Ryan Odom
Ryan Odom (born July 11, 1974)
Current position: Head men’s basketball coach
Current team: VCU Rams
Current conference: Atlantic 10 Conference (A-10)
Charlotte record: 8-11 (.421)
Lenoir-Rhyne record^: 21–10 (.677)
UMBC record: 97-60 (.618)
Utah State record: 44-25 (.638)
VCU record: 0-0 (.000)
Overall record^: 170-106 (.616)
Career Accomplishments:
- NCAA National Championships: 0
- NCAA Tournament Appearances: 2 (2018, 2023)
- NCAA Tournament Sweet Sixteen: 0
- NIT Championships: 0
- NIT Appearances: 1 (2022)
- CIT Appearances: 1 (2017)
- Atlantic 10 Regular Season Champion: 0
- America East Regular Season Champion: 1 (2021)
- Atlantic 10 Tournament Champion: 0
- America East Tournament Champion: 1 (2018)
- NCAA Division II Tournament Appearances: 1 (2016)
Awards:
- Hugh Durham Award: 1 (2018)
- Joe B. Hall Award: 1 (2017)
- America East Coach of the Year: 1 (2021)
Coaching Career (head coach, unless noted):
| 2023-present | VCU |
| 2021-2023 | Utah State |
| 2016-2021 | UMBC |
| 2015-2016 | Lenoir-Rhyne |
| 2015 | Charlotte (interim HC) |
| 2014-2015 | Charlotte (assoc. HC) |
| 2010-2014 | Charlotte (asst) |
| 2003-2010 | Virginia Tech (asst) |
| 2000-2003 | American (asst) |
| 1999-2000 | UNC Asheville (asst) |
| 1997-1999 | Furman (asst) |
| 1996-1997 | South Florida (admin. asst) |
Ryan Odom Facts
- Ryan Odom
- Born July 11, 1974
- Hometown: Durham, North Carolina
- Alma Mater: Hampden-Sydney College (BA, 1996)
- Son of former South Carolina, Wake Forest and East Carolina head coach, Dave Odom
- Four-year starting PG at Hampden-Sydney, leading the Tigers to an 80-30 record and two D-III NCAA Tournaments
- First coaching jobs were for Seth Greenberg at South Florida, Larry Davis at Furman, Eddie Biedenbach at UNC Asheville and Jeff Jones at American
- Rejoined Greenberg in 2003, spending the next seven years on his staff at Virginia Tech
- Became an assistant at Charlotte under Alan Major in 2010 and was elevated to associate head coach four years later
- Took over as interim HC in January 2015 when Major took a medical leave, going 8-11 over the remainder of that season
- Spent one year as the head coach at Lenoir-Rhyne in Hickory, NC, going 21-10 and reaching the Division II Tournament
- Hired as the new head coach at UMBC in March of 2016, going 97-60 in five seasons at the helm
- Took the Retrievers to the CIT in year one and NCAA Tournament in year two, winning 21+ games in each of those seasons
- UMBC shocked the college basketball world in 2018 by becoming the first ever 16-seed to beat a 1-seed in the NCAA Tournament, beating #1 overall seed Virginia by 20 points
- Odom was honored with the Hugh Durham Award as the nation’s best mid-major head coach
- The Retrievers won a share of the 2021 America East title, with Odom earning league COY honors along the way
- In April 2021, Odom was introduced as the new head coach of the Utah State Aggies in the Mountain West
- In his second year, Odom led the Aggies to 26 wins and a 2nd-place MWC finish; the Aggies made the NCAA Tournament
- Left Utah State in March 2023 to move back East and become the new head coach at VCU
Ryan Odom Coaching Tree
- Griff Aldrich (Longwood)
- Eric Skeeters (Delaware State)
^ overall record includes head coaching positions at both the NCAA Division I and Division II levels
