College basketball coaching legend Terry Holland dies at 80
Terry Holland, the gentlemanly coach who brought Ralph Sampson to Charlottesville and turned the University of Virginia into a college basketball power, has died at the age of 80.
Holland led the Cavaliers to nine NCAA tournament appearances – and two Final Fours – in his 16 years at the school while competing against a who’s who of ACC coaching legends, including Dean Smith, Mike Krzyzewski, Lefty Driesell and Jim Valvano.
Holland was diagnosed in 2019 with Alzheimer’s Disease and had recently entered a memory care facility.
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“He was a visionary, a positive coach,” former UVA team captain Bobby Stokes told the Richmond Times-Dispatch. “He made it his mission to make it like a family.”
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Terry Holland as a player
Holland was a star player for Driesell at Davidson, where he led the nation in field goal percentage as a senior in 1963-64.
He joined Driesell’s staff after he graduated and took over the coaching reins when Driesell took the job at Maryland in 1969.
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