Unheralded UMass Makes an Unlikely Run
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The menâs soccer team at the University of Massachusetts is two victories away from a national championship, sixteen years after it was supposed to be dismantled.
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While the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team didn't qualify for the tournament it had hoped for, the senior-led Minutemen will play on, hosting Alabama in the first round of the National Invitation Tournament tomorrow night at 9:30 (ESPN).
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Massachusetts made sure its first home game against a defending national champion was one to remember. The Minutemen stunned seventh-ranked Connecticut 61-59 on Rashaun Freeman&#39;s layup with 4.3 seconds to play Thursday night.
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In nearly every frenzied race toward a national championship, there are unscripted moments that yank a title-contending team from the cusp of irrelevance. For Boston College, that moment was Thursday night.
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It was their moment, and they would not be denied. Playing a meaningful late-season basketball game for the first time since many of their players hit puberty, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen rose to the occasion in a huge way, overwhelming Rhode Island, 77-55, before a supercharged crowd of 8,358 at the Mullins Center last night.
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The University of New Hampshire women's basketball team didn't make the 1 1/2-hour drive down here to be embarrassed. But that's what happened last night when Boston College humbled the Wildcats, 50-31, at Conte Forum.
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AMHERST -- A lot of bits were being champed very hard. For the University of Massachusetts football team, this past offseason seemed to last for years. The Minutemen didn't need much reminding about how they lost the last two games of 2005, falling short of the NCAA Division 1-AA playoffs after starting out with a 7-2 record and a No. ...
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Politics makes for strange bedfellows, but yesterday&#39;s intersection of politics and sports at Beacon and Park streets produced an amiably awkward pairing, even by Massachusetts standards.
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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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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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Aiming for its first America East tournament title game since 2003, Boston University came up short -- and long -- yesterday against Albany. At a loss? So was BU about finding a way to put the ball in the basket.
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At first glance, it seems like an odd approach. Upon closer inspection, however, Michigan State may not have any other choice. The Spartans will use their disappointing 1-2
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Rashaun Freeman hit a layup 11 seconds into the game, and the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team never trailed en route to a 72-49 victory over host Savannah State last night.
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Brockton's Cory Quirk does not believe in the sophomore jinx. The University of Massachusetts hockey player is in the midst of a stellar season in Amherst.
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AMHERST -- For University of New Hampshire quarterback Ricky Santos, it was a nightmarish d&#xE9;j&#xE0; vu.
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VILLANOVA, Pa. -- The University of Massachusetts football team is known for its stingy defense. The Minutemen held opponents to 13.3 points per game last season, and suffocated Navy's lethal option offense last Saturday.
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On one bench, that of Boston College, there was a high-scoring offense, plenty of experience, and one of the top power plays in the nation. On the other, that of UMass-Lowell, was a roster filled with youth and inexperience but teeming with determination.