Virginia athletic director Carla Williams is hoping the obvious choice was the right one. Williams named VCU coach Ryan Odom — whose father was a Cavaliers assistant and who handed the program its most historic and crushing defeat in the 2018 NCAA Tournament — as the full-time replacement to Tony Bennett on Saturday.

Virginia named Ryan Odom as the 13th head coach in the program's history on Saturday morning. The Cavaliers learned all about Odom in 2018, when upstart UMBC made history under his direction by becoming the first No.

Odom has been coaching nearby VCU and has ties to Charlottesville: His father, Dave, was an assistant there in the 1980s