OPINION: A love letter to Spider basketball
(05/10/25 11:00am)
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The Burying Ground Memorial project consecration and memorial dedication was held on Wednesday, April 23, a milestone in a years-long process of reckoning with the University of Richmond’s complicated past.
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The Virginia General Assembly adjourned its regular session on Feb. 22, putting hundreds of bills that were focused on maternal care and reproductive rights in limbo as Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a conservative Republican, has the final say on whether the bills will become law.
Trodding back down to the other end of the court, junior forward Maggie Doogan smiled.
The University of Richmond women’s basketball team continued its 14 game win streak with big plays in the paint, winning 68-55 over Virginia Commonwealth University on Feb. 23 in VCU’s Siegel Center.
The University of Richmond women’s basketball team snapped Saint Joseph’s University’s eight game win streak with a 59-51 victory in the Robins Center on Feb. 13.
The University of Richmond women’s basketball team continued their impressive season with an 82-58 victory over Duquesne on Feb. 9 at UPMC Cooper Fieldhouse in Pittsburgh.
Editor's note: This article has been edited to correct that Virginia Military Institute played UR in football for the first time in 1893, not 1972 as originally written.
Even with challenges at the arc, the Spiders dominated the court yet again.
The University of Richmond men’s basketball team beat the Duquesne University Dukes 73-68 in their Feb. 5 matchup at the Robins Center, to snap a seven game losing streak.
The University of Richmond women’s basketball team secured a hard-fought victory against the University of Rhode Island in a game on Feb. 2.
On an unusually warm Saturday in early November, Brian Gavins, a frequent bus rider, sat at the Willow Lawn bus stop in Henrico, reflecting on a chaotic scene he had just witnessed. The temperature hovered around 57 degrees as the sun dipped below the horizon, casting long shadows across the busy street.
The University of Richmond women’s basketball team continued to dominate the court with an 83-72 victory over the University of Dayton Flyers on Jan. 26, improving to an 8-1 record in Atlantic 10 Conference play.
The Saturday, Jan. 25 sold out game between the University of Richmond Spiders men’s basketball team and the Davidson College Wildcats, featured two teams badly in need of a win. The down-to-the-wire clash saw the Wildcats walk away with a hard fought 72-66 victory over the Spiders.
For the second-straight year, the University of Richmond football team finds itself 0-2 through its first two games of the regular season, as the Spiders lost a one-score game to Wofford College in their home opener Sept. 7.
With just over a minute to play in the second half, University of Richmond men’s basketball Head Coach Chris Mooney took his three super seniors out of the game.
Fortunately for the Spiders, they still have some basketball left in them.
The tough thing about conference tournaments is that on one hand, they can produce some of the most thrilling moments for a program and its fanbase, but on the other, they can also produce some of the most heartbreaking moments for a program and its fanbase.
If the University of Richmond men’s basketball team’s season couldn’t get any better, it now has three yearly Atlantic 10 awards to add to its trophy case of regular season accomplishments.