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Great second half. Beat Northeastern and they own the state this year.

I agree Berky, I don’t like the all black uniforms either. Men’s team had ones under Cal that had maroon or red trim that were nice but those all black were horrible.


Disagree -- I like the black uniforms. When they won the ...

Old Cage wrote: Tue Nov 18, 2025 8:44 pm 12 played for us tonight and 11 scored. With those stats, we know for certain that Tory Verdi was not coaching.

A Tory Verdi led Pitt lost to D3 Scranton in an exhibition game......

Aside from the Old Dominion game already announced, first home game announced!

UMass Lowell will be coming to Amherst on November 18th

Dallas Pierce to Siena
Kasey Bretones to Marist

Thanks for the context. It makes me wonder why the WNIT bracket is 48 teams. If it's that hard to find quality participants, why not trim it to 32 teams like the men's NIT?


There is probably an entry fee for the tournament, so the organizers can stay in business. From a coaches perspective, a ...

WNIT usually does matchups regionally. Looking at the field, I think that would mean Siena, Bryant and Stonehill are the most likely to be matched up with us. UMass has a better NET ranking than all of them, so perhaps we host? We will find out today.

Looking at the field, nobody really has a ...

Season is not over! No need to start posting on 2025-26!

UMass is headed to the WNIT!

Well, just did some digging. The WBIT is actually NCAA backed, seems like that is the 2nd tournament with WNIT 3rd. No longer a WBI I guess.

Didn't pay too much attention last year because there was no chance for a bid for UMass at any of them.

Are we confident that the season is done? 68 team ...

any talk of a WBIT invite?

Agree on this team being fun to watch.

There is a chance the A10 is a two-bid league this year. Likely if someone other than Richmond wins the tournament. Assuming it is not UMass, I think if UMass can win out and win at least one in Richmond, a WNIT bid is not out of the question.

I agree with some of the comments here, especially with not being able to put the pieces together all the time. Some of the games are easier to watch than others. I also remember just how much stability we had in the last couple of years with Tory on the roster and most of them had years of ...

^ I think that expectations should go beyond getting good players!!

Getting them to play and develop here will lead to wins and I think that is what a coach actually is paid to do😁


Agree, but with the transfer rules, I think there needs to be some sort of realism here. I was just saying that ...

First, congrats to Lilly Taulelei for going to the Big 12 with Iowa State. While that is a big loss for us, it does show that Mike can find some talent. Really hard to put together a team from the portal and no starters.

I am not concerned too much about the exodus from last year besides Taulelei ...

This team is way better and has more potential than any Sharon Dawley team, even including the ones with Cierra Dillard

It has been easy to be down on this team this year. That said, Tory's first year was 9-21 overall, 3-13 in conference. That was with only 5 basketball players + Megan Burke from the soccer team. I do think there are ways to get more than 3 conference wins.