Of course, both teams will have to wait for Odom to finish coaching the Rams on their postseason run.
VCU just won the Atlantic 10 to secure an automatic bid and earned a No. 11 seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Odom has now coached three different programs to the NCAA Tournament (UMBC, Utah State, VCU), each time reaching the Big Dance in his second season at the school. The Rams will take on No. 6 seed BYU in the first round on Thursday at 4:05pm ET (TNT) at Ball Arena in Denver, Colorado.
Odom has been coaching in the Commonwealth of Virginia for the last two seasons and famously triumphed over the Cavaliers with UMBC in 2018, but his ties to the UVA men’s basketball program run much deeper than that. His father, Dave Odom, served as an assistant on Terry Holland’s staff at Virginia for eight seasons and Ryan Odom served as a ball boy at University Hall. Additionally, current UVA assistant coach Orlando Vandross worked with Odom at UNC-Charlotte from 2011-2015, which could create a potential retention opportunity for Vandross to stick around at Virginia if Odom is indeed hired.
The combination of connections to the program and the Commonwealth along with his success at three different programs has many people convinced that Ryan Odom will be the next head coach of the UVA men’s basketball program.
