Yep. Exactly the reason I don’t have season tickets THIS year.
2025–26 Spider men's basketball schedule
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Last year we were #361 on offensive rebounds. Looks like we feel comfortable in the 360 plus category.
Mojo-Spider
Bench player
Thanks Spiderguy for remembering the extremely loyal Spiders’ fans. As a long standing season ticket holder, this OOC schedule is an insult and rock bottom as the data shows. It is an insult to the loyal Richmond fans!
When an exhibition is the most interesting and meaningful home game before A-10 play, that’s just disrespect for the fans.
When was the last time Richmond fans got to see a Power conference team, or even a respectable mid major at the Robins Center? I can’t remember.
We don’t have enough fans to risk running them away with such a boring OOC schedule.
Thank goodness this year’s team is fun to watch and playing encouraging basketball, but Robins Center fans will know little about have far we’ve come from last season until the A-10.
It wasn’t too many years ago when we had some interesting games at Robins Center. I think we could do much better!
Go Spiders!
97spiderfan
Bench player
Oh thank goodness. UR80 will be so happy about this outstanding SRS ranking. Whatever, the hell SRS means and is good for. And side note, I'm not asking for an explanation. I simply do not care.
I have a quick question. Didn't the entire league experience scheduling issues? The power basketball conferences are not playing teams in the A-10, the way they used to. So we are forced to schedule lower level schools. Isn't this a trend that has been accelerating in previous years?
It certainly is a trend, but VCU and Dayton are still able to do it.
Others have tried to backfill with solid mids in the same position we're in...Duquesne got Villanova and then took a road-trip to solid MWC teams in Boise and Nevada. SLU got Stanford and then Santa Clara, San Francisco, and Grand Canyon although most of the rest of their schedule is putrid leading to a terrible SOS overall. Davidson got a bad P4 in BC, but then also got a couple of the best non-P4s out there in Utah State and Saint Mary's.
We got Belmont plus a nice surprise (so far) out of W&M.
Others have tried to backfill with solid mids in the same position we're in...Duquesne got Villanova and then took a road-trip to solid MWC teams in Boise and Nevada. SLU got Stanford and then Santa Clara, San Francisco, and Grand Canyon although most of the rest of their schedule is putrid leading to a terrible SOS overall. Davidson got a bad P4 in BC, but then also got a couple of the best non-P4s out there in Utah State and Saint Mary's.
We got Belmont plus a nice surprise (so far) out of W&M.
Temples basketball program has fallen off drastically since they left the a10
while it may be tough to land a high major game, there's no way I'm buying that teams are scheduling D2 games because they can't even find a willing D1 team to play! the D2's are scheduled on purpose. you play an easy game, get players on the floor, and it doesn't count.
it's doesn't do damage to the metrics like playing Gardner Webb, VMI, or The Citadel.
it's doesn't do damage to the metrics like playing Gardner Webb, VMI, or The Citadel.
Spider17
Starter
It’s a risk but I think playing D1 is always the better option. While D2 doesn’t count towards metrics, if we beat a D1 team like Gardner Webb by a lot, which we should, then that helps improve the metrics. Also, there’s a small chance that the D1 team does better than expectations and what was thought to be a bad Q4 game may sneak into Q3 or at very least improve strength of schedule metrics that are inportsnt too. I know it’s not a huge difference, but these things can have an impact when splitting hairs between teams for at large contention.
Look at us and Saint Louis this year. Both currently have a strength of schedule in 300s but much higher NET ratings than that. Large part is both of us have beaten the Q4 teams by a lot. Does this feel like the best system for determining NET? Nope. But I have no problem with it as P4s have been gaming the system this way for years.
Look at us and Saint Louis this year. Both currently have a strength of schedule in 300s but much higher NET ratings than that. Large part is both of us have beaten the Q4 teams by a lot. Does this feel like the best system for determining NET? Nope. But I have no problem with it as P4s have been gaming the system this way for years.
97spiderfan
Bench player
If the NCAA really wanted to they would make D3 games count in the NET and they all would be at the very bottom of the rankings as they should be. That would put a stop to this rampant D2 and D3 games being scheduled by everyone and would force schools to have to play better schedules.
They won't though because the NCAA doesn't care about the A-10, MVC, MWC of the world, this situation is helping the power conference teams and that is all they care about.
They won't though because the NCAA doesn't care about the A-10, MVC, MWC of the world, this situation is helping the power conference teams and that is all they care about.
