ODU coach Jones has cardiac arrest, in healthcare facility

Dec 21, 2023, 05:30 PM ET

Old Dominion guys’s basketball coach Jeff Jones had a cardiovascular disease Wednesday night and is anticipated to make a complete healing, the school announced Thursday.The school said that Jones, 63, was confessed to a health center in Honolulu, where Old Rule lost to TCU, 111-87, on Thursday in the Hawaiian Airlines Diamond Head Classic. “He is resting easily and anticipating a full recovery,” ODU stated in a declaration, adding that Jones will be held for observation for the next 48-72 hours.Assistant coach Kieran Donohue will be ODU’s interim head coach

for the rest of the competition, the school said. After Thursday, Old Rule is set up to play two more games in Hawaii.Jones has spent 31 seasons as a coach, the previous 11 with Old Dominion. He has actually led the Monarchs to a 203-132 record.Jones dipped into Virginia alongside Ralph Sampson in the early 1980s and became the youngest head coach in Atlantic Coast Conference history at

29 when he became Cavaliers coach in 1990. He invested 13 years as head coach at American before signing up with Old Dominion for the 2013-14 season. Jones has actually led groups to eight NCAA tournament looks, the last including the Monarchs in 2019. The Associated Press contributed to this report.