The former star Cavalier basketball player, who left school a year early in 1974 to play in the ABA and eventually the NBA, will deliver his talk, “The Long Way Home: Gus Gerard’s Path to Recovery,” at 7 p.m.  in the Newcomb Hall Ballroom.

That was the backdrop for a story that began to circulate in San Antonio over the weekend that said Virginia coach Dave Leitao might have interest in taking over the job at Providence.
Leitao, who is in San Antonio with his staff at the Final Four, seemed taken aback by the rumor.

When Dave Leitao walked out of Virginia’s locker room the night that the Cavaliers’ basketball season came to an uneventful close last week, he chose his last words carefully.