Terry Holland, the former University of Virginia men’s basketball coach who led the Cavaliers to a pair of Final Four appearances and an ACC Tournament Championship, died Sunday at the age of 80.
The Richmond Times-Dispatch, the first to report Holland’s death, said the former coach was diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease in 2019.
Holland guided the Cavaliers to more than 300 wins from 1974 to 1990. Under his leadership, Virginia won the NIT in 1980 and its first ACC Championship in school history in 1976. In addition, he won ACC Coach of the Year twice, in 1981 and 1982. He finished his time with Virginia assessing a 326-173 record.
ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips confirmed Holland’s death on Twitter, saying in a statement he leaves behind “an indelible imprint on the University of Virginia, the ACC, college basketball, and college athletics.”
“He was a true gentleman that embraced his players and colleagues as family,” Phillips said. “Our hearts will remain with his wife Ann and the entire Holland family.”
Holland became the athletic director for Davidson, where he played and coached before he went to Virginia, between 1990 and 1994. He returned to Charlottesville afterward to become Virginia’s athletics director until 2001. East Carolina University made him their AD in 2004 until he retired in 2012.
He survived by his wife, Ann, and their two daughters Ann-Michael and Kate.