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One year later: UMass athletes, coaches reflect on pandemic’s onset Carl Pierre and the UMass mens basketball team warmed up on the Barclays Center floor last March before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the rest of the 2020 Atlantic 10 Championships. CHRIS TUCCI/UMASS ATHLETICS Hampshire Regional grad Katelyn Pickunka returned to the basketball floor for Smith College last week for a one on one workout, the first team activity since last season’s NCAA Tournament was canceled. The Pioneers d...

Matt McCall didn’t even make it out of the Barclays Center tunnel at last year’s Atlantic 10 Championships.UMass Director of Basketball Operations Brian Grossman had just told him the Big 12 and SEC had canceled their conference tournaments. Some...

One year later: UMass athletes, coaches reflect on pandemic’s onset Carl Pierre and the UMass mens basketball team warmed up on the Barclays Center floor last March before the COVID-19 pandemic canceled the rest of the 2020 Atlantic 10 Championships. CHRIS TUCCI/UMASS ATHLETICS Hampshire Regional grad Katelyn Pickunka returned to the basketball floor for Smith College last week for a one on one workout, the first team activity since last season’s NCAA Tournament was canceled. The Pioneers d...