The 2021-22 UMass Minutemen men's basketball team represents the University of Massachusetts, the flagship campus in Amherst. The Head Coach is Matt McCall. The team plays its home games in the Mullins Center in Amherst, Massachusetts, and is a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference.

The season represents the 113th season of basketball in the school's history.

• Current Record: 7-9
• Conference Record: 0-4

Pre-season: UMass chose to play two unofficial scrimmages, at home versus Holy Cross and Boston University.¹⁾ No details of the results became available.

All times Eastern PM, unless otherwise noted. Boldface opponents indicates an Atlantic 10 Conference game.
Printable schedule
UMass master schedule

Notes:

• Fairfield - This game concludes our series.¹⁴⁾
• Harvard - This game concludes our series.^15)16)17)
• NJIT - Assumed that this is a one-off game. No indication of a new series.¹⁸⁾
• Northeastern - This is the third-straight year we've played NU, but no indication of a longer-term series.¹⁹⁾
• North Texas - Assumed that this is a one-off game. No indication of a new series.
• Penn State - This season's game begins a home-and-home series, in conjunction with an agreement for UM/PSU football games.^{20)21)22)23)24)}
• Rutgers - This season's game returns our visit to Rutgers in November 2019.^25)26)27)
• UMass-Lowell - We've been playing them regularly over the past several years, but no indication that there's a contracted series.
• UMBC - Unclear if this is a one-off or this begins a new series.²⁸⁾
• Yale - Unclear if this is a one-off or this begins a new series.²⁹⁾
• The Atlantic 10 and Mountain West conferences were expected to play 10 games this season, but a report says that has been postponed. As this series is yet to get off the ground, whether or not it eventually will remains to be seen.^30)31)32)
• Athletic Director Ryan Bamford has stated that he will continue to explore opportunities in conjunction with football and men's basketball scheduling, like what we've done with Akron, Penn State, Rutgers, South Carolina and Georgia.³³⁾³⁴⁾

Official roster

	#	Name	Height	Weight	Class	Pos.	Hometown / HS / Prep / College Transfer	Status
	0	Buttrick, Trent	6-8	240	Gr.	F	Bloomsburg PA / Bloomsburg HS / Community School of Naples / Penn State	Active
	45	Dominguez, Dyondre	6-9	205	So.	F	Providence, RI / Woodstock Academy	Active
	11	Fernandes, Noah	5-11	175	Jr.	G	Mattapoisett, MA / Woodstock Academy / Wichita State	Active
	1	Garcia, Javohn	6-2	180	So.	PG	Columbus, OH / Brewster Academy	Active
	10	Jones, Greg	6-7	225	Jr.	F	Bronx, NY / John Marshall HS / James Madison / Southern CT	Active
	12	Kelly, CJ	6-5	190	Jr.	G	Long Island, NY / Queens High School of Teaching / Norfolk State / Albany	Active
	44	Kelly, John	6-7	215	Fr.	F	Shelton, CT / Willison Northampton School / Fairfield	Active
	22	Kelly, Rich	6-1	175	Gr.	G	Shelton, CT / Fairfield Prep / Quinnipiac / Boston College	Active
	20	Marcus, Ryan	6-3	185	So.	G	Wakefield, MA / Wakefield HS	Active
	5	McCrory, Cairo	6-5	190	So.	SG	Hartford, CT / Masters/Northwest Catholic / Woodstock Academy	Inactive. Out for season with a back injury.
	3	Mitchell, Kolton	6-3	185	Jr.	G	Fort Myers, FL / Victory Rock Prep	Active
	2	Santos, Preston	6-6	185	Jr.*	G/F	Warwick, RI / Woodstock Academy	Active
	24	Steadman, Michael	6-10	231	Sr.	F	Union City, CA / City College of San Francisco / San Jose State / Montana	Active
	35	Walker, Dibaji	6-9	200	Sr.	F	Columbus, OH / Woodstock Academy / Cleveland State	Inactive. Out for season with a leg injury.
	23	Weeks, TJ	6-4	185	So.*	G	Warwick, RI / Woodstock Academy	Active

* Eligibility difference.

• Preston Santos is listed as a Junior on the official roster, but due to sitting out the 2020-21 season, has three years of playing eligibility remaining.
• TJ Weeks requested and received a medical redshirt for the 2019-20 season, having only played in the first 10 games before sitting out the rest of the season.³⁵⁾³⁶⁾

All players and staff have been vaccinated against COVID-19.³⁷⁾

All student-athletes from the 2020-21 season have an option to play a fifth year, via a policy based on special circumstances coming from the COVID-19 pandemic.³⁸⁾

Team photo

Back row (L to R): Cairo McCrory (5), Preston Santos (2), Greg Jones (10), Dibaji Walker (35), Michael Steadman (24), Trent Buttrick (0), Dyondre Dominguez (45), John Kelly (44)
Front row (L to R): CJ Kelly (12), TJ Weeks (23), Noah Fernandes (11), Rich Kelly (22), Ryan Marcus (20), Javohn Garcia (1), Kolton Mitchell (3)

2020-21 players lost:

• Brady Antonopoulos graduated and accepted a job with Weber State men's basketball.³⁹⁾
• Ronnie DeGray announced his intention to transfer to Missouri.^40)41)42)
• Mark Gasperini announced that he will not pursue another year of eligibility and end his playing career.⁴³⁾
• Tre Mitchell announced his intention to transfer to Texas.⁴⁴⁾⁴⁵⁾
• Carl Pierre announced his intention to transfer and take advantage of the bonus year of eligibility.⁴⁶⁾⁴⁷⁾ He will play at Rice in 2021-22.⁴⁸⁾⁴⁹⁾

Brian Mathews (6-9 215 Center, Chicago IL / DePaul College Prep) had verbally committed in August 2020,^50)51)52)53) and signed an NLI in November 2020,⁵⁴⁾ but it was announced he re-opened his recruiting on 4/17/21.⁵⁵⁾ He subsequently committed to North Dakota.⁵⁶⁾

Head Coach: Matt McCall
Assistant Coaches: Lucious Jordan, Tyson Wheeler, Jacob Kurtz
Director of Basketball Operations: Ricky Harris
Director of Scouting & Video Ops: Dominic Manzi-Kynch

Tony Bergeron, lead assistant coach from 2019-21, had his contract bought out and he will not return, per reports in the Boston Globe⁵⁷⁾ and MassLive.⁵⁸⁾
Brian Grossman, assistant coach in 2020-21, changed career paths and left the program.

• MDC: Excitement in the air for UMass men’s basketball as it gears up for the 2021-2022 season (10/19/21)

UMass was picked to finish 9th out of the 14 teams in the Atlantic 10. No Minuteman was named to the All-Conference teams.⁵⁹⁾