University of Richmond Athletics
Men's Basketball Hosts Old Dominion Saturday At 6:30
12/24/2013 | Men's Basketball
The game is not available on SpiderTV due to Atlantic 10 television rights agreements, but the Spider IMG Sports Network broadcast can be heard on ESPN Radio 950 AM, 93.1 FM The WOLF, XM Satellite Radio Channel 85, Sirius Satellite Radio Channel 85 and RichmondSpiders.com.
The Spiders (8-4) are playing their final non-conference home game of the season, before embarking on a four-game road trip that includes the start of conference play.
Old Dominion is 5-7 under first-year head coach Jeff Jones, the former Virginia and American head coach. Jones worked for current Richmond athletic director Keith Gill at American at the start of last season, before Gill took the job at Richmond.
THE LATEST
• The Spiders return from a quick Christmas break to host former CAA rival Old Dominion on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. in a nationally televised game on NBCSN.
• Since renewing this rivalry in 2005-06, the home team had won seven-straight meetings before Richmond handed Old Domininion its worst loss ever in the Constant Center last season. The home team has won just twice in the last 19 meetings and Old Dominion has lost eight-straight in the Robins Center. The Monarchs' last win over the Spiders in the Robins Center was on Jan. 4, 1997.
• Richmond has held the opposition to 61 points or less in regulation in seven-straight games and 9 of the 12 games this season.
• The Spiders have not lost a game in regulation in over a month.
• Cedrick Lindsay returned from missing 1 game with a knee sprain to score 23 points against Ohio on Sunday. Lindsay is second in the Atlantic 10 in scoring at 18.6 points per game and second in the league in assists (4.6 apg) and steals (2.2 spg).
• Richmond's defense is allowing just 63.7 points per game, which ranks second in the A-10 and 34th in the nation. The Spiders lead the A-10 and are 32nd in the nation FG pct. defense (.390). Richmond is third in the A-10 and 22nd in the nation in 3FG pct. defense (.277).
• Kendall Anthony is averaging 17.0 points and shooting 48.4 percent from three in the last 4 games, having made 15-of-31 threes. He is 42 points from scoring 1,000 for his career.
• Three Spiders have cracked all-time top-10 lists last week. Junior Kendall Anthony has 159 career three-pointers, which ranks 10th on Richmond's all-time career list, He needs 3 threes to tie Ken Atkinson for ninth. Senior Cedrick Lindsay is ninth at Richmond in career assists with 321, three assists from tyring Kelvin Johnson for eighth. Sophomore Alonzo Nelson-Ododa is already 10th on UR's list for career blocks with 89, needing 2 blocks to tie Steve Kratzer for 9th and 3 blocks to tie Eric Poole for 8th. Nelson-Ododa has played in just 46 games, while nobody else on the Top-10 list has played in less than 100 games.
• Richmond is 5-2 at home this season and has won 42 of the last 49 non-conference home games.
