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UMass basketball coach Frank Martin reflects on disappointing season: ‘I obviously didn’t do a very good job doing my job’
04-01-2025 1:40 PM

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.

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UMass basketball: Minutemen land Florida Tech transfer Donovan Brown
03-31-2025 8:16 PM

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.


UMass Men’s Basketball: Three Minutemen enter transfer portal
03-28-2025 10:37 AM

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.


A memorable run: Smith continues run of success in reaching another national title game
03-25-2025 12:28 PM

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — After watching for just 10 minutes, I reached for my phone, picked it up and texted as many of my friends who love the game of basketball as I could.


UMass women’s basketball team gives up lead and falls to Buffalo in WNIT second round
03-23-2025 9:27 PM

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.


NCAA Div. 3 Women’s Basketball: Smith College falls to NYU in title game, 77-49
03-22-2025 7:12 PM

By GARRETT COTE

Not even three minutes into the NCAA Division 3 women’s basketball national championship game, it was clear Smith College had its hands full with undefeated NYU — the reigning Div. 3 champions which held a 61-game winning streak entering Saturday. The Pioneers were well aware of just how dominant the Violets are considering they lost to them in last year’s title game, but after NYU ripped off the game’s first nine points, the journey to the top of the mountain became even steeper.


UMass women’s basketball: Minutewomen cruise past Stonehill, 86-40, in opening round of WNIT
03-20-2025 9:48 PM

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST – Freshman Yahmani McKayle’s triple-double powered the UMass women’s basketball team past Stonehill, 86-40, during the opening round of the WNIT on Thursday at the Mullins Center.


Smith College heads to Final Four to face familiar foe University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh
03-19-2025 9:45 AM

By GARRETT COTE

For the third consecutive season, the Smith College women’s basketball team is headed to the NCAA Division III Final Four. The Pioneers held their send off outside of Ainsworth Gymnasium on Tuesday afternoon, as they walked through a crowd of supporters and onto their team bus, which headed to the airport where they took off for Virginia.


Former Smith College hoop stars turned coaches help team in quest for first national title
03-18-2025 1:20 PM

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Ally Yamada and Sofia Rosa sat on the floor of Ainsworth Gymnasium behind the group of 16 Smith College women’s basketball players as Pioneers assistant coach Jen MacAulay broke down film on Smith’s NCAA Division III Final Four opponent, Wisconsin-Oshkosh, on Monday afternoon.


UMass Minutewomen earn WNIT berth
03-18-2025 9:54 AM

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — The stellar turnaround of Mike Leflar and his UMass women’s basketball team has earned them a chance to play postseason basketball, as their final season representing the Atlantic 10 isn’t over quite yet.


Behind the scenes as the Mullins Center staff hosts basketball, hockey games in same day
03-17-2025 12:01 PM

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — On two separate occasions this winter, Mullins Center staff spilled onto Jack Leaman Court as soon as the final horn sounded to end a UMass men’s basketball game. They aren’t typically in a huge rush to break down equipment, especially if the next event to take place in the arena is another basketball game, but the Minutemen hockey team had a game about five hours later – they needed to change the hardwood to the ice in time for warm-ups.


Div. 4 girls basketball: Cathedral head coach has high praise for South Hadley following state championship game
03-17-2025 10:30 AM

By GARRETT COTE

LOWELL — South Hadley girls basketball head coach Paul Dubuc said his team didn’t show up to the Tsongas Center for a moral victory. That very well could be true, but the Tigers did one thing that no other team in Division 4 had done in the postseason: put up a fight against No. 1 Cathedral.


Div. 4 girls basketball: Powerhouse Cathedral holds off South Hadley for second straight year in state championship game (PHOTOS)
03-16-2025 5:41 PM

By GARRETT COTE

LOWELL — It felt like history had repeated itself at the Tsongas Center on Sunday afternoon. A year ago, the South Hadley girls basketball team got off to a hot start before ultimately falling to No. 1 Cathedral in the MIAA Division 4 state championship game on the third Sunday of March.


FINAL FOUR BOUND! Smith College takes down Gustavus Adolphus for third straight NCAA Div. 3 Final Four berth
03-15-2025 11:15 PM

A 22-point game from Ally Landau helped the Smith College basketball team advance past Gustavus Adolphus, 61-50, in the Elite Eight of the NCAA Division 3 women’s tournament on Saturday.


NCAA D3 women’s basketball: Hannah Martin, Smith take down unbeaten Bowdoin for spot in Elite Eight
03-14-2025 10:36 PM

By GARRETT COTE

Smith College is ‘elite’ once again.


Div. 4 girls basketball: South Hadley relying on youth in second straight Final Four run
03-14-2025 4:33 PM

By GARRETT COTE

SOUTH HADLEY — Paul Dubuc met with his senior captains – Ava Asselin, Caitlin Dean, CC Gurek and Maddie Soderbaum – prior to the start of the season back in late November. The South Hadley girls basketball head coach and his Tigers were coming off the program’s first-ever state championship appearance, where they lost to Cathedral in the Division 4 title game.


Div. 4 girls basketball: Top-seeded Cathedral presents quite a challenge for No. 3 South Hadley in Sunday’s state final
03-14-2025 4:10 PM

By RYAN AMES

The South Hadley girls basketball team will see a familiar foe in the MIAA Division 4 state championship on Sunday at the Tsongas Center in Lowell.


Smith College basketball heads to Maine to face top-seeded Bowdoin in NCAA Division 3 Sweet 16
03-13-2025 2:36 PM

By GARRETT COTE

When the NCAA Division 3 Women’s Basketball bracket was released on March 3, Smith College was thrilled to be hosting yet another opening weekend, just as it had done the previous three tournaments. But despite earning the right to play first and second round games at home, the Pioneers were given an extremely rigorous path to a potential third straight Final Four.


Div. 4 girls basketball: Kate Phillips’ late bucket lifts No. 3 South Hadley past No. 2 Millis 45-42, into state title game (PHOTOS)
03-12-2025 7:39 PM

By GARRETT COTE

WORCESTER — After making the MIAA Division 4 state final and graduating only one senior from last season’s team, the town of South Hadley, all of western Mass. and competition across the state expected the South Hadley girls basketball team to end up in that same exact spot come March 2025.


UMass basketball: Offense sputters, Minutemen fall to La Salle in Atlantic 10 first round, 78-71
03-12-2025 7:14 PM

A disappointing UMass men’s basketball season came to a disappointing end Wednesday.


Div. 4 girls basketball: South Hadley’s pursuit of a second straight state final trip goes through Millis in Wednesday’s semifinal round
03-11-2025 3:30 PM

By RYAN AMES

The Final Four is set in the MIAA girls basketball Division 4 state tournament, and No. 3 South Hadley will square off with No. 2 Millis in the semifinals on Wednesday at Worcester State University.

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