University of Richmond Athletics
Spiders Look For Best Start In 25 Years Saturday
12/13/2012 | Men's Basketball
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Richmond returns home looking for its best 11-game start in 25 years, when the Spiders host Stetson on Saturday at 6 p.m. in the Robins Center.
This will be the fifth meeting between the two schools, but first since 1983. Richmond won three of the four meetings, including both in the Robins Center.
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• At 8-2, Richmond has matched its second-best start in 78 years and with a win tonight, the Spiders would be off to their best start since the 1987-88 team also started 9-2. A Spider victory would match Richmond's fourth-best start in school history. Only nine Spider teams in the previous 99 seasons have started 9-2 or better.
• Darien Brothers has connected on 51 percent of his three-point attempts this season, which ranks third in the Atlantic 10. The Richmond native has made 24 three-pointers this season to give him 145 for his career, just three treys from tying Jarod Stevenson (148) for 10th on Richmond's all-time career list. Jermaine Buckner (151) is ninth on the career list. Brothers is sixth in the A-10 in three-pointers made per game (2.4) and 14th in scoring (14.7).
• Richmond is 46-8 in its last 54 home games and 33-4 in the last 37 non-conference home games dating back to the 2007-08 season.
• Cedrick Lindsay scored 19 points and had 7 assists in Richmond's win at Old Dominion and had 13 points and 11 assists for his first career double-double in the Spiders' OT win at JMU. The Spiders only loss with Lindsay in the lineup is at Minnesota when he left the game in the final minutes with a concussion. Lindsay leads the Atlantic 10 and ranks 14th in the nation in assist/turnover ratio (3.8) and is fourth in the league in assists (3.8).
• The Spiders have shot over 50 percent from the field in three of the last four games and rank fourth in the Atlantic 10 in field goal percentage at 46.2 percent. The Spiders ranks second in the A-10 in three-point field goal percentage at .384. Richmond ranks third in the A-10 in scoring at 73.3 points per game.
• Richmond has 3 of the top-20 scorers in the Atlantic 10 with Darien Brothers 14th (14.7), Derrick Williams 17th (13.9) and Kendall Anthony 20th (13.8).
• The Spiders are first in the Atlantic 10 and 28th in the nation in free throw percentage at .761. The Spiders have three players in the top-15 in the Atlantic 10 in free throw percentage with Darien Brothers fourth at .861, Kendall Anthony seventh (.854) and Cedrick Lindsay 14th (.793).
