CHARLOTTESVILLE -- Charlottesville, and the University of Virginia, is where Ryan Odom fell in love with basketball.

Virginia's new head men's basketball coach, Ryan Odom, is back in the college town where he lived for seven years in the 1980s.

Odom, 50, arrives with 10-plus seasons of head-coaching experience, including Division I stints at UMBC, Utah State and, most ...

Unlike UVA basketball’s most recent hire, Tony Bennett in 2009, Odom was the subject of immediate media and fan speculation ...

Odom, 50, spent a chunk of his childhood in Charlottesville while his father, Dave, served as an assistant coach under Terry ...

He worked for Seth Greenberg at South Florida and Virginia Tech, and for former Cavaliers coach Jeff Jones at American, before a partial season as Charlotte’s interim coach in 2014-15.

Odom “really values everything that UVA stands for,” said Jeff Jones, a former Cavaliers player, assistant coach and head coach and Odom’s former boss at American University. “If it’s ...