Spiders Roll to 25th Straight Home League Win in A-10 Opener

Wednesday, December 3

Richmond, Va.

6 p.m.

University of Richmond

7-2,1-0Atlantic 10

Loyola Chicago

2-6,0-1Atlantic 10

Loyola Chicago

Richmond

Spiders Roll to 25th Straight Home League Win in A-10 Opener

12/03/2025 | Women's Basketball

Box Score

RICHMOND, Va. – Riding a combined 39 points from Maggie Doogan and Rachel Ullstrom, the University of Richmond women's basketball team opened Atlantic 10 Conference play with a 69-46 win over Loyola Chicago Wednesday night inside the Robins Center. With the win, the Spiders improved to 7-2 on the year and 1-0 in A-10 action while the Ramblers fell to 2-6 overall and 0-1 in the A-10.

Richmond Starters
Sweeney, Newell, Ullstrom, Dewey, Doogan

How it Happened
Ullstrom opened the scoring with a triple before the Ramblers responded with a layup. Ullstrom then posted four points, while Tierra Simon and Doogan added five points to build an early 12-2 Spider lead. After LUC recorded a jumper, five points from Richmond ended the quarter with the Spiders ahead 17-4.

The Ramblers opened the second 10 minutes with a layup before Simon and Ullstrom combined for back-to-back layups to give the Spiders a 15-point lead, 21-6. After two layups from the opposition, Newell completed an and-one play, sparking a 14-0 run behind three triples from Ullstrom and a bucket from Sweeney to send Richmond into halftime up 35-10.

LUC started the scoring in the third with a triple before Doogan responded with a layup, sparking a 9-0 run to extend the lead to 44-13 with 5:03 left in the quarter. The Ramblers added another triple before Ullstrom knocked down a free throw. LUC then followed with a layup off a Spider turnover to cut the margin to 45-20. Sam Dewey halted the stretch with a layup, though the Ramblers immediately answered. A free throw from Newell and two from LUC closed the quarter with Richmond ahead 48-24.

Rayne Wright opened the final frame with a free throw before Payton Richard followed with a layup to push the lead to 51-24. After two points from LUC, Ava Persichetti connected from deep, but the Ramblers responded with a 7-0 run to make it 54-33. Doogan buried a trey to push the margin back to 25, though LUC trimmed it to 20 after four straight points to make it 65-45 with 1:03 remaining. Dewey and Newell combined for four points while the Ramblers added a final free throw as Richmond closed out the 69-46 win.

Notes on the Game

Richmond posted its 25th straight home conference win dating back to 2023.
Maggie Doogan paced the Spiders with 20 points and added a team-high nine rebounds while dishing out five assists. She also recorded two blocks and hit four three pointers.
Rachel Ullstrom added 19 points with four rebounds, one assist, one steal and two blocks.
Alicia Newell was the third Spider in double figures, finishing with 11 points, six rebounds, three assists and a career-high five steals.
Ally Sweeney dished out five assists and added three rebounds.
Richmond shot 27-of-60 (45%) from the floor, 11-of-27 (40.7%) from deep and 4-of-7 (57.1%) at the line. The Spiders posted 41 rebounds, 19 assists, six blocks and a season-high 10 steals while scoring 25 points off 20 Rambler turnovers. The bench added 13 points, led by Ava Persichetti with six.
Richmond held Loyola Chicago to 10 points through the first two quarters.

WBB Postgame: Loyola Chicago

Game Highlighs

Up Next
The Spiders welcome Fairfield to town on Dec. 7 for a holiday matchup before traveling to Liberty on Dec. 13. Both games are slated for 2 p.m. on ESPN+.