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NCAA Tournament Preview: VCU set to take on Oregon in nightcap

Survive and advance. That is the name of the game once March arrives on the calendar. March Madness has a way of chewing up competitors rather quickly. Half of the 64 teams that make the main bracket are sent packing within the first 48 hours of the tournament. #10 VCU will take on #7 Oregon …

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A look at the career of A10 Player of the Year Bones Hyland

The second video to show up on YouTube if you search “Bones Hyland” has 3.3 million views. It is called “Nah’Shon ‘Bones’ Hyland Destroys Two Philly Trash Talkers,” and it is electric. Watching it now makes you feel like you are in on the world’s greatest secret. The video was posted in the fall of …

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Who Should Win Atlantic 10 Rookie of the Year?

As the season comes to a close the writers at A10 Talk wanted to provide a piece around the A10 Rookie of the Year award. Five writers have come together to make a case for why some of the top A10 freshman should win ROY. The following players under consideration are as follows: Tyler Kolek, …

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Bones-less Wings Lead VCU Into Regular-Season Finale

The VCU Rams entered Tuesday night’s game against the Saint Louis Billikens undermanned and as underdogs. The Rams were without four of the guards they started the season with. Two of these absences were expected: Jarren McAllister suffered a season-ending injury within the first two weeks of the season and Tre Clark left the program …

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Double-Dip of Home Games on Tap for VCU

Fresh off of a dominant win against Dayton, the VCU Rams saw their season hit a speed bump Tuesday when their scheduled game against UMass was postponed. The UMass program has been put on pause due to COVID-19 issues with their program. Such is the life of college basketball in 2021: schedules are written in …

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VCU’s Non-Conference Performance, By the Numbers

We are less than one week away from flipping the calendar to 2021. With that, college basketball programs are preparing for the most important time of the season: conference play. In conference play, tournament resumes for the top-tier teams in a mid-major like the Atlantic 10 are put on the line. With the top schools …

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Dread Buzzer-Beater Downs VCU

Tuesday evening, in front of a crowd of about 80 at the Bryce Jordan Center, VCU and Penn State played the basketball equivalent of a bored office worker flexing a rubber band. Courtesy of two Seth Lundy free-throws, Penn State pulled out to a 68-60 lead with just 3:46 to go in the game. ESPN’s …

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What We Learned from VCU’s Black and Gold Event

The scene was set like any other event at VCU’s Stuart C. Siegel Center. The VCU Peppas, the school pep band, opened up with their usual set list of songs. Chants of “You don’t want to go to war with the Rams” were met with silence and echoes off the rafters. The normally sold-out Siegel …

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VCU Rams 2020-21 Season Preview: Rebuild in the Cards for Rhoades’ Rams?

On the morning of March 12, I walked in the cold down a Brooklyn sidewalk from my hotel to the Barclays Center. The mood in the city was strange, like the beginning of an apocalypse movie, as the full scope of the COVID-19 pandemic was being unveiled. The night before, the NBA announced that their …