Griff Aldrich, who guided Longwood University’s basketball team for the past five seasons, has accepted a role with Odom at UVA.

Chance Mallory was crushed when Tony Bennett stepped down as Virginia’s basketball coach last October, but his love for the Cavaliers program still carried a pulse.

Homegrown star point guard Chance Mallory kick-started new Virginia basketball coach Ryan Odom’s era on Saturday when Mallory committed to the Cavaliers.

An introductory press conference is scheduled for Monday at 3 p.m. on the court at John Paul Jones Arena. The public is invited to attend.

According to sources, Ryan Odom has agreed to become the Cavaliers’ next head basketball coach and an official announcement could come as soon as Saturday.

Star point guard Chance Mallory of Charlottesville’s St. Anne’s-Belfield is set to announce his college commitment on Saturday at 2:30 at his school.

With rumors swirling all around Wahoo Nation, Cavalier fans are now officially on the Ryan Odom Watch.

Dai Dai Ames, who transferred from Kansas State to Virginia to play for Tony Bennett, became the second player from the Cavaliers’ roster this week to announce intentions to enter the transfer portal.

While not officially confirmed, it appears that Virginia sophomore forward Blake Buchanan is headed for the NCAA transfer portal, which opens on March 24.

Ryan Odom was considered to be on NC State AD Boo Corrigan’s short list until the past couple of days. However, Odom’s name has now surfaced for the Villanova job.

There has been lots of speculation about when exactly Virginia interim basketball coach Ron Sanchez knew that he would not be retained after Wednesday’s loss in the ACC Tournament quarterfinals.

Ron Sanchez, who served as the University of Virginia’s interim men’s basketball coach during the 2024-2025 season, will not be retained as the program’s full-time head coach.

When Ron Sanchez returned to Virginia’s coaching staff a couple of years ago, he never planned his next step in the profession would be “interim.”

Ron Sanchez and his team could have easily folded, come apart at the seams and called it a season. Give him and his coaching staff credit for not waving a flag of surrender.

Ryan Odom has leapfrogged over other candidates as the top choice to become Virginia’s next basketball coach, according to sources close to the search committee.

Virginia junior sharpshooter Isaac McKneely was named All-ACC Honorable Mention, the league announced on Monday.

The Orange, led by center Eddie Lampkin’s 25 points, 10 rebounds, scored 42 points in the paint, controlled the boards 31-17 and physically dominated the Cavaliers with defense.

Virginia stumbled in its regular-season finale at Syracuse on Saturday, surrendering countless easy buckets en route to an 84-70 loss at the JMA Wireless Dome.

In 14 games against the Orange, Tony Bennett’s Virginia teams always seemed to find a way to win. In fact, Bennett was 12-2 against ‘Cuse.

I’ve been told by someone in the know not to buy the reports that New Mexico’s Richard Pitino, son of St. John’s coach Rick Pitino, is a candidate for the Virginia job.