BC women pull rank on UMass
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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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The Hartford Civic Center has been a house of horrors for the Boston College basketball team, which puts its 11-0 record on the line there tomorrow night against UConn. BC, bound for the Atlantic Coast Conference next season, cracked this week's Top 25 Associated Press national poll at No. 25. UConn is No. 10.
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AMHERST -- Now comes the hard part. After yesterday's 72-56 victory over last-place Richmond, the University of Massachusetts basketball team has one month and eight games left in the regular season. The Minutemen have put themselves in position to realize some of their hoop dreams. At 16-6 overall and 6-2 in the Atlantic 10, they have a legitimate shot at ...
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Jessica Adair scored 14 points to lead four George Washington players in double figures and the 14th-ranked Colonials beat Massachusetts, 69-45, last night in Amherst, Mass.
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Colleges Boston College is ranked No. 1 in the preseason USA Today/USA Hockey Magazine Division 1 college hockey poll, with Boston University ranked No. 5 and New Hampshire No. 10. The Eagles received 19 of 34 first-place votes for a total of 478 points. Minnesota was second with 438 points, while defending national champion Wisconsin was third at 430. Michigan ...
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AMHERST - After pausing for a week of final exams, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen submitted to an eminently manageable test last night in the form of the Central Connecticut State Blue Devils. They wound up passing with flying colors, if not quite acing it, coming away with a 79-55 victory.
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The Boston College men's hockey team played its best in bursts last night, but the breakout bits were just enough to beat UMass-Lowell, 3-0, in a Hockey East contest before 4,218 at Conte Forum.
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Jessalyn Deveny scored six of her season-high 22 points in a key 12-1 run to lead No. 20 Boston College past Northeastern 90-63 on Saturday.
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A quick start sent Boston University on its way to a 65-47 victory yesterday over host Stony Brook, with Rashad Bell scoring a game-high 19 points in the America East matchup.
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At the beginning of the season, Maura Crowell wondered which player or players would step up and provide offensive punch for her hockey team at the University of Massachusetts at Boston. Last year's one-two scoring punch of Melissa Belmonte and Andrea Ciarletta graduated, leaving the ice with a combined 43 goals and 82 points. Enter sophomore Maria Nasta of Andover, ...
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AMHERST -- Carrying out a longstanding tradition of doing a push-up for every point scored by the UMass football team, the Minutemen cheerleaders got quite the workout yesterday afternoon.
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The Boston College men's basketball team reached new heights in the Associated Press poll yesterday, jumping from 25th to 13th after victories over the University of Connecticut and Providence last week.
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Katie McNamara hit the go-ahead basket with a minute remaining, lifting Vermont to a 69-66 America East victory over Boston University yesterday in Burlington, Vt.
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Boston College&#39;s Shamika Jackson (5) takes the ball upcourt despite the efforts of Saint Joseph&#39;s&#39; Ayahna Cornish during the first half at Conte Forum in Boston on Wednesday, Dec. 22, 2004.
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Winning breeds respect. That's the message the Boston College women's basketball team received yesterday, when the Eagles, coming off their first Big East Conference championship, were selected to finish third this season in a preseason poll of the league's coaches.
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UMass athletics has flown under the radar since the men's basketball team reached the Final Four in 1996, but there's been plenty to shout about the last seven months.
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The University of Massachusetts made its Atlantic 10 opener yesterday one for the record books, blowing out Rhode Island, 91-53, for its most points in 27 years and its best offensive output ever in 14 years of playing at the Mullins Center in Amherst.