UMass Amherst coach Joh Calipari pumps his fist to get his team in the game during the NCAA semi-final game against Kentucky in East Rutherford, NJ on on March 29, 1996. (Photo by Jim Davis/The Boston Globe via Getty Images)
John Calipari will soon be immortalized on the University of Massachusetts campus. This morning, UMass announced it will unveil statues of Calipari, Marcus Camby, Julius Erving, and Jack Leaman outside of the Mullins Center in Amherst on Saturday, September 11. Calipari, Camby, and the 1995-96 Minutemen team will also be inducted into the UMass Athletics George “Trigger” Burke Hall of Fame the same weekend.