The 2011–12 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2011–12 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Minutemen, led by fourth year head coach Derek Kellogg, played their home games at William D. Mullins Memorial Center, with one home game played at Curry Hicks Cage, and are members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
 They finished the season 25–12, 9–7 in A-10 play to finish in a four way tie for fifth place.
 They lost in the semifinals of the Atlantic 10 Basketball Tournament to St. Bonaventure.
 They were invited to the 2012 National Invitation Tournament where they defeated Mississippi State, Seton Hall, and Drexel en route to the semifinals at Madison Square Garden where they fell to Stanford.
Derek W. Kellogg (born June 20, 1973) is an American college basketball coach, currently the head men's basketball coach at LIU Brooklyn.
 He was previously head coach of the men's basketball team at his alma mater, the University of Massachusetts, being named to the position on April 23, 2008, replacing Travis Ford, who left to take the head coaching job at Oklahoma State University.
 He was removed from the position on March 9, 2017.
The 2012–13 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2012–13 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Minutemen, led by fifth year head coach Derek Kellogg, played their home games at the William D. Mullins Memorial Center and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
 They finished the season 21–12, 9–7 in A-10 play to finish in a tie for sixth place.
 They advanced to the semifinals of the Atlantic 10 Tournament where they lost to VCU.
 They were invited to the 2013 NIT as the highest A-10 team not to go to the NCAA Tournament, where they lost in the first round to Stony Brook.
The LIU Brooklyn Blackbirds men's basketball team represents Long Island University, located in Brooklyn, New York in NCAA Division I basketball competition.
 They play their home games at the Steinberg Wellness Center, formerly known as the Wellness, Recreation & Athletics Center, and are members of the Northeast Conference.
 Their current head coach is Derek Kellogg who was hired after his firing from Massachusetts in 2017.
 The 2017-18 season is his first as head coach.
 On March 12, 2013, the team achieved what was the greatest run in Northeast Conference history with a third straight NCAA Tournament bid.
Travis Ford (born December 29, 1969) is an American college basketball coach, who is currently the head coach of the Saint Louis Billikens men's basketball team.
 He was also previously the head coach at Campbellsville University, Eastern Kentucky, Massachusetts, and Oklahoma State.
 Prior to that, he played at the University of Missouri and the University of Kentucky.
The 2010–11 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2010–11 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Minutemen, led by third year head coach Derek Kellogg, played their home games at William D. Mullins Memorial Center, with one home game played at Curry Hicks Cage, and are members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
 They finished the season 15-15, 7–9 in A-10 play to finish for eighth place.
The 2016–17 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Minutemen, led by ninth-year head coach Derek Kellogg, played their home games at the William D. Mullins Memorial Center in Amherst, Massachusetts as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
 They finished the season 15–18, 4–14 A-10 play to finish in a tie for 12th place.
 As the No. 12 seed in the A-10 Tournament, they defeated Saint Joseph's in the first round before losing to St. Bonaventure in the second round.
The 2015–16 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2015–16 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Minutemen, led by eighth year head coach Derek Kellogg, played their home games at the William D. Mullins Memorial Center and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
 They finished the season 14–18, 6–12 in A-10 play to finish in a tie for tenth place.
 They defeated Rhode Island in the second round of the A-10 Tournament to advance to the quarterfinals where they lost to VCU.
The 2014–15 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2014–15 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Minutemen, led by seventh year head coach Derek Kellogg, played their home games at the William D. Mullins Memorial Center and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.
 They finished the season 17–15, 10–8 in A-10 play to finish in a three way tie for sixth place.
 They lost in the scound round of the A-10 Tournament to La Salle.
The 2013–14 Massachusetts Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2013–14 NCAA Division I men's basketball season.
 The Minutemen, led by sixth year head coach Derek Kellogg, played their home games at the William D. Mullins Memorial Center and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.

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