• Season: 2025-26
• Date: Saturday, February 7, 2026
• Opponent: Coastal Carolina
• Start Time: 1:00 PM ET
• Site: HTC Center, Conway SC
• Event: MAC - Sun Belt Challenge game¹⁾²⁾
• Television: none
• Stream: ESPN+
• Radio: WEEI 105.5 FM, WCRN 830 AM, Varsity (stream)
• Spread: UMass -2½³⁾
• UM personnel report: Josh Engel was not dressed, no official report as to why.

K'Jei Parker had a career high 31 points, shooting .667 (12-18) from the field while the rest of UM shot .354

• Result: Coastal Carolina 94, UMass 91 (3OT)
• Attendance: 1924

• Game notes: UM, CCU

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

• UM: UMass Drops Triple Overtime Thriller At Coastal Carolina, 94-91
• CCU: Beadle’s Three Lifts Coastal Past UMass In Triple Overtime
• Mass. Daily Collegian: UMass falls to Coastal Carolina in triple overtime stunner
• MDC: K’Jei Parker erupts for career-high in overtime thriller
• MDC: No moment too big for UMass on the glass Saturday
• Minuteman Command: UMass Falls To Coastal Carolina In Triple-OT Thriller
• sMACk Talk: Career Days from Hankins-Sanford and Parker Not Enough to Hold Off Chanticleers in Thriller

• This was UM's second consecutive season with a triple-OT game. UM came out on top at Fordham last season.
• Daniel Hankins-Sanford snared 20 rebounds, the most from a Minuteman since the 27 by Jim Town against Boston College on 12/12/1976.⁴⁾

• ESPN video: Highlight pack, SVP narrates the craziness
• Video: Compilation of clutch 3s
• UM video clips: Parker starts hot, Parker 6-6 early, Banks finds Bettiol, Parker's first half, Banks floater, Parker in rhythm, Parker forces OT, Banks makes it look easy to force OT3
• Coastal video clips: DHS fouls the 3 shooter, Steal and score, Craig for 3, Dancler step-back, Dancler ties it up in OT, Dancler's circus shot forces OT #2, Dancler talks about that shot in the presser, Beadle from deep, Jones in OT3, Dancler again, Beadle's winner, alt angle on Beadle's winner, broadcaster's call, Beadle on his winner in the presser, Locker room celebration
• CCU presser

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