Good morning, Spiders. Regular season basketball starts TODAY! Here’s everything you need to know about what’s new at Robins Center.

What else are we mixing into today’s edition?

🏑 Spiders beat VCU
🏀 Watch list for Kresge
🕷️ And much, much more!

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🔼 Regular-Season Finale. The field hockey team won its final game of the regular season against VCU. The Spiders won 4-1 on Friday. Richmond closed out the regular season with an 11-6 record and went 5-1 against A10 opponents. Valen Luna Paratore, Abril Peroni, Clara Larripa and Malena Magnano each scored. The women had 23 shots and 17 shots on goal. Richmond enters the 2026 Betterment Field Hockey Tournament semifinal as the two seed.

🔼 Season Finale. The women’s soccer team lost its first home game of the season, which was also the last game of the regular season, to Fordham on Sunday. The Spiders 1-0 loss left them in ninth place in the A10 standings, just one spot short of reaching the conference postseason. The Spiders finished the season with their best record since 2011, 8-4-6.

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Run It. The cross country team competed in the A10 Championship on Saturday. The women placed ninth and the men took 13th.

Who led the women with a 21st place finish?

Scroll down to the bottom of this email for the answer!

🔼 Great Coach. Women’s basketball head coach Alisa Kresge was named to the 2027 Kathy Delaney-Smith Mid-Major Coach of the Year Award. She is one of 20 coaches to be selected. Kresge arrives in Richmond after eight seasons at the University of Vermont, where she compiled a 145-89 overall record and became the winningest head coach in program history.

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Monday, November 2

🏀 Men's Basketball vs UNC Asheville @ 7 pm ET | Live Stats | Watch | Tickets
🏀 Women's Basketball at Charlotte @ 7 pm ET | Live Stats | Watch

Thursday, November 5

🎾 Women's Tennis NCAA Conference Masters  
🏑 #2 Field Hockey A10 Championship vs #3 VCU @ 2 pm ET
🏀 Men's Basketball vs Southern Virginia @ 7 pm ET | Live Stats

Friday, November 6

🎾 Women's Tennis NCAA Conference Masters  
🎾 Men's Tennis Tribe Fall Invite  
🏀 Women's Basketball vs Princeton @ 6 pm ET | Live Stats | Watch

Saturday, November 7

🎾 Women's Tennis NCAA Conference Masters  
🎾 Men's Tennis Tribe Fall Invite 
🏑 Field Hockey A10 Conference Championship @ TBD  
🏊 Women's Swimming & Diving at ECU Quad Meet @ 1 pm ET  
🏈 Football at Villanova @ 1 pm ET 

Sunday, November 8

🎾 Women's Tennis NCAA Conference Masters  
🎾 Men's Tennis Tribe Fall Invite  
🏀 Women's Basketball vs Rice @ 2:30 pm ET | Live Stats | Watch
🏀 Men's Basketball vs Temple @ 5 pm ET 

Answer: Kiera Lowman!

🕷️ Have a great Monday!

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