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Legendary UVA Basketball Coach Tony Bennett To Retire After 15 Seasons

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Tony Bennett in front of the championship UVA banners

Tony Bennett, the College of Virginia males’s basketball coach who guided his staff to a 2019 nationwide championship, two Atlantic Coast Convention Event titles and 6 ACC regular-season championships, has retired efficient instantly, Virginia Athletics introduced Thursday afternoon. Bennett is scheduled to seem Friday at an 11 a.m. information convention at John Paul Jones Enviornment.

Bennett, Virginia’s winningest basketball coach with a profession document of 364-136 in Charlottesville, didn’t instantly give a motive for his choice. His press convention comes lower than three weeks earlier than the Cavaliers’ season opener. 

Bennett headed the Cavalier program for 15 seasons and in 2023, surpassed his predecessor and good friend, the late Terry Holland, as this system’s all-time wins chief.

Saturday’s UVA In the present day Weekend version can have full protection of Bennett’s press convention and can have fun the legacy he constructed on and off the court docket. 

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