Levi Stockard

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 …

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 …

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 …