Coach Mooney's 19 years at Richmond makes him the third longest tenured coach in the A10, behind John Chaney and Phil Martelli. Bob Mckillop coached for 33 years. Chris Mooney says he would like to retire from Richmond sometime after his son, a sixth-grader, graduates from college. He is 51 now, and ten years seems too short. One could argue that another 15 or 20 years seems about right.

I have heard several times that UR has an NIL program. If so, what is it called? How does one contribute? And how does that get administered? Who receives funds and under what conditions?

68-64 .. go Spiders.

Should be issued 1/8/24.Expect #16 or better.

Keep it rollin' Spiders!!

and can unionize.

The SBA is ranked in the top-20 of all undergraduate business schools (yes, rankings are important). Our university is making tremendous strides.

to Tristen Wheeler RVA Sports Award winner, Male Athlete of the year for 2024. Also Addie Budnik as nominee for Female Athlete of the Year.

at home AND in conference, Has a great ring to it! Same goes for the women!

https://richmond.com/sports/college...57ebfeed9588.html#tracking-source=home-sports

This is mainly about JMU move to the Sun Belt and football media coverage but the comments about Flo Sports enumerated below resonate with me.


But the CAA announced an expansion to the FloSports deal in August 2021. The expansion included streaming exclusivity, which meant no more in-house MadiZONE and Facebook Live broadcasts, though linear TV broadcasts were still available.
The FloSports configuration wasn’t a popular one with fans. While MadiZONE and Facebook Live broadcasts were free, FloSports subscriptions were available for options of $95.88 annually, or $12.50 per month, heading into the 2021-22 school year.
Bourne expressed on more than one occasion in his periodic “Bourne Dialogue” letters to the JMU community that he didn’t feel FloSports was the best option for JMU.

starts in 10 days with new Coach. February 16, Niagara at home.

6'6" PF out of Oak Forest, IL. Offers from DePaul, Toledo, and Cleveland State.

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Triple header today!
1pm - Lacrosse vs Maryland
4pm - Men's basketball @ vcu
6pm - Women’s basketball vs Fordham

Go Spiders! Bring home the Triple Crown!

Lets see how many on this board are heading to the game tomorrow? Will be there +2. Debating between the pre game block party or cobra cabana for prior to tipoff.

My observation only-CM for only the second time in his UR coaching career has made adjustments, the first was when David G announced he was transferring out. He stayed and CM adjusted the O to be more free and for the kids more fun, leading to the two NCAA appearances and the sweet 16. For the next decade he kept trying to plug all the new kids into to this system and it just did not work.
Nelson and Burton transfer out and CM has finally adjusted again. He is letting these talented kids play to their strengths and not yanking them on a perceived mistake, the kids play like they are having fun and looking at each other with trust and support and not over their shoulder at the bench. ALL of them are good and fun to watch AND they are improving.
Spiderdad your son played a tough game. He can fix his free throws. Rewatch the game and his FT. Easy fix.

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what a thrill it was to be at the Robins Center last night for the biggest Richmond home court win in what seems like years...the house was rocking from start to finish...after stumbling out of the gate this special Spiders team battled Dayton on both ends of the court before finally taking home the hard earned win...

the physical and mental toughness of these guys is something Richmond fans haven't seen too much of over the years...the confidence is super high as it should be...you can see it so well in the offensive sets...they know they someone is going to make a winning play...last night King, Bigelow, Bailey, Hunt and Quinn, as well as, reserves Walz, Roche, and Harris all made plays that characterize winning basketball teams...

by now I'm sure most Spiders fans have enjoyed professional highlights of last night great moments...I've tried to include a few of the key defensive stops, spectacular rebounds and clutch FTs, as well as, Jordan King one on one versus DaRon Holmes for the bucket...if you make it to the end the joy of victory is very visible as the court is stormed by UR students...I'm glad I got to see it again!

ha! finally, I hope the guy from the GW game was watching Quinn on TV, or in the Robins Center...he went to the bucket often and did a great job on Holmes!

this team has now proven it can play with the best in the A-10...now comes the next challenge, wearing the bullseye on our backs...I have no doubt these guys can handle it...they've convinced me!

Go Spiders!

