Minutemen Wrap up Regular Season at Home vs. Ohio Tuesday Night

University of Massachusetts Men's Basketball Notes & Information
Matchup	Massachusetts vs. Ohio
Date \| Times	Tuesday, March 3 \| 7:00 p.m.
Location	Amherst, Mass. \| Mullins Center
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AMHERST, MASS. - The Minutemen close out the regular season with a Tuesday contest against Ohio. Opening tipoff on March 3 is set for 7 p.m. The game will be streamed on ESPN+ with live updates and links available at umassathletics.com or @UMassMBB on X (Twitter).

This week for the Minutemen

The Matchup

Tuesday's matchup marks the fifth meeting all time with Massachusetts holding a 3-1 advantage after its 86-83 loss on Jan. 6.
Senior forward Daniel Hankins-Sanford led the team with 16 points and nine rebounds.

Last Time out

The Massachusetts men's basketball team (15-15, 6-11 MAC) staged a 17-0 first-half run to open a 14-point lead, but Bowling Green (17-14, 8-9 MAC) outscored the Minutemen 53-25 in the second half to pull away for the 81-62 win on Saturday afternoon.
Leonardo Bettiol led the offense with 24 points and nine rebounds while Dwayne Wimbley Jr. scored a career-high 10 points in his first-career start.
Bettiol shot 9-of-12 from the floor and 6-of-7 from the free throw line. Marcus Banks Jr. also scored 10 points, but shot just 4-of-15 from the floor.

SCOUTING THE BOBCATS

Ohio stands 15-14 on the season, 9-7 in the MAC following a 79-67 loss to Toledo on Saturday.
Jackson Paveletzke leads the Bobcats campaign with 16.5 points per game and dishing out 5.1 assists contest. The senior ranks fourth in the conference in assists.
Aidan Hadawy follows with 14.0 points while pacing the team in rebounds, pulling down 7.6 a game to sit fourth in the conference.
Javan Simmons is averaging 14.3 points over 28 games and averages 5.6 rebounds.

Year Four Under Coach Martin

Massachusetts basketball enters its fourth season under head coach Frank Martin in 2024-25.
Under Martin's leadership the Minutemen enjoyed their best campaign since 2014 last year, finishing the 2023-24 season with a 20-11 overall record and securing a top-four seed in the Atlantic 10 Championship
Martin ended the 2023-24 campaign ranked third in program history with a 35-27 record through his first two seasons with the Minutemen, sitting just below Bruiser Flint and Travis Ford.
Coach Martin started his time in Amherst by leading the Minutemen to their best record under a first-year head coach since 1996 and the Myrtle Beach Invitational title during the 2022-23 campaign
Martin holds a 350-262 (.576) collegiate coaching mark, picking up 171 of his wins in 10 seasons at South Carolina while recording 117 wins in five seasons at Kansas State.
Head coach Frank Martin picked up his 300th collegiate coaching win on Jan. 25, 2023 with a 85-76 win over Richmond.
Martin picked up his 350th collegiate coaching win on Feb. 3, 2026 with a 95-89 win over Central Michigan.

TIP-OFF TIDBITS

Dwayne Wimbley Jr. made his first-career start at Bowling Green Saturday and ended with a career-high 10 points on 5-of-9 shooting.
Danny Carbuccia needs four assists to move two spots on the program's all-times assists list in a season. He stands 10th with 190 while eighth place is Chris Lowe (2008-09) with 193.
Leonardo Bettiol scored 24 points at Bowling Green on 9-of-12 shooting, while adding nine rebounds, four assists and three steals. Over his two games against Bowling Green this season, Bettiol scored 56 points while adding 23 rebounds, shooting 20-of-25 from the floor.
Massachusetts' 17 MAC games have been decided by a combined 87 points or 5.12 points per contest, with all but one finishing with single-digit margins.
Nine of UMass' 17 MAC games have been decided by three points or less (UMass is 4-5 in those eight games).
On the season, UMass has played 11 games that have been decided by three points or fewer (5-6 in those 10 games), including the triple overtime thriller at Coastal Carolina (L, 94-91).
The Minutemen have now played in four overtime games this season, most recently falling to Ball State on the road, 74-73.
The Minutemen are averaging 8.3 made threes over their last six games.
In the game at Coastal, Daniel Hankins-Sanford pulled down a career-high 20 rebounds - the most rebounds in a game for a Minuteman since Jim Town had 27 against Boston College on Dec. 12, 1976.
It marked the 10th triple overtime game in program history and the first since last season's 120-118 win at Fordham (Jan. 15, 2025).
UMass head coach Frank Martin, who is in his fourth season at UMass and 19th overall as a head coach, has 350 career wins (including stints at Kansas State, South Carolina and UMass).
UMass' +5.0 rebounding margin ranks second in the MAC.
Massachusetts also ranks third in the MAC in offensive rebounds per game (12.0) and rebounds per game (37.37).
The Minutemen rank second in the MAC and 25th nationally by averaging 17.30 assists per game.
UMass features four players averaging double figures in points per game, including Leonardo Bettiol (17.8), Marcus Banks Jr. (16.4), Daniel Hankins-Sanford (11.6) and K'Jei Parker (11.2).
Bettiol and Banks Jr., rank sixth and ninth, respectively, in points per game in the MAC.
Bettiol is also shooting 60.1 percent from the field to rank first in the league and 21st nationally.
Bettiol is also averaging 8.0 rebounds per game to rank third in the MAC, while Hankins-Sanford ranks seventh (7.2).
In MAC games, Parker has hit 25 of 27 free throw attempts to rank first in the league (.926) if he had enough attempts to qualify.
Hankins-Sanford (9) and Bettiol (7) each have multiple double-doubles this season. Hankins-Sanford's nine double-doubles are the third most in the MAC while Bettiol's seven are fourth.

Up Next

The Minutemen have a bye in the following MAC Saturday of the season. Depending on results of this week's games, UMass hopes to advance to Cleveland for the MAC Tournament next week.

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