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2006–07 UMass Minutemen basketball team

American college basketball season

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionMay 10, 2026
Entity authorityQ16957648 ↗
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The 2006–07 UMass Minutemen basketball team represented the University of Massachusetts Amherst during the 2006–07 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Minutemen, led by second year head coach Travis Ford, played their home games at William D. Mullins Memorial Center and are members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. They finished the season 24–9, 13–3 in A-10 play to finish for a first place tie with Xavier.

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This entry incorporates text from “2006–07 UMass Minutemen basketball team” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.