Womens: Gardner-Webb at RC: Friday 11/15 11am - ESPN+

[Section9.RowD]

Early start assuming for schools to bring students .. Spiders 80 Running Bulldogs 40.

 

[SFspidur]

10-minute tipoff warning for those able to put something on in the background while working or with nothing else going on. Expect a raucous crowd of screaming middle-schoolers.

 

[SFspidur]

Spiders out to a 9–3 lead at the first media timeout. Would be bigger if the Spiders hadn't had two consecutive unforced travel calls.

Now if we can just get the school kids to only cheer for the Spiders and not also Gardner–Webb, we'd be in great shape.

 

[SFspidur]

Spiders up 22–5 after 1. Doogan leads with 8.

Bulldogs have 1 field goal and 9 turnovers.

 

[SFspidur]

41–12 at the half. Doogan leads with 10 points, while 10 different Spiders have scored and have all split time nearly equally. Roussell is doing a lot of line-change subbing of all five players and there's almost no drop-off from starters to subs.

Gardner–Webb shooting 19% from the field and 16 turnovers.

 

[SFspidur]

Bulldogs finish the third quarter on an 8–0 run to close to...60–30. Exactly on pace for Section9's predicted score.

 

[SFspidur]

Spiders roll, 92–44. All 12 Spiders who saw the court scored, including a last-minute bucket from Jada Green who missed the past two seasons with injuries. Doogan led the Spiders with 17. Really nice game from Sweeney running the point, with 12 points including 3-for-3 from deep plus 5 assists. Spiders overall had 27 assists on 35 buckets.

 

[spiderstudent17]

Another dominating win today. I’m guessing the comment Roussell made in last week’s post game presser saying Alston was likely coming back this week is for practice. Hopefully next couple of games can ease transition back in more smoothly. December we have a gauntlet of a schedule. Our depth has been a great strength for us.

 

[SFspidur]

Yeah, I assume it'll take a bit before Alston is game-ready.

Spiders could very easily be 7–0 and then the last 6 OOC games are indeed a brutal stretch.

Highlights and postgame:

 

[fan2011]

Is Richmond a legit top 25 team? Some of the MOVs are crazy.

 

[Eight Legger]

I feel like the answer is "definitely."

 

[SFspidur]

Margins in the women’s game are often large even between top 25 teams, so it’s hard to tell where we fall until the level of competition steps up in a few weeks. But so far so good!

 

[spiderstudent17]

We’re definitely going to get votes in both polls on Monday, but need to win the big games starting 11/30 to be in top 25. Has our women team ever been ranked?

 

[SFspidur]

We had 6 votes in the preseason coaches poll, but dropped to 1 this week. No votes in AP poll either week.

I don't believe we've ever been officially ranked in either poll, but I'm not sure. We were getting some votes toward the end of last year, and I think we got as high as ~30 in the coaches poll.