Tony Bennett is retiring.
Bennett is stepping down from his position as Virginia's head basketball coach weeks before the 2024-25 season is set to begin.Bennett has been wildly successful during his 18-year stint as a head coach in college basketball and has transformed Virginia into a national power since he arrived in 2009. During his time coaching the Cavaliers, Bennett has posted a 364-136 record and is 189-82 in the ACC.
He is the son of longtime head coach Dick Bennett and played under him at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay. During his time as a player, the younger Bennett set the NCAA record for career three-point percentage . He spent three seasons in the NBA with the Charlotte Hornets. Bennett coached under his father as an assistant at Wisconsin from 1999 to 2003, then followed him to Washington State as one of his assistants and took over head coaching duties from him in 2006. In three seasons with the Cougars, he went 69-33 and 32-22 in the Pac-10. Washington State reached the NCAA tournament twice on his watch.Ryan Phillips is a senior writer on the Breaking and Trending News team at Sports Illustrated.
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