UR women's team on pause

[SFspidur]

Next two games have been canceled.

Women’s Basketball Program Paused Due To COVID Testing Results - University of Richmond Athletics

RICHMOND, Va. – In response to the results from the latest COVID testing and contact tracing for the Richmond women's basketball program, the Spiders are pausing

richmondspiders.com

 

[SFspidur]

Sheesh...UR really should have picked a better headline. It's a link out to a Buffalo News feature on Ryan as the Spiders head to Bona.

 

[spiderdukes]

Women beat VCU today. Now 4-2 in the A10.

 

[Spiderwiz]

In hope it isn’t the only UR basketball win vs VCU this year.

 

[SFspidur]

In hope it isn’t the only UR basketball win vs VCU this year.

*sad trombone* (unless we get the Rams in the A-10 tourney)

Anyway, just wanted to acknowledge the nice job the women's team is doing amid COVID pause challenges of their own. They had a couple of tough losses to Dayton and SLU coming out of their last pause, but they rebounded yesterday and today with back-to-back wins over St. Joe's and La Salle to close out the home schedule.

Challenging road trip to URI and UMass next weekend, but they're sitting at 9–4 and fighting for a top-4 seed. Looks like their guaranteed to have their best A-10 record since at least 2011–12. If they win at least one of their final two, they'll have a better A-10 win percentage than they ever managed under Shafer. (He had a trio of 9–5 seasons.)

 

[CarolinaSpider]

Like class he brought in and he just needs another strong class and he is in good shape for
the future.

 

[SFspidur]

Kind of an interesting development for this final weekend. The Spiders were supposed to play at URI tomorrow and at UMass on Sunday, while VCU was supposed to do the reverse. But they've created a bit of a pod and all four games will be played in URI's gym. Helps minimize travel-associated risks by keeping everybody in the same spot all weekend.

 

[ChoppinBroccoli]

Kind of an interesting development for this final weekend. The Spiders were supposed to play at URI tomorrow and at UMass on Sunday, while VCU was supposed to do the reverse. But they've created a bit of a pod and all four games will be played in URI's gym. Helps minimize travel-associated risks by keeping everybody in the same spot all weekend.

Interesting. Doesn't that just replace two one-way bus trips with a round-trip, and add a hotel stay for an additional team?

 

[Eight Legger]

Covid is banned in Rhode Island.

 

[SFspidur]

Yeah, not 100% sure on the rationale. I guess I'm not even sure if UMass is staying in Kingston the whole weekend...it's only a 2-hour bus ride from Amherst. But I'd guess they're staying.

VCU, Richmond Venue Changes Announced - University of Massachusetts Athletics

Feb. 26 and Feb. 28 women's basketball games to be played at the Ryan Center at URI

umassathletics.com

 

[97spiderfan]

UMass has been doing some strange sh*t with COVID. They had banned the number of deliveries students could receive a few weeks ago, (cause COVID I guess comes on packages now), had preemptive shutdowns of all athletics in anticipation of rising numbers. So, I would imagine that is UMass doing primarily and every else is just doing an eyeroll to go along.

 

[SFspidur]

It is indeed a UMass-wide thing. No home competitions in any sports until mid-March.

 

[SFspidur]

Tough finish for the ladies...falling to both URI and UMass this weekend. They led both games at the half, but couldn't seal the deal. Spiders get the 6-seed in the A-10 tourney.

 

[urfan1]

disappointing results, but they are making progress. I do think they are headed in the right direction

 

[CarolinaSpider]

Fan 1 agree with direction but there are two areas they need great improvement on.

1. Stronger pair of guards who can penetrate the lane and are much better skilled in ball handling
2. The highly acclaimed center from Trinity HS I thought would be a load in lane for teams to cover,
but she lacks in footwork and scoring. Being her second year I am surprised she has shown little to
no improvement

Roussel’s recruits have looked a lot stronger than Shafers last recruiting classes

 

[ChoppinBroccoli]

disappointing results, but they are making progress. I do think they are headed in the right direction

In other words, "The future is bright."

 

[urfan1]

maybe

 

[SpiderK]

We need to get some guys on the team.

 

[SFspidur]

Congrats to Addie Budnik, A-10 rookie of the year, and second-teamer Kate Klimkiewicz.

Budnik Named Rookie of the Year; Klimkiewicz All-Conference Highlight A-10 Awards - University of Richmond Athletics

NEWPORT NEWS, Va. – The University of Richmond women's basketball freshman forward Addie Budnik (Highland Park, Ill.) was named Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year and

richmondspiders.com

 

[plydogg]

Addie had an absolutely incredible year, and I know Kate had a really strong ending

 

[plydogg]

Women are headed to OT vs SLU after a hell of a comeback to close out the game. 10-0 run to get back into it. Playing with a lot of fire

 

[SFspidur]

Tough loss…great comeback though. They had a shot to win at at the end of OT, but it didn’t fall.

Townsend is a real spark plug out there.

 

[CarolinaSpider]

They took something right out of Coach Tarrants playbook with a 3-2 trapping zone that St Louis
had no clue for. Yes Townsend was fastest player on court and she and Parsons created a lot of
steals. By the way Roussell did something Mooney won’t do and that is change his lineup and change his
defense in the middle of game.