• Season: 2024-25
• Date: Wednesday, January 15, 2025
• Opponent: Fordham
• Start Time: 7:00 PM ET
• Site: Rose Hill Gym, Bronx NY
• Special Event: Atlantic 10 conference game
• Television: SNY (tape delayed later)
• Stream: SNY, ESPN+
• Radio: WEEI (105.5 FM), WCRN (830 AM), Varsity Network App
• Spread: UMass +½¹⁾
• UM personnel report: Lewis Walker, Josh Engel and John Brigham were on the bench but not dressed. No official report as to why.

• Result: UMass 120, Fordham 118 (3OT)
• Attendance: 1781

• Game notes: UM, Fordham

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

• UM: UMass Wins Triple Overtime Thriller Behind Record-Setting Diggins Performance
• Fordham: Men’s Basketball Outgunned by UMass, 120-118, in Triple Overtime
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: Minutemen defeat Fordham in triple-overtime thriller, 120-118
• Mass. Daily Collegian: UMass wins in triple overtime thriller against Fordham
• MDC: Diggins leads UMass with a historic performance against Fordham
• A10 Talk: Rahsool Diggins Puts on a Masterclass in Scoring in a Triple-Overtime Thriller Against Fordham
• A10 Talk: Anatomy of a Thriller: The Story of UMass’ 3OT Win Over Fordham
• ESPN: Diggins, UMass rewrite record books in 3OT win vs. Fordham (with ESPN+ highlights)
• NCAA: 17 unreal stats from a triple-overtime thriller between UMass and Fordham
• NY Post: Fordham-UMass game broke so many records and had insane moments on Rose Hill’s 100-year anniversary
• Barstool: Fordham/UMass Played The Most Bizarre Game Of The Year - Led By Rahsool Diggins Puking His Brains Out Mid-Game Before Setting The UMass Scoring Record
• Essentially Sports: 122 Free Throw Attempts Make Officiating a Talking Point of College Basketball Game Once Again
• UMass, retrospective 3/7/25: Reliving Rahsool Diggins and UMass Men’s Basketball’s Historic Triple Overtime Thriller

NCAA records and notes:

• 122 free throw attempts were the most in a Division I game since 1996-97²⁾
• 79 personal fouls were the most in a D-I game since 2017³⁾

Atlantic 10 records:

• Rahsool Diggins' 46 points tied for eighth-most in a single game in A10 history.⁴⁾ (The A10 record is 51, by Rutgers' Eric Riggins, 2/21/1987 vs Penn State)⁵⁾

UMass records and notes:

• Rahsool Diggins set a new program single-game scoring record with his 46 points, surpassing the 44 points by Luwane Pipkins on 1/10/2018.⁶⁾
• UM's 120 points tied the single-game high in program history. Previously done twice: home vs Vermont on 2/15/1964 and home vs Vermont on 1/8/1965.
• UM's 120 points set a new single-game high in a game away from home, either neutral site or true visiting game. Previous: 114 in a triple-overtime game at Rutgers on 2/27/1988.
• Daniel Rivera's 29 points matched his career high. Previous was with Bryant, at UMass-Lowell on 2/29/2024.
• Marqui Worthy, a .122 career 3-point shooter coming into the game, saved the Minutemen by hitting a 3 with 7 seconds left in regulation.
• Akil Watson, a .500 free throw shooter this season coming into the game, forced OT3 with a made free throw with 11 seconds left in OT2, and Fordham missed their chance to win on the other end.
• UMass only assisted on 12 of our 36 makes (33% rate). UM's season average prior to this game: 52%.⁷⁾
• Diggins and Rivera combined to score 75 of the 83 points from our starting lineup (Curry 6, Ndjigue 2, Abdelgowad 0).

UM's first…

• Multi-OT game since 12/30/2020, a 2OT home loss to George Mason
• Multi-OT win since 2/3/2018, a 2OT win over Dayton
• Triple-OT game and win since 1/8/2005 over Xavier

Diggins surpassed Julius Erving as top visiting scorer in Rose Hill history.

