University of Virginia announces sudden retirement of basketball coach Tony Bennett

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College of Virginia males’s basketball head coach Tony Bennett is about to announce his sudden retirement on Friday, in response to the college.

A 3-time nationwide coach of the yr, Bennett has posted a 364-136 report with the Cavaliers. He guided the boys’s program to their first NCAA nationwide championship in 2019, a yr after Virginia was famously upset within the first spherical of March Insanity.

In 2018, UVA was a No. 1 seed and a heavy favourite to beat No. 16 seed College of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) within the annual NCAA males’s basketball postseason tourney. The Retrievers made historical past once they beat the Bennett-led Cavaliers, changing into the primary No. 16 seed to beat a No. 1 seed in match historical past.

To Bennett’s credit score, he orchestrated one of the outstanding redemption tales in sports activities historical past a yr later.

UVA returned to the title sport the next yr once more as a No. 1 seed and defeated Texas Tech in extra time to clinch this system’s first title.

Throughout his 15-year tenure as head coach of the Cavaliers, Virginia has received two ACC match titles and 6 ACC common season championships.

Bennett and Virginia had agreed to a contract extension within the offseason, which might’ve stored him with this system till 2030. The varsity gave no cause for his sudden retirement.

Bennett will formally announce his retirement at a press convention at John Paul Jones Area on Friday, October 18 at 11 a.m. ET.

Virginia males’s basketball will open their season in opposition to Campbell on November 6.