Virginia males’s basketball reportedly will flip to an antagonist from its previous.
In line with varied reviews, together with The Athletic, the Cavaliers are anticipated to rent Ryan Odom from VCU — and some stops earlier than that, from the College of Maryland Baltimore County squad that shocked Virginia within the 2018 NCAA Event — to develop into their new head coach.
Odom led VCU to the NCAA Event in his second season with the Atlantic 10 program, whose season ended Thursday with a loss to sixth-seeded BYU.
He has moved steadily by means of the ranks of faculty basketball, his run starting in 2016 on the unheralded UMBC, with whom he certified for the college’s second-ever NCAA Event look in ’18 — when the Retrievers turned the primary No. 16 seed to take down a No. 1 seed, with Virginia getting demolished in one of many largest upsets within the sport’s historical past.
Odom remained at UMBC till 2021, when he made the leap to Utah State.
Similar to at VCU, he lasted two seasons, cracked the NCAA Event within the second season after which climbed to a much bigger program.
Now Odom, a North Carolina native and the son of longtime Wake Forest and South Carolina head coach Dave Odom, goes near house.
The Cavaliers hope they’ve discovered a real substitute for Tony Bennett, who shocked the faculty basketball world by retiring shortly earlier than this season, citing frustration with the NIL period that he didn’t really feel outfitted for.
Affiliate head coach Ron Sanchez took over and led Virginia to a 15-17 season.
