Men's Basketball Postgame Notes - University of Richmond Athletics

Feb. 21, 2009

THE TEAM

Richmond defeated Charlotte for the third-straight time and improved to 4-3 over the 49ers since Charlotte joined the Atlantic 10 in the 2005-06 season. The two teams meet again on March 3 in Charlotte.

The Spiders held Charlotte to 58 points, the seventh time this season Richmond has held the opposition to under 60 points, including the second-straight game. The Spiders have held the opposition 60 points or less 35 times in head coach Chris Mooney's four seasons at Richmond. The Spiders have held opponents under 70 points in 16 of 27 games this season.

Richmond shot under 40 percent for just the third time this season and the Spiders' first time winning when shooting under 40 percent in 2008-09.

The Spiders had eight blocks, marking the fourth time this season that Richmond has blocked at least eight shots, including the second-straight game.

Richmond had five steals, giving the Spiders at least five steals in 58 of the last 61 games.

THE PLAYERS

Sophomore Kevin Anderson scored 19 points for his 35th time in double-figures in the last 37 games. Anderson is averaging 23.7 points per game in the last three games. He has scored in double-figures 42 times in his career. The sophomore has 751 career points, which makes him just the fourth Richmond player to break 750 points as a sophomore, joining John Newman (1,041), Mike Perry (970), Ed Harrison (934) and Dan Geriot (798).

Sophomore Kevin Smith scored in double-figures for the seventh time in his career, including the fourth time this season. Smith had a career-high three blocks.

Junior David Gonzalvez grabbed a career-high 13 rebounds, the first time in his career he has had double-figures in rebounds. Gonzalvez had eight points, just the fourth time this season that he has not scored in double-figures. It was the second-straight game that Gonzalvez did not reach double-figures and the previous two games this season that he did not reach double-figures were also back-to-back (Virginia Tech, St. Bonaventure). Gonzalvez has 1,073 career points, which ranks 29th on the school's all-time scoring list. He needs 14 points to tie Picot Frazier (1967-70) for 28th.

Junior Ryan Butler blocked a career-high four shots.

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