Fordham records and notes:

• Diggins' 46 points set the new visiting player single-game scoring record in Rose Hill Gym. He surpassed Julius Erving and his 37 points on 1/21/1970.⁸⁾⁹⁾
• Diggins' 46 matched the single-game scoring mark for any player in Rose Hill Gym, tying Ken Charles' 46 versus Saint Peter's on 1/20/1973.¹⁰⁾
• Fordham's 118 points were the most scored by the Rams in the Rose Hill Gym and the fourth most overall (school record is 128 at Rochester in 1970).¹¹⁾
• UM's 120 points was the most ever allowed by Fordham. Previous: 114, at home vs Boston College 2/4/1978¹²⁾
• The combined 238 points were the most-ever in a game with Fordham. Previous: 232, Fordham 119, GW 113 (3OT, 1/3/24)¹³⁾
• 48 free throws made were a new Fordham record, 9 over the previous 39¹⁴⁾
• 65 free throw attempts were a new Fordham record, 19 over the previous¹⁵⁾
• Romad Dean, who was fouled attempting a game-tying 3 with less than a second remaining in OT1, made all three free throws to force OT2. Those were Dean's only FTAs of the night, and he came into the game as a career .631 FT shooter. Video: Dean's third of three FTs
• Dean single-handedly helped Fordham force OT2. He hit a 3 with 3 seconds to go in OT1, then the three free throws. The 6 points were the only points he scored all night, in 38 minutes of action.
• Jackie Johnson III scored a career high 36 points.¹⁶⁾ Japhet Medor notched a new high in his time with Fordham, with 25 points.¹⁷⁾

Mock ticket and a game cover program for Rose Hill's 100th anniversary. Courtesy: @MLBergman_

General game notes:

• Game time: 3 hours, 40 minutes¹⁸⁾
• Combined field goal attempts: 169 (Fordham 85, UMass 84)
• Combined rebounds: 119 (UMass 61, Fordham 58). UM's 61 still wasn't even close to their program record of 81 in a regulation win over St. Michael's on 12/29/1970.
• Nine combined players fouled out, but that was well short of an NCAA record (12)¹⁹⁾
• Officials: Wally Rutecki, Justin Porterfield, Eric Lewis²⁰⁾

• Photo gallery (Fordham)
• Highlights (UMass)
• Highlight pack (ESPN+)
• Highlight clips from ESPN+
• Audio: Jay Burnham's call as UM finally wins it
• Audio: WFUV (Fordham radio) broadcast recording. The moment Diggins lost it on the court
• UM video clips: Minute 1 of 220, Diggins foreshadows by opening up the scoring, Malek dishes to Ndjigue, Diggins drives and scores, Watson gets some second chance points, Diggins another 3, Diggins swats away the attempt, Diggins' step-back falls, Diggins from the corner, Worthy ties it near the end of regulation, alt angle on Worthy's three, Daniel Rivera fouls the shooter at the end of OT1, Courtside camera catches Diggins saying "Why?" to Rivera after the foul, Worthy takes it in strong, Rivera ties it up at 118, alt angle on Rivera's tying shot, Rivera goes in strong for the game-winner, Minutemen mob Diggins as he goes to the post-game radio interview
• Fordham video clips: Medor splits the defense, Zona buries a 3, Medor hits from the corner, Tripp puts Fordham up 4 late in the second half, Johnson goes left, Johnson frees up on the screen and hits, UM fouls the shooter again, Riley puts Fordham up late in 2OT, Johnson puts Fordham up 5 in the third OT
• Video: Compilation of Diggins' big night
• Video: Compilation from the fan's point of view
• Video: Compilation of all 79 fouls called
• Audio: A-10 Talk discusses the game with NBC Sports' (and UM alum) Mike Corey

Although technically one day early, Fordham celebrated Rose Hill Gym's 100th anniversary during this game. Report from NBC New York.

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Diggins scoring by period

H1  H2  OT1  OT2  OT3  Total
 8  20   12    1    5     46

Diggins scored 12 of UM's 19 points in the first overtime.