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Senior Night Saturday As Men's Hoops Hosts Duquesne
March 02, 2018 | Men's Basketball
Tip-off set for 8 PM on Eleven Sports/NESN Plus
AMHERST, Mass. - It's Senior Day at the Mullins Center as the UMass basketball team hosts its final home game of the regular season against visiting Duquesne. Tip-off is set for 8 PM with the game being televised on Eleven Sports and simulcast in New England on NESN Plus.
Jay Alter (play-by-play) and Mo Cassara (analyst) will call the action for Eleven Sports. The game will be streamed outside of the region on the Atlantic 10 Digital Network, while those in the market can watch online via www.NESNGo.com or the NESN Go app. Eleven Sports can be viewed on DIRECTV channel 623, Verizon Fios channel 597, AT&T U-verse channel 1665 and on Fubo.tv and PlayStation Vue.Â
On the radio airwaves, the game will be broadcast on the UMass Sports Network anchored by flagship station 105.5 FM WEEI and online via the TuneIn App. Voice of the Minutemen Josh Maurer will be joined courtside by former Minuteman Tim Collins.
UMass is currently tied with Fordham for 13th in the A-10 standings with a 4-13 league record. Duquesne is in a four-way tie for ninth place entering the weekend. The Dukes are tied with George Washington, Dayton and La Salle. The results of those four teams this weekend will determine who UMass will face next Wednesday in the opening round of the Atlantic 10 Championship in Washington, D.C.
UMass holds a 39-26 record in the all-time series that began in 1975. UMass is 21-7 overall at home (Amherst & Springfield). UMass has won five of the last six meetings overall.
The Minutemen are coming off a tough loss Wednesday night at Richmond. C.J. Anderson led UMass with 22 points, just one shy of his career record, as the senior continues his strong play of late. Luwane Pipkins returned to the line-up after missing the George Mason game notching 14 points, while Carl Pierre scored 11 in the loss.
Pipkins remains ninth all-time for career three-pointers made (167) and moved into a tie for third for single-season threes (96), while Pierre moved into 11th with 85 three-pointers extending his UMass freshman record.Â
On the season, UMass continues to be led by Pipkins who is averaging 21.2 points followed by Pierre who is posting 12.2 points in his rookie campaign. The lone senior on the roster, Anderson, has been one of the most well-rounded players on the squad with 10.2 points, 5.0 assists and 5.0 rebounds per game. Over the last eight games, Anderson has been scoring at a clip of 15.8 points while averaging 5.0 assists and 5.5 rebounds.
After averaging 23.4 points per game in January, Pipkins ranks second in the A-10 for scoring average this season and is 24th nationally. His 44 points against La Salle set a new UMass school record, a Mullins Center record, was the 10-best performance in A-10 history and was the sixth-best individual performance in the NCAA this season. Defensively, the Chicago native is 8th overall in steals per game (1.55). Offensively, the guard has improved from 2016-17 to this season by +11.0 points per game - the best of any Minuteman this year. Pipkins is looking to become the sixth player in program history to average 20-plus points for a season - a list which includes Julius Erving, Jim McCoy and Marcus Camby.
Anderson ranks fifth among the league's best in assists as well with 5.0 per game while his 144 assists are third-most overall.
Pierre ranks second in the A-10 for three-point field goal percentage (46.7%) and is the nation's most accurate three-point shooting freshman. Overall, the Boston native ranks 8th nationally in three-point field goal percentage. He currently holds the third-best single-season shooting percentage in school history from beyond the arc. With 85 made threes, he broke the previous UMass freshman record shared by Pipkins and Anthony Anderson (2001-02).
For complete coverage of the UMass men's basketball team, follow the Minutemen on Twitter, Instagram and Facebook at @UMassBasketball and online at www.UMassAthletics.com.
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