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The All Underrated Team

One evening a few weeks ago I had a couple easygoing hours and a fresh supply of Stella, and the combination unsurprisingly sent me to twitter to openly wonder who the most underrated VCU players were in program history. I mean, what else would you do? The idea took off and I got a ton …

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The Most Important Summer…

Speaking in England, shortly after 9/11, the Dalai Lama shocked the gathering with a direct, yet codifying message. “It happened,” he said, and paused. “It happened.” He paused again. “OK? What now?” I’m obviously not comparing college basketball in any way to that tragic morning, but the Dalai Lama provides a mindset on this Saturday …

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Go Tell (Ask) Aunt Rhody…

Before he retired, my dad was a public school teacher and high school basketball coach. He was always great with life lessons, and basketball lessons. Being Greek, he was direct and didn’t offer much window dressing. Never let your man go baseline. Always hold the door open for a woman. If it’s a 50/50 game, …

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I See A Red Door And I Want To Paint It Black (And Gold)…

But I went down to the demonstration To get your fair share of abuse Singing, “We’re gonna vent our frustration If we don’t we’re gonna blow a fifty-amp fuse” You can’t always get what you want. But when you try sometimes you just might find, you get what you need. Sometimes there’s no medicine, …

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Of Duality And A Singular Identity…

You can’t think your way out of a prison that’s made of thought. That’s where we are right now. At 5-5, with nothing on the left-hand side of the ledger that impresses the NCAA tournament selection committee, VCU sits in a largely unfamiliar cell, all by itself in an 8×10 rectangle of what-ifs. We got …

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In Which We Avoid The Bad “Rhoades To ” Cliche…

Because Robby is a good dude and let me sit in the seats for yesterday’s Black-and-Gold game, I got to take notes and compare those notes with a friend of mine. It was important this season because approximately the entire roster is new. We all wanted to see the actual kids who span all four …

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Taking A Shot At 2017-18. Or Preventing One…

When was the last time we approached Labor Day, and your assessment of the upcoming VCU basketball season was so chock full of hmmmm? It’s like that ATM game where you are locked in a booth and a fan blows around twenties. There’s twenties EVERYWHERE and you’re flailing, grabbing, stabbing, and stuffing what you can …

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Bobby Wright set an example

Somewhere around the turn of the century, a thirty-something know-it-all moved back to Richmond and met Bobby Wright. The thirty-something was rather acidic towards VCU basketball. He loved it, but the combination of distance, dissatisfaction with Mack McCarthy, and cognitive dissonance that his basketball team could not possibly lose to Wagner and William & Mary, …

VCUHoops (Michael Litos Blog)

The All Underrated Team

The Most Important Summer…

Go Tell (Ask) Aunt Rhody…

I See A Red Door And I Want To Paint It Black (And Gold)…

Of Duality And A Singular Identity…

In Which We Avoid The Bad “Rhoades To ” Cliche…

Taking A Shot At 2017-18. Or Preventing One…

Bobby Wright set an example

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