• Season: 2024-25
• Date: Saturday, December 31, 2024
• Opponent: Saint Joseph's
• Start Time: 2:00 PM ET
• Site: Hagan Arena, Philadelphia PA
• Special Event: Atlantic 10 conference game
• Television: none
• Stream: ESPN+
• Radio: WEEI (105.5 FM), WCRN (830 AM), Varsity Network App
• Spread: UM +10½¹⁾
• UM personnel report: No official report, but it appeared that Lewis Walker, Josh Engel and John Brigham did not make the trip

• Result: Saint Joe's 81, UMass 72
• Attendance: 2227

• Game notes: UM, SJU

See the UMassHoops.com Message Board thread for pre-game and post-game discussion.

• UM: Massachusetts Falls 72-81 To Saint Joseph’s In A-10 Opener
• SJU: Men's Basketball Claims A-10 Opener Against UMass
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: Despite career-high 33 points from Rahsool Diggins, Minutemen drop A-10 opener at Saint Joseph's
• Mass. Daily Collegian: UMass opens final season of A-10 play with loss to Saint Joseph’s
• MDC: Outside shooting woes continue for UMass

• UM video clips: Diggins starts feeling it early, Diggins to the rack, Diggins and-one, Shahid finishes the lob from Curry, trap defense turns into points, Diggins step-back mid-range, Curry feeds Rivera
• SJU video clips: Xzayvier Brown over Curry, Fleming posterizes Muhammad, other angles, fast assist, Reynolds corner 3, UM defensive lapse before the half, Reynolds step-back 3, second-chance points, Ajogbor dunk

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