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By GARRETT COTE

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,...

By GARRETT COTE

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...

A red-hot shooting performance sank the UMass men’s basketball team on Saturday.The Minutemen allowed a season-high 89 points to host Rhode Island, as the Rams shot 51.9 percent from the field and 60.9 percent from 3-point land to roll to an 89-77...

By GARRETT COTE

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,...

By GARRETT COTE

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...

By THOMAS JOHNSTON

It’s been a series of close losses for the Massachusetts hockey team of late. The Minutemen fell to Cornell in a shootout and Clarkson in overtime during the Adirondack Winter Invitational at Lake Placid. In its return to the Mullins Center last...

By GARRETT COTE

Josh Wallace stood on the turf inside NRG Stadium in Houston Monday night submerged in Maize and Blue confetti.The senior defensive back and his Michigan Wolverines were crowned as College Football Playoff National Champions after defeating...

By GARRETT COTE

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...

By GARRETT COTE

The UMass women’s basketball team trailed by six points coming out of the halftime break on the road against Richmond on Wednesday afternoon. As heavy underdogs, the Minutewomen were playing with house money, and it looked as if they knew that with...

By GARRETT COTE

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...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — At least one of three UMass Amherst students denied the chance to study abroad next semester after being arrested for participating in the October sit-in protests against the war in Gaza has raised the possibility of bringing a federal...

By MADDIE FABIAN

Editor’s note: This is the fourth and final article from the Western Mass. Solar Forum series. The first three forums took place in September, and another series of forums is in the works for this spring. AMHERST — Most experts agree solar energy is...

By STEVE PFARRER

AMHERST — After nearly 18 years at the helm of the largest art gallery at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, Loretta Yarlow will step down from the University Museum of Contemporary Art (UMCA) at the end of June.Yarlow, who came to the Valley...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Rahsool Diggins didn’t leave the bench the first time he returned home to Philadelphia as a college athlete.UConn didn’t include him among the nine Huskies that took the floor Feb. 5, 2022, at Villanova. Diggins only appeared in nine games his...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST — The lights in Derek Kellogg’s Amherst house flickered on when he flipped the switch after five years. The family kept the home in Western Massachusetts even after UMass fired him in 2017 and he took over Long Island University.It was like...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — A longtime restaurant operating from Amherst’s oldest building, primarily serving faculty on the University of Massachusetts campus but also open to the public and students, is permanently closed.The University Club and Restaurant, or the...

By ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

AMHERST — An anti-war group at the University of Massachusetts Amherst called the Dissenters is demanding that the university’s business school sever its ties with the defense and aerospace company Raytheon Technologies.The university, however, says...

By SCOTT MERZBACH

AMHERST — The arrest of a University of Massachusetts student during an altercation with a campus police officer is being reviewed by the campus leadership team after witnesses expressed concern for the person taken into custody, according to a...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST — Justin Moore laughed to himself standing in the paint.He and the rest of his DeMatha Catholic teammates hadn’t had to play much defense yet during the 2018 WCAC basketball semifinal because Josh Wallace hounded the opposing point guard 94...

By EMILY THURLOW

SPRINGFIELD — The life and legacy of the late artist and educator Nelson Stevens was celebrated Saturday afternoon with commemorations at recreations of two of his historic murals.Stevens, who spent more than three decades teaching in the art...