If the season were to end today Mooney would have a good chance of being selected A10 Coach of the Year based on preseason expectations of 11th ranked and currently 1st due to tiebreaker. Dayton's coach is also in the running due to their NET ranking, but I think Mooney edges him out.

Tough draw as the #1 seed. We either get George Mason who just embarrassed us, or St. Joe’s who has a lot of offensive fire power. Hope it’s not an early upset as we need to at least make the finals to have a shot at a bid.

I am really proud of this team. From last to first in so many ways. You did so many great things this season. Thank you guys.

How would you rank the 4 players below on the quality of professional basketball positions coming out of college?

Isaiah Bigelow
Tyler Burton
Jordan King
Neal Quinn

This should be a strong year for Richmond alumni basketball players moving on to professional basketball, which should help us in the portal. I would rank Isaiah and Jordan at the top with Neal and Tyler below them. Both Neal and Isaiah had very strong seasons, which should help them significantly. Tyler on the other hand, might have made a lot of NIL money, but his transfer probably significantly hurt is initial value as a pro.

Okay, fess up…who ordered these from Quentin? Kid’s got some talent.

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First ones are out, and the Spiders check in at #85. Colorado is #54, Wichita #88, and BC is #96.

UNI is #212, and Florida is #65. Charlotte is #110, Buffalo is #360, and Lafayette is #331.

Siena is dead last at #362.

42. Dayton
62. Mason
79. St. Joe's
85. Richmond
86. GW
91. Duquesne
94. UMass
121. Davidson
125. Loyola
127. Bona
138. VCU
181. La Salle
186. Fordham
192. Rhode Island
258. SLU

Do you think the NCAA should expand the tourney field.

The Spiders are far and away the most important thing in my life outside of family. Yet, they continue to destroy me. I have had a miserable weekend after our team crapped on a very promising season. If it weren't for the women's success and the excitement over traveling to support them in the NCAAs to temper my devastating feeling from the men's side, I may be in a mental hospital now. I'm sure somehow the players are more disappointed than me, but honestly I don't know how. I have no motivation to get anything done or enjoy time with family. As much as I absolutely love my Spiders and can't imagine anything to replace them, they literally make me ill. In the end, the Spiders may be the worse thing in my life - a horrible addiction worse than any drug I could imagine.

My two favorite schools with deep family ties to both. Techs two guards can lit it up on any given night. DB, show’em what happens against a wall!

Duquesne is in the same position we were in 2 years ago. The Duke have won 9 of the last 10 games. They have beaten VDU on Broad Street, Dayton, St. Louis, the Bonnies and George Washington in the last 5 games. Now the need to shut down VCU in the finals of the A10. GO DUQUESNE, BEAT VCU.

DRatings site projected us as a 1 seed in the NIT along with Villanova. No way we get left out and yes I want our group to play to win and make memories for themselves.

Not including Tyler in this thread since assume we will continue to use the dedicated thread for TB that was started a while back .. Think the list below is complete but if I have missed anyone, please let me know. Assume Andre and Marcus will start and maybe Isaiah if he is fully recovered from last year's injury. Haven't followed VCU closely and will be interested to see how it works out for Jason Nelson ..

Outbound transfers

• Andre Weir - Junior - FGCU
• Isaiah Wilson - Senior - Winthrop
• Marcus Randolph - Junior - St. Peter's
• Malcolm Dread - Sophomore - Mt St Mary's
• Jason Nelson - Redshirt Sophomore - VCU

Brothers and Sons of former Spider greats

• Nikolas Gustavson - Redshirt Sophomore - U. of Texas Tyler (D2) - had been at U of North Alabama last year but never played
• Jarin Stevenson - Freshman at Bama
• Curtis Blair III - Redshirting this year at Liberty

Every year it's wild. So far some if the wildest story lines
1. Dan Monson. Let go as the Long Beach State coach last week. Stayed on until the end and just won conference tourney. DANCING.
2. Temple hoops. Flagged for potential point shaving (and they certainly played like it), in title game today to possibly dance.

It’s that time of year again and great to get outside and not have to fret about any NCAA men’s basketball.
Rick can I join your grumpy Spiders club

Please explain why we went back to this defense that can easily be exposed? St. Joe's exploited it so badly with no adjustment by Mooney.

5 days to regroup and rest. Spiders 72-65 over TBD.

How we feeling this morning everyone? I’m excited 🕷🏀

I was under the impression that we had a strong team this year, obviously, that’s not the case. A good hign school team could
have done as well if not better.

A10 Media Day is today - Mooney and Quinn will be interviewed on the the Field of 68 live stream at 10:15 ET, and their official press conference is at 12:30pm ET on ESPN+.

We were picked 11th in the preseason poll.

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After Saturday, I’m glad st Joe took care of GMU. Sorry VCU squeaked it out. Gotta to have a Four game win streak starting tomorrow.

Thought we could use a thread for people to discuss projected brackets. It’s definitely confusing with many pundits declaring us as the auto-Bid with the one seed, and it seems we’re not even on the bubble for others. Curious if anyone has found some recent commentary on our bubble chances after the VCU win?

So last two games there has been a variation of box and one on King. STJ covered him
tight and left big man in bottom of lane to prevent layups and left our bigs open in lane.
Walz and Quinn made them pay for this strategy. GMU assigned a chaser on King and we
spread floor leaving some lanes open to basket but we missed a lot of short shots. Moving
forward I see that is going to be the strategy against us. Take away Hunt and make the rest
of the team score. We may need Noyes to come in some to give us another outside shooter.
Give GMU credit for executing their game plan very well and giving our coaching staff a chance
to prepare for our next meeting.

Time for Spidernation to join Women’s March Madness.

Seems like our opponents have installed the A10's version of the Jordan Rules. I have missed more time watching than I would have liked late in the season, and when watching on TV I seem to miss the strategy much more than watching a game in person. From comments on here and what I have gleaned, it seems when the other team goes into the Jordan Rules, and face guards Jordan all over the court, we have not adjusted great. There have been some games like VCU - where Jordan just makes crazy contested shots - that is great - but does not seem like necessarily a sustainable coaching strategy. Other times - in games I missed - it sounds like we camped him outside to try to isolate the other 4.

While Jordan has shown the propensity to go hero ball and win us games like very few can, in a cavernous, early in the day, site lines questionable, defensive oriented first two rounds of the A10 tourney, I think we need a plan B as well. What are the best options to overcome the Jordan Rules in this setting?