Vinson scored a team-high 17 on senior night for UMass.
UMass senior Terrell Vinson scored 17 in Thursday's loss to Butler.
AMHERST — Terrell Vinson affirmed the obvious after his UMass team's 73-62 loss to Butler on Thursday.
He would have rather had a win than a team-high 17 points to remember his senior night by.
Vinson had 13 of UMass' first 21 points in the second half, and kept the Minutemen from getting run out of the building right out the break, but it was to no avail — as UMass would get no closer than eight in the loss.
Vinson also took a hard fall on his hip with a little more than five minutes to play and came out of the game, but said the injury was not serious, and he'd be ready to go Saturday against Rhode Island.
"I fell on my hip. I guess it’s just a bruise. I’m good," Vinson said after the game.
In a game where the Minutemen were dominated 37-20 on the glass, Vinson offered the most technical explanation of why that occurred.
"We overhelped too much tonight. We didn’t really need to help as much as we helped. We were stepping too far up on those screens, and when they shot, it was kind of like 3-on-2 on the boards, so it was to their advantage for us to help out so much on the screens," Vinson said. "I think that’s what they want you to do was to help a lot on the screens. That’s why they kept screening, then re-screening. Hoepfully if we play them again, the next time we know just to step up but not step all the way up on the screen."
Vinson also spoke to the frustration the Minutemen felt as the Bulldogs racked up 17 offensive boards Thursday night.
"You don’t want nobody to get offensive rebounds. Then you’ve got your coach mad at you because you didn’t (get it), and that’s kind of frustrating and weighs you down," Vinson said. "Sometimes the game just goes that way. When teams execute their offense well, they kind of get the guys in the right rebounding position they need."