Griff Aldrich — law partner, CFO, basketball coach — might have the most surreal March Madness tale.
Longwood’s Griff Aldrich celebrates the Lancers’ first Division I NCAA tournament bid.
Both of his grandfathers graduated from the Naval Academy and were ship captains during World War II. Aldrich graduated from Hampden-Sydney, a Division III school located about six miles from Longwood, in 1996. As a senior, he was team captain but only played 10 games because he was diagnosed the previous summer with bladder cancer. Aldrich had applied to law school as a senior, but he really wanted to coach.“My passion was always basketball,” he said.
He also created an AAU team called His Hoops — Aldrich is a devout Christian — not to travel the country and attract college coaches but to help inner-city kids. After-school practice started every day with study hall and often ended at the Aldrich’s house for dinner.
UMBC became part of basketball history in 2018, when it upset Vermont in the final of the America East tournament The Lancers — whose greatest player was the late Jerome Kersey and who won just seven games the season before Aldrich was hired — improved right away, winning 16 games in Aldrich’s first season, including beating High Point, coached by Tubby Smith, twice. “Got to be one of the great coaching matchups of all time,” Aldrich said before the first of those games. “Tubby with 606 wins and a national title, me with 12 wins and a law degree.
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