Unlike UVA basketball’s most recent hire, Tony Bennett in 2009, Odom was the subject of immediate media and fan speculation when Bennett abruptly retired in October, thrusting Ron Sanchez into an interim head-coaching role for 2024-25.

According to various reports, including The Athletic, the Cavaliers are expected to hire Ryan Odom from VCU — and a few stops before that, from the University of Maryland Baltimore County squad that stunned Virginia in the 2018 NCAA Tournament — to become their new head coach.

Virginia men's basketball has found its new head coach. VCU's Ryan Odom has been hired as the next head coach of the UVA men's basketball program. Odom reportedly signed his contract to become Virginia’s head coach on Friday (March 21st),