Men's Basketball Postgame Notes - University of Richmond Athletics

Dec. 19, 2009

THE LATEST

The Spiders defeated a ranked opponent for the third-straight year and have won three of the last five games against ranked teams dating back to the 2007-08 season. The last time Richmond defeated a ranked team on a neutral court was the 73-69 win over No. 7 ranked Syracuse in the 1991 NCAA Tournament.

Richmond head coach Chris Mooney has nine victories over BCS conference teams in six season as a Division I head coach, including seven in his five seasons at Richmond.

The Spiders have won two of three games against SEC teams this season, defeating Mississippi State and No. 13 Florida, and losing on the road to South Carolina, when the Spiders led by as many as nine and were tied with 7:30 remaining.

Richmond has led by nine points in all 11 games this season.

Five of Richmond's eight wins are against teams that played in the postseason in 2008-09: Florida (NIT), Mississippi State (NCAA), Missouri (NCAA), Chattanooga (NCAA) and Old Dominion (College Insider.com Champion).

The Spiders allowed just two fastbreak points to the Gators. Richmond has allowed over four fastbreak points just once, giving up 13 fastbreak points to South Carolina.

Richmond had more steals (9) than turnovers (8).

The Spiders knocked off the Gators despite shooting their lowest field goal percentage of the season (38.2).

THE PLAYERS

Senior Reggie Brown. Gonzalvez made four three-pointers, giving him multiple three-pointers in his last six games and eight times this season. Gonzalvez is fourth on Richmond's career list for three-pointers with 185, needing 35 treys to catch Mike Skrocki for third.

Junior Greg Stevenson for 27th.

Junior Dan Geriot had four assists, one shy of his career high and scored nine points on 4-of-5 shooting. He has 892 career points.

Junior Justin Harper tied his career high with nine rebounds.

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