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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.

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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.


UMass basketball: Minutemen open final Atlantic 10 tourney with first round game against La Salle
03-11-2025 1:43 PM

By GARRETT COTE

The time has come for the UMass men’s basketball team, as it begins its trek through one final Atlantic 10 Conference tournament on Wednesday afternoon.


High school basketball: 12 area players selected for Western Massachusetts Senior All-Star Games at Hall of Fame
03-10-2025 5:00 PM

By GARRETT COTE

The Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame announced the 2025 Western Massachusetts Senior High School All-Star Game rosters Monday – and 12 Daily Hampshire Gazette area players made it across the three games scheduled to be played on Thursday, March 20 at the Hall of Fame in Springfield.


Boys basketball: No. 1 Williston thumps Exeter, captures NEPSAC Class A title (PHOTOS)
03-09-2025 8:42 PM

By GARRETT COTE

SUFFIELD, Conn. – Preston Edmead was made for March.


Ally Landau’s last-second basket lifts Smith College basketball past Amherst 52-50, into fourth straight NCAA Div. 3 Sweet 16 (PHOTOS)
03-08-2025 11:16 PM

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — The Smith College women’s basketball team’s nine-point fourth quarter lead in the NCAA Division 3 Women’s Basketball second round had evaporated. Amherst College clawed its way back in it on the defensive end, holding the host Pioneers to just six points for the first 9 minutes, 30 seconds of the frame, and got a massive 3-pointer from guard Reagan Pahl with 13 seconds left to tie the game at 50 apiece. Smith’s deafening crowd turned silent as head coach Lynn Hersey called timeout to draw up a play.


UMass basketball: Mullins Center says goodbye to the Atlantic 10 with final league home game before move to MAC
03-08-2025 5:52 PM

By GARRETT COTE

AMHERST — When the final buzzer sounded to signal the end of the UMass men’s basketball team’s regular season, which ended in a 74-51 loss to Loyola Chicago on Saturday afternoon at Mullins Center, the arena’s staff immediately began tearing up the floorboards of Jack Leaman Court to get ready for the Minutemen’s hockey game at 7:30 p.m.


UMass basketball: Loyola Chicago dominates Minutemen in regular season finale, 74-51
03-08-2025 5:42 PM

By RYAN AMES

AMHERST – The UMass men’s basketball team concluded its regular season with a whimper in a 74-51 loss to Loyola Chicago Saturday afternoon at the Mullins Center.


Women’s basketball: Amherst and Smith advance in Div. 3 tournament and will square off Saturday for first time since 2007 (PHOTOS)
03-07-2025 9:32 PM

By GARRETT COTE

NORTHAMPTON — Two years away from the NCAA Division 3 Women’s Basketball Tournament felt like an eternity for Amherst College and head coach G.P. Gromacki.

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