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Apparently, Virginia has found Your new basketball chief coach In a crazy sense of irony.
According to the reports, the Cavaliers have hired the VCU chief coach, Ryan Odom, who seven years ago was at the end of the UMBC when they became the first 16 seeds to defeat a team No. 1 in March Madness. That team was Virginia.
The Cavaliers entered that 2018 contest as favorites of 20.5 points, but the final score was exactly the opposite; The toiletors strangled Virginia, 74-54, after venting them in the second half.
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The Umbc retrievers chief coach, Ryan Odom, during the practice day before the first round of the 2018 NCAA tournament at the Spectrum center. (Bob Dhannan-USA Today Sports)
Odom had no similar magic in March, since his VCU team No. 11 fell to the sixth sown byu in the first round of this year’s tournament.
The 50 -year -old lasted in UmbC until 2021 when he went to the state of Utah; He joined VCU before the 2023 campaign, and now he is ready to handle the cavaliers, According to CBS Sports.
Ron Sánchez assumed the position of interim coach of the team after Tony Bennett’s sudden retirement In October, only weeks before the season began. Bennett quickly hurried Nil, saying that “he was no longer the best coach to lead this program in the current environment.”
If you are going to do it, you have to be everything. You have to give everything. If you do it halfway. It is not fair for the university and those young men. That is what made me move away, “Bennett said at his retirement press conference.
Virginia Cavaliers’s male basketball coach, Tony Bennett (R), reacts at a press conference that announces his immediate retirement at the John Paul Jones Arena. (Geoff Burke-Imagn images)
Trump is missing the opportunity in March Madness predicans, he says he can go back a
“I think it is correct that athletes students receive income, but the game in university athletics is not in a healthy place. It is not. And it must have changed. It will not return. I think I was equipped to do the work here, that is what I am, and that is how my staff has given me to this moment.
“Will I miss the game? Do I love the game? Absolutely,” he added. “But I don’t think I am equipped with this new way of training, and it’s a bad service if you keep doing that. I’m very sure that this is the right step. I wish I had spent more time. I really do it. But it was time.”
Bennett and his Cavaliers returned with a revenge after being upset by Odom (now the successor of Bennett) and Umbc, however, running the table to win it all next year. The last years, however, have not been friendly with Virginia; They were upset as a seed number 4 in 2021 and 2023 and could not get out of the first four last year. In 2022, they were in the NIT, and they could not make the tournament this year.
VCU Rams chief coach Ryan Odom, during a press conference at Ball Arena. (Isaiah J. Downing-Imagn images)
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Odom was 52-21 with VCc and has a record for life 222-127. His father, Dave, served as a Virginia assistant in the 1980s.
Fairleight Dickinson joined UmbC five years later, defeating Purdue; The other 158 1 vs. 16 clashes have been the path of favorites.
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