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By GARRETT COTE
While the UMass men’s basketball team is experiencing a step back from a 20-win season last winter to a team that looks destined to finish toward the bottom of the Atlantic 10 this season, the UMass women’s basketball team is in the exact opposite...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — Water damage caused by frozen pipes at a fraternity and sorority at the University of Massachusetts have left both homes temporarily uninhabitable, with the possibility that those living at the fraternity house may not be able to move in...
Make it five wins in its last six contests for the UMass women’s basketball team, as the Minutewomen cruised to a 72-55 road win over Saint Louis on Thursday night behind a dominant fourth quarter in which they outscored the Billikens 22-9.With just...
By RYAN AMES
The UMass hockey team is back in action Friday when it takes on No. 16 Cornell during the first game of the 2025 Desert Hockey Classic in Tempe, Arizona.The Minutemen return to the ice 23 days following their last official game – Dec. 11 against...
AMHERST — Both coordinator coaching positions now appear to be in place for the UMass football team.UMass is hiring Rutgers nickelbacks coach Jared Keyte to be the program’s next defensive coordinator, sources confirmed to the Daily Hampshire Gazette...
By RYAN AMES
A career-high 33 points from Rahsool Diggins wasn't enough in the UMass men's basketball team's 81-72 loss to Saint Joseph's on Tuesday afternoon at Hagan Arena in Philadelphia.Diggins went 10-for-22 from the floor, including 2-for-6 from beyond the...
Mike Babul, the 1996 Massachusetts Gatorade Player of the Year who starred for the UMass men’s basketball team in the late 1990s as a lockdown defender, died on Monday at the age of 47 after suffering a heart attack, according to The Sun...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — When the University of Massachusetts announced it would be moving its athletic programs to the Mid-American Conference for the start of the 2025-26 academic school year, one program in particular was left with a question mark. The MAC...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — Following a flurry of defensive coaching hires from new UMass head football coach Joe Harasymiak over the past two weeks, the Minutemen have started to round out the staff on the offensive side of the ball. It started with offensive...
By GARRETT COTE
SPRINGFIELD — Sometimes when a team loses, self-inflicted wounds or a poor performance stand as the reasons why. Other times, however, the opposing team is simply better.Both were the case on Saturday evening at the MassMutual Center in Springfield,...
Dominant might be an understatement when describing the UMass women’s basketball team’s second-half performance on Friday afternoon against UMass Lowell.The Minutewomen ended the game on a 26-6 run that spanned over 16 minutes of game time, and they...
By CAROLYN BROWN
Finding love is all about finding someone on your wavelength. A radio show at the University of Massachusetts Amherst wants to help the local queer community make romantic connections, one guest DJ at a time.On the show “Queer Yenta Radio Hour,” which...
Sport fandom is all about building community in the professional sport industry, but most sport takes place within our communities. From a financial perspective, participatory sports accounted for 63.5% of the global sport market in 2023 and in the...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — After Northeastern erupted for 10 straight points as part of a 12-1 run late in the second half, the UMass men’s basketball team saw its double-digit lead with under seven minutes left evaporate as the clock ticked under two to go.But as he...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — In both Hadley and Northampton, as well in as other communities throughout the Connecticut River Valley, Black women were among those enslaved by the region’s European settlers in the 1600s and by those living in Massachusetts until slavery...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — The wait is over.The UMass football team has hired an offensive coordinator, as ESPN’s Pete Thamel first reported on Monday night that Mike Bajakian has agreed to a deal to become the next OC for the Minutemen.Bajakian spent last season as...
By GARRETT COTE
AMHERST — UMass football head coach Joe Harasymiak continues to add to his defensive coaching staff, and a pair of new hires were made over the past several days – sources told the Daily Hampshire Gazette.On Friday, UMass agreed to terms with Nyeem...
By SCOTT MERZBACH
AMHERST — On the cusp of celebrating his 100th birthday in January, Edwin D. Driver, emeritus professor of sociology at the University of Massachusetts and one of the first two African Americans ever hired to the faculty at a flagship state...
Associated Press
Malek Abdelgowad scored 26 points as UMass beat Division III UMass-Boston, 86-52, on Saturday at the Mullins CenterAbdelgowad also contributed 14 rebounds for the Minutemen (4-7). Daniel Rivera added 11 points while going 4 of 6 and 3 of 7 from the...
By RYAN AMES
UMass hockey head coach Greg Carvel’s biggest concern coming into the 2024-25 season was his team’s back-end.The Minutemen lost defensemen Scott Morrow and Ryan Ufko, two staples on the blue line for three years, to the professional ranks. The...
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