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By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The transfer portal news keeps on coming for the UMass men’s basketball team, as four more players made their decisions on whether or not they’ll be playing in Amherst next season.

By RYAN AMES

The departures keep on coming for the UMass hockey team as juniors Cole O’Hara and Kenny Connors and sophomore Aydar Suniev decided to turn pro and sign NHL contracts this week.

By CAROLYN BROWN

The total impact that humans have had on the environment may be hard to measure, but a new exhibition at the University of Massachusetts Amherst’s University Museum of Contemporary Art, running through Friday, May 9, aims to show some of that impact and create conversations about how artists respond to it with their work.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — It looks like Frank Martin is going to have quite the roster overhaul, as two more UMass men’s basketball players entered the transfer portal on Tuesday. Akil Watson and Marqui Worthy both decided to depart from Amherst, making it six total players from last year’s team now in the portal.

By RYAN AMES

UMass hockey head coach Greg Carvel is already hard at work assembling the 2025-26 Minutemen roster.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — There are times when a head coach does everything they can to put their team in the best possible position to win throughout a season and for whatever reason things still don’t work out. It can be recruiting prior to the year, preparation, in-game adjustments, tweaking substitution patterns based on matchups and anything in between.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Frank Martin has landed his first transfer of the offseason. On Monday morning, Donovan Brown committed to play basketball for the Minutemen next season. Brown played for Division 2 Florida Tech, where he averaged 20.7 points per game and shot just above 36 percent from beyond the arc.

By RYAN AMES

The UMass hockey team couldn’t have asked for a better start. In the first period of the Fargo Regional final of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday against Western Michigan, the Minutemen scored first and limited the Broncos, who average four goals a game, to just five shots.

By RYAN AMES

The UMass hockey team’s season came to a close in its 2-1 loss to Western Michigan during the Fargo Regional final of the NCAA Tournament on Saturday night in Fargo, North Dakota.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Well, it didn’t take long for Division 1 men’s basketball players to take advantage of the transfer portal opening on Monday. As of Friday morning, there are already more than 1,000 total D1 men’s players in the portal. Some of them are still playing in the NCAA Tournament right now. Three of them have departed from UMass.

By RYAN AMES

Aydar Suniev scored in overtime to send the UMass hockey team past Minnesota, 5-4, during the Fargo Regional semifinal of the NCAA Tournament on Thursday in Fargo, North Dakota.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — For nearly 30 years of his life, UMass offensive coordinator Mike Bajakian has been a football coach. He’s had stints at the high school, collegiate and professional levels, his most recent gig being at Utah – where he was the program’s offensive analyst and quarterbacks coach.

By RYAN AMES

It’s do-or-die the rest of the way for the UMass hockey team.

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — Tied 2-2 entering the bottom of the eighth inning, a dormant UMass baseball offense needed a spark – its only two runs coming from Albany miscues.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — At least 1,000 students, staff and faculty, many from the Amherst-Pelham Regional Schools, descended on the Campus Center at the University of Massachusetts Monday morning, rallying to preserve 18 positions at the middle and high schools that could be lost due to budget cuts.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Five years after its approval, legislation aimed at improving K-12 education statewide known as the Student Opportunity Act is not infusing school districts in western Massachusetts with much-needed additional funding as promised.

By RYAN AMES

UMass men’s lacrosse head coach Greg Cannella needed more saves. In the first game of the season against then-No. 13 Army on Feb. 8 at Garber Field, the Minutemen found themselves down 6-0 after the first 15 minutes. Graduate student goalie Tyler Bluse surrendered all six goals on 11 shots from the Black Knights during that opening quarter, putting UMass in an early hole.

The UMass women’s basketball team was in the driver’s seat entering the fourth quarter of its WNIT second round game with Buffalo on Sunday afternoon. Playing its future MAC foe, the Minutewomen led by 16 (61-45) entering the fourth quarter and looked as if they had another postseason win in the bag.

The 2025 NCAA Division I men’s hockey tournament bracket was unveiled on Sunday afternoon and the UMass hockey team was one of six Hockey East schools to qualify for the big dance.

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — Visitors from Lexington and Marblehead were among those who came to see “Generic Male,” the off-Broadway physical theater performed at Northampton’s Academy of Music in early March.

By EMILEE KLEIN

SOUTH HADLEY — South Hadley and Ludlow are organizing municipal and school leaders, students and community members from at least eight communities to attend a hearing Monday at UMass to persuade the state Legislature’s House and Ways Means Committee to support altering the state’s municipal education funding formula.