More on why UVM's Dawley might have chosen to move south to UMass-Amherst:

Dawley's America East champs at UVM made it to the second round of this year's NCAA tournament; all-everything team leader Courtnay Pilypaitis graduates this spring.

At UMass, Dawley will compete in a tougher conference, one that had more tournament teams this year than the Pac-10 (and did better, once they arrived, than the Big Ten): UMass, who went 11-19 last year, also gives Dawley the conference rookie of the year, center Jasmine Watson.