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This afternoon, the entire Virginia basketball family will come from every nook and cranny of the nation to celebrate Terry Holland’s life at JPJ.
Speakers will include former players, administrators and coaching peers that Holland impacted during his career that spanned Virginia, Davidson and East Carolina.
Terry Holland had a tremendous impact on numerous student-athletes and coaches during his tenure as a coach and athletics director at Virginia, Davidson and East Carolina.
Indiana Pacers coach Rick Carlisle talks with Hootie about his time at Virginia and what an influence Holland had on his coaching career and Virginia basketball in general, and his relationship with Bruce Hornsby, who will provide musical entertainment at Saturday’s event.
The Virginia athletics department announced today it will host an event to honor the life and contributions of former Cavalier head men’s basketball coach and athletics director Terry Holland on Saturday, May 6, at 2 p.m.
“The Jerry Ratcliffe Show” pays tribute to Terry Holland, with special guests Craig Littlepage, Wally Walker, Bobby and Ricky Stokes, Terry Gates, Dan Merrifield and Andrew Kennedy.
Virginia lost a legend on Sunday when Terry Holland died peacefully after a long bout with Alzheimer’s disease.
One of my goals going in was to get him to talk about all his great accomplishments, but as anyone who knew Holland was aware, he just wasn’t going to talk about himself.
Tributes to former Virginia basketball coach Terry Holland, who passed away Sunday at age 80, continued to pour in from all corners of the college basketball world on Monday.
“The times I was around him, he just always made you feel good and peaceful, and you wanted to put your arm around him,” Bennett said. “You knew I’m gonna get a big hug. He just had that way about him.”
Gene Corrigan had never met Terry Holland until the day he hired him as Virginia’s basketball coach in 1974.