• Season: 2025-26
• Date: Sunday, October 19, 2025
• Opponent: Brown
• Start Time: 4:00 PM ET
• Site: Pizzitola Sports Center, Providence RI
• Special Event: Exhibition
• Television: none
• Stream: none
• Radio: Brown broadcast
• Spread: N/A (exhibition)
• UM personnel report: No reports of injuries

• Result: UMass 92, Brown 74
• Attendance: N/A

• Game notes: UM, Brown

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Massachusetts Claims Convincing 92-74 Win Over Brown In Exhibition Action
From UMass Athletics, 10/19/2025¹⁾

PROVIDENCE, R.I. – Massachusetts basketball claimed a convincing 92-74 win over Brown in exhibition action on Sunday evening at Pizzitola Sports Center. The Minutemen had five players score in double figures and shot 51.9 percent from 3-point range as a team.

Marcus Banks Jr. led the way for the Minutemen in their first dress rehearsal of the season, scoring 24 points while shooting a perfect 7-of-7 from deep. The graduate student also tallied two steals and two assists on the evening.

Senior Daniel Hankins-Sanford was productive, totaling 12 points on 4-of-7 shooting from the field. Leonardo Bettiol, Danny Carbuccia and K'Jei Parker each tallied 10 points, shooting a combined 46.4 percent as a group. Carbuccia recorded a team-high five assists in his collegiate debut.

Dimitri Clerc totaled six points and a team-high two blocks on 16 minutes of action.

The Bears were led by Adrian Uchidiuno who scored 16 points on 5-of-10 shooting from the field.

Breaking Down The Action

• Massachusetts opened the scoring as Daniel Hankins-Sanford sunk a layup 57 seconds into the first half.
• Malcolm Wrisby-Jefferson responded quickly for the Bears finding the basket to make it 2-2 with 19:11 remaining.
• A pair of 3-pointers from Marcus Banks Jr. and Hankins-Sanford powered a 12-5 Massachusetts run over the next 4:13 to give the Minutemen a 14-7 lead.
• Brown responded with an 11-3 run of their own, capped by a three-pointer from Adrian Uchidiuno to give the bears a 18-16 advantage with 10:17 left in the first half.
• K'Jei Parker and Wrisby-Jefferson traded baskets to tie the game at 20-20 with 9:00 on the clock.
• The Bears reclaimed the lead, going on a 9-2 run to make the score 27-22 with 5:54 to play in the first half.
• Jeremiah Jenkins sunk a three-pointer with 3:20 on the clock to extend the Brown lead to 34-27.
• A pair of free throws from Uchidiuno gave Brown a 36-28 advantage, its largest lead of the night.
• Donovan Brown hit a mid-range jumper to send Massachusetts into the halftime break with the score 38-33 in favor of Brown.
• Banks Jr. capped a 7-2 Massachusetts run with a four-point play to tie the game at 40-40 just 1:27 into the second half.
• Seven points from Banks Jr. and Leonardo Bettiol sparked an 11-5 run over the next 3:35 to give Massachusetts a 51-45 lead, one which it would never relinquish.
• Danny Carbuccia scored eight unanswered points to provide Massachusetts with its first double-digit lead, 59-47, with 13:03 left in the second half.
• The Bears used 10 points from Jenkins and Uchidiuno to fuel a 12-3 run that cut the Massachusetts lead to 66-59 with 8:42 remaining.
• Banks Jr. hit three consecutive shots from deep to extend the Massachusetts advantage back out to 77-64 with 5:08 on the clock.
• Isaiah Placide scored five points in the final 58 seconds to give Massachusetts its largest lead of the night, 92-71, with 22 seconds remaining.
• Jonah Drezner made the game's final basket, making the score 92-74 in favor of the Minutemen.

Newcomer Notifications

• 10 newcomers saw action on the evening, with Marcus Banks Jr., Leonardo Bettiol and K'Jei Parker entering as starters.
• Banks Jr. led all scorers with 24 points on 7-of-9 shooting from the field
• Bettiol played a team-high 26 minutes, scoring 10 points on 5-of-11 shooting from the field
• Parker and freshman Danny Carbuccia each scored 10 points from the point guard position, shooting a combined 8-of-17 from the field.
• Freshman Dwayne Wimbley Jr. played 19 minutes, totaling five points and three rebounds.

Numbers To Know

• 5: Five Minutemen reached double figures on the night: Banks Jr. (24), Hankins-Sanford (12), Brown (10), Carbuccia (10) and Parker (10).
• 5: Damjanac led the squad in rebounds; nabbing five
• 6: The two teams traded leads six times.
• 10: UMass won the turnover battle, holding a 15-10 advantage over Brown.
• 14: Massachusetts hit 14 3-pointers, shooting 51.9 percent.
• 20: The Minutemen tallied 20 assists on the night.

Up Next
The Minutemen host Rhode Island College on Saturday, Oct. 25 at 1 p.m. for their final dress rehearsal at the Mullins Center. Admission will be free and open to all spectators with live updates and links available at umassathletics.com or @UMassMBB on X (Twitter).

• Brown: Men’s Basketball Falls to UMass in Exhibition on Sunday
• Mass. Daily Collegian: UMass men’s basketball begins 2025 with exhibition victory over Brown
• MDC: What we learned from UMass men’s basketball’s first exhibition

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