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Official account of Richmond Spiders Men's Basketball | 2011/2022 A-10 Tournament Champions | 2024 A-10 Regular Season Champions
Richmond, VA
Joined May 2009
Spiders win! Spiders win! Spiders win! Richmond defeats an AP Top 10 team on the road for the first time in school history. #OneRichmond
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Jacob Gilyard, Grant Golden, Nathan Cayo, and Nick Sherod check out of the game for the final time at Richmond. Legends. Every one. #OneRichmond.
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For the first time ever, the Richmond Spiders are Atlantic 10 regular season champions! .#OneRichmond
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Jacob Gilyard has 868 points, 290 assists, and 177 steals in his UR career. The last 2 D-I players to reach those totals in their first 2 seasons were . Allen Iverson. And Jason Kidd. Is that good? (h/t @sports_ref) #OneRichmond π·ππͺπ½
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Is having the #1 play on @SportsCenter good? Asking for a friend. (Our friend is Jacob Gilyard and he's the best point guard in the nation.)
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π π π¦ π§ π’ π₯ π¬ . For the first time in 19 years, there's a new name atop the NCAA Division I career steals list. Congratulations Jacob Gilyard. #OneRichmond
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For leaving it all on the court. For staying with the Spiders. For going out as champions. Thank you, from Spider Nation. #OneRichmond
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These two could both be playing professionally this year, but they chose to stay with the Spiders and now they're Atlantic 10 Champions. Together. It's not just a hashtag. #OneRichmond
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DOWN GOES VCU!. Jacob Gilyard scores a career-high and Richmond A-10 Tournament record 32 points to lead the Spiders over the Rams and into semifinals! #OneRichmond
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GIIIIIIIIIILLLLLLLYYYYYYAAAAAARRRDDDDDDD!. His seventh three of the game makes it 62-59 Richmond with 0.9 to play. #OneRichmond
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Down goes Dayton! . The Spiders knock off the #16 team in the nation and have won 10 straight for the first time since 1935. #OneRichmond
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π· heading to Buffalo to take on @IowaHoops! . #OneRichmond #MarchMadness @SpiderAthletics @urichmond @A10MBB
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The Spiders are stacking up signings π₯. Welcome national champ Apostolos Roumoglou to Richmond. #OneRichmond .
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Spiders win their second Atlantic 10 title behind a game-high 26 points from Jacob Gilyard, who was named the A-10 Championship's Most Outstanding Player. Next stop: the NCAA Tournament. #OneRichmond
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The man in charge π. Chris Mooney is the Atlantic 10 Coach of the Year after leading the Spiders to the No. 1 seed in the A-10 Championship and the program's first A-10 regular season title!. #OneRichmond
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β’ 1οΈβ£st in A-10 in scoring during conference play.β’ 2οΈβ£nd most steals in Spiders history.β’ 5οΈβ£th most assists in Spiders history .β’ 2οΈβ£nd team All Atlantic 10 . The best from Jacob Gilyard's record-breaking seasonβ€΅οΈ #OneRichmond
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π· D-I steals leader.π· 1st-team All-Atlantic 10.π· 4th-most assists in school history.π· National Defensive Player of the Year semifinalist. It's @G1lyard's 2019-20, one of the best seasons in Spiders history #OneRichmond
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"I look at this as an opportunity to demonstrate many of the qualities we try to instill in our players. I can meet this head on, be a great patient, and show courage with the tremendous support that I have from Lia, Danny, and Ryan." - Chris Mooney. π
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Special recognition for a special season. Jacob Gilyard has won the Senior CLASS Award, given to the top grad student or senior student-athlete in all of NCAA men's Division I basketball. #OneRichmond .
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Proud to wear these warmups tonight for our guy Roman and all those living with autism #AutismAwarenessπ§©
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Highest ranking since 1957.β
First Top-25 ranking since 2010.β
Best-ranked A-10 team . Let's keep going. #OneRichmond .
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NEWS | Spiders grad student Grant Golden will return to Richmond for a seventh season to pursue his doctorate degree and the NCAA career games played record #OneRichmond
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Jacob Gilyard is headed to training camp as a member of the Memphis Grizzlies. #OneRichmond #ProSpiders.
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Spiders win! Richmond wins its school-record 14th conference game and its 24th overall game, tied for the most regular-seasons wins in a season in program history! #OneRichmond
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One of the the best defenders in all of college basketball. Jacob Gilyard is one of π semifinalists for the Naismith National Defensive Player of the Year. #OneRichmond .
