Tony Bennett
Head Basketball Coach

Three-time National Coach of the Year Tony Bennett enters his 11th year as the Dean and Markel Families Men's Head Basketball Coach at the University of Virginia. Bennett came to Charlottesville after spending the previous three seasons as the head coach at Washington State, where he was the 2007 National Coach of the Year.

​Virginia has amassed a 254-89 (.741) record in 10 seasons under Bennett’s direction. The Cavaliers won their first NCAA national championship in 2019 after posting a school-record 35 wins and earning a share of their ninth ACC regular-season title. Bennett earned ACC Coach of the Year honors for the fourth time as UVA earned its fourth No. 1 seed for the NCAA Tournament in its school-record sixth straight NCAA Tournament appearance. Bennett recorded his 300th career win vs. Marshall as the Cavaliers amassed their most points (100) during his tenure. UVA has won 29 or more games in five of the last six seasons and 23 or more games in a school-best seven straight seasons under Bennett's direction.  

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Jason Williford
Associate Head Coach

Jason Williford is in his 11th year with the University of Virginia men's basketball program. He served as an assistant men's basketball coach for his first nine seasons before being promoted to associate head coach after the 2017-18 season. Williford is his 19th year as a men's assistant basketball coach at the collegiate level.

Willford has helped the Cavaliers capture three ACC regular-season championships, two ACC Tournament titles and six NCAA Tournament appearances in his nine seasons. UVA has won 30 or more games in three of the past five seasons and reached No. 1 in the AP rankings this season for the first time since 1982.

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Brad Soderberg
Assistant Coach

Brad Soderberg is in his fifth season as an assistant coach at Virginia. Soderberg arrived at Virginia after serving as head coach of Lindenwood University for six seasons from 2009-15. 
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Soderberg also served as head coach at Saint Louis (2002-07), South Dakota State (1993-95) and Loras College (1988-93). He has posted a 338-204 career record in 19 seasons as a collegiate head coach. He coached at Wisconsin for six years from 1995-2001 where he started as an assistant coach under Tony Bennett's father, Dick. Soderberg helped the Badgers advance to four NCAA Tournaments, including the 2000 Final Four, and one NIT appearance. In 2000-01, Soderberg took over as the interim head coach early in the season, and along with assistant coach Tony Bennett, guided Wisconsin to an 18-11 overall record and NCAA Tournament appearance. Soderberg was the first Wisconsin coach since 1911 to win his first eight games, and the first to lead the Badgers to the NCAA Tournament in his first year. He also spent one year as an assistant coach at Saint Louis in 2001-02 under former Washington head coach Lorenzo Romar. ​

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Orlando Vandross
Assistant Coach

Orlando Vandross enters his second season as an assistant coach with the Virginia men's basketball program after serving three seasons as director of recruiting/player development. Vandross spent five seasons as an assistant coach for Charlotte from 2011-15 after 13 seasons at Boston University as an assistant, including three as associate head coach.

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Larry Mangino
​Director of Scouting/Recruiting

Larry Mangino begins his fourth season as director of scouting/recruiting for the Virginia men’s basketball program. Mangino brings 28 years of coaching experience, including nine years as a head coach and two years at the NBA level, to head coach Tony Bennett’s staff.

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Ronnie Wideman
Associate AD for Basketball Administration/Operations

Ronnie Wideman is the associate athletics director for men's basketball administration/operations at Virginia. Wideman joined the men's basketball staff at UVA in April of 2009 as assistant director of men's basketball operations/video coordinator. 

He was an operations assistant in the men's basketball program at Washington State University for three years prior to joining the staff at Virginia. At Washington State, Wideman coordinated team travel, official visits of recruits and video exchange, organized summer camps, oversaw facility scheduling and the managerial staff, managed the program's budget and performed a number of other administrative duties. 

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Johnny Carpenter
Director of Player Personnel

Johnny Carpenter enters his fifth season at Virginia and second season as director of player personnel where he assists in opponent and self-scouting, recruiting and video analysis. Carpenter served as the basketball technology assistant for three seasons at UVA from 2015-18.

In the summer of 2018, Carpenter helped Slovakia's U18 Men's National Team to a 14th-place finish in the FIBA Euro Cup B Division as an assistant coach. Carpenter assisted Slovakia's U16 team in the FIBA Euro Cup B Division in the summer of 2019. Carpenter returned to Charlottesville in 2015 after a one-year stint as an assistant video coordinator with the NBA's Dallas Mavericks in 2014-15. 

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