University of Richmond Athletics
Men's Basketball Hosts Ohio Sunday At 1 P.M.
12/20/2013 | Men's Basketball
The game can also be seen online on SpiderTV through RichmondSpiders.com and the Atlantic 10 app. Listen to the game live on RichmondSpiders.com and on 93.1 FM The WOLF.
The Spiders (8-3) have won five of the last six and are 5-1 at home this season.
Ohio is 7-3 with two of its three losses coming to ranked opponents, including a loss to No. 22 UMass on Wednesday. Maurice Ndour leads Ohio in scoring at 14.1 points per game and leads in rebounding at 7.7 rebounds per game. Nick Kellogg is second on the team at 13.7 points per game, shooting 44.9 percent from behind the arc. Kellogg, the son of CBS analyst Clark Kellogg, has made 22 three-pointers in 10 games.
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• Exams are over and after a week off the Spiders' host Ohio in a match-up of two programs that have gone to the Sweet 16 in the last three years. Richmond went to the 2011 Sweet 16 and Ohio advanced to the 2012 Sweet 16.
• Richmond has won 5 of the last 6 games, including last Saturday's 71-49 win over Coppin State. Leading scorer Cedrick Lindsay did not play in the game due to a knee injury. Kendall Anthony led the Spiders with 18 points, moving within 59 points of 1,000 for his career. Trey Davis matched a career-high with 12 points and grabbed eight rebounds, while sophomore Terry Allen scored 12 points on 5-of-6 shooting.
• Cedrick Lindsay is questionable for Sunday's game after suffering a knee sprain against Wake Forest. Lindsay did not play in the game between Richmond and Ohio last season.
• The Spiders are 8-3 on the season with two losses to ACC teams (UNC and Wake Forest) and a loss to a Big Ten team (Minnesota).
• Three Spiders have cracked all-time top-10 lists last week. Junior Kendall Anthony has 156 career three-pointers, which ranks 10th on Richmond's all-time career list, He needs 10 threes to tie Ken Atkinson for ninth. Senior Cedrick Lindsay passed Jeff Myers (2000-03) and tied Eugene Burroughs (1990-94) for ninth for career assists with 316. He needs eight assists to tie Kelving Johnson for eighth. Sophomore Alonzo Nelson-Ododa is already 10th on UR's list for career blocks, needing 5 blocks to tie Steve Kratzer for 9th. Nelson-Ododa has played in just 45 games, while nobody else on the Top-10 list has played in less than 100 games.
• Richmond is 5-1 at home this season and has won 42 of the last 48 non-conference home games.
• Richmond's defense is allowing just 63.1 points per game, which ranks second in the Atlantic 10 and 31st in the nation. The Spiders have held the opposition to 61 points or less in regulation in 8 of 11 games this season, including the last 6. The Spiders lead the A-10 and are 27th in the nation FG pct. defense (.383). Richmond is fourth in the A-10 and 26th in the nation in 3FG pct. defense (.267).
