UMass had added a home exhibition to the slate: Rhode Island College on Saturday, 10/25, at 4 PM. Free admission. RIC is a D-III team in the Little East Conference. umassathletics.com/news/2025/9/... The exhibition at Brown was known before today. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

UMass got their second verbal for next year's class: Cam Hailey, a 3* PG from Dorchester. Nice to see the in-state commit. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

Happy birthday Leonardo Bettiol! Looking forward to seeing you in game action. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

Long-time UMass hoop fans: looking for your help. The Collegian is working on an article about The Cage, and is seeking fans who went to games there. Got some good memories to share? Please do! The writer is George Coulouras and you can get him here @gcoul.bsky.social

MAC media day and their official pre-season team isn't expected until late October, but one outfit on the bird site thinks DHS will be first team. x.com/morehoopss/s...

Happy 25th Birthday Tre Mitchell. We were fortunate to have him for his first two college seasons, as he won the A10 ROY in 2019, and was A10 First Team in 2020. Ironically, here's Tre going up against Frank Martin's South Carolina squad in 2019. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

New conference logo ready to go on the Mullins floor.

UM has announced start times for the home games. Notes and observations on the board: www.umasshoops.com/newboard/vie...

The team at Minuteman Command connects with our 2026-27 commit... www.minutemancommand.com/p/2026-cente...

Live stream of the Hoop golf outing starting soon: www.youtube.com/watch?v=0FAa... Big thanks to @themassco.bsky.social for organizing.

Former Collegian guy @steve-hewitt.bsky.social, and others, are posting that UM has received a verbal from big man Cheick Sylla. Tracking what we've seen: www.umasshoops.com/newboard/vie...

Not that it matters to us anymore, but SJU went thru a super late/early coaching change, as Billy Lange reportedly takes a job with the Knicks. UM went 3-3 against Lange at SJU, 3-0 under McCall and 0-3 under Martin, as Lange got the Hawks better over time.

Big news on the BC game... Organizers have (wisely) given the UM/BC main event a 7:00 start time. The double-header opener (Yale vs Albany) begins at 4:30. Both will be on ESPNU and ESPN+. @themassco.bsky.social has acquired all the courtside seats. Details: www.umasshoops.com/newboard/vie...

This was a great win in that 2006-07 season, in which we went 24-9, the most wins and best percentage (.727) since the 1995-96 Final Four season. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph... Damn that flu bug that destroyed us in the '07 A10 Tournament.

Spotted on the @ncaamarchmaddness.bsky.social equivalent on the bird site... Newcomer Marcus Banks Jr in there for us. He hit 107 treys for UMBC last season, but more importantly, at a .418 rate. That's huge as we were trash from 3 last season (.281).

There's still one opponent TBD, but this makes the schedule pretty much complete. Notes and observations: www.umasshoops.com/newboard/vie...

Website seems to be back up and running. Please let me know if you see anything being weird.

I’m aware that our website is showing an invalid certificate error. Unfortunately I’m away and can’t try to address it until tomorrow night. Sorry to my diehard visitors for the inconvenience.

Good to see that WBB Coach Leflar got extended. He turned it around this past season after the program lost pretty much everyone (no offense, Stef) in 2023. umassathletics.com/news/2025/8/...

Men: don’t say stuff like this around women www.boston.com/news/local-n... Also, that creep should absolutely lose his job as a RA.

Now's your chance to get a little, or a large, piece of history from The Cage. @themassco.bsky.social is offering 12"x12" pieces, or full 4'x8' panels, for sale, with proceeds benefiting the NIL programs for the men's and women's teams. themassachusettscollective.formstack.com/forms/curry_...

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Pulling this one over from Instagram for my A10 basketball freaks over here… that’s Rashaun Freeman setting a ball screen on Tiki Mayben’s son (who is a D1 prospect) and then Tiki pulling up in his son’s face. Basketball still rules.

Daniel Rivera has found a new team: UAB uabsports.com/news/2025/7/... Of the 2024-25 Minutemen who hit the Portal, all but Rahsool Diggins have found a new spot umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph... Unsure about what's happening with Sool. Maybe eligibility for 25-26 not cleared yet.

A little summer catch-up from the Gazette... gazettenet.com/UMass-men-s-...

Great to see that Chaz Williams will get inducted into UM Athletics' Hall of Fame. umassathletics.com/news/2025/7/... His name is all over UM hoop's program records: 1653 points (7th all time) 702 assists (1st) 199 steals (2nd) 448 free throws (5th) umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

We moved out of the A10 for football's sake, and it's a long term play for sure, but here's one of the first steps: do better this prediction. Look at it as motivation: prove 'em wrong.

