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Jeff Borzello
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Jeff Borzello
ESPN Group of workers Author
- Basketball recruiting insider.
- Joined ESPN in 2014.
- Graduate of College of Delaware.
Mar 21, 2025, 05:10 PM ET
Virginia has employed VCU’s Ryan Odom as it is new head trainer.
Virginia introduced the hiring Saturday morning however didn’t expose phrases of Odom’s deal. Odom can be formally offered Monday afternoon in Charlottesville.
VCU’s season ended on Thursday with an 80-71 loss to BYU within the first spherical of the NCAA event.
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Odom has guided 3 other methods to the NCAA event, maximum particularly main 16-seed UMBC to an remarkable win over 1-seed Virginia within the first spherical of the 2018 event.
After 5 seasons and one NCAA event look at UMBC, Odom spent two seasons at Utah State, main the Aggies to the event in 2023 sooner than going again around the nation to exchange Mike Rhoades at VCU.
In two seasons with the Rams, he went 52-21 general and 26-10 in convention play. They gained the Atlantic 10 regular-season and convention event championships this season, successful 18 in their ultimate 20 video games en path to an 11-seed within the NCAA event, the place they misplaced to 6-seed BYU on Thursday.
Odom is a Durham, N.C. local who has ACC revel in from his seven seasons as an assistant trainer at Virginia Tech below Seth Greenberg. His father is Dave Odom, the previous South Carolina, Wake Woodland and East Carolina head trainer.
Odom changed Tony Bennett, who hastily retired again in October. Bennett used to be set to start his sixteenth season with the Cavaliers when he stepped down, pointing to the “present surroundings” in school sports activities as one of the vital riding forces at the back of his surprising resolution. All the way through his time in Charlottesville, he earned two nationwide trainer of the 12 months awards and led Virginia to the nationwide championship in 2019. The Cavaliers gained six ACC regular-season titles and made 10 NCAA event appearances with Bennett on the helm.
Affiliate head trainer Ron Sanchez served as Virginia’s intervening time head trainer for the 2024-25 season, with the Cavaliers completing 15-17 and lacking the postseason. Athletic director Carla Williams introduced in a while after their loss to Georgia Tech within the ACC event that Sanchez would no longer be retained because the full-time head trainer.
VCU looms as possibly the most productive basketball activity out of doors the ability meetings, because it initiatives to have, by way of some distance, essentially the most cash for NIL and income percentage within the Atlantic 10.
Athletic director Ed McLaughlin can be making his fourth rent on the faculty. The primary 3 all reached the NCAA event and went on to larger jobs — Will Wade (LSU), Mike Rhoades (Penn State) and Odom (UVA). Since achieving the general 4 below Shaka Sensible in 2011, VCU has ignored best 3 NCAA tournaments.
