Two ESPN 4-star recruits headline VCU’s crop of newcomers next season

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Have you wondered who VCU will be adding this fall to replace Darius Theus, Troy Daniels, and David Hinton? Well wonder no more! Here’s an exhaustive look at the 6 newcomers who are joining the VCU basketball program next year. The present for VCU basketball is bright, and the future looks blinding! ———————————————————————————————————— PG JeQuan Lewis (6’1, 175): Committed February 8th, 2012 Dickson County H.S./Tennessee Tigers AAU  Senior season averages: 24.9 ppg, 5.5 apg, 3.4 spg Offers: Georgia, Wichita State, Northern Iowa, [...]

Rams schedule loaded for upcoming season

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If you’re following our message board you probably know more about this than I, but let’s take a second together to talk about the rapidly approaching 2012-2013 season schedule. For season ticket holders it’s a thing of beauty. For those who are going to purchase on a game-to-game basis…it may be a nightmare. Regardless, whether you’re in the stands or on the couch, this season should make for some incredible VCU basketball viewing. What things are looking like at this [...]

Preseason NIT Final 4: (#24)Tennessee Preview

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When: November 24th, 2010 at 7 p.m. Where: Madison Square Garden, New York City TV: ESPN2, ESPN3.com There is something about Madison Square Garden that provokes sheer awe in all who enter. The Garden is cavernous yet endearing. It is here that the legends of basketball past whisper in the deafening silence. Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Reggie Miller and a who’s who of the greatest to ever play the game walked this floor. Through 4 incarnations of the [...]

Downtown Showdown; Rams outlast the Panthers

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The reflection off the beautiful new LED banner on the side line glared bright off the court as a new younger Rams team won the tip and the game, 71-56, in their season opener exhibition against their down the road rivals, the Virginia Union Panthers. Both teams looked to be shaking off some rust as it took the Rams the first six minutes before getting a convincing basket that resulted in a Darius Theus and 1 as both packed student [...]

VCU looks for 1st CAA road win at Hofstra (ESPNU)

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This past Saturday VCU broke a two game CAA losing streak in a home win against Delaware. Tuesday they will look to cure their road woes in a tough conference matchup at Hofstra (9-8, 2-3), aired on ESPNU. The Pride are 6-2 in home contests but have lost 5 of their last 7 games, including a three game CAA losing streak. The Rams have won their last two meetings in Hempstead, NY. A Victory tuesday would put the black and [...]

BREAKING NEWS: 2010 Rams Mean Business

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VCU started 2010 in style …by dominating UNCW in every aspect of the game to the tune of a 91-57 home victory. The Rams jumped out to a 10-0 lead and never looked back, holding UNCW to single digits the first 18 minutes of the game on just 16.7% shooting from the field. At times the game resembled that of a Harlem Globetrotter’s exhibition with UNCW playing the part of the Washington Generals (complete with 15 first half turnovers, 28 [...]