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Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: ODOM, RYAN
DEAN AND MARKEL FAMILIES MEN’S HEAD BASKETBALL COACH, VIRGINIA CAVALIERS MEN’S BASKETBALL, CHARLOTTESVILLE
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - MARCH 24 - Head Coach Ryan Odom during the Ryan Odom introductory press conference at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA on Monday, March 24, 2025. Photo by Jamie Holt/Virginia Athletics
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA - MARCH 24 - Head Coach Ryan Odom during the Ryan Odom introductory press conference at John Paul Jones Arena in Charlottesville, VA on Monday, March 24, 2025. Photo by Jamie Holt/Virginia Athletics
Arts | Entertainment | Sports 2025: ODOM, RYAN
DEAN AND MARKEL FAMILIES MEN’S HEAD BASKETBALL COACH, VIRGINIA CAVALIERS MEN’S BASKETBALL, CHARLOTTESVILLE
Virginia Business //September 2, 2025//
Odom became head coach of the ’Hoos in March, after Tony Bennett’s unexpected October 2024 retirement less than three weeks before the start of the season.
Now in his fifth collegiate head coaching role, Odom previously led Virginia Commonwealth University’s Rams for two seasons, coaching them to a 52-21 record, an appearance in the 2025 NCAA tournament and victory in the 2025 Atlantic 10 tournament championship.
Odom, who has a 222-127 career record, also was head coach at Utah State University, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, and Lenoir-Rhyne University. In 2018, his UMBC team beat U.Va. in the Big Dance — the first time a No. 16 seed defeated a No. 1 seed in the tournament.
The Wahoos will face the University of Texas at Austin Dec. 3 in the ACC-SEC Challenge. The team is 1-1 in the challenge.
U.Va.’s 13th head coach spent third through 10th grades in Charlottesville while his father, Dave Odom, was a U.Va. assistant basketball coach. He was a ball boy for home games.
Odom was a starting point guard at his alma mater, Hampden-Sydney College, for four years.