IMO he is the reason why the Spiders can beat Dayton Sat and have a special season.
He is one on those rare players that has the swagger and confidence, and can come through.
King has something imo, that no other player has had since Ive been watching, and thats, take over the game, this is my shit confidence. Gilly had the swagger without the shot, imo.
King takes over the game and he thrives on it.
Im excited to see where he take this team.

I like looking at their site because they use a lot of opinions instead of just 1, and have been pretty accurate over the years. 33 of the 84 brackets used has us in the dance, which puts us as the 3rd team out. This site also gives you a pretty good idea of who the other bubble teams are that we are competing with.

72-62 Spiders

Poll

1. Richmond – 33 (4)
2. Saint Joseph's – 31 (2)
T-3. High Point – 21
T-3. Massachusetts – 21
5. Hobart – 14
6. St. Bonaventure – 6

Number in parenthesis denotes first-place votes

Atlantic 10 Men's Lacrosse Preseason All-Conference Team

ATTACK
Dalton Young, Richmond
Levi Anderson, Saint Joseph's
Carter Page, Saint Joseph's

MIDFIELD
Nick Rizzo, High Point
Lance Madonna, Richmond
Matt Bohmen, Saint Joseph's

DEFENSE
Hunter Smith, Richmond
Patrick Clemens, Saint Joseph's
Levi Verch, Saint Joseph's

FACE OFF SPECIALIST
Caleb Hammett, Massachusetts

LONG STICK MIDFIELDER
Tommy Stull, Richmond

GOALKEEPER
Matt Knote, Massachusetts

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2020 odds of beating OBI were so damn hard -odds of winning this game is much better - spiders 74-73

This stinks. The NIT will be opened to more teams from P5 conferences. Even if UR wins the regular season and loses the A10 tournament, it could be shut out of the NIT.

For the 2024 NIT, conference regular season champions that do not win their conference tournament or are not otherwise selected to the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship will not receive an automatic bid to the NIT. Instead, the NIT will guarantee two teams (based on the NET rankings) from each of six conferences (Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12 and Southeastern). The top two teams in the NET rankings not qualifying for the NCAA men’s basketball tournament from each conference, regardless of won-loss record, will be selected. Additionally, the 12 teams automatically selected will be guaranteed the opportunity to host a game in the first round of the NIT.

Tons of good observations and reflections in the game thread but here are a few of mine.

1. Our defense makes other teams play our game. Dayton is a Top 20 team and their offense was completely disrupted for 40 mintues by our defense. Our guys (every single one) works so hard on defense to work off of screens and cuts and stay in front of their man. Simply outstanding and it has to be so frustrating for the other team to not be able to establish any rhythm.
2. Holmes: We reduced the a 6'10 national player of the year candidate to shooting 3's from 30 feet. Again, our defense--elite. Was he scared of Quinn or something?
3. Two front-runners for A-10 POY head to head: Holmes is probably still in the lead but King certainly got the best of him yesterday. And if you are looking for a statement play POY its King hitting the game sealing bucket over Holmes.
4. Player of the game: Entire starting 5. They all made big plays at key times and I think every player had a nice counterpunch on offense every time Dayton made a bucket. But if I had to name one player it is Dji Bailey. His defense is elite and he made big play after big play all game long. He picked up big fouls with his drives on Santos and Holmes and the dunks were emphatic statements. Such a swiss army knife of good plays on both ends.
5. D-Lo: I think it has been underappreciated how good he is and such an unselfish compliment to King. He made some huge plays, the step back 3, the drive to the hole and 1 in the second half. Have to wonder what our record is, if he doesn't get hurt.
6. Bigs 15 rebounds. Are you serious?

Electric atmosphere, students were awesome. When full the Robins Center is an intimidating place to play our home court. This team is really good but what makes them special to me is they work their ass*s off the entire game and they carry themselves with a confidence level that I think is intimidating to play against. Every time, it seems a team makes a big play on us, we answer immediately.

The 15 point 1st half against Dayton might be the best defensive effort by the Spiders during a half in the history of the program when you consider it was against a 16th ranked team. There possibly might have been other halfs with less points before the shot clock was added or against much less talented teams. Not only are our 5 starters outstanding defenders, but also our subs. Tyne is glued to the player he is guarding, Harris is quick and strong and Roche might be playing better on D than A.