VCU basketball coach Rhoades signs two-year extension to contract

Quote:RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Commonwealth University announced its men’s basketball coach Mike Rhoades has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him on the Rams' sideline through the 2026-27 season.

“It’s an honor to be the coach at VCU, and I never take it for granted,” Rhoades said in a statement. “I’m excited to continue to build this the right way, by investing in great people and players. I’m excited to help our guys move forward.”

Rhoades has compiled an 80-43 record in four years at VCU and led the Rams to the Atlantic 10 title in 2019 and NCAA Tournament berths in 2019 and 2021.

Her's hoping Coach Pera can lead us to a conference title this year.

I'm just confused why we haven't scheduled VCU at any point. You basically know VCU is going to be a 25-150 KenPom team every season. Pera has a relationship with the entire staff. Probably would be one of the easiest good home and homes we could get.

Kinda surprised only two years.

(07-24-2021 11:28 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  VCU basketball coach Rhoades signs two-year extension to contract

Quote:RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Commonwealth University announced its men’s basketball coach Mike Rhoades has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him on the Rams' sideline through the 2026-27 season.

“It’s an honor to be the coach at VCU, and I never take it for granted,” Rhoades said in a statement. “I’m excited to continue to build this the right way, by investing in great people and players. I’m excited to help our guys move forward.”

Rhoades has compiled an 80-43 record in four years at VCU and led the Rams to the Atlantic 10 title in 2019 and NCAA Tournament berths in 2019 and 2021.

Her's hoping Coach Pera can lead us to a conference title this year.

(07-25-2021 11:05 PM)Texasowl Wrote:  Kinda surprised only two years.

(07-24-2021 11:28 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  VCU basketball coach Rhoades signs two-year extension to contract

Quote:RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Commonwealth University announced its men’s basketball coach Mike Rhoades has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him on the Rams' sideline through the 2026-27 season.

“It’s an honor to be the coach at VCU, and I never take it for granted,” Rhoades said in a statement. “I’m excited to continue to build this the right way, by investing in great people and players. I’m excited to help our guys move forward.”

Rhoades has compiled an 80-43 record in four years at VCU and led the Rams to the Atlantic 10 title in 2019 and NCAA Tournament berths in 2019 and 2021.

Her's hoping Coach Pera can lead us to a conference title this year.

I believe it's because the 2 years becomes 5 when added to the time remaining on his current contract.

Okay that makes sense.

(07-26-2021 01:27 AM)NYNightOwl Wrote:  

(07-25-2021 11:05 PM)Texasowl Wrote:  Kinda surprised only two years.

(07-24-2021 11:28 PM)GoodOwl Wrote:  VCU basketball coach Rhoades signs two-year extension to contract

Quote:RICHMOND, Va. (WRIC) — Virginia Commonwealth University announced its men’s basketball coach Mike Rhoades has signed a two-year contract extension that will keep him on the Rams' sideline through the 2026-27 season.

“It’s an honor to be the coach at VCU, and I never take it for granted,” Rhoades said in a statement. “I’m excited to continue to build this the right way, by investing in great people and players. I’m excited to help our guys move forward.”

Rhoades has compiled an 80-43 record in four years at VCU and led the Rams to the Atlantic 10 title in 2019 and NCAA Tournament berths in 2019 and 2021.

Her's hoping Coach Pera can lead us to a conference title this year.

I believe it's because the 2 years becomes 5 when added to the time remaining on his current contract.

Weird, but noticed today that once again at this juncture in the season, both Rice and VCU have identical 7-4 records. I would imagine Rice would have a few more wins if not for the cancellations. Not sure the opponents are exactly comparable, but nevertheless, it is somewhat curious to note.

That didn't last too long...
VCU Rams 7-4 .636
Rice Ouch 7-5 .583

...to be continued...

Both teams tied again at 10-6 after Davidson beat VCU with a beautiful game-ending 3-pt shot by Michael Jones who was unconscious, connecting on 8 of 9 3s, including the game winner with 3 seconds to play. Here's a link to video of the final :10 and the shot. The Wildcats held the Rams to two points over the final 5:23. Sounds very familiar.

Later in the above-linked story, Rice did get a mention, albeit in reference to UAB.

link to game story & box: Davidson tops VCU for 14th straight win

VCU Rams 10-6 .600
Rice Ouch 10-6 .600
They're neck and neck as they head around the turn. Who will win?

