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It wasn't pretty, but UMass will take it. The Minutemen and Rhode Island Rams put on an ugly display of basketball last night, but UMass persevered in spite of shooting 29.4 percent in the first half to post a 49-44 victory over its Atlantic 10 foe.
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The University of Massachusetts knows the feeling. It was glad Boston College experienced it last night.
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AMHERST -- On a post-card-perfect New England day -- sun sparkling, foliage nearing its peak -- the University of Massachusetts football team delivered a fall classic. Dominating all aspects of the game, the Minutemen rolled to a 48-7 victory over William &amp; Mary yesterday .
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The bus ride to the airport in Warwick, R.I., was a raucous one for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team yesterday afternoon. Over and over, the team watched the highlight from Thursday night when Rashaun Freeman hit the go-ahead basket against Connecticut and then leapt into the crowd with 4.3 seconds left on the clock.
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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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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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When the University of Massachusetts squared off against Montana in last night's Division 1-AA semifinal, it was billed as matchup of tough defenses.
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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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When Ashley McLaughlin's 3-pointer skipped off the rim, concluding last year's MIAA Division 1 state championship game, gone were Andover's chances at back-to-back titles. Gone, too, are more than half the players.
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This was one time Dennis Wolff wished he had been out of timeouts. With his team trailing the University of Massachusetts, 56-54, and with the clock running down, the Boston University coach called time. Unfortunately, he got it, seconds before guard Tyler Morris drilled a desperation 3-pointer with 4.2 seconds left that would have given the Terriers a 57-56 victory ...
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PHILADELPHIA -- The University of Massachusetts has lost in a variety of ways at the Liacouras Center since it opened in 1997.
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With no students yet on campus and a sporadic rain falling on Boston University's Nickerson Field, there wasn't much of a turnout backing the home team at last Sunday's soccer game against UMass-Amherst.
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For 25,000 students and faculty on the Amherst campus of the University of Massachusetts, last week's start of the new term was even more hectic than usual, thanks to a computer malfunction that prevented many students from signing up for classes.
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AMHERST -- University of Massachusetts coach Don Cahoon is being cautiously optimistic after guiding the Minutemen to their first 20-win season. UMass took a 5-2 victory over Maine last night, sweeping the best-of-three Hockey East playoff series, but a semifinal berth in the tournament does not satisfy Cahoon.
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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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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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WORCESTER -- When Holy Cross coach Tom Gilmore looked up at the clock late in the fourth quarter of yesterday's game against Northeastern, he had to wonder where the second half had gone.