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By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The little missteps or cracks that slipped by during the Atlantic 10 regular season cost the UMass women’s lacrosse team in the NCAA Tournament.Johns Hopkins pounded the Minutewomen in the first quarter and held them off for a 19-8 victory in Friday’s...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

The UMass hockey team’s 2023-24 schedule features two Frozen Four participants in the first six games and five total teams that reached the NCAA tournament.Released Friday with a video tour through the Minutemen’s locker room, the schedule opens with...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Sam Breen will make her USA Basketball debut at the USA 3x3 Women’s National Team Trials this weekend in Colorado Springs, Colorado.The former UMass forward is one of 18 athletes that will be evaluated for spots on the 2023-24 national teams. The pool...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Wins and losses barely register when Johns Hopkins women’s lacrosse coach Tim McCormack remembers his time at UMass.He played goalie for the Minutemen from 2008-2012, captaining the team his final two years. McCormack ranks eighth all-time at UMass...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Aloha, UMass.The men’s basketball program will participate in the 2023 Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic in Honolulu on December 21, 22, and 24, the school announced Thursday. It’s an eight-team event that also features Power 5 schools Georgia...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – In addition to reaching the NCAA Tournament, the UMass women’s lacrosse program was recognized with two members of the USA Lacrosse Magazine All-America teams Wednesday.Senior attacker Fiona McGowan was named to the second team, while senior...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

AMHERST – Losing the Atlantic 10 championship game against Richmond reminded the UMass women’s lacrosse team of lessons it didn’t follow as rigidly in the preceding 15-game winning streak. A third quarter lull the Minutewomen usually worked through...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

SOUTH HADLEY – Tyson Dyck traded his spot on the line chart for a tee time.The UMass freshman who finished his first season playing hockey for the Minutemen this spring competed in the U.S. Open Local Qualifier on Tuesday at the Orchards Golf Club in...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

A second consecutive Atlantic 10 Championship game loss in a row didn’t bar the UMass women’s lacrosse team from the NCAA tournament for the second consecutive year.Richmond defeated the Minutewomen 20-12  on Sunday afternoon to earn the league’s...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

R.J. Luis stayed in the UMass family.The freshman transfer guard that left the Minutemen after an Atlantic 10 all-freshman first team season announced he’ll join former UMass point guard Rick Pitino at St. John’s on Sunday.Luis averaged 11.5 points...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Richmond senior Lindsey Frank ripped out the UMass women’s lacrosse team’s heart in the second half of Sunday’s Atlantic 10 championship game.She scored five of her six goals after halftime, including three in a 1-minute, 44-second stretch that...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Richmond put the ball in the net 37 seconds into its Atlantic 10 men’s lacrosse semifinal against UMass on Thursday and never looked back.The second-seeded Spiders defeated the No. 3 Minutemen 15-8 on their home field in Virginia to reach the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

After tweeting exclusively eye emojis for days, Frank Martin can finally explain why he’s so fired up. The UMass men’s basketball team rounded out its roster with two more freshmen and another South Carolina import. Martin can’t discuss recruits or...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Center Dans Locmelis will join the UMass hockey program for the 2023-24 season, the Minutemen announced. He was a fourth round pick by the Boston Bruins in 2022 and scored 59 points with 25 goals for Lulea HF of the Swedish Hockey League’s U20 team....

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Matt Knote is a rock, steady and consistent.The UMass men’s lacrosse team relies on its senior goalie. He’s proven more than reliable, leading the Atlantic 10 and ranking third in the country with an 8.89 goals against average. Knote saves...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Fifth year senior Gina Carroll didn’t have to think too hard about whether or not she would return for her extra year of eligibility with the UMass women’s lacrosse team.Besides the year she lost to the COVID-19 pandemic, Carroll also tore her ACL the...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Mike Nuñez sat on his Endicott dorm bed and wondered.His roommate Joseph Matteo had just left for another event with the Gulls men’s rugby team. The sport was unfamiliar, but he understood that camaraderie. Longed for it.“What would that feel like to...

By KYLE GRABOWSKI

Another former Minuteman is headed to the Power 5.Former UMass men’s basketball forward Tafara Gapare announced his commitment to Georgia Tech on Tuesday. The former four-star recruit originally pledged to DePaul as a member of the Class of 2023...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Fiona Bundy’s first memory of her now-best friend Sophia Schaefer isn’t a typical one. Northampton native Schaefer and Easthampton native Bundy both went to the same kindergarten at the Smith College Campus School, but weren’t in the same class, so...

By HANNAH BEVIS 

Another UMass women’s basketball star is taking her talents somewhere else. Guard Sydney Taylor confirmed that she would be transferring to the University of Louisville for her last year of NCAA eligibility.Taylor announced that she was entering the...