The UMass Lowell women's basketball schedule has not been updated on the school's website, but we've got you covered.

Some of the dates you want to keep an eye out for are:

November 13 and 14. UML opens the season in Springfield at American International College as part of an AIC tip-off tournament. The first game will be against CW Post, and the second game will be against Bloomfield.

November 17. UML's first home game. The River Hawks host St. Michael's.

December 11. UML plays Merrimack in the Tsongas Center.

January 2. Stonehill visits Costello Gymnasium. Local fans will get a chance to see former Sun Player of the Year and Westford Academy standout Asia Ewing back in the area with the Skyhawks.

The UMass Lowell women's basketball team just got a lot bigger. The River Hawks welcome four transfer students for this upcoming season. Heading up the group are former Lowell High School standouts Brianna and Whitney Wilson.

The Wilson sisters, they are twins, transfer after playing their freshman year at Salem State College. They were part of the most successful class (by win total) produced by Lowell High girls program.

Brianna, a 6-foot-4 former Sun Player of the Year, earned Second Team All Conference in the Mass. State College Athletic Conference as a freshman last year. She started 25 of 26 games, and she ranked second on the team in scoring (10.7 points per game) and tied for the team lead in rebounding (7.3 rebounds per game).

Whitney, a 6-foot-3 former Sun All-Star, played in 25 games at Salem State. She averaged 6.1 points and 4.7 rebounds in a little more than 17 minutes per game as a freshman.

"We are excited to have a couple of local players join our UMass Lowell family," UML head coach Kathy O'Neil said. "Brianna and Whitney will give us depth in the post position. Both of them played AAU basketball with Briana Szdiat. All of them played for Rickey Oliver and the New England Panthers."

Erika Sjöberg and Nychoul Biliew will also join the River Hawks. Both will bring international flavor.

Sjöberg, a 5-foot-10 shooting guard, transfers from the University of South Carolina Aiken where she red shirted last season. She'll be a sophomore. She is from Sweden and played a year of high school in Mississippi.

Biliew comes to UML from Portland, Maine. She is originally from Ethiopia and the Sudan. She is transferring from Southern Maine Community College. Biliew did not play this past year so she will be coming in as a freshmen.

UML men's basketball coach Greg Herenda confirmed that Max Kerman will not be part of the 2010-11 River Hawks team.

Kerman is not transferring to another program, he has simply decided to leave school, according to Herenda.

A captain of the River Hawks as a sophomore and a junior, Kerman would have been the lone senior for the UML men this season. He started 26 games for the River Hawks last season, averaging 5.7 points, 5.1 rebounds, and 1.4 steals per game.

The 2009-10 Northeast-10 Conference Defensive Player of the Year, Kerman usually guarded the opposing team's best offensive player.

A Watertown native, Kerman attended Bridgton Academy prior to coming to UML. He had standout career at Watertown High School.

UMass Lowell promoted men's basketball assistant coach Marc Kuntz to associate head coach on Monday.

Kuntz, a graduate of Xavier University, has been with the program since 2005. He is a holdover from Ken Barer's coaching staff.

Today, UML head coach Greg Herenda said assistant coach Josh King has left the program to join Marshall University's basketball staff as a graduate assistant.

A native of Trinity, N.C., Josh King joined the UMass Lowell coaching staff last summer. He spent the previous season as the assistant men's basketball coach at Vassar College.

Not that you asked, but I'm going to tell you anyway:

-2010 American League Manager of the Year? Terry Francona, hands down.

He's not going to win. Ron Washington of the Texas Rangers will likely get that nod, followed by the Twins Ron Gardenhire and perhaps one or two other skippers from teams that were supposed to stink but ended up mediocre. That's how these things go.

I challenge you however, to name another manager who lost more star players to significant injury yet somehow kept his team in contention in baseball's toughest division than Tito.

The Red Sox top four offensive weapons entering the season (Jacoby Ellsbury, Dustin Pedroia, Kevin Youkilis and Victor Martinez) have missed prolonged stretches of games, mostly overlapping. Josh Beckett has been more useless than an ashtray on a motorcycle. Clay Buchholz has missed time from the rotation, as has Daisuke Matsuzaka. On far too many occasions, the likes of Daniel Nava, Darnell McDonald and Eric Patterson have graced Francona's lineup card the same night.

If what Francona has done and continues to do (without a single excuse or complaint about a front office that left him far more vulnerable to injury than his top competitor in New York) doesn't constitute Manager of the Year, I'm definitely not worthy of that Baseball Writers Association of America credential that's been lost in the mail all these years!

-Roger Clemens shouldn't go to jail for lying to Congress. He should go to jail for criminal stupidity and aggravated stubbornness.

Clemens wasn't forced to testify. He did so voluntarily. He knew his best friend Andy Pettitte had testified under oath the previous day. He didn't have to lie. He wasn't facing anything other than public ridicule had he admitted to using performance enhancing drugs. And recently, he turned down a plea agreement that would have kept him out of jail again.

So either Rocket is telling the truth (doubt it) or he's one of the dumbest people on the planet and needs to be saved from himself by being in protective custody for 6-12 months.

-Speaking of athletes who don't know when to quit:

I'm shocked, positively shocked I tell you, that Brett Favre returned for one more season. I'll be even more surprised if the Vikings season doesn't end as a result of another stupid Favre interception.

-Finally, English rugby player Tom Williams has been suspended four months for faking an injury.

Seems Williams' squad had used its allowance of substitutions, but really wanted to get a kicking specialist onto the field for a key play near the end of a do-or-die match. So Williams bit on a blood capsule and walked off the field for an injury substitution. (Somewhere, Jimmy "Superfly" Snuka nods in appreciation)

Apparently, this wasn't the first time the team had attempted this routine and when Williams was caught on camera winking to his teammates, the opposing squad went nuts and protested. In an attempt to cover his tracks during a post-game inspection, Williams convinced team doctor, Wendy Chapman, to cut his lip with a stitch cutter.

The great irony in all this? The "illegal" sub ended up missing the kick, costing Williams and company the game.

UMass Lowell recruit Jimmy McDonnell will not be joining the River Hawks after all.

The 6-foot-9 native of Jackson, New Jersey, had signed to attend UMass Lowell in the fall, however, he has decided to attend Temple University instead.

Temple, an NCAA Division 1 program and the three-time defending Atlantic-10 Conference champions, came in with a late scholarship offer. Not only are the Owls a Division 1 program, but McDonnell will also be much closer to his hometown.

This drops the UML incoming class down to five freshman with Antonio Bivins, Chris Thompson, Darrell Ward, Kerry Weldon, and Akeem Williams due to join the River Hawks this season.

McDonnell averaged 13.9 points, 6.5 rebounds, and 4.0 blocks per game as a senior at Jackson Memorial High School.

"We are excited to have Jimmy become a member of the Temple Basketball team," Temple University head coach Fran Dunphy said in a release on the school's website. "He is a developing player who has his best days ahead of him, and we are looking forward to having the opportunity to coach him."