UMass Minutemen basketball
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The UMass Minutemen basketball team represents the University of Massachusetts Amherst in Amherst, Massachusetts, in NCAA Division I men's college basketball. They play their home games in the William D. Mullins Memorial Center. The Minutemen currently compete in the Atlantic 10 Conference. Beginning in the 2025–26 season, the team will play as a member of the Mid-American Conference.
Coach John Calipari (1988–1996)
Al Skinner, Jack Leaman, and Julius Erving at the retirement ceremony for Skinner's UMass jersey No. 30
Marcus Camby was a consensus All-American in 1996
John Calipari
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John Vincent Calipari is an American basketball coach who is the head coach at the University of Arkansas. He was the head coach at the University of Kentucky from 2009 until the end of the 2023–2024 season, which he led to one NCAA National Championship in 2012. He has been named Naismith College Coach of the Year three times, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 2015.
Calipari directing his players during an away game against Conference USA rival University of Houston in January 2007.
Calipari on the bench for the Kentucky Wildcats, 2009
Tom Izzo and Calipari, two of the highest paid college coaches in 2012, talk while scouting a blue chip recruit