Minutemen are upended
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AMHERST - All season long, University of Massachusetts basketball coach Travis Ford has encouraged his players to be "strong with the ball." Early in the second half yesterday against 23d-ranked Xavier, Ford got his chance to demonstrate.
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Northeastern was halfway there yesterday. The Huskies were ahead by 11 points at the break, the first time in seven games they led at halftime, and appeared en route to their first victory of the season.
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It's been a season of milestones for the University of Massachusetts. The Minutemen played their 2,000th game earlier this season. They welcomed the 1 millionth fan into the 13-year-old Mullins Center. They are in the midst of their longest homestand in more than 70 years. And last night, they planned to celebrate the 500th game in the coaching ...
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Any time two Hockey East teams face off, the game will yield a fair amount of drama. When it's the iron of the conference, as it was last night between Boston College and New Hampshire, there is the potential for many subplots.
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AMHERST -- They're talented but inexperienced, so flawless play is a bit much to expect of the University of Massachusetts Minutemen at this stage of the season.
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Boston College has found some tension-filled ways to stay unbeaten early in the season.
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Scott Crowder and Shawn Saunders scored early third-period goals yesterday at the Mullins Center in Amherst, sparking No. 15 UMass to a 4-3 victory over UConn.
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When things seem too good to be true, they usually are. That's what the Boston College women's basketball team found out yesterday against Maine.
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- After his team's dramatic victory over No. 7 Connecticut last week, Minuteman Anthony Anderson said, &quot;We've been saying this is our year.&quot;
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You may not have heard a great deal about the Suffolk University men's team, given the competition for attention in this busy sports town, but the Rams are worthy of notice.
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Perhaps they will meet again in March when the stakes will be higher, befitting postseason basketball. But for Boston College and the University of Massachusetts, last night's 13th Commonwealth Classic was an intriguing early pit stop between teams that began the season with low expectations (from outside their locker rooms, at least) and have started with surprising surges.
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Maybe it was the flu that hit the Minutemen following last week's win over Saint Joseph's and wiped out practices leading up to the Atlantic 10 tournament. Maybe it was a tough opponent, playing a physical game, or maybe it was just bad karma.
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Don't believe the hype. That's the message University of Massachusetts football coach Don Brown gave his team yesterday, as it arrived here for the NCAA Division 1 Subdivision Championship game (better known as the Division 1-AA final). The Minutemen will square off against defending national champion Appalachian State tomorrow (8 p.m.) at Finley Stadium.
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As the charter roared off the runway in Missoula, Mont., just past midnight last Friday, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen let loose. They had done it again. They had just posted their toughest and best victory of an unforgettable season, a 19-17 gut-churner against No. 2-ranked Montana, right there in Grizzly country, the toughest environment they had known. As the ...
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UMass-Boston hasn't had a great start to the hockey season, but a retooled Beacons team beat Fitchburg State, 6-2, last night in the first round of the Codfish Bowl at UMass-Boston's Clark Athletic Center to earn a spot in tonight's championship game.
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AMHERST -- Five years had passed since the University of Massachusetts women's basketball team had faced a top-25 opponent at home. Coincidentally, it had been five years since the Minutewomen played Boston College.
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PHILADELPHIA -- It had been seven years since the University of Massachusetts had won a basketball game in the Saint Joseph's Alumni Memorial Fieldhouse, which is either intimate or claustrophobic, depending on your bias. It had been even longer since the Minutemen had so much at stake.