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Vermont vs. UMass-Lowell Predictions & Picks – America East Tournament

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March 14, 2024

Vermont vs. UMass-Lowell Predictions & Picks – America East Tournament

Saturday’s contest between the Vermont Catamounts (27-6, 15-1 America East) and UMass-Lowell River Hawks (22-9, 11-5 America East) matching up at Roy L. Patrick Gymnasium has a projected final score of 75-67 (based on our computer prediction) in favor of Vermont, who is listed as the favorite by our model. The game will tip off at 11:00 AM ET on March 16.

The matchup has no set line.

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Vermont vs. UMass-Lowell Game Info & Odds

Date: Saturday, March 16, 2024
Time: 11:00 AM ET
TV: ESPN2
Where: Burlington, Vermont
Venue: Roy L. Patrick Gymnasium

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Vermont vs. UMass-Lowell Score Prediction

Prediction:
Vermont 75, UMass-Lowell 67

Spread & Total Prediction for Vermont vs. UMass-Lowell

Computer Predicted Spread: Vermont (-8.2)
Computer Predicted Total: 142.3

Vermont’s record against the spread this season is 13-16-0, and UMass-Lowell’s is 11-13-0. The Catamounts have a 9-20-0 record going over the point total, while games involving the River Hawks have a record of 12-12-0 when it comes to hitting the over. Vermont is 5-5 against the spread and 10-0 overall over its last 10 contests, while UMass-Lowell has gone 3-7 against the spread and 7-3 overall.

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Vermont Performance Insights

The Catamounts’ +313 scoring differential (outscoring opponents by 9.5 points per game) is a result of scoring 72.5 points per game (214th in college basketball) while allowing 63 per outing (10th in college basketball).
Vermont records 35 rebounds per game (190th in college basketball) while allowing 33.5 per contest to its opponents. It outrebounds opponents by 1.5 boards per game.
Vermont hits 8.7 three-pointers per game (58th in college basketball), 2.2 more than its opponents (6.5). It is shooting 34.5% from beyond the arc (154th in college basketball) while allowing opponents to shoot 31.4%.
The Catamounts average 100.6 points per 100 possessions on offense (59th in college basketball), and give up 87.4 points per 100 possessions (41st in college basketball).
Vermont has committed 8.6 turnovers per game (10th in college basketball play) while forcing 9.5 (328th in college basketball).

UMass-Lowell Performance Insights

The River Hawks outscore opponents by 9.8 points per game (posting 80.6 points per game, 34th in college basketball, and allowing 70.8 per contest, 137th in college basketball) and have a +305 scoring differential.
UMass-Lowell ranks 10th in the country at 40.8 rebounds per game. That’s 7.4 more than the 33.4 its opponents average.
UMass-Lowell knocks down 5.9 three-pointers per game (317th in college basketball) compared to its opponents’ 6.2. It shoots 32.9% from deep, and its opponents shoot 28.6%.
UMass-Lowell has committed 1.5 more turnovers than its opponents, averaging 12.9 (322nd in college basketball) while forcing 11.4 (160th in college basketball).

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Vermont Sports Hall of Fame adds two members to 2026 induction class

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March 26, 2026

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Vermont Sports Hall of Fame adds two members to 2026 induction class

An international ambassador for tennis from South Burlington and a three-sport captain at Burlington High School and the University of Vermont more than 100 years ago are the final members for the 2026 Vermont Sports Hall of Fame banquet, the organization announced in a news release on Thursday, March 26.

Jake Agna, the former legendary tennis coach at South Burlington High School, is the 2026 David Hakins inductee, which honors an individual or a group or organization for exceptional promotion of sports, athletics and recreation in the state. Fenwick Watkins, a pioneer and exceptional athlete and coach who helped break color barriers in sports in the early 1900s, has been named the hall’s historic inductee.

Agna and Watkins join 10 other members previously announced this year who will officially be enshrined during a celebration banquet at the Delta Marriott Burlington Hotel on 1117 Williston Road in South Burlington on Saturday, April 25.

The dinner begins with a reception at 5:30 p.m. followed by the induction ceremony. To purchase tickets to the 2026 event, visit the VSHOF website at vermontsportshall.com. The cost is $95 per plate with part of the proceeds going to Prevent Child Abuse Vermont, the longtime designated charity for VSHOF.

