Ladies sweep VCU!!!
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Great win, Spiders! Having momentum from this going into tournament is great. Gritty performance today and think they'll make some noise in the Coliseum next week.
Also great turnout by Spider fans downtown today. Always nice to see UR beat RPI at their place twice in one season. Great job ladies!
We win 67-63. UMass made us earn that one. Lots of FTs, and they kept making shots on the other end.
23 total points were scored in the last 1:55.
23 total points were scored in the last 1:55.
I was there. Place is too big to hold a women's tournament. We played a little tentative at times in the first half. I think we just outplayed them in the 2nd half. Fordham is a tough team, so it should be a good game. Planning on going again, especially since it's supposed to be free according to Cassadonte and the guy from Channel 12 (not Bill King or Ben Hamlin - shows how old I am).
Fordham is tough but I think Spiders will have momentum, (somewhat) home-court advantage and above all, inspiration from above. These young women are playing for a higher pURpose. Ginny Doyle and Natalie Lewis will guide the rest of the season and post-season play.
RIP
RIP
Ladies just lost by one to Fordham on a horrible FT with 1 second left that missed so badly, it bounced in in a crazy way. Uggggggh.
Sorry the Lady Spiders lost. I was switching channels and came up to the game be accident. I watched quite a bit of the game, and while observing, I realized why I do not watch women's basketball.
To me they're similar but different sports (men vs. women). It's similar to what men's and women's lacrosse are.
There's a huge gulf between the haves and have-nots in women's hoops, and for the most part the A10 is a have not conference. Unless a special player comes along that can dominate a game for a have not team there's no chance of success in the tournament. A team like UCONN has players on their bench that would be hall of famers here at Richmond. You can't compete against teams like that. Some of the girls in this conference have talent, but most of them would be never be offered a tryout even as a walk on for a team like UCONN.
In some college towns, women's hoops is a big draw. Here, and for the most part in the entire A10, it's not. They should have had the A10 women's tournament at a smaller venue. We went to see them play at St. Joe's one year when the tournament was up there. An arena like that would be ideal for this tournament.
For a while ESPN was shoving women's hoops down our throats. I think they've backed off of that now for the most part, and treat it more like a glorified non-rev sport like college baseball.
I tend to think of UR women's hoops as good entertainment value for the dollar. My wife and I don't have any connection to the team other than knowing a few of the fans that go every game, so we're not privy to all the ins and outs of the team like the friends and family are, which makes up a lot of the attendance on game days. We watch to support the girls (they need all the help they can get) and because they wear Richmond on the front of their jersey. It's a sport that we understand that just happens to be played by girls.
There's a huge gulf between the haves and have-nots in women's hoops, and for the most part the A10 is a have not conference. Unless a special player comes along that can dominate a game for a have not team there's no chance of success in the tournament. A team like UCONN has players on their bench that would be hall of famers here at Richmond. You can't compete against teams like that. Some of the girls in this conference have talent, but most of them would be never be offered a tryout even as a walk on for a team like UCONN.
In some college towns, women's hoops is a big draw. Here, and for the most part in the entire A10, it's not. They should have had the A10 women's tournament at a smaller venue. We went to see them play at St. Joe's one year when the tournament was up there. An arena like that would be ideal for this tournament.
For a while ESPN was shoving women's hoops down our throats. I think they've backed off of that now for the most part, and treat it more like a glorified non-rev sport like college baseball.
I tend to think of UR women's hoops as good entertainment value for the dollar. My wife and I don't have any connection to the team other than knowing a few of the fans that go every game, so we're not privy to all the ins and outs of the team like the friends and family are, which makes up a lot of the attendance on game days. We watch to support the girls (they need all the help they can get) and because they wear Richmond on the front of their jersey. It's a sport that we understand that just happens to be played by girls.
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