on Wednesday night. The Minutemen were trying to avoid consecutive losses for the first time this season, and despite free throws being the weakest link in...
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The UMass men’s basketball team hits the road for its second consecutive Atlantic 10 Conference road contest on Wednesday night against Loyola Chicago. Tip-off is slated for 7 p.m. and the game will air on CBS-Sports Network.Entering Wednesday’s game,...
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AMHERST — After tying against UConn, which led to a shootout loss, UMass hockey head coach Greg Carvel said in his postgame presser that his team needs to “learn how to win.”With about one-third of its schedule remaining – all against Hockey East...
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The UMass hockey team snapped a three-game winless stretch as the Minutemen defeated Merrimack 4-3 in a Hockey East matchup on their home ice Friday night at the Mullins Center.Two ties and an overtime loss were the previous three results for UMass,...
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The second Atlantic 10 road trip of the season awaits the UMass men’s basketball team this weekend. After handing La Salle a 16-point loss on Wednesday at the Mullins Center, the Minutemen head to the Ryan Center to battle rival Rhode Island on...
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AMHERST — It may not have been the prettiest display of basketball the UMass men’s team has shown this season, but the Minutemen held La Salle to just two points over a seven-minute stretch in the second half to pull away.UMass used 24 points and...
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AMHERST — The effort and no-quit attitude that the UMass men’s basketball team showed against Dayton on Sunday was a promising sign for the Minutemen moving forward.UMass’ 64-60 loss on the road was the closest the Minutemen have come to beating the...
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AMHERST — Almost nothing went the UMass men’s basketball team’s way in the first half of its Atlantic 10 season opener against Duquesne on Wednesday night.The Minutemen’s two leading scorers ended the half on the bench – as Josh Cohen picked up his...
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AMHERST — After 12 non-conference games that included a lengthy trip to Hawaii, the new year brings Atlantic 10 Conference play back to the Mullins Center for the UMass men’s basketball team.The Minutemen finished 9-3 in those contests, and on...
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After falling to Cornell in a shootout on Friday night, the UMass hockey team returned to the ice on Saturday against Clarkson in its second game of the Adirondack Winter Invitational in Lake Placid, N.Y.The Minutemen held a 3-1 lead over halfway into...
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Josh Cohen wasn’t going to have two bad games in a row in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic. That was never in the plans.The UMass men’s basketball graduate transfer forward responded to his second-lowest scoring total this season (10 points)...
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Two separate second half 11-point leads weren’t enough for the UMass men’s basketball team to hang on against Georgia Tech in its first of three games in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic on Thursday night.The Minutemen were outscored 16-6...
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SPRINGFIELD — The UMass men’s basketball team clung to a one-point lead with three minutes remaining in the game. Its once 18-point lead had vanished.Over the next 2 minutes and 15 seconds, the Minutemen dug in on defense, and finally got over their...
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AMHERST — A crowd full of UMass basketball supporters poured into White Lion Brewing Company in Amherst on Friday night to watch a live episode of the “Just Being Frank” podcast, a weekly show with Minutemen men’s hoops coach Frank Martin.This episode...
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SPRINGFIELD — After a week off, the UMass men’s basketball team returns to action against West Virginia on the national stage. The Minutemen and Mountaineers are two of four teams playing in Saturday evening’s Hall of Fame Classic at the MassMutual...
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The overall youth of the UMass men’s basketball team finally slipped through the cracks and came to the forefront in the Minutemen’s 81-71 road loss to Towson on Wednesday night.UMass hadn’t been away from home yet this year, and maybe that’s much of...
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It’s a college football fan’s favorite time of year once again.Conference championships take place this weekend, with monumental stakes riding on several games. The College Football Playoff is far from set – the top eight teams in the country...
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AMHERST – Questions lingered about how the UMass men’s basketball team would respond to its devastating overtime loss against Harvard in front of the biggest Mullins Center crowd since before COVID-19.The Minutemen, a team filled with young freshmen...
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