Over 38 years coaching girls tennis at South Burlington, Agana compiled a 489-95 record with eight perfect seasons, 16 Division I titles and 13 runner-up trophies before stepping down prior to the 2023 season.

Agna is also founded Kids on the Ball in 2000, which is designed to teach children life lessons such as relationships and respect by learning the game of tennis. He has led 31 trips to Cuba to help expand the sport. His tennis programs reach out to over 200 kids each day in school and after school programs.

Agna’s work to help resurface 10 courts and renovation of the National Tennis Center in Cuba in 2017 was recognized by the Tennis Channel.

Watkins was a three-sport star in football, basketball, baseball at Burlington before graduating in 1905. At UVM, he is believed to be the first Black captain of a non-historical Black college or university sport and was captain for all three sports at both BHS and UVM, according to VSHOF.

After UVM, Watkins went on to become a high school and college head coach in North Dakota at Concordia College (football) and what is now known as North Dakota State (baseball and football). He died in 1943.

The previous winners for the Hakins award are: Barry Stone (2024); Thomas Dunkley (2023); Ted Ryan (2022); Cochran’s Ski Area, Mickey & Ginny Cochran (2020); Mal Boright (2019); Helmut Lenes (2017); Ernie Farrar (2015); Tom Curley (2014) and Ray Pecor (2013).

The previous historic winners include: Leo Papineau, St. Michael’s College, athlete, coach and official (2025); Clarence Demar, South Hero, distance running, (2017); Fred Harris, Brattleboro, outdoors/ski jumping, (2015); James Taylor, Windsor, outdoors, (2014); and Charles Adams, Newport, National Hockey League, (2013).

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See the Brattleboro student who won the Poetry Out Loud state finals

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March 26, 2026

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See the Brattleboro student who won the Poetry Out Loud state finals

Beth McDermott
| Reporter assisted by AI

Eason DeMarsico-Thorne, a student at Brattleboro Union High School, won the 2026 Poetry Out Loud State Finals, held the Flynn on March 5, according to a community announcement.

DeMarsico-Thorne will represent Vermont at the national competition at the end of April in the nation’s capital. Gretchen Wertlieb of South Burlington High School was the runner-up, and Aiva Reed of Windsor High School placed third.

The state finals featured 10 students who recited poems over three rounds. The top three, with the highest cumulative scores after the first two rounds, advanced to the final round.

DeMarsico-Thorne recited “Fruit of the Flower” by Countee Cullen, “I Shall Return” by Claude Mckay and “A Southern Road” by Helene Johnson.

Wertlieb recited “To a Young Dancing Girl” by Elsa Gidlow, “Thoughts in Jail” by Katharine Rolston Fisher and “I shall forget you presently, my dear” (Sonnet IV), by Edna St. Vincent Millay.

Reed recited “Why We Oppose Women Travelling in Railway Trains” by Alice Duer Miller, “Militants to Certain Other Women” by Katharine Rolston Fisher and “If I Had Known” by Alice Moore Dunbar-Nelson.

The other finalists were Phoebe Gresham from Mount Mansfield Union High School, Ranee Hall from Thetford Academy, Marcus Burns from St. Johnsbury Academy, Taylor Daleb from Peoples Academy, Moya Thayer from Burlington High School, Theo Novak from Champlain Valley Union High School and Patrick Tester from Lyndon Institute.

Eighteen schools across Vermont registered to bring the national Poetry Out Loud program to their classrooms for the 2025-26 school year, reaching 2,000 students with about 60 teachers participating, according to the announcement. Fifteen students were selected by their teachers as school champions and participated in the statewide semifinals, held on Feb. 12 at the Barre Opera House.

DeMarsico-Thorne received $200 and advances to the national finals, where $50,000 in awards and school stipends are distributed. The state champion’s school receives $500 for the purchase of poetry materials. Wertlieb received $100, with $200 for her school.

Poetry Out Loud is supported by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Vermont Arts Council. Since the program began in 2005, more than 4 million students across the country have participated. The Poetry Foundation provides and administers the monetary prizes.

For more information about Vermont Poetry Out Loud, visit flynnvt.org/Education/poetry-out-loud.

This story was created with the assistance of Artificial Intelligence (AI). Journalists were involved in every step of the information gathering, review, editing and publishing process. Learn more at cm.usatoday.com/ethical-conduct.

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