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Spiders Begin A-10 Play

Richmond vs Saint Joseph’s Preview The Richmond Spiders (10-3) open up conference play against the Saint Joseph’s Hawks (3-9) tonight at the Robins Center (7:00/NBCSW). The Spiders are coming off of 2 straight losses to end non-conference play (Radford & Alabama). Jacob Gilyard chimed in on how he felt Richmond has fared thus far. “I …

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Richmond Basketball Fan Perspective

Robins Center Faithful Chime in Richmond is off to a blistering start, so I felt it necessary to interview some fans to see what they thought so far. I interviewed 3 different people asking them a series of questions about the team so far. I want to start off by saying that this was extremely …

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The Robins Remarks: Four Storylines to Follow

@noahgoldberg10 The sun set here in Richmond at 4:56 pm, which means winter’s coming and Spider basketball is fully underway. Three games in, we now have a small sample size to break down, analyze and pick apart (until January hits and everything I’m writing is completely wrong, but hey, we’ll get there when we get …

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Freshmen helping Richmond make a big turnaround in conference play

Let’s talk about the Atlantic 10. Richmond is 6-3 in conference play. What? The Spiders are tied for 2nd, and currently own the tiebreaker over VCU after UR’s big win in the Siegel Center. Again, what? The Richmond Spiders have made a complete 180 since a 2-10 start to the regular season. Fans were calling …

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Atlantic 10 Non-Conference Grades: Richmond Spiders

This was not a fun non-conference season for Richmond, and reliving it is probably less enjoyable. The Spiders reached double digit losses before the New Year, and this team made a complete 180 after the losses of T.J. Cline and ShawnDre’ Jones to graduation. This was a fall to forget for the Richmond Spiders… Good …

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OOC observations and this Saturday’s top games

Conference play will tip this Saturday with the entire league in action, all seven games coming between 12:30 and 4:30PM EST. You’ll want to clear up your afternoon for that. But before we begin conference, a few observations from the non-conference that I think will be interesting to think about heading forward. IS RHODE ISLAND …

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An interview with a #FireMooney advocate

Richmond Spiders head coach Chris Mooney is in his 13th season with UofR. He’s led his teams to seven post season appearances including a Sweet 16 trip in 2011, one of just two times the program has ever advanced that deep into the tournament. The Spiders have finished within the top-five of the final Atlantic …

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Ranking the Atlantic 10 Teams for the 2017-2018 Season by Shoe Brands

As a “sneakerhead”, I have to have the best sneakers at all times. Thus, my sneaker collection has to be composed of only the best-looking, most limited, and rarest sneakers. In relation to the world of college basketball, almost every player wears the best sneakers and many can be considered “sneakerheads”. Consequently, it is only …

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A-10 COY: A case for and against the four leading candidates

We are now roughly one month from handing out some hardware, not only awarding an Atlantic 10 tournament champion, but a Player of the Year, Coach of the Year and all of the awards season honors us fans love to debate. So before we get there I’d like to make the case both for and …

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Can Richmond win the regular season title?

Heading into this season I highly doubt many of us would have put their chips on the Richmond Spiders for being the first Atlantic 10 team to seven wins (yes, they have played one more conference game than both VCU and Dayton, so that comes with an asterisk, but still). I doubt anyone would’ve placed …