University of Richmond Athletics
KA To Be Honored At Friday's 4 P.M. UNCG Game
12/30/2011 | Men's Basketball
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- Richmond concludes non-conference looking to finish with its second-most wins coming out of the non-conference portion of the schedule since the 1989-90 team won nine of their non-conference games. Richmond finished non-conference play 11-4 in each of the last two years, but had not had more than eight wins against the non-conference portion of their schedule since the 1989-90. Richmond 2008-09 team - when last year's senior class were sophomores - finished non-conference play 8-6.
- Kevin Anderson will have a banner raised to the rafters alongside a select group of Spider all-time greats on Friday. Anderson, the second-leading scorer in school history (2,165 points), will have a banner alongside Hall of Fame coach Dick Tarrant and standout players Johnny Newman, Warren Mills, Karen Elsner and Pam Bryant. Anderson played in more Richmond victories (91) than any other Spider player, leading the Spiders to back-to-back NCAA Tournaments, back-to-back Top-25 finishes, back-to-back Atlantic 10 title games, the 2011 Atlantic 10 Championship and the 2011 Sweet 16. He is currently playing professionally in Strasburg, France.
- Senior Darrius Garrett, who blocked the 2nd most shots in NCAA Division I game (14) in 2010 against UMass, is 2nd on Richmond's all-time career list for blocks with 178, needing 5 blocks to tie Tim Faulconer for first. Garrett is 5th in the nation in blocks per game (3.86 bpg). Garrett has 54 blocks this season, which already ranks 8th on the school's single-season list, needing 2 blocks to tie Jeff Pehl for 7th. Garrett already ranks 5th on the single-season list with his 60 blocks in 2010 and 6th with his 59 blocks last year.
- Junior Darien Brothers, the only returning starter off last year's Top-25 and Sweet 16 team, was named Atlantic 10 Player of the Week after averaging 31.5 points per game in two games last week.
- Brothers connected on 17-of-31 (.548) shots from the floor and 12-of-21 (.571) three-point attempts. He scored a career-high 38 points in the win over Old Dominion last Tuesday, had 25 against UCLA last Friday and scored 17 in the win over Liberty on Wednesday. Brothers has scored in double-figures in 5-straight games and leads the team in scoring at 13.9 points per game. He is shooting 48.1 percent, including 51.4 percent from behind the arc this season.
- The Spiders lost four starters and 5,000 career points to graduation last spring after winning 55 game, making back-to-back NCAA Tournaments, reaching the 2011 Sweet 16, winning the 2011 A-10 Championship and finishing the last two seasons ranked in the Top-25.
Quick Hitters
It is impossible to defend a free throw, but the Spiders rank 343rd out of 350 teams in free throw percentage defense with opponents shooting 78.0 percent from the line...this year's senior class needs just 8 more wins to equal last year's seniors as the winningest class in school history with 91 wins...the Spiders have led from start to finish in 5 of its 8 victories this season...Richmond is 69-26 (.726) in last 95 games...the Spiders are 18-2 vs. non-conference opponents in the Robins Center over the last three seasons...Richmond is 26-4 in the last 30 non-conference home games dating back to the 2007-08 season...Richmond is 33-5 in its last 38 home games....Justin Harper, the 31st pick in the 2011 NBA Draft, signed a two-year contract with the Orlando Magic and made his debut Monday night against the Rockets...the Spiders are 28-6 in their last 34 Atlantic 10 regular-season games.
Easy As A (Anthony)-B (Brothers)-C (Ced)
Richmond has boasted one of the best backcourts in the Atlantic 10 over the last few years, but even after graduating two of the top-6 scorers in school history (Kevin Anderson and David Gonzalvez) over the last two years, it looks like Richmond might have its deepest backcourt yet under Chris Mooney with three guards averaging double-figures in scoring. Sophomore Cedrick Lindsay starts at point guard and is averaging 13.1 points and 4.1 assists after playing a key role in Richmond's run to the A-10 Championship and NCAA Sweet 16 last March. Junior Darien Brothers is the only returning starter and is averaging 13.9 points per game, shooting 48.1 percent from the field and 51.4 percent from 3 (36-70). Freshman Kendall Anthony has quickly established himself as a scorer off the bench. The runner-up for Mr. Basketball in Tennessee last year, Anthony is averaging 13.0 points per game and has won three A-10 Rookie of the Week awards.
