At UVa, Ryan Odom is returning to his basketball home. VCU's future is uncertain.
His childhood ties to the program aside, Odom engineered one of UVa basketball's greatest setbacks when his No. 16-seed UMBC team in 2018 took down Bennett's top-seeded Cavaliers in the first round of the NCAA tournament.
‘Thankful To Be Home’: What To Know About New UVA Men’s Basketball Coach Ryan Odom
Odom, 50, spent a chunk of his childhood in Charlottesville while his father, Dave, served as an assistant coach under Terry Holland from 1982 to 1989. The younger Odom would often get home from school and ride his bicycle to University Hall to watch the Cavaliers practice.
Ryan Odom was raised on Virginia basketball. Now, he’s being tasked with raising the Cavaliers back among the national elite.
Ryan Odom, 50, arrives in Charlottesville with a decade-plus of head-coaching tenure with D1 stints at UMBC, Utah State and ...
Moored to his past as his opening remarks may have been, Odom happily waded into questions about the future during the nearly ...
The writing was on the wall the moment Tony Bennett retired. And perhaps, on Thursday, Ryan Odom was telling us without ...
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