UMass Lowell River Hawks

When the River Hawks were favored in 2025-26 they won 8 of 10 and covered 7; as underdogs they won 4 of 20. The price told you which UMass Lowell team was walking in.

Two teams, split by the price

UMass Lowell went 15-18. Watch the line before anything else. Favored 10 times, the River Hawks went 8-2 and covered 7, a 70% rate that only 17 Division I teams beat and five matched. Getting points 20 times, they won 4 and covered 9.

The money followed. One unit on them as favorites returned 2.4 units. As underdogs, across the 17 games with a price, it lost 7.86. Over the 27 priced games the total came to 5.46 units down; six more went off with no moneyline.

Home and the road

At home they were 10-4 and covered 7 of 11. Away they were 5-14. The worst night came at home in the second game of the year: a 73-67 loss to New Haven at -750 on 10 November, in a month they finished 3-6. February was the turn against the number: 4-3, with five covers in seven, the best month of their season on the spread.

Albany yes, UMBC no

Two conference rivals tell you most of what you need. Albany lost all three meetings and UMass Lowell covered all three, the last an 81-76 win in the America East quarterfinal on 7 March. The February win at Albany came at +160. UMBC went the other way, three wins in three, three covers, and ended the River Hawks’ season 91-69 in the semifinal. NJIT won both meetings, one of them at Lowell with UMass Lowell priced at -410.

The total

Sixteen unders and 14 overs: no lean worth betting. UMass Lowell scored 74.88 points a game and gave up 76.3, so the River Hawks were outscored over the season by about a point and a half a night.

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