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     The announcement that O'Connor will attend UMass-Amherst means that
     they will have a very interesting team next season.  They had already
     signed Dan Gaffney (D) and Brian Regan (G) who were sixth and tenth
     round picks, respectively.  In addition, I saw on Tony's summer league
     rosters that Dan Juden, another sixth round pick, would be attending
     UMass.  Not bad for a second year program.
 
     On the other hand, they must be almost out of scholarships for the
     next few years.  I remember seeing a quote last year from Mallen that
     he had given out 10 scholarships.  I thought that was strange given
     the extraordinarily late start (he wasn't hired until the spring).
     Now, in addition to the four above, he has signed several other
     recruits.  If most of this year's class is on scholarship he would be
     closing in on the maximum of 18.
 
     Then again, he did spend quite a few years at BC, so maybe that's not
     considered a problem :-)
 
     Jon