Men's Basketball Postgame Notes - University of Richmond Athletics

March 23, 2009

THE TEAM

Richmond won its 20th game of the season, giving the Spiders their 16th 20-win season. The Spiders have the most victories since the 2003-04 NCAA team also won 20. This is just the sixth time in school history that both the men's and women's basketball teams have won 20 games in the same season.

The Spiders have won five of the last six and eight of the last 10 and nine of the last 12.

Richmond's all-time postseason record is 14-15 in 16 postseason appearances.

The Spiders improved to 7-5 against Bobby Cremins, including 5-2 in the Robins Center.

The Spiders scored 74 points, the 20th time Richmond has scored 70 points this season. That is the most 70-point games since the 1991-92 team also scored 70 in 20 games. The last time Richmond scored 70 in more than 20 games was when the 1979-80 team had 22 70-point games.

Richmond tied its season high for points in the paint with 48. The Spiders also had 48 points in the paint against Wake Forest.

Richmond made 32 field goals, the eighth time this season that they have made 30 or more field goals in a game.

Richmond had nine turnovers, giving the Spiders single-digit turnovers in five of the last six games and 10 times this season. Richmond has had 12 turnovers or less in 10 of the last 11 games and 15 turnovers or less in 30 of the 35 games this year.

The Spiders shot 54.2 percent from the field, marking the 10th time this season that Richmond has shot over 50 percent from the floor.

THE PLAYERS

Sophomore Kevin Anderson scored 21 points for his sixth-straight 20-point game and his 44th time in double-figures in the last 46 games. Anderson moved into 10th on the school's single-season list with 588 points. He is one of two Spiders to have their sophomore season among the top-10 list for points in a season, joining Richmond's all-time leading scorer Johnny Newman. Anderson needs four points to tie Jarod Stevenson's 1998 season for ninth, 16 points to tie Kenny Atkinson's 1989-90 season for eighth and 20 points to tie Curtis Blair's 1991-92 season for seventh. Anderson has scored 20 points in eight of his last 11 games and is averaging 21.8 points per game in that stretch. Anderson, who was one of four Spiders to score 800 career points as a sophomore, broke the 900-point plateau and currently has 920 career points.

Junior David Gonzalvez scored 15 points for his 58th double-figure scoring game, including his 28th in 35 games this season. Gonzalvez moved into 21st on Richmond's all-time scoring list with 1,192 points

Junior Ryan Butler scored 10 points for his 23rd double-figure scoring game, including his ninth this season.

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