Mullins Center


The William D. Mullins Memorial Center, also known as the Mullins Center, is a 9,493-seat multi-purpose arena, located on the campus of the University of Massachusetts, in Amherst, Massachusetts. The Mullins Center is the home of UMass Minutemen men's basketball, women's basketball, and men's ice hockey. In addition, the venue hosts numerous concerts, family shows, theater shows, and commencements annually. Located adjacent to the Mullins Center is the Mullins Community Ice Rink, which is open for public skating and racquetball, while also serving as the home rink for the UMass women's ice hockey team.
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.
The Mullins Center is managed by Global Spectrum, which manages over 70 different event arenas throughout the United States.

Concerts and events

The Mullins Center has hosted many performances over the years, including:

Musical

;Metallica
;Aerosmith
;Elton John
;Phish
;Pansy Division
;Green Day
;Indigo Girls
;K's Choice
;Live
;Barry Manilow
;Alanis Morissette
;311
;Dave Matthews Band
;The Black Crows
;Smashing Pumpkins
;Fountains of Wayne
;Stone Temple Pilots
;Cheap Trick
;Ani DiFranco
;Matchbox 20
;Korn
;Incubus
;Tori Amos
;Soul Coughing
;Bob Dylan
;The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
;The Goo, Goo, Girls
;Luscious Jackson
;Foo Fighters
;Muse
;Red Hot Chili Peppers
;Creed
;Sevendust
;U.P.O
;The Jayhawks
;Barenaked Ladies
;String Cheese Incident
;Widespread Panic
;Udo Lindenberg
;Counting Crows
;Tool
;John Mayer
;Queens of the Stone Age
;French Toast
;Delirious?
;Good Charlotte
;Blake Shelton
;Neil Young
;Pixies
;My Chemical Romance
;Dropkick Murphys
;Velvet Revolver
;Alison Krauss
;Tim McGraw
;Kanye West
;Keith Urban
;Nine Inch Nails
;Black Eyed Peas
;The Roots
;The All-American Rejects
;Mike Doughty
;The Raconteurs
;Disturbed
;Flyleaf
;Nonpoint
;Stone Sour
;Amour for Sleep
;Underoath
;O.A.R
;Tim Reynolds
;OK Go
;Ben Folds
;The Suburbs
;Gym Class Heroes
;Sick Puppies
;Evanescence
;Julien-K
;Carrie Underwood
;Casting Crowns
;Jimmy Eat World
;Willie Nelson
;Lupe Fiasco
;N.E.R.D
;J. Cole
;Jay-Z
;Further
;Craig Morgan
;New Found Glory
;Ludacris
;LMFAO
;Electrolightz
;Samuel Adams
;Daughtry
;Mike Posner
;Far East Movement
;Stephen Jerzak
;2AM Club
;Bad Rabbits
;XV
;Newsboys
;Jimmy Needham
;Wiz Khalifa
;Big K.R.I.T
;Donnis
;DJ Khaled
;Escape Reality
;B.o.B
;3OH!3
;Pretty Lights
;Kids on the Hill
;Jason Aldean
;Eric Church
;The JaneDean Girls
;Tiesto
;Acquire the Fire
;Thousand Foot Krutch
;Deadmau5
;Feed Me
;Tommy Lee
;Afrojack
;Phil Lesh
;Further
;Bob Weir
;3 Doors Down
;Theory of a Deadman
;Pop Evil
;Lady Antebellum
;Josh Kelley
;Edens Edge
;Avicii
;Rusko
;Miranda Lambert
;Chris Young
;Jerrod Niemann
;Third Blind Eye
;Fantazia
;Care Bears Live: "Caring & Sharing Friends"
;Barney the Dinosaur
;Doodlebops
;Walking with Dinosaurs
;Cirque du Soleil: Saltimbanco
;Playhouse Disney Live!
;Sesame Street Live!
;Cirque du Soleil: Alegría
;Disney's Phineas and Ferb
;Cirque du Soleil: "Quidam"
;Michael Jackson The Immortal World Tour By Cirque Du Soleil
;Jim Breuer
;David Copperfield
;Stars on Ice
;Boston Pops
;Bill Cosby
;WWE
;Full Throttle Energy Drink's Pro Wrestling Live!
;Dayglow
;Daniel Tosh
;Lipizzaner Stallions
;Russell Brand
;Boston Bruins
;USA vs. Russia
;NCAA Women's Volleyball Championship
;Boston Celtics