Lavender leads No. 23 Xavier over UMass
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Drew Lavender scored 13 of his 19 points in the second half and No. 23 Xavier defeated Massachusetts 77-65 Sunday to move atop the Atlantic 10 standings. Derrick Brown added 14 points for the Musketeers (17-4 overall, 5-1), who won for the ninth time in 10 games. C.J. Anderson added 13 and Josh Duncan 10.
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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.
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Cleve Kinley's goal at 16:36 of the second period sparked UMass-Lowell to a 2-1 win over Northeastern last night in Lowell.
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It wasn't quite the 44-point licking Harvard got last season at Case Gym, but Boston University's road show continued in impressive fashion last night at Lavietes Pavilion, where the Terriers raced to a 21-point halftime lead and poured it on for most of the second half en route to a 92-55 victory over the Crimson.
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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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A team starting four sophomores, the University of Massachusetts Minutemen have played with a certain playground style all year. They climb the ladder, then go down the slide. They spend many hours on the seesaw. The big wins have been followed by big losses.
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Stacey Moragne poured in 33 points as UMass-Lowell opened its defense of the Northeast-10 Conference title yesterday with an 87-74 victory over Pace at Costello Gym. The River Hawks (2-1, 1-0), who have won the last two conference regular-season and tournament championships, placed four players in double figures, led by Moragne, who finished 11 of 15 from the field and ...
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Massachusetts beats rival Connecticut for the first time in 14 tries Thursday night, 61-59, on Rashaun Freeman's layup with 4.3 seconds remaining.
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David Dubois scored a game-high 17 points as Maine held on for a 58-52 men's basketball victory over Dartmouth last night at Hanover, N.H.
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ORONO, Maine - You could call it focused, efficient, dominant. All of those adjectives aptly describe the effort put forth by third-ranked Massachusetts in yesterday's 38-7 trouncing of Maine before 6,617 at Alfond Stadium.
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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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J.P. Prince scored a career-high 23 points Saturday, and Tyler Smith led a late surge that rallied No. 12 Tennessee to an 82-75 victory over Xavier, which couldn't handle the Volunteers' pressure defense when it mattered.
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John Gilchrist scored 20 of his 22 points in the second half and No. 23 Maryland was perfect from the free throw line for just the second time in school history, cruising past UNC-Asheville 96-72 Sunday.
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BROOKLINE -- There was some fine football played at Parsons Field yesterday, as the University of Massachusetts defeated Northeastern, 26-22. UMass junior running back Steve Baylark took over the game in the second half, finishing with 181 yards and a touchdown on 29 carries, as he went over 1,000 yards for the second straight year. And NU senior linebacker Liam ...
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Freshman Patrick Mills had 22 points, including four 3-pointers, to lead No. 25 St. Mary's to an 80-49 victory over Loyola Marymount on Saturday night.
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Derrick Brown scores on a tip-in with 0.1 seconds to go, enabling No. 13 Xavier to eke out a 70-68 victory over Saint Louis on Thursday night, avoiding a total meltdown.
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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.