Men's Basketball Post-Game Notes - University of Richmond Athletics

Dec. 9, 2006

The Spiders have held the opposition under 70 points in 34 of 38 games under second-year head coach Chris Mooney after holding VCU to 68 points on Saturday.

Freshman David Gonzalvez scored a career-high 17 points, making a career-high seven field goals, grabbing a career-high seven rebounds and blocking a career-high three shots.

After making 7-of-12 field goals, freshman David Gonzalvez is shooting 50 percent from the floor this season (20-of-40).

Senior Peter Thomas made 3-of-7 shots and leads the team with a 57.1 percent field goal percentage (32-of-56).

The Spiders shot 48.8 percent from the floor, the seventh time in eight games Richmond has shot over 40 percent from the floor and the fifth time they have shot over 45 percent.

Eight players scored for the Spiders on Saturday, marking the seventh time in eight games that at least eight different players scored.

The Spiders shot 63.6 percent from the field in the second half.

Richmond made a season-low four 3-pointers.

The Spiders are 4-0 when five or more players make a 3-pointer, but 0-4 when four or less make a trey. Three different players made a 3-pointer Saturday night.

The Spiders still has not allowed a team to score over 10 fastbreak points in a game this season after VCU scored 10 points on the break Saturday night.

Richmond blocked a season high six shots.

Richmond scored 30 points in the paint, the third time in eight games the Spiders have scored 30 or more points in the paint.

After using just two different starting lineups all of last season, making one switch after 14 games due to Jarhon Giddings' injury, head coach Chris Mooney has been shifting his starting unit this year. Mooney has used five different starting linueps in eight games, including using a different starting unit in each of the last five games.

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