University of Richmond Athletics
Men's Basketball Opens A-10 Play At St. Bonaventure
01/07/2014 | Men's Basketball
OLEAN, N.Y. – Richmond opens Atlantic 10 Conference play on Wednesday when the Spiders play at St. Bonaventure in a game televised on C BS 6.3.
The Spiders are 10-5, coming off a hard-fought loss to No. 12 ranked Florida.
The Bonnies (10-4) have won three-straight and four of the last five games entering conference play and are a perfect 6-0 on the season. Matthew Wright leads the team at 16.2 points per game and has made a team-high 22 three-pointers.
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• Richmond opens its 13th season of Atlantic 10 play at St. Bonaventure on Wednesday in the first of two meetings with the Bonnies. The Spiders are playing the third and fourth games of a four-game road trip and will remain on the road, heading to the Bronx to play Fordham on Saturday. The Richmond women's team also plays at St. Bonaventure Wednesday (4 p.m.) and at Fordham on Saturday (2 p.m.)
• The Spiders are 3-2 on the road this season and 4-3 away from the Robins Center. Richmond is coming off a 67-58 loss at No. 12 ranked Florida during which the Spiders led by four in the second half.
• Richmond is 8-4 in its Atlantic 10 Conference openers and are 6-2 in their first Atlantic 10 road game under Chris Mooney.
• The Spiders have only lost one game in regulation to an unranked team this season and that was Richmond's first loss to Minnesota of the Big Ten. The Spiders have led by at least 4 points in every game this season and by at least 9 in all but the two losses to ranked teams.
• Richmond is 46-26 vs. A-10 teams over the previous 4 seasons and has played in 2 of the last 4 Atlantic 10 title games, including winning the 2011 A-10 Championship.
• This is a match-up of 2 of the last 3 Atlantic 10 Champions. Richmond won the A-10 title in 2011 and St. Bonaventure won in 2012.
• Cedrick Lindsay returned from missing the Coppin State game with a knee sprain to average 19.8 points per game in the last 4 games. Lindsay is second in the Atlantic 10 in scoring at 18.6 ppg, second in the league in steals (2.2 spg) and fourth assists (4.5 apg).
• Richmond has held the opposition to 61 points or less in regulation in 7 of the last 9 games and 10 of the 15 games this season.
• Richmond's defense is allowing just 63.7 points per game, which ranks second in the A-10 and 37th in the nation. The Spiders are second in the A-10 and FG pct. defense (.399). Richmond is third in the A-10 and 16th in the nation in 3FG pct. defense (.282). The Spiders are 15th in the nation in turnover margin (4.3).
• Kendall Anthony is averaging 16.4 points and shooting 42.6 percent from three in the last 7 games, having made 23-of-54 threes. He reached 1,000 career points on Saturday at Florida and currently has 1,005 points.
