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Damn. This is getting ridiculous.

Single-site event in Vegas next season.

Fox Sports’ NIT rival is official, an executive briefed on the network’s plans told The Athletic on Wednesday.

The 16-team College Basketball Crown tournament will feature schools that failed to qualify for the men’s NCAA Tournament with two squads each from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East receiving automatic bids.

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I thought Richmond College (and Westhampton College) didn't exist anymore, that they had been merged to the UR College of Arts & Sciences or something like that?

I remember RC dean Dick Mateer. Good guy.

Imagine your the AD, and your reviewing the basketball season as a whole this year - what would you rate it?

And not publicized the fact?

Hello, anyone home?

One thread for all your tournament discussion needs.

Duquesne off to a good start against BYU, up 11-2 early.

Son of Jarod Stephenson former Spider
Nephew of Greg Stephenson former Spider
Both were pretty good players in the Dooley/ Beilein era
Both had long professional careers in South Korea

New coach at Benedictine. Good luck to Coach Dooley. Still consistently supports the Spiders. Who knows maybe he'll send a player our way.

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Do we know that there are deep pockets funding $$$ the Spider Collective? Wondering if throwing a hundo or two even matters.

Let’s go win the damn thing.

I’ve thought a lot about the 2010 season and how it was our best regular season and only at large bid under Mooney. This comes with a asterisk because of the 2011 A10 tournament win, which would have been an at large year (I vividly remember Jay Bilas saying we were a lock to make the tournament the day after beating #24 Temple in the Semifinals that year). And in 2020 a win in the quarter finals may have been enough, and a semi final win should have done it.

Point is we’ve been in at large contention 3 times during Mooney’s tenure and only one year (2010) we were a lock regardless of slipping up in a quarter final game of the A10. Our main goal before and during each season needs to be getting into at large position before the conference tournament - as The A10 will stay a competitive league and you’ll likely draw a team that can beat you on any given night in the quarter finals.

We need to schedule like we did in 2010 and win enough of those games - that year is the blueprint. Would anyone be able to post our exact results from that year in a nice format here? I tried on my phone but it was a mess. Curious to see what our efficiency metrics looked like, did Kenpom exist? I know our RPI was awesome but how would our NET have looked? Thought it would be an interesting exercise.

Roster includes returnees,transfers and incoming freshmen.

Missing is Cornell transfer TE Matt Robbert.

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Seeing that Gohlke, The tree point shooter, from Oakland is possibly leaving Oakland and going to get $250,000 in NIL money at a power school. I was wondering if Burton helped himself going to Nova? Was it a NIL deal? Thoughts?

"Hard to imagine the Tribe doing much better than Shafer. Really tough admissions standards. He was a great mentor and teacher for the Tribe players over the years."

I unfortunately think it is a low probability that U of R will ever be in a major conference due to the size of our school, but I would be in favor of playing in the best possible conference.

I like being in the A10 despite the lower probability of making the NCAA. The conference offers very high quality basketball outside of the power conferences. We were the 2nd best non power conference this year and had an impressive 9 teams ranked in the top 100 NET. There is also incredible parity at the top half of the conference, which was demonstrated by all top 4 teams losing their 1st game in the A10 tournament.

I like Richmond basketball, because I enjoy watching our team play. Every game I watch gives me more happiness in my life. I also like to get to know the players over time and follow their progress after U of R. Sure, I want us to make the NCAA, but that is a small reason I follow U of R, which is similar to most fans, which is why we have the highest attendance of any school are size. I also enjoy going to the Robin Center and seeing my friends. Watching high quality basketball is much more important to me than playing in a mediocre league where we would have a much better chance of winning the conference tournament.

Over the past 5 years we have seen terrific basketball from our team and arguably the best in the history of our program. I believe Mooney has significantly improved as a coach and has built a wonderful family oriented culture, where past players stay involved in the program and help the current players. This culture along with great player development are significant benefits in keeping top talent and getting top talent in the transfer portal. Going forward I am very excited about our program which will be further aided by a strong mid-major NIL program.

And the same result while we remain mired in mediocrity and it’s not because of our players most of whom will join us as fellow alumni.

Alex, I’ll take VCU for $100

Let's end the season with a Power 6 run .. Spiders 72-65.

This needs it's own thread! Congratulations ladies! Fantastic season! Keep it rollin in the A10 tourny and NCAAs!

Awesome to see you make it back from the Bonnies and celebrate your championship at the vcu game! Really happy about the warm reception!

What happened the last 3 games for these Spiders? Won 6 games in a row following a loss to UMASS, which included wins over St. Joes and VCU, and then we lose to Mason by 18, lost to St. Joes in A10 tourney, and then lose in NIT to VA Tech. What happened these last 3 games.

Initially - I shrugged off the Mason loss, saying the team was coming down off their high of winning the A10 regular season title. Then we knew the St. Joes game would be tough, as they played us a tough recently with a limited roster, and had guys back from injury. Then we lay an egg vs in state ACC rival - VA Tech. I know the NIT can be a downer, but I thought when we drew VA Tech, that might be all the team needed to get up for this game - beat an in-state P6 team on their home court. But it never happened.

So what happened these last 3 games? Just bad games by King? Bad coaching? Team ran out of steam. Didn't want to play in NIT?