Odom, 50, spent a chunk of his childhood in Charlottesville while his father, Dave, served as an assistant coach under Terry Holland from 1982 to 1989. The younger Odom would often get home from school and ride his bicycle to University Hall to watch the Cavaliers practice.

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.