It's amazing to see so much attention paid to the city of Richmond and my alma mater UR. Though, I find it pretty odd that article doesn't once mention that a Spider team in January 2004 upset a then-ranked No. 12 Kansas team in Kansas, snapping a 52-game home winning streak KU had against unranked teams. I was studying abroad in Ireland at the time and was following the game on ESPN's gamecenter thing on this crappy dial-up internet service, literally just watching the numbers change. I was alone in my room and went batshit when the words "Dobbins jumper...good!" came up. That photo of KU's Keith Langford watching UR players celebrate on his home court was pretty much the coolest thing at the time. Then the next day I found some pixely video that took a hundred years to load on the shitty dial-up service but it was still incredible, Tony Dobbins' little spin move and fade away just in front of the free-throw line. Ahhh. That team got an at-large NCAA berth that year, I think a number 11-seed, and actually led a very good Wisconsin team by 13 or so points before completely shitting the bed and getting eliminated in the first round.Anyway, maybe it's just me but that kind of info seems pretty relevant, you know, considering Richmond is playing Kansas again for the first time since that game. But, hey, you know you could instead just spend several paragraphs writing about local sports bars with really deep quotes like "That would be great!" or "I so want that to happen!", meaning a VCU or Richmond Final Four berth.
But at least they're writing about the two teams at all - both teams and schools deserve way more recognition. GO SPIDERS
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