8. New Coach, New Path

Matt McCall’s tenure as the University of Massachusetts men’s basketball head coach ended in March 2022. And when McCall departed, UMass Athletic Director Ryan Bamford applied what he’d learned from past hires in hiring former South Carolina coach Frank Martin to lead the team. In this episode of It Happened in Amherst, Joey Aliberti revisits McCall’s five years at UMass to better understand the program’s future.