My goodness! The first 4:02 of this game has been comedy of errors and sloppy play. Here's the play-by-play up to first TV timeout:

1st Half St. Joe's leads 8-0.
TIME TEAM PLAY SCORE
15:58 VCU Turnover. 8 - 0
16:10 Erik Reynolds II Turnover. 8 - 0
16:25 Levi Stockard III Turnover. 8 - 0
16:41 Adrian Baldwin Jr. Steal. 8 - 0
16:41 Cameron Brown Turnover. 8 - 0
16:45 Cameron Brown Steal. 8 - 0
16:45 Vince Williams Jr. Turnover. 8 - 0
16:51 Vince Williams Jr. Defensive Rebound. 8 - 0
16:53 Jordan Hall missed Three Point Jumper. 8 - 0
17:09 KeShawn Curry Turnover. 8 - 0
17:19 Jayden Nunn Defensive Rebound. 8 - 0
17:22 Taylor Funk missed Three Point Jumper. 8 - 0
17:26 Cameron Brown Defensive Rebound. 8 - 0
17:30 Adrian Baldwin Jr. missed Jumper. 8 - 0
17:50 Taylor Funk made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Jordan Hall. 8 - 0
18:17 KeShawn Curry Turnover. 5 - 0
18:22 Levi Stockard III Steal. 5 - 0
18:22 Jordan Hall Turnover. 5 - 0
18:29 Jordan Hall Defensive Rebound. 5 - 0
18:32 Levi Stockard III missed Jumper. 5 - 0
18:49 Taylor Funk made Free Throw. 5 - 0
18:49 Taylor Funk made Free Throw. 4 - 0
18:49 Foul on Adrian Baldwin Jr.. 3 - 0
19:03 Cameron Brown Defensive Rebound. 3 - 0
19:07 Jayden Nunn missed Three Point Jumper. 3 - 0
19:31 Ejike Obinna made Free Throw. 3 - 0
19:31 Foul on KeShawn Curry. 2 - 0
19:31 Ejike Obinna made Layup. Assisted by Cameron Brown. 2 - 0
19:40 Ejike Obinna Defensive Rebound. 0 - 0

Vince Williams mercifully ends the drought to start:

14:51 Adrian Baldwin Jr. Defensive Rebound. 8 - 2
14:53 Taylor Funk missed Three Point Jumper. 8 - 2
15:19 Vince Williams Jr. made Layup. 8 - 2
15:36 Jordan Hall Turnover. 8 - 0
15:58 Official TV Timeout 8 - 0

This has been the craziest game. At one point in 1st half, from 9:43 to 6:16 it went down like this:

6:16 KeShawn Curry made Layup. Assisted by Adrian Baldwin Jr.. 11 - 15
6:18 Adrian Baldwin Jr. Defensive Rebound. 11 - 13
6:21 Jordan Hall missed Three Point Jumper. 11 - 13
6:33 Adrian Baldwin Jr. Turnover. 11 - 13
6:48 Official TV Timeout 11 - 13
6:48 Official TV Timeout 11 - 13
6:49 Dahmir Bishop Turnover. 11 - 13
6:48 Foul on Dahmir Bishop. 11 - 13
6:49 Dahmir Bishop Turnover. 11 - 13
6:49 Foul on Dahmir Bishop. 11 - 13
6:48 Dahmir Bishop Turnover. 11 - 13
7:09 Anton Jansson Defensive Rebound. 11 - 13
7:11 KeShawn Curry missed Layup. 11 - 13
7:15 Adrian Baldwin Jr. Defensive Rebound. 11 - 13
7:18 Taylor Funk missed Three Point Jumper. 11 - 13
7:34 Taylor Funk Offensive Rebound. 11 - 13
7:38 Jordan Hall missed Three Point Jumper. 11 - 13
7:44 Taylor Funk Steal. 11 - 13
7:44 Adrian Baldwin Jr. Turnover. 11 - 13
7:52 KeShawn Curry Steal. 11 - 13
7:52 Anton Jansson Turnover. 11 - 13
8:11 Vince Williams Jr. Turnover. 11 - 13
8:10 Vince Williams Jr. Turnover. 11 - 13
8:31 Hason Ward Defensive Rebound. 11 - 13
8:35 Anton Jansson missed Jumper. 11 - 13
8:37 Anton Jansson Offensive Rebound. 11 - 13
8:38 Taylor Funk missed Layup. 11 - 13
8:38 Taylor Funk Offensive Rebound. 11 - 13
8:42 Jordan Hall missed Three Point Jumper. 11 - 13
9:01 Jordan Hall Defensive Rebound. 11 - 13
9:04 Jalen DeLoach missed Jumper. 11 - 13
9:14 Vince Williams Jr. Defensive Rebound. 11 - 13
9:18 Jalen DeLoach Block. 11 - 13
9:18 Anton Jansson missed Layup. 11 - 13
9:25 Anton Jansson Defensive Rebound. 11 - 13
9:28 Josh Banks missed Jumper. 11 - 13
9:43 Taylor Funk made Three Point Jumper. Assisted by Jordan Hall. 11 - 13


