Relax guys.

Don't you know this year is now a HUGE success for our men's basketball program.

Because the Eagles just won the SB.

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Hardt would receive it and look at it quizically, Yawn, and put it in the corner and go one with his day.

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He would go "wow 2-0, great job!" and have the interns send an email out about it

Happy opening week! Nice to see some of the national recognition from D1 Baseball above. We should get the pre-season poll by Thursday and I think we're going to be voted around the 2-4 spot. No reason why we can't be a serious challenger for the A10 crown this year.

E-Rod as the Friday guy makes total sense. Curious who will emerge as our other weekend starters - I'm pretty confident that Bilka (Wagner transfer) will be a weekend regular for us, and there's a lot of options for the 3rd spot with Reinke, Topolski, Hinchliffe, Rigot (Susquehanna), and Gruber (Neosho CC). Hoping we can stay healthy enough to have solid depth all year.

Hardt would receive it and look at it quizically, Yawn, and put it in the corner and go one with his day.

Well, I watched the last few minutes, and LSU just tightened up on offense and played not to lose, which of course caused the loss. LSU is Kenpom 81st, and in 15th place in the conference with a 1-9 record.

I know Dji was probably ready to move on and play in a power conference and all that comes along with it. BUT, I just wonder how much effort went into keeping him. we heard that they backed up the Brinks Truck for Burton. Again the messaging from moon didn't give me the opinion we went all in to keep him. Likely he does not push us over the edge, but have to think if we had Dji and a healthy DLo, and one more dynamic piece we are a pretty good A10 team this year, and moon is not sliding closer to .500 lifetime. I think again, if the effort was not made, or not very strong - it points to moon's overall lack of emphasis on defending and rebounding. both of which Dji was very good at.

urmite said:

Richmond Spiders NET Team Sheet at Bracketologists

bracketologists.com

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we should have scheduled more d2 teams.

hope to be there

SFspidur said:

LOL, believe he has one around 10 or 11 and one around 7 or 8. He also has a son who’s about 14.

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I don't know either, but that would have been my guess. One daughter was on bench wearing a Richmond jersey.

LOL, believe he has one around 10 or 11 and one around 7 or 8. He also has a son who’s about 14.

Spiders4ever said:

11-10- 131-151

Villanova -2.5 Vs Xavier
Bonnies -5.5 Vs GW
Maryland -10 Vs Rutgers
Nebraska -2.5 Vs Ohio State
LaSalle +1 Vs UMass

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2-3

133-154


Clemson -5.5 Vs UNC

urfan1 said:

Can we keep Aaron around long enough so that he can coach his daughter? We need to convince her she wants to play ay Richmond.

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How old is his daughter?

To those of you who have not gotten around to viewing a Lady Spiders Game, Thursday night is the time to do so.

Spiders move up two NET spots to #29, right behind Oklahoma State.

Fairfield has slipped to #47, moving back to a Q2 win.

Joe’s moved up three spots to #49 based on their drubbing of Loyola yesterday. Huge game Thursday!

I will be there with my 17 year old daughter who goes to men’s games but will be seeing her first women’s game and I will be bringing a former men’s basketball coach at Lafayette who has lived in Richmond for many years

More evidence Putin does not care for his own people.

Gallipoli said:

The Russians are also using camels to transport supplies to the front. I didn't know camels could survive in the snow.


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They need to find some TonTons…

bullfrog91 said:

He meant a center

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Yes position 5, not 5 players…

The Russians are also using camels to transport supplies to the front. I didn't know camels could survive in the snow.


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The donkey patrol is taking off for Russia. Keep it up guys... it's a winning strategy.

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4 of final 6 are at home, which is nice, but 2x against St. Joe's and then Davidson isn't bad and you can never consider VCU a gimme. Still plenty of tough games left, but fantastic to be rolling like this on a 10-game winning streak.

Agree that Thursday's game is absolutely huge. We already have the win over Mason in our sole meeting of the year, and would love to assure no worse than a split with St. Joe's and push the lead over them to 1.5 games with a win on Thursday.

Joe's has a really tough final 5 games with 2x against us, their second Mason game, and Rhode Island not the road who can be tough.

Mason also has a tricky tough finish with their second game against Joe's plus URI, Davidson, and Duquesne mixed in there.

So nobody is a position to just cruise the rest of the way...gotta keep the intensity up.

should have said 2 yers ago. 21-22 winning season, A10 tournament champ, beat Iowa. Follow up 22-23 with a losing season, losing conference record. Head scratcher that CM could not build on success again. I had enough, did not renew tickets for 23-24. I anticipated another long pause until another NCAA bid. No regrets.

After 25 plus years as season ticket holder, I lost interest.

urfan1 said:

Agreed, strange we still have to play them twice in regular season.

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what's even stranger is playing them twice in the second half of the season...usually if your're playing a team twice the meetings are split...one in the first half and one in the second half of the regular season.

I believe Women's schedule is like the Men's...there's several opponents each team plays twice...we've played Dayton twice already...will play VCU again and St. Joseph's...

Big game Thursday night. Mason and the Hawks won't give us any breathing room!

Go Spiders!

From Duquesne Coach

QUOTABLE
"This is one of the days when you go to the office and you learn a little about yourself, your team, and you get your teeth kicked in and that's what happened today," head coach Dan Burt said. "We certainly didn't play our best basketball by any stretch. I thought before the game that we had a really good game plan, and we were well prepared for it. We knew what they were going to do. They don't really deviate from what they do, and we couldn't stop them. I've been in the Atlantic 10 for 18 years as an assistant and as a head coach, and that's easily one of the three or four best teams that I have seen. They have positional size, they shoot the ball so beautifully, and they move the ball even more beautifully. That's a great basketball team that we played today with tremendous veteran experience. I will say kudos to our team for never quitting and playing with great effort until the end of the game. We won the fourth quarter with taking Meg out, who never comes out of the game, and them having starters in at the three-minute mark. So, I'll take that away that was a good sign, but obviously very disappointed. And we'll wash this off at midnight because we must prepare for UMass."

localspider said:

I bailed out three years ago; 7 season tickets, donations to MBB, and interest.

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3 years ago - understand the sentiment and close to feeling the same way now but 3 years ago was amazing ?