Happy birthday Chris Lowe. Lowe finished as UM's all-time leader in assists (678) but Chaz Williams eventually overtook him. We saw Lowe on the opposing bench for a couple years as a SLU assistant, and is still up with Bonaventure, about to start season five with SBU. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

The renovations at The Cage continue. It's stripped down to pretty much bare walls and the sub-floor. Screen shot from Instagram... www.instagram.com/p/DL5RRgEuzL...

People like to shake their collective heads at “kids these days.” But I was extremely impressed with how attentive and engaged all the UMass athletes were throughout my “talk” yesterday. I know my hoops team from back in the day would have had wayyyy worse behavior.

Happy birthday Lou Roe! Lou still holds the UM program records for free throws made (578) and total rebounds (1070), and was a big reason why UM had their run of four straight A10 regular season and conference tournament titles. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

UM has announced the non-conf slate: umassathletics.com/news/2025/7/... The only new news: Date set for Harvard's visit to Mullins: 12/3 (Wed) We're hosting UMass Boston (D3) again: 12/22 (Mon) The away game in the MAC-SBC Challenge has changed dates: now 2/20 (Fri) umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

Matt Cross & RJ Luis have a foot in the door with the NBA. To be clear though, not guaranteed. Reminds me of former M'men Tony Gaffney & Cady Lalanne. Both got close, with Summer League and D-League (now G-League) action, but never got up to the big show. dailycollegian.com/2025/07/two-...

Today's day one of the MAC, and we got a little MAC-related news: UMass will host Marshall as part of the MAC - Sun Belt Challenge, on Monday, November 3 (season opener). UMass will visit a TBD Sun Belt opponent in February as part of the Challenge series. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

UM's time in the Atlantic 10 officially ends at midnight. UM has been part of the league since it first formed, as the ECBL, beginning play in the 1976-77 season. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph... In men's hoop, UM won 6 league titles, and 5 tournament championships. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

Saddened to hear about the passing of Billy Tindall recently. He was one of UM's all-time greats. Career averages of 17.3 points and 11.3 boards, plus being a workhorse at 36.7 minutes. 3x All Yankee Conference, UM Athletic HOF inductee umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

Get your clubs ready. @themassco.bsky.social Golf Invitational has been set for September 15. Plenty of opportunities to participate, even if you don't play, and all in the effort of helping our NIL program. themasscollectivegolfinvitational.com

10 years ago tonight: UM's Cady Lalanne gets picked by San Antonio in the NBA Draft. youtu.be/A7n17170nQw?...

Happy birthday Jonathan DePina Jon backed up Charlton Clarke and Shannon Crooks at the PG spot in his UMass career. www.sports-reference.com/cbb/players/...

June 21, 1999: Marcus Camby's putback slam in Game 3 of the NBA Finals at Madison Square Garden. The Knicks beat San Antonio, 89-81. Allan Houston scored 34 PTS, Latrell Sprewell had 24 PTS and Larry Johnson added 16 PTS for New York. The Spurs' David Robinson had 25 PTS/10 REB.

Happy birthday Derek Kellogg umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

Good stuff from returner Rollie Castineyra... "Just trying to get all of us getting along as all 15 of us instead of little groups of three or four." Love it. Be a full team, not a collection of a few cliques. gazettenet.com/UMass-men-s-...

Happy birthday Al Skinner umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph... Skinner as coach of Boston College: 247-165 (.600), 7 NCAA bids, 1 NIT bid, 13 total seasons BC since they canned Skinner in 2010: 194-283 (.407), 0 bids, 15 total seasons

Congrats to former UM footballer and Athletic Department staffer Thorr Bjorn, whose role at URI was recently elevated from AD to VP. Quality dude and I hope he and Ryan Bamford can find a way to make URI vs UM a thing going forward in hoop. atlantic10.com/news/2025/6/...

Shahid Muhammad lands with Florida State. I didn’t expect that he’d land in a top conference, but good for him. We’ll see him and FSU on December 13.

New Minuteman K'jei Parker will be doing an interview with a guy on Instagram, tonight at 8:30 Eastern. Check here for it: www.instagram.com/p/DKdrNI9MYD9/

Great to see that @themassco.bsky.social is saving the parquet floor from The Cage, before the building goes through its transformation to the track practice facility. Details: mailchi.mp/umasscollect...

Happy birthday Harper Williams umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

It's officially official: UMass vs Boston College on 12/10 (Wednesday). Twin-bill with Yale/Albany in the other game. TBD on game times. www.hoophall.com/events/baske... This will be the 48th meeting between UM & BC, and the first since 2014. umasshoops.com/wiki/doku.ph...

Malek Abdelgowad is headed to Baton Rouge, finding a new spot with Southern University in the SWAC, per a report on the bird site. x.com/WEAVE/status... Southern won the SWAC regular season with a 15-3 record.