• Season: 2025-26
• Date: Saturday, November 8, 2025
• Opponent: Albany
• Start Time: 6:00 PM ET
• Site: Mullins Center
• Special Event: Non-conference game
• Television: none
• Stream: ESPN+
• Radio: WEEI 105.5 FM, WCRN 830 AM, Varsity (stream)
• Spread: UMass -9½¹⁾
• UM personnel report: Josh Engel was not dressed, no official report as to why

Leo Bettiol launches a shot. The Minuteman forward led all scorers with 23 points. Courtesy: J. Anthony Roberts / MassLive

• Result: UMass 83, Albany 62
• Attendance: 3025

• Game notes: UM
• Albany Times Union: Killings gives UAlbany a taste of home in trip to UMass

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

• UM: Massachusetts Secures 83-62 Win Over UAlbany
• Albany: Men's Basketball Drops Road Contest at UMass Behind Strong Performances from Kempson, Matulu
• Daily Hampshire Gazette: Bettiol’s big night leads UMass men’s basketball to first win of 2025-26 season
• MassLive: UMass men’s basketball rights the ship, takes down Albany for 1st win
• Mass. Daily Collegian: UMass cruises past Albany for first win of the season
• MDC: Defense holds up for UMass men’s basketball against Albany
• Minutemen Command: UMass Hoops Wins Comfortably Over Albany
• sMACk Talk: Bettiol Cooks up Scoring for the Minutemen to Earn Win Over the Great Danes
• Albany Times Union: UAlbany men's basketball falls to UMass

Note: Former Minuteman Tarique Foster started for Albany, played 20 minutes, tallying 3 points and 2 rebounds.

• Video: Game highlights
• Video clips: Bettiol gets the defender off his feet, Clerc to the rack, DHS in the post, Parker 3-ball, Brown left open
• Pressers: Frank, DHS and Bettiol
• Photos: MassLive
• Albany clips: Okeke flushes the long pass, Kempson throws it down, Ball movement pays off, Matulu drives in, Matulu on both ends
• Photos: Former Minutemen and current Albany coaches Dwayne Killings and Willie Jenkins

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