Before Virginia, Bennett was a star for his father, Dick, at Green Bay, where he averaged 19.4 points per game over his four-year career, and shot 49.7 percent from three-point range, still tops ...

For years, college basketball fans had been waiting to see a 16-seed upset a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament. Unfortunately for Virginia fans, the first ever ...

And so we'll accept it." Bennett's tenure at Virginia ended suddenly Thursday when the Cavaliers' all-time winningest coach retired just weeks ahead of the 2024-25 season opener.

Bennett coached at Virginia for 15 seasons from 2009 to '24. / Greg Nelson / Sports Illustrated As exits go, this was a surprising one from a timing standpoint. Virginia coach Tony Bennett told ...

Bennett, a three-time national coach of the year who led Virginia to the 2019 national title, went 364-136 in 15 seasons with the Cavaliers.

One of Wisconsin's favorite basketball sons, Tony Bennett, announced officially Friday that he was retiring from coaching college basketball at age 55, leaving a Virginia program he led to a ...

Tony Bennett sat a microphone on Friday, fought back some tears and announced his abrupt retirement as the Virginia men's basketball head coach, citing burnout with the state of the game.

Jayden Gardner’s reverence for Tony Bennett is probably part of what made Thursday’s news so jarring. Bennett, after 15 years as coach of Virginia’s men’s basketball program, is retiring ...

On March 31st, 2009, Tony Bennett was formally introduced as the head coach of the Virginia men's basketball program. Craig Littlepage, Tony Bennett, and John Casteen / Photo courtesy of Virginia ...

As we look back at some of Tony Bennett's most legendary moments, we reminisce on Virginia's first round victory over Gardner-Webb in the 2019 NCAA Tournament ...

O’Neil: Tony Bennett does a lot right for Virginia basketball. But there’s a lot wrong right now By Dana O'Neil March 20, 2024Updated Oct. 18, 2024 ...

That's Tony Bennett, defined. The 46-year-old Virginia coach took a firm step up in his career on Friday night thanks to his top-seeded team's 84-71 victory against Iowa State at the United Center.