Evening Sessions Maryland’s win over California today was really big for the conference. Gary Williams has now won his first round game in nine consecutive NCAA Tournament appearances. Wow! (And you were told how you should be happy with four first round NCAA Tournament wins in a decade.) How tough is playing basketball in the […]
Dave Leitao
Coaching Carousel Comments (Updated 3/18)
Wednesday, March 18th Great conversation going on here! So, we thought that we would just elevate this entry back to the top and add this link from Jeff Goodman at Fox Sports to the mix. He has listed the 12 coaches that could get hot and make a jump due to either their appearance – […]
Virginia fires Leitao as coach
Fox Sports is reporting that Virginia has fired Men’s Head Basketball coach, Dave Leito after four years on the job. Link to Fox article. Of course, Leitao officially ‘resigns’ so that he can receive his more money for going away nicely ($2.1 million). Leitao made the NCAA tournament once in four seasons at Virginia. This […]
ACC Coaches on the Hotseat? Debated (Updated 2:10pm)
One has to wonder what the brain trust at the News and Observer knows that we don’t: “With at least four ACC basketball coaches in some degree of trouble — Florida State’s Leonard Hamilton, Maryland’s Gary Williams, N.C. State’s Sidney Lowe and Virginia’s Dave Leaito” — Caulton Tudor, in “Finding The Next Coach” This list […]
Hoos Top Heels
Dave Leitao 1 Roy Williams 0 Just two weeks ago we were talking about new Virginia coach, Dave Leitao. So it doesn’t surprise me that after wins over Virginia Tech and Carolina, Virginia is above .500 in ACC play for the first time since the 2002-03 season. (Obviously, Leitao inherited a lot at Virginia). The […]
Leitao: ‘No Excuse Program’
He’s going to need more than just the attitude to raise Virginia’s struggling program out of the bottom tier of the ACC…but, it is nice to see this. “If our mentality is, ‘Hey, we only lost by a few tonight and that’s a good thing,’ that’s not where I’m trying to go with this program. […]
