AMHERST -- The 100th anniversary of University of Massachusetts basketball will take the Minutemen into the lairs of last year's NCAA Division I finalists, and back to Springfield.
First-year head coach Derek Kellogg's inaugural schedule was released yesterday, and it includes road games at defending national champion Kansas and at national runner-up Memphis.
"This is a schedule that is filled with great challenges, but one that we are excited to take on," Kellogg said in a statement. "To play against the two teams who played for the NCAA title last year will be a wonderful experience and one that will get the players and fans very excited."
Kellogg returned to coach his alma mater this past spring, replacing Travis Ford, who took over at Oklahoma State.
The Minutemen will travel to Memphis to play former UMass coach John Calipari's Tigers on Monday, Nov. 17. That game is scheduled to be shown at midnight on ESPN.
It'll be a homecoming for Kellogg, who has been an assistant to Calipari for the past eight seasons.
Then on Saturday, Dec. 13, UMass will play national champion Kansas in a game that'll be at the newly built Sprint Center in Kansas City, Mo.
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