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Published on: 12/28/2006
Last Visited: 10/28/2007
Few references to the Virginia-American men's basketball game tonight will include the names of Jason Williford, Kieran Donohue and Greg Lyons.
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"If Jason and Kieran hadn't come up with the idea and pushed the idea pretty hard, I can't say that we would be playing even now.They just had a number of rational reasons and not just sentimental ones"
In eight seasons, Jones' teams made five NCAA Tournament appearances and won an NIT championship, but he was fired in 1998 after his final team went 11-19.
He will become the first former UVa basketball coach to bring another team to Charlottesville, and the circumstances had to be just right.