VCU's offense exploded against American, scoring 105 points and winning by 22.  Host George Templeton says there are a few nits to pick, and he picks them.  Plus, he takes a look at our current standing in the A10.

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The first half of the game was shaky (and that's putting it kindly) but VCU eventually took over the game against Niagara, winning by 26 points.  George Templeton has his look back at the match.

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In our final preview of the offseason, and a tad late despite our best efforts, George Templeton sits down with VCU Women's Head Coach Beth O'Boyle to preview her team's season.  

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VCU welcomes Wagner to the Siegel Center, and drops 103 points on them.  George Templeton looks back at the Rams' season opener.

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We are ALMOST THERE, folks.  The A10 and VCU seasons are nearly upon us, and to get ready, George talks with Tyler Cronin from the 3BidLeague Podcast, previewing every A10 team's season.  

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George sits down with Zach Joachim from the Richmond Times-Dispatch to review VCU's two 2025 exhibition games, plus a look toward the regular season.  

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George sits down with VCU great Ed Nixon to talk about VCU's A10 schedule for the 2025-26 season.

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In this all new Rams Rewind, George has a great conversation with friend-of-the-pod Rocco Miller from Bracketeer about the non-conference schedules for VCU and the rest of the A10.

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In this final newcomer episode for 2025, George chats with Toyloy Brown III from The Advocate newspaper about LSU transfer junior Tyrell Ward.  

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We're coming toward the end of our newcomers series! In this penultimate edition, George talks with Ben Cribbs from Hamilton Heights Christian Academy, who coached Villanova transfer Jordann Dumont for two years.

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As we make our way through the 2025 Newcomer Roundup, we make our way to Lazar Djokovic, a big man transfer from College of Charleston.  George talks with Andrew Miller from the Charleston Post and Courier all about him!

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In this latest in our Newcomer series, George talks with Peter Bruchea of the Hawk Talk Podcast (@HawkTalkSJU on Twitter) about transfer Jadrian Tracey.

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VCU falls to New Mexico by three points in the return portion of their home-and-home agreement.  George Templeton looks at what went wrong.

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In this latest in our Newcomers Roundup series, George talks with Mark Zanetto from http://bigeastenergy.com about UConn transfer guard Ahmad Nowell.

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In the latest from our newcomers series, George talks with Nathan Mook from Rhody Vault about Barry Evans and Keyshawn Mitchell, who followed new VCU Head Coach Phil Martelli, Jr. from Bryant.

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In the second of our 2025 Newcomer Roundup series, George talks with IMG Academy postgraduate coach Jim Carr about incoming freshman Jordan Tillery.

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In the first in this off-season's "Newcomer Roundup" series, George Templeton chats with Gonzaga College High School boy's basketball coach Steve Turner about incoming freshman Nyk Lewis.

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George Templeton sits down once again with Richmond Times-Dispatch Deputy Sports Editor and VCU sports beat reporter Zach Joachim, this time to run down the entire 2025-26 roster player by player.  Zach also gives his take on why guard Zeb Jackson may not be returning for another year.

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In this (very) special offseason episode, George Templeton sits down with new VCU Head Coach Phil Martelli, Jr. to talk about how he got to VCU, the style of play we can expect from his teams, and the style of player he's looking for.  

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Producer Steve Mullen was able to gain media access to the introductory press conference for new Head Coach Phil Martelli, Jr.  In this episode, he runs through some of the comments from the announcement itself, but also provides some audio from the press availability after the podium show.  

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George Templeton sits down for a fantastic conversation with VCU great and sometimes TV color commentator Ed Nixon to talk about the past of the program, the present of the program (including our recent coaching search), and where he thinks the program is going.  

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Well that was ugly. VCU falls by 9 to BYU in the first round of the NCAA tournament.  

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With VCU safely in the Big Dance, George Templeton sits down with Jake Hatch from Locked On Cougars podcast to talk all about first round opponent BYU.  

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VCU was sleep-walking in the first half, but in the second half they were wide awake, leading to an 83-57 drubbing of Samford at the Stu.  George Templeton looks back at the game in this latest Rams Rewind.

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VCU takes down GMU in the A10 Title Game, and is headed to Denver to play BYU in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.  George Templeton sat down for an early morning talk with Zach Joachim from the Richmond Times-Dispatch to talk about the championship game and preview the first round of the NCAAs.

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VCU clamped down on Loyola-Chicago in the final five minutes to walk away a seven point winner and advance once again to the A10 Title Game!  George Templeton was in the Cap One Arena and has his thoughts on the match.

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VCU smacks down SBU, winning by 17 in the quarterfinals of the A10 tournament.  George Templeton was in the arena and provides his recap!

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George Templeton chats with Tyler Cronin from 3 Bid League podcast about all things A10 Tournament.  

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Host George Templeton is joined by bracketologist Rocco Miller from https://bracketeer.org/ to talk about VCU's chances of an at large bid in the upcoming NCAA Men's Basketball Tournament.

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VCU plays a sloppy old school (and not in a good way) game, and despite a try at a miracle win at the end, falls by three points to Dayton at the Stu.  George Templeton looks back at what happened.

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Despite the game being a little painful to watch at times, VCU gets out of Pittsburgh with a nine-point win over Duquesne, and wraps up the regular season A10 title.  George Templeton has his recap.

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Despite a bit of drift in the second half just like against Richmond, VCU puts in another dominant performance at home, beating Davidson by 24 points.  George Templeton has his take on the game in this latest Rams Rewind.

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VCU plays another great game, with the exception of a period in the second half when they apparently "got bored".  In the end, though, they take home an 18 point win and complete the season sweep of the Spiders.  George Templeton has his look back at the game!

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In a game with massive implications in the A10 standings, VCU went nuclear in the second half against GMU's vaunted defense, and won the game by 16.  George Templeton has his look back at the glorious victory.

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How have the Rams performed in the first quarter of the 2025-26 season?  George sat down on Black Friday evening to talk with VCU great and current TV color analyst Ed Nixon about each game so far.

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VCU absolutely demolishes UMass in the Minutemen's last trip to the Stu as a member of the A10.  George Templeton has his recap of the snow game block party.

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George Templeton is joined by producer Steve Mullen to dig into the mailbag and answer your questions about the state of the VCU Rams.  

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It wasn't pretty, but in conference play that doesn't matter as long at it's