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Mullins Center Schedule

Thu - 04/05/07 - Armor For Sleep
Thu - 04/05/07 - Taking Back Sunday
Thu - 04/05/07 - Underoath
Sat - 04/14/07 - O.A.R.
Sat - 04/14/07 - Telograph
Sat - 04/21/07 - Dave Matthews & Tim Reynolds
Sun - 05/06/07 - Ben Folds
Mon - 05/21/07 - "Riverdance" (Boyne Company)

The William D. Mullins Memorial Center is a 9,349-seat multi-purpose arena in Amherst, Massachusetts. The arena opened in 1993. It is home to the UMass Minutemen basketball and ice hockey teams. The arena has also hosted parts of the 1993-94 Atlantic Ten Conference men's basketball tournaments, the 1995 NCAA Women's Volleyball Championships, the 1996 World Junior Ice Hockey Championships, and many area concerts and college events.

In 1985, William D. Mullins, a state representative from Ludlow, suggested that the University needed a multipurpose arena and convocation center to help expand the athletic program and assist in the university's growth. He died in 1986, but the state went ahead with the building of the complex, naming it for him. It replaced the Curry Hicks Cage, the 1930s-era basketball gymnasium, as home of the Minutemen basketball teams. In addition, it allowed the hockey team, which had been downgraded to club status since the late 1970s, to be elevated to Division I status.

In 1985, Representative William Mullins of Ludlow, then the Vice Chairmen of the House Ways and Means Committee, concluded that UMass Amherst, as the flagship campus of the University system, lacked an indoor facility of sufficient size for major sports and other events. After studying the needs of the region and the campus, Representative Mullins believed that a multi-purpose sports and convocation center was essential to the University’s growth. He enlisted the support of campus officials and legislative leaders and began building the momentum to fund the construction of this type of facility.

Representative Mullins Died in 1986. Several of his colleagues in the legislature, as well as other supporters, carried on his commitment to this project. As a tribute to Representative Mullins’ dedication to higher education and his deep interest in athletics in general and the UMass sports program in particular, the facility was named in his memory.

The William D. Mullins Memorial Center sits on Commonwealth Avenue on the western edge of the UMass campus. Overlooking the outdoor playing fields and offering a wide vista of the Hadley Hills and the Holyoke Range, the Mullins Center represents a joining in form, of the campus’ architecture, and in spirit, of the campus’ commitment to the quality of life for the university community. Totally handicapped accessible, this arena convocation complex is a two building facility connected by a plaza with underground locker rooms, weight room and equipment storage areas. The main arena houses a basketball court over an Olympic sized hockey rink. The arena is also available for convocations, commencement, cultural events, conferences, concerts, and Fine Arts productions. The attached building has a permanent ice rink for recreational skating and for use as a practice facility for intercollegiate hockey and an intramural program. Seven racquetball courts for intramural and general use are also enclosed in this building.

Operations
Global Spectrum, the fastest growing firm in the public assembly facility management field with more than 40 facilities throughout the United States and Canada, manages the 10,500-seat William D. Mullins Memorial Center. The Philadelphia-based company is part of one of the world's largest sports and entertainment conglomerates Comcast-Spectacor, which also owns the Wachovia Center and Wachovia Spectrum, the Philadelphia Flyers of the National Hockey League, the Philadelphia 76ers of the National Basketball Association, the Philadelphia Phantoms of the American Hockey League, Flyers Skate Zone, a series of community ice skating rinks, Comcast SportsNet, a regional sports programming network, three minor league baseball teams - the Bowie Baysox, the Delmarva Shorebirds and the Frederick Keys - all affiliates of the Baltimore Orioles, Ovations Food Services, a food and beverage services provider, and Patron Solutions, a full-service ticketing and marketing product for public assembly facilities.

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