NCAA Tournament "at large" candidate University of Richmond Women

[Eight Legger]

Embrace it! We earned the 8, now go make the most of it.

 

[VegasSpider]

Extremely, extremely well deserved and appropriate 8 seed. I wonder how close they were to getting a 7.... presumably if we won the conference tourney?

The reward, of course, as everyone is mentioning, is to get shipped to LA to line-up to play the #1 overall seed. Seems a bit underhanded in a multitude of ways. I don't know.

On a personal note, I was able to see women's tennis play in Vegas a couple days ago .... and I guess.... am now going to LA for a couple days. Congrats ladies... and good luck. Time to shock the world.

 

[Section 204and5]

GT's last 8 games they went 2-6.

 

[GKiller]

Lady Spiders got deserved respect. As I’ve been trying to tell anyone all week who had us near the bubble…we weren’t close to it at all & weren’t.

LA nice trip for the team. And if u get that first W u get a high profile matchup. Our red sweaters may have to stay up late tho.

 

[bullfrog91]

A W vs GT will be huge for the program!

 

[GKiller]

Right off the bat during show too. Boom. But man that video feed must have been on a massive delay at our viewing party. Nothing. They did get a later reaction shot of us tho.

 

[ncspiderfan]

Right off the bat during show too. Boom. But man that video feed must have been on a massive delay at our viewing party. Nothing. They did get a later reaction shot of us tho.

There have been several that must have had bad delays

 

[Section 204and5]

GT NET is 29 yet we get the higher seed at NET 33.

 

[whampas]

A W vs GT will be huge for the program!

Tarrant and team went thru GaTech and Indiana to get to sweet 16. GT is going to get tired of the Spiders.

 

[urfan1]

dont see any common opponents, but have to believe our OOC will help.

 

[VegasSpider]

I've had some time to think about this.... and I got this dead wrong. Of course, we want to see them advance as far as possible and make a Sweet 16, but they actually deserve no less than the ultimate spotlight this year. 100% agree with you GKiller. They handle their business.... and they get to play the #1 overall seed in the country at Pauley Pavillion. They deserve nothing less than that.

 

[fan2011]

Happy for the team! Unfortunately the path to the sweet 16 couldn't be harder.

 

[whampas]

Happy for the team! Unfortunately the path to the sweet 16 couldn't be harder.

Very true. I suspect we know and respect UCLA and they know little about us. Gotta jump GT so we can get a shot.

 

[bullfrog91]

Tarrant and team went thru GaTech and Indiana to get to sweet 16. GT is going to get tired of the Spiders.

My freshman yr..I remember

 

[urfan1]

Looking ahead UCLA only lost 2 this season, both to USC. They have 3 players that went to Sidwell Friends in DC, have we ever had anyone from Sidwell Friends?

 

[SFspidur]

Mike Jones got his start coaching there before breaking into the college ranks and spending a few years at UR with Beilein.

Roussell also offered Ava Yoon from there out of the 2026 class, but she committed to Princeton.

 

[Section 204and5]

 

[plydogg]

Is anybody here planning to go to the game? I’ve been waiting for the Spiders to come to LA for a decade. I’m not missing this chance.

 

[urmite]

nothing to worry about. mortal lock. those r bubble games, we're solidly in field.

btw William & Mary 1st ncaa basketball bid, men or women. won CAA as 9 seed. beat the odds. going into NCAA with losing record.

If W&M gets by High Point, then they get a spider opponent Texas.

 

[GKiller]

Looking ahead UCLA only lost 2 this season, both to USC. They have 3 players that went to Sidwell Friends in DC, have we ever had anyone from Sidwell Friends?

Only weird people and presidential children used to go there.

Although Matt Henry, Odom’s top asst did & he seems normal. I think when Sidwell started focusing more on basketball that it got better.

 

[GKiller]

Is anybody here planning to go to the game? I’ve been waiting for the Spiders to come to LA for a decade. I’m not missing this chance.

Richmond men played out there at UCLA not too long b4 that must have just missed.

Enjoy. Recommend going to the official open ncaa practice/shoot around. I assume the women have that too.

 

[GKiller]

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Roussell gets it & hit on on all the key things as expected.

Sounds like everyone associated w team genuinely very excited to go to LA. And why not. Who wouldn’t. Adds juice. I replied to SF when he wasn’t a big fan of such a potential trip. Said I didn’t mind it great trip for team. & besides Raleigh not sure it matters for fans. We get good night time slots too. 7:30 Friday is our game.

Yeah it’s a business trip we need to win 1st game but honestly we have a few girls on team we can market LA. We should. Play it up.

We wear white that’s something too as Coach mentioned. Means nothing at tip but right now it’s cool. The “at large” really has some cachet too. That’s another reason I was keen on locking up bid early rather than student17’s lose late in reg season model.

Btw student17 check out what Roussel said re: scheduling. top 50 top 50 games more more. Meanwhile u want to avoid top50ish for the men. He would be same way if coaching men.

Go Spiders. Beat LA.

 

[SFspidur]

Playing another East Coast team out there mitigates the time zone issue, and it sounds like they’re going to try to get out there fairly early to get adjusted. 7:30 Eastern not a terrible tip time either.

 

[plydogg]

Richmond men played out there at UCLA not too long b4 that must have just missed.

Enjoy. Recommend going to the official open ncaa practice/shoot around. I assume the women have that too.

This was during my senior year of highschool, before I had been admitted so was not yet following the Spiders.

I’m definitely planning on getting there early, I’m really looking forward to it.

 

[GKiller]

This was during my senior year of highschool, before I had been admitted so was not yet following the Spiders.

I’m definitely planning on getting there early, I’m really looking forward to it.

It would be on Thursday. Free.

 

[spiderstudent17]

Out of respect for this team and their accomplishments, I’m going to try and keep my MBB talk limited on this thread but re: scheduling. My whole point is that you schedule for the team you have. Our women’s team was good enough to win those games so I’m all for scheduling 10 Q1s/Q2s for them. I understand your point in another thread is that scheduling hard is the only way you can get an at-large. I partially agree with that. Scheduling well + winning those games = at large chances.

You may ask, how do you know you will win the games if you don’t play them? You can’t 100% but you base it off historical data. Same way you don’t know 100% if a team anticipated to be Q1 at the beginning of the season, will be. When was the last time our men’s team had stellar chances of an at-large after our OOC? We hardly ever capitalize on our OOC chances, often losing to teams we shouldn’t or not winning enough games against good competition. It’s like wanting to ski down the double black diamond mountain, before you can comfortably ski down the lower level mountains. Same with basketball, let’s first actually see if this team can consistently perform to the schedule they’ve been given before ramping up the difficulty. Rather than starting off with all Q4s, I felt a good starting point is 1-2 Q1s, 2-3 Q2s. I think that’s more than reasonable based off our lack of OOC success in the past. If we get to the point like our women’s team who actually wins these games a decent amount and then goes on to have a great regular season then sure, let’s schedule all Q1 games in OOC for MBB.