WFMY News 2 - 19 Mar 2018
Head Coach Of History-Making UMBC Basketball Team Played High School Ball In The Triad. Ryan Odom played basketball, and tennis at Reynolds High School in Winston-Salem back in 1991 and 1992. Author: Janson Silvers. Published: 4:09 PM EDT March 17 ...
Greensboro News & Record - 16 Jul 2018 Odom, the basketball coach at UMBC, was getting ready to run a clinic on fast-break basketball. It was somehow fitting for the 44-year-old coach, the son of Dave Odom and the architect of the 40-minute miracle that was March's shocking defeat of top ...
Baltimore Sun - 18 Jul 2018
Coach Ryan Odom and athletic director Tim Hall will be on hand at Los Angeles' Microsoft Theater, as will graduated guards K.J. Maura and Jourdan Grant (Archbishop Spalding), rising senior forward Joe Sherburne, rising senior forward-center Nolan ...
College Hoops Watch (blog) - 06 Jul 2018
In this episode of Marching to Madness, hosts Blake Lovell and Ken Cross welcome in UMBC head coach Ryan Odom. Topics of discussion include: the wide range of emotions following the victory over Virginia, how the momentum has carried over into the ...
Baltimore Sun - 10 Jul 2018
The question was ridiculous — “You're famous?” — but Brandon Horvath, a decidedly nonfamous person, considered it anyway. At the UMBC men's basketball team's day camp last month, small campers approached the rising sophomore forward from West ...
Hickory Daily Record - 27 Jun 2018
Rick Barnes, Mike Houston and Ryan Odom will all be present for the event Aug. 7 at Moretz Mills. The annual dinner, which highlights the accomplishments of the past year while ushering in a new season for the Bears' sports teams, will also celebrate ...
Baltimore Sun - 26 Mar 2018
UMBC men's basketball coach Ryan Odom has agreed to a new contract, the school announced Monday, ensuring that the architect of the NCAA tournament's greatest upset will remain in Catonsville for at least another season. The new deal, terms of which ...
Monitor - 13 Jul 2018
Retrievers coach Ryan Odom concurs. “On the court, he's special. He's the guy who has tremendous speed, doesn't matter what level he's playing at, that speed exists,” Odom said. “His ability to score the ball always comes easy to him.” It's uncommon to ...
Baltimore Sun - 08 Jun 2018
After overseeing the UMBC men's basketball team's historic turnaround, culminating with a stunning NCAA tournament upset last season, Retrievers coach Ryan Odom will make nearly double his previous salary under his new contract, according to a copy of ...
Baltimore Sun - 29 Jun 2018
"We are so excited for Jairus as he enters the next chapter of his basketball career,” coach Ryan Odom said. “All of Retriever Nation will be pulling for him as he pursues his dream of playing in the NBA." Both of Lyles' career-defining moments came in ...
Baltimore Sun - 02 Apr 2018 Odom led the Retrievers to a program-record 25 victories this season, including two of the biggest wins in school history. UMBC stunned top-seeded Vermont in the America East Conference tournament final on a last-second shot by Jairus Lyles, then ...
Baltimore Sun (blog) - 20 Apr 2018
The hits just keep on coming for coach Ryan Odom and the UMBC men's basketball team. In this case, though, we're talking about pitches, and not the kind Odom usually makes to Retriever recruits. Odom will be delivering the ceremonial first pitch before ...
Baltimore Sun - 20 Mar 2018
UMBC has begun preliminary discussions with men's basketball coach Ryan Odom about a contract extension, athletic director Tim Hall said Monday, a move that could secure the near-term future of the architect of the Retrievers' turnaround and the NCAA ...
Baltimore Sun - 16 Mar 2018
When Ryan Odom was hired as the UMBC men's basketball coach two years ago, he was ignorant of how the team played. He considered that a virtue. The Retrievers had won seven of the 32 games in their final season under Aki Thomas. There was a lot of ...
CapitalGazette.com - 23 Mar 2018
By far the biggest story to come out of the first weekend of the 2018 NCAA Tournament involved UMBC beating Virginia. It marked the first time a 16th seed had ever beaten a No. 1 seed and has been called the greatest upset in college basketball history.
NewsOK.com - 19 Mar 2018
STILLWATER — Mike Boynton figured if a 16 seed were to ever upset a No. 1 seed in the NCAA Tournament, a coach like Ryan Odom would orchestrate it. Friday night, Odom's University of Maryland, Baltimore County Retrievers shocked college basketball ...
ESPN - 09 Jun 2018
UMBC coach Ryan Odom will make $425,000 per season through 2023 -- nearly double the base salary he made last season -- as part of his new contract. In addition, Odom's deal, agreed to in March, includes $75,000 for appearances and a number of ...
Roanoke Times - 13 Mar 2018
If there is anybody qualified to compare Virginia's current men's basketball team to its celebrated predecessors from the mid-1980s, it might be Ryan Odom. Odom may have a better take about this year's UVa team after his Maryland-Baltimore County team ...
Richmond.com - 16 Mar 2018
CHARLOTTE, N.C. – Ryan Odom has had a number of coaching influences in his career. The University of Maryland Baltimore County coach is the son of a college coach, Dave Odom, who was head coach at Wake Forest and South Carolina. Odom also was ...
