Dukes got better as the game went on vs Mason's matchup zone and eventually had them back to playing man, so hopefully that can carry over vs UR's matchup. 

After the Dukes held Mason to a poor percentage from 3 on Saturday, Richmond is now number one % team in league play from deep. Nick Sherod is leading the way from deep for them. The 38.1% contrasts with a below average 32% for the entire season which shows some of the improvement they've made since their tough non-con schedule basically sunk their chances at postseason .  Their version of the Princeton seems to really whip the ball around the perimeter with touch passes and threes off dribble drives. 

While a good number of offensive boards conceded on Saturday were "team rebounds," eight to be exact (likely from Tydus blocking a shot out of bounds) and a few boards were blocked shots right back to the Mason shooter, the Dukes were still poor keeping the undersized Mason off the boards. Richmond has the 6'10 Golden and the rest of the lineup is small. Couple the fact that Princeton teams don't really have a presence on the offensive glass and Mooney's teams are no exception, Dukes absolutely have to own the glass on their end.

Past teams were usually confounded by Richmond's D and got totally torched by their offense. It is a new era and hopefully KD has the answers for the program that we've had virtually no answer for over their 17 years in this league.  Richmond's young team seems to have shown  improvement and they're better than their record shows but we need to protect home court.

A win tomorrow puts the Dukes in sole possession of second place and with some probable results, could be two or more games up on everyone else behind them in the standings, Davidson excluded.

Game will be on AT&T Pittsburgh but hopefully we get a good crowd for this one. Weekday games haven't drawn nearly as well as weekend games, so will be something to watch for in regards to crowd and atmosphere.

Go Dukes!

Should be another tight one. I was reading their board and they were talking about our schedule being ranked 351 in the country and that there's was between the 50-70s in ooc.

Shows they must have had a tough early schedule based on their A10 results. All I'm saying is don't take them for granted strictly on record.

I stiil think we can and probably should win the game. They were also talking about an overall lack of depth and height for a young team. Hopefully we can wear them down.

Doesn't it seem like almost every A10 team we played this year has had depth issues? Likely why the league is down as a whole. Most of these teams are reloading and there will probably be a lot more depth and talent next year. Probably also has something to do with there being a lot of recent coaching changes in the league.

Really expecting a tight game tonight. Mooney has done an outstanding job at Richmond for as long as he has been there. Don't believe there are any seniors starting. Kind of like we will be next year with 5 fr. 6 sophs and a couple juniors, plus whatever else depending on who comes or goes. Still need something out of our bigs tonight. CB needs to redeem himself after a sub par performance against Mason on Saturday. Taking the Dukes by 2!

Crazy stat - Since joining the A10, Richmond holds a 20-1 record against the Dukes!  Let's try to fix that!  

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Crazy stat - Since joining the A10, Richmond holds a 20-1 record against the Dukes!  Let's try to fix that!  

And I don't remember the win!!
 

It was 2012 on ESPNU and in front of a sellout or near sellout crowd for the annual "Red Out" game. I think it was the Chuck Cooper game as well, as you can see the real old school red throwbacks worn by the Dukes.



 

Glad to share, though I had nothing to do with producing the video, just glad that it is something to watch when I need a trip down memory lane for a Dukes bball fix. That was definitely one of the highlights of that season as Duquesne pulled out all the stops for that one and everyone involved responded.

Hope we aren't still looking back on this game as that ONE win we saw over Richmond.

IIRC, the athletic department ran a big Groupon deal for that game and it certainly was a success for that one night. Hopefully, the wins keep building the momentum and by one of the games in Feb we get one with a Dukes win. 

A 10 feed has no video. this sucks

This will get ugly early if we don't figure out how to stop them.

Looking a little better but missed about 3 bunnies so far. Lewis in and out  on a couple of 3's. Anytime we try to feed Brown it goes bad.

Went cold the last couple minutes. Down 6 at the half. Down by as much as 12 early on.

Can we make a free throw?