Massachusetts Minutemen NCAA Basketball News

University of Massachusetts center Sean Carter is setting a high bar for the University of Massachusetts men's basketball team's defense.

University of Massachusetts men's basketball forward Raphiael Putney might still redshirt this season, but coach Derek Kellogg said the 6-foot-9, 180-pounder is still a potential player for this season.

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

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.

Amherst, MA- Coming off two tough losses to the University of Central Florida and Cornell, the UMass Minutemen were looking to bounce back against the University of Arkansas-Fort Smith.

Ricky Harris comes flying across the lane. Photo by J. Anthony Roberts. Not many players can say they one-upped Julius Erving and Marcus Camby on the same night, but Ricky Harris passed them both on the University of Massachusetts scoring charts Wednesday.

Coach Kellogg talks with his starters during a time out. AMHERST - The consensus view was that this was a substantially better performance than the opener.

The 2009-10 season has begun for the Massachusetts men's basketball team and we at The Massachusetts Daily Collegian have compiled an in depth season preview for this year's Minutemen.

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.

One team sees room to grow and the other has nowhere to go but up. The basketball teams at the Massachusetts College of Liberal Arts both have high hopes for the 2009-10 season.

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 Knights fed off an electric crowd and collected an 84-66 win over UMass in the season opener Friday night at UCF Arena.

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.

Derek Kellogg has a lot more to worry about than the other team's shoes. "I don't think we'll be ready for awhile to be where we want to be, but the schedule says we play Friday night," the University of Massachusetts men's basketball coach said on the eve of his team's season opener at Central Florida.

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.

Derek Kellogg talks to senior guard Ricky Harris during the Minutemen's 80-78 victory over Dowling in an exhibition game, Nov.

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

UMass 46 Dowling 45 14:54 Second Half During the half I found out that Seagers is a DNP coaches decision.

Photo courtesy of The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. UMass lost out to La Salle in the recruitment of Tyreek Duren, a point guard at Neumann-Goretti in Philadelphia.

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.