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1996 NCAA Division I Men's Ice Hockey Tournament

Brendan Concannon (2 G, 4 A) of UMass Lowell, Brendan Morrison (2 G, 4 A) of Michigan, and Bill Muckalt (4 G, 2 A) of Michigan each tallied 6 points in the tournament, most by any players

Ashfield, Massachusetts

Ashfield is the birthplace of prominent director Cecil B. DeMille (whose parents were vacationing in the town at the time), Alvan Clark, nineteenth century astronomer and telescope maker, and William S. Clark, member of the Massachusetts Senate and third president of Massachusetts Agricultural College (now UMass Amherst).

Bernie Saunders

Jonathan played defense for the Miami RedHawks men's ice hockey team; Shawn played four years at UMass while Andrew pursued a career in law enforcement while attending East Carolina University.

Boston College–UMass football rivalry

After 22 years, the rivalry was renewed as UMass traveled to Chestnut Hill, MA to play Boston College once again.

BC and UMass met again in Amherst, MA in 1901, 1902, and 1912, with UMass winning all three contests before the series was halted.

David Maslanka

Maslanka’s works have been recorded and produced primarily by Albany Records, as well as Cambria Records, Crest, CRI, Klavier, Mark, Novisse, St. Olaf, and Umass labels.

Jeff Burris

On March 5, 2012, Burris was announced as the cornerbacks coach for the UMass Minutemen, working under new head coach Charley Molnar.

Meherjaan

On November 3, 2011, there was a special film event and a panel discussion at Harvard University sponsored by the University of Massachusetts Boston, South Asia Initiative at Harvard University, Consortium on Gender, Security and Human Rights at UMass, and the CARR Center for Human Rights, Harvard Kennedy School.

Neal Brown

Before joining Larry Blakeney's staff at Troy to work under Tony Franklin, he spent one-year assistant coaching stints at UMass, Sacred Heart, and Delaware.

Norm Bazin

That year Bazin was hired as head coach at UMass Lowell when Blaise MacDonald was fired at the end of a 5-24-4 season (a program low for Lowell since it entered Division I in 1984).

Phil Elmassian

In 2012, Elmassian was named defensive coordinator for head coach Charley Molnar's staff at UMass.

UMass Lowell River Hawks men's basketball

The UMass Lowell River Hawks men's basketball team represents the University of Massachusetts Lowell in Lowell, Massachusetts, United States.


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