Raphiael Putney News

After a while Monday night, the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team stopped even trying to go inside as it proved fruitless throughout the loss to Seton Hall.

Francis 65: It's over. It wound up looking easier than it was. Gurley scored 18 with another strong game.

When a couple of Freddie Riley's 13 shots went up Saturday night, University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach Derek Kellogg cringed.

The University of Massachusetts men's basketball team continues to be a landing spot for members of the DC Assault AAU program as forward Maxie Esho, who verbally committed to the Minutemen last fall, has officially signed his national letter of intent.

The University of Massachusetts men's basketball program has signed Maxie Esho, a 6-foot-8 forward from Upper Marlboro, Md., to a National Letter of Intent.

The University of Massachusetts men's basketball team got concrete proof in Friday night's season opener of something it probably already knew.

I came from a rough program losing so a win is a win. We stepped up in the last three minutes and stepped up in the way we needed to play.

As the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team completed sprints at the end of Monday's practice, junior big man Hashim "Big City" Bailey was both sweating and breathing heavily.

You know those teams who always hear about, the ones no one wants to play in the postseason? That could be the 2009-10 Minutemen.

SCOUTING THE NEWCOMERS: UMass will have seven new players, including a five-player freshmen class considered one of the most talented in the nation.

As they practiced free throws and jump shots at the far end of Curry Hicks Cage, the older members of the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team occasionally paused and looked to the near free-throw line where their freshmen teammates were gathered.