Fenway Park-turned-football stadium featured the Massachusetts football team, who has won two of its last three games, avoid a colossal meltdown in front of 12,000 plus Saturday defeating Maine 44-31. The ebbs and flows of the game featured UMass (3-7) leading by 17 to being tied at 24 after the first drive of the third quarter, to finally finishing with a 13-point win.

If you asked Massachusetts men’s basketball coach Matt McCall about his front court five weeks ago when Rashaan Holloway went down with a thumb injury, his response wouldn’t scream optimism. But on opening night at the Mullins Center against University rival UMass-Lowell, the front court combination of Malik Hines and Holloway asserted its dominance.

To start the fourth quarter, No. 21 Mississippi State had been leading the Massachusetts football team 27-20. The Bulldogs would eventually win 34-23, but it wasn’t as easy as it maybe should have been. A 20-13 UMass halftime lead had been erased by 14 unanswered points by MSU in the third quarter, and the Bulldogs were searching for more to start the fourth.

Chris Baldwin, who found himself playing very few minutes as a freshman a year ago, gave the Massachusetts basketball team a taste of who he can be in the Minutemen’s 82-60 win over Springfield College. With center Rashaan Holloway out with a thumb injury, the front court duties primarily fell on junior Malik Hines and Baldwin, now a sophomore – both started the game.

The last three weeks of the Massachusetts football team’s season could be viewed in terms of levels. Levels of difficulty, that is. Week Eight against Georgia Southern marked the Minutemen’s first win, a fairly swift 55-20 victory against a struggling Eagles team. In Week Nine, the difficulty jumped up.

The stage was set for more disappointment. The Massachusetts football team had led Appalachian State (5-3, 4-0 Sun Belt) for most of the game but surrendered that lead in the third quarter. Another late App State field goal in the fourth quarter gave the

It was week five and the Minutemen were already 0-4 on the year. The game against Tennessee was their first contest against a major opponent all season. Playing down in Neyland Stadium in Knoxville, Tennessee, the situation did not bode well for the Minutemen. But with 10:06 left in the game, Ross Comis and the UMass offense approached their 20-yard line with an opportunity to take the lead.

In one of the first basketball games of the 2016 season, chants for Unique McLean to enter the game echoed down from an upper section of the Mullins Center. McLean wouldn’t enter that game, nor any game for the Massachusetts basketball team that season, as he redshirted the entire year. Nearly a year later, McLean is ready to take the Mullins Center court.

Matt McCall has yet to coach a single in-game minute for the Massachusetts basketball team, but he already has another recruit committed to UMass. Tre Wood announced via Twitter Friday that he would be joining McCall and the Minutemen following his graduation from St. John’s College High School in 2018.

Graduate transfer Jaylen Brantley’s basketball career has come to a disappointing end. UMass athletics announced that the recent transfer will miss all of the 2017-18 season with a “previously undiagnosed heart condition.”. Brantley was one of Matt McCall’s first recruits as coach of the Massachusetts basketball team in late April.

A 0-6 record is terrible, but that is where the Massachusetts Football team is at right now. A 58-50 loss to Ohio reads, on paper, like a high-scoring nail biter. While the game did have its moments of uncertainty, the final five minutes were soundly in the hands of the Bobcats. For every touchdown that UMass scored, Ohio came back and scored one with an equal amount of, if not more, ease.

According to running back Marquis Young, the Massachusetts football team doesn’t accept moral victories. To him, the Tennessee game was a heartbreaker, and one that dropped the Minutemen to 0-5. Despite the loss, there is no doubting that it was one of UMass’ best performances of the year. With Ohio (3-1) next on deck, the attitude in practice reflected the Minutemen’s near victory against the Volunteers.

Both Tennessee and the Massachusetts football team will enter Saturday’s game in Knoxville, Tennessee looking for redemption. The Volunteers hope to redeem the final seconds of their loss to Florida, a game that ended with a Gators Hail Mary. The University of Massachusetts is looking to redeem the entire start to its season.

Sometimes in order to a win a team just needs to catch a break. The Massachusetts football team never got that moment as Temple handed the Minutemen their fourth loss, beating UMass 29-21. They nearly caught one in the third quarter, when a Mike Jones’ fumble on the kick off was recovered by the Owls (2-1).

In the Massachusetts football team’s short week of practice in preparation for Friday’s game against Temple, Coach Mark Whipple says that he has already seen improvement in his offensive line. “The offensive line, I think, is disappointed in the way they played,” Whipple said. “It wasn’t a group; it was one guy missing every time.”.

We’ve talked about it a lot. The Massachusetts football team has been flat out bad in its first three games, resulting in a 0-3 start. The defense failed to hold a second half two-touchdown lead in the Minutemen’s first game against Hawaii. In their first Football Bowl Subdivision game, Coastal Carolina ran all over the UMass en route to a 38-28 win.