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CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. — 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. Odom's season ended Thursday with a first-round tournament loss to BYU. The Rams are the third team he's taken into March Madness, leading UMBC and Utah State there in his previous coaching stops. Odom's 2018 UMBC team became the first No. 16-seed to upset a 1-seed with a win over Virginia.
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