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Before yesterday, UMass hadn't played at the DCU Center since 2000, when it was still called the Centrum.

The last time Matt Hill even attempted a free throw in a game was during the 2005-06 season when he was a senior at Cheshire Academy in Connecticut.

Tom Izzo won his 341st game at Michigan State, setting the school record for victories in the No.

Durrell Summers, top, of Michigan State shoots over Ricky Harris of the University of Massachusetts in Atlantic City, N.J., on Saturday.

By the end of the weekend, the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team should have a better idea of where it stands.

Only four games into the regular season, University of Massachusetts coach Derek Kellogg's freshman class is already paying dividends.

Anthony Gurley scored 18 points and four other Massachusetts players scored in double figures to beat St.

As senior Ricky Harris jogged over to high-five the University of Massachusetts student fans under the southwest basket at the Mullins Center Saturday night, he smiled and pumped his fist.

Anthony Gurley scored 21 points and Ricky Harris added 18 to lead Massachusetts to a 94-68 win over Arkansas-Fort Smith on Saturday night.

University of Massachusetts freshman Terrell Vinson, center, loses a rebound to Jeff Foote of Cornell, right, during the Minutemen's home opener at the Mullins Center Wednesday.

The Minutemen got schooled by one of America's better schools, providing more evidence that this is a year of serious rebuilding at the Mullins Center.

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.

Derek Kellogg wasn't asking for much. If the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team was intent on improving upon last year's dismal 12-18 record, then the second-year coach was going to make one demand of his leading scorer, Ricky Harris.

The UMass men's basketball team got to share the same building with basketball royalty, but won't have many fond memories of the time Michael Jordan watched them all play.

It seemed like such a long time ago that UMass threatened the national college basketball stage.

For starters toss out the final score of the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team's exhibition victory Saturday night.

University of Massachusetts men's basketball fans can be excused if they barely do, but they will get a new chance to acquaint themselves with the 6-foot-7 power forward from Marietta, Ga.

The Minutemen were selected ninth in the preseason Atlantic 10 Conference poll, but the lone UMass player on the preseason A-10 first team is having nothing of it.

When the University of Massachusetts and Boston University basketball teams meet at an undisclosed time and location for their closed scrimmage on Saturday, senior Ricky Harris will be watching his freshmen teammates.

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.