• Season: 2025-26
• Date: Monday, November 3, 2025
• Opponent: Marshall
• Start Time: 7:00 PM ET
• Site: Mullins Center
• Special Event: Season opener, MAC - Sun Belt Challenge game¹⁾²⁾
• Television: none
• Stream: ESPN+
• Radio: WEEI 105.5 FM, WCRN 830 AM, Varsity (stream)
• Spread: UMass -4½³⁾
• UM personnel report: Josh Engel was not dressed, no official report as to why

Coach Frank Martin expresses his displeasure with a play. Courtesy: J. Anthony Roberts / MassLive

• Result: Marshall 78, UMass 72
• Attendance: 2256

• Game notes: UM, MU

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

• UM: Minutemen Fall 78-72 to Marshall in Season Opener
• MU: Herd Men’s Basketball Opens Season with Win at UMass
• Berkshire Eagle: UMass men’s basketball falls in first game of 2025-26 season in 78-72 loss to Marshall
• MassLive: Poor shooting plagues UMass men’s basketball in season-opening loss to Marshall
• Mass. Daily Collegian: UMass comes up short against Marshall in season opener
• MDC: UMass blinded by screens in loss to Marshall
• MDC: Wendel: Who’s No. 2?
• Minuteman Command: UMass Hoops Drops Opener Vs. Marshall
• sMACk Talk: Missed Free Throws by the Minutemen Lead to Thundering Herd Gaining First Win of the Season
• Herald-Dispatch (Huntington WV): Frick sets career high in Herd's opening win over UMass

• Video clips: DHS gets the scoring started, Bettiol finds a cutting Banks, Banks 3-ball, Bettiol and-one, Placide 3-ball, Banks step-back, DHS converts the feed from Carbuccia
• Highlight reel: Banks' 18-point night
• Marshall clips: Bad UM pass and a Van Komen slam, Otshudi over Carbuccia, Hollenbeck from Gloucester, Alley-oop, another
• Photo gallery: MassLive
• Press conferences: Frank, Banks & Ndjigue

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