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2023–24 Richmond Spiders Men's Basketball Team
The 2023–24 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team represented the University of Richmond during the 2023–24 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. They were led by 19th-year head coach Chris Mooney and played their home games at the Robins Center in Richmond, Virginia as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference. Richmond secured the Atlantic 10 Conference regular-season championship with a 73–66 win over Saint Joseph's on March 6, 2024. Mooney returned to the team as head coach after missing the final six games of the 2022–23 season due to heart surgery to address an aneurysm in his ascending aorta. Assistant coach and former Richmond player Peter Thomas served as interim head coach in Mooney's absence, and Mooney returned to his position after the conclusion of the season. Previous season The Spiders finished the 2022–23 season 15–18, 7–11 in Atlantic 10 play, to finish in 11th place. The Spiders defeated UMass in the first round of the A-10 tournament b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chris Mooney (basketball)
Christopher Scott Mooney (born August 7, 1972) is an American college basketball coach and the current head men's basketball coach at the University of Richmond. Prior to taking the helm of the Richmond Spiders, Spiders basketball program, he was the head coach at United States Air Force Academy, Air Force. In his only year there, he led the Falcons to their second best record in school history (18–12). He played college basketball at Princeton University, Princeton. As a four-year starter at Princeton, he ranks 22nd on the school's all-time leading scoring list with 1,071 points, and 11th in three-point field goals made (142). Early years and college Mooney was born and raised in working-class neighborhood in Philadelphia, spending his high school years at Archbishop Ryan High School as the child of a single father after his mother died from breast cancer when he was 13 years old. Mooney's father was a Greyhound Lines, Greyhound bus driver. In 1990, Mooney enrolled at Princet ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |