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ESPN.com: 'What I can't wait to see: Atlantic 10'

ESPN.com: 'What I can't wait to see: Atlantic 10'

By Brian Henry on October 15, 2012 12:20 PM | No TrackBacks
ESPN.com writer Dana O'Neil offered some notes and questions about the Atlantic 10 basketball season. You can read the entire piece here.

Here's an excerpt from the article on UMass...

Is this the breakthrough year UMass fans have been waiting for? Since Derek Kellogg returned to his alma mater in 2008, folks have been waiting for the glory years he enjoyed as a player to return to Amherst. Of course that would be a rather tall and ridiculous order, considering Kellogg went to the NCAA tournament four years in a row, including the Elite Eight, and won four consecutive Atlantic-10 regular season and tournament titles as a player.
But this could at least be the year the Minutemen return to NCAA tournament relevance.

UMass rolled to the NIT semifinals last season, riding on the coattails of guard Chaz Williams. The Hofstra transfer averaged 16.4 points and 6.4 assists per game and is exactly the sort of bona fide star you can build something special around.

If Williams picks up where he left off (he upped his scoring numbers through the NIT to 21.8), UMass might see itself on the big ticket for the first time since 1998.

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