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First-place flex. Spiders down VCU for their fifth straight win and are atop the A-10 with two games remaining. See you Wednesday in the Robins Center. #OneRichmond
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Jacob Gilyard becomes the 48th player in Spider history with 1,000 career points. #OneRichmond
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Spiders fall to Providence in the 2nd Round of the NCAA Tournament. Nathan Cayo leads Richmond with 18 points. Thank you Spider Nation for all of your support during this incredible 10-day run. We could tell you were behind us every step of the way. #OneRichmond
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The darker side of court storming . Currently seeking one (1) shoe for our esteemed @urichmond photographer. It looks a lot like this one, but the opposite. #OneRichmond #OneShoe
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You WON'T get past him . Jacob Gilyard joins Tony Dobbins as the only Spiders to ever win @A10MBB Defensive Player of the Year. #OneRichmond
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A π· through and through. Great to have Keith Oddo on scholarship for his final semester with the Spiders! #OneRichmond
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βWe have lost a true Spider through and through.β. Unsurprisingly, Bob Black said it best. We are devastated by the loss of Greg Beckwith, who passed away Friday. We will miss him terribly. Rest in peace, Beck.
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Congratulations to Chris Mooney on win No. 3οΈβ£0οΈβ£0οΈβ£ as a Division I head coachβΌοΈ #OneRichmond
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Congratulations to our guy @GrantGolden2 on reaching 1,000 career points tonight! He's just the second sophomore in school history with 1,000 career points, joining 16-year NBA veteran Johnny Newman. #OneRichmond
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Jacob Gilyard was named Male Athlete of the Year after earning First Team All-Atlantic 10 honors and winning A-10 Defensive Player of the Year. #OneRichmond
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(β’_β’).<) )β―TWO. / \ . \(β’_β’) .( (> SEED. / \ . (β’_β’) .<) )> SPIDERS. / \. #OneRichmond.
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Jacob Gilyard is 1οΈβ£ steal shy of matching the NCAA Division I career steals record. This post is in recognition of the journey, not just the destination. Congrats on steals 1-384, Jacob. #OneRichmond
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He's back. #OneRichmond.
Thankful for all the people who helped me along the way, but we arenβt done yet. See you next year β οΈ
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Grant Golden is the first player in the history of Spider basketball to earn All-Conference honors after his freshman, sophomore, and junior seasons. Golden earned Second Team All-Atlantic 10 honors after averaging 13 points, 7 rebounds, and 3.4 assists this season.
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The reigning A10 Player of the Year and some other guy who is pretty good at basketball. PS - It's Magic Johnson. He was pretty good.
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And they say we only use 10 percent of our brain.
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De'Monte Buckingham had a tremendous freshman season! This is the first of many for Buck! #OneRichmond
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Spiders win! Tyler Burton with career bests in points (21) and rebounds (13) as Richmond improves to 4-0 in Chris Mooney's 500th game at UR. #OneRichmond
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Proud to be wearing these special shooting shirts in support of everyone living with autism. Spider basketball is behind you. #OneRichmond #AutismAwareness
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Jacob Gilyard is the first Spider since @tjcline6 in 2017 to earn First-Team All-Atlantic 10 honors after leading the conference in steals and assist-to-turnover ratio. #OneRichmond
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No. 1 seed in A-10 Championship.β
First regular season A-10 title.β
Program record 15th conference win.β
Best single-season Robins Center record ever. Notes, quotes, and more from Wednesday's win vs Saint Joseph's. #OneRichmond.
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Tyler Burton increased his scoring by 7.5 points per game and ranked 6th in the A-10 in rebounding. He's the first Spider to ever win the Chris Daniels Award, given to the Most Improved Player in the Atlantic 10. #OneRichmond
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Spiders win!. Richmond moves to 8-0 in the A-10 and 16-5 overall with its 11th straight victory. #OneRichmond
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Congratulations to Jacob Gilyard on his 7οΈβ£4οΈβ£9οΈβ£th career assist, the most in Atlantic 10 history! #OneRichmond
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Crown him π. Jacob Gilyard has been named a semifinalist for the 2022 Naismith National Defensive Player of the Year award. #OneRichmond
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Spiders win! Richmond is headed to the NIT Quarterfinals as Jacob Gilyard leads UR with 18 points, 5 assists, and 4 steals. #OneRichmond
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Hot off the πΉ! Check out instant highlights from the Spiders win over #10 Kentucky. #OneRichmond
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Jacob Gilyard is a 3οΈβ£-time All-Atlantic 10 selection and joins Kevin Anderson as the only Spiders to be First or Second Team All-A10 three times. He's also earned a spot on the All-Defense Team for the third straight year. #OneRichmond
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Gonna need ALL of Buffalo behind us today. Can we get some support #BillsMafia? #OneRichmond #MarchMadness #WheninBuffalo
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Spiders win! Richmond moves to 1-0 as Nathan Cayo matches a career-high with 23 points and Grant Golden adds 16. #OneRichmond
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Here to stay. After leading Richmond to its first A-10 regular season title and being named conference coach of the year, Chris Mooney has signed a contract extension with the Spiders. #OneRichmond
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Bluegrass Showcase All-Tournament Team.β
Reached 1,500 career points. Pretty nice little Sunday for Grant Golden. #OneRichmond
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