Then VCU goes up by 8 (remember they started the game off down 0-8):

4:25 Jayden Nunn made Free Throw. 14 - 22

Now, at Halftime:

0:00 End of 1st half 25 - 24
0:00 KeShawn Curry made Layup. 25 - 24

VCU 24 St Joe's 25.

Why are we following VCU games in this forum?

(01-22-2022 06:18 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Why are we following VCU games in this forum?

Somebody is apparently still obsessed about his ex.

(01-22-2022 07:54 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(01-22-2022 06:18 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Why are we following VCU games in this forum?

Somebody is apparently still obsessed about his ex.

We still follow Toad’s career. Maybe we are obsessed with an ex who left us for somebody younger and prettier.

(01-23-2022 09:05 AM)OptimisticOwl Wrote:  

(01-22-2022 07:54 PM)owl at the moon Wrote:  

(01-22-2022 06:18 PM)tanqtonic Wrote:  Why are we following VCU games in this forum?

Somebody is apparently still obsessed about his ex.

We still follow Toad’s career. Maybe we are obsessed with an ex who left us for somebody younger and prettier.

And VCU is not even pretty.

Almadenmike: Updates on former Rice football players who transferred out / 2021 season link: https://csnbbs.com/thread-928228.html

georgewebb: Former coach and players reflect on Rice’s first two NCAA tournaments link: https://csnbbs.com/thread-873240.html

elw4796: Former MBB Players link: https://csnbbs.com/thread-864056.html

MJY Former Rice Coach on Verge of NCAA Record link: https://csnbbs.com/thread-704939.html

Those are just the first few of a bunch more threads that came up...

Guess it's like bar-talk without the bar or the hangover.

Hmm, while waiting for another game to begin, happened to pass by the St. Joe's game and noticed they were up big early with the other side scoreless. When reading the play-by-play gave me flashbacks to many such starts from the Owls of yesteryore, so I got hooked in to see what would happen. How many times have we missed umpteen layups and had sloppy play early that ends up costing us a game? Most teams go through brain-fart periods in games, just struck me peculiar ollowing the pplay-by-play that day. Guess it's like the Vietnam vet who has unwanted flashbacks that seem randomly provoked. That said, VCU ended up wiiing their game 70-54 despite the terrible start and sloppy first half for both teams. Sometimes you get into a tailspin despite your intentions, but some teams seem to be able to get out of it and right their ships better than others. I would say that coahing leadership is somewhat a factor in those instances. Some folks like to follow along and see how things play out when things change...others do not.

When you get a new head coach, most hope that they can do better than the last guy. I think Pera has that potential, yet so far has not realized it.
Standings as of now: VCU 11-6 .647, Rice 11-7 .611. Close; real close though.

also...saw the Spiders take apart the Rams in the A-10 Tourney and they made them look bad, too. After losing the season series 0-2 to VCU, finishing 6th in the A-10 at 19-12 (10-8) including two straight regular season-ending losses to St. Bonaventure and Dayton, Richmond roared back to life in their conference Tourney and ran a gauntlet of Rhode Island (64-59), VCU (75-64), Dayton (68-64) and finally beating Davidson, who led the A-10 the whole season (64-62) and steal an autobid to the NCAAs. For consolation, VCU (21-9, 14-4) could at least look to the fact that it lost to the eventual League Tourney Champ as it will now get to play Princeton (23-6, 12-2, first in Ivy League regular season) Tuesday at home in the opening round of the NIT.

Rams made quicker work of Princeton than one might've thought, W 90-79 to move on.

not looking too good at the half: 35-43.

maintaining the deficit with only about 6 min left. 56-63 and can't get over the hump.