Michael Liebermann

3 weeks ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann |Emory Huffman |Xander Tilock

Editor’s Note: This article was first published March 19 and will be updated throughout the men’s basketball offseason. Virginia men’s basketball has, in the span of six months, seen a legend retire and his successor get fired. Now that saga has entered a new phase, full of coaching changes and transfer portal turnover and recruiting battles. The offseason is here. And it is a mammoth one. Almost two decades have passed since uncertainty hovered around the program like this.

3 weeks ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann

Virginia submitted a fantastic performance, by all accounts, but lost in the final few minutes Coach Lars Tiffany gazed at the scoreboard, hands on hips. He stared it down for a long second. Then he turned and waded into the center of a downbeat huddle. Not long before, he had prowled the sideline, shouting instructions as a tie game rocketed into its final five minutes, the stands rattling behind him. Virginia, tied with No. 8 Syracuse, needed to score.

3 weeks ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann |Emory Huffman |Xander Tilock

Editor’s Note: This article was first published March 19 and will be updated throughout the men’s basketball offseason. Virginia men’s basketball has, in the span of six months, seen a legend retire and his successor get fired. Now that saga has entered a new phase, full of coaching changes and transfer portal turnover and recruiting battles. The offseason is here. And it is a mammoth one. Almost two decades have passed since uncertainty hovered around the program like this.

4 weeks ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann

Ryan Odom’s “core values” have remained the same at his four previous head coaching stops Ryan Odom stands close to the wall. Khakis. A V-Sabre quarter-zip. He is a khaki-and-quarter-zip guy this time of year, more of a joggers-and-sweatshirt guy come basketball season. In this video, Odom begins, after a second, to speak. What he’s saying is not the important part. The important part is what is behind him. Odom is in the head coach’s office.

1 month ago | cavalierdaily.com | Michael Liebermann

California Coach Mark Madsen sat there and stuttered. His answer had started with a resounding declaration, repeated twice for emphasis — “we are going to have great success here,” he said. But now he had run aground on a thorny sentence. “And to start it off with a home win against a —” Madsen paused. He looked into space, his mind sifting through possible answers. He was sitting in a room giving a press conference, moments after his team had polished off a 75-61 drubbing of Virginia Jan. 8.