======Western Carolina======
  * [[https://catamountsports.com/sports/mens-basketball|Team website]]
  * Twitter: [[https://twitter.com/WCU_MBB|@WCU_MBB]], [[https://twitter.com/Catamounts|@Catamounts]]
  * [[wp>Western Carolina Catamounts men's basketball|Wikipedia team entry]]
  * [[http://www.catamountsports.com|Athletics website]]
  * [[http://www.wcu.edu/|School website]]
  * [[wp>Western_Carolina_University|Wikipedia school entry]]
  * Location: Cullowhee, NC

===== Series =====
  * UMass leads 1-0 (1.000)
  * First meeting: 11/21/2017, UMass 85 - Western Carolina 76
  
===== Game History =====
^ ^^^^^  Opponent  ^^^
^Date^Game Results^Site^UM Coach^Game Notes^Conference^Head Coach^Nickname^
|11/21/2017|@#ddffdd:[[http://umassathletics.com/news/2017/11/21/mens-basketball-pair-of-scoring-runs-lead-umass-to-win-over-western-carolina-85-76.aspx|W 85-76]]|[[mullins_center|Home (MC)]]|[[mccall_matt|Matt McCall]]|[[wp>Barclays Center Classic|Barclays Center Classic]]. Campus site game.  UM sleepwalks thru parts, but also goes on runs of 14-0 and 11-0, and WCU doesn't have enough to recover. Pipkins dishes 10 assists for the double-double. Hines scores 11 for the near-double-double. Pierre scores 15. Holloway limited to 11 minutes with foul trouble.|[[wp>Southern Conference|SoCon]]|[[wp>Larry Hunter|Larry Hunter]]|Catamounts|

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