Surely you’ve heard by now, but I’ll report it anyway. Virginia has hired former DePaul basketball coach Dave Leitao to replace Pete Gillen. Leitao has a somewhat short but solid resume as a head coach and also worked for long time as an assistant to Jim Calhoun at Connecticut.
Here are a ton of links about the hire and what it means for Virginia in the near future:
TheSabre.com
The Daily Progress – 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
Richmond Times-Dispatch – 1, 2, 3
The Roanoke Times – 1, 2
The Washington Post
The Cavalier Daily
The Free Lance-Star (Fredericksburg, VA)
The Virginian-Pilot
Gregg Doyel (SportsLine.com)
The Duke Basketball Report
And a couple less-glowing articles from Chicago about DePaul’s unwillingness to fight for Leitao:
Jay Mariotti
Rick Telander
(Thanks to The Sabre and the DBR for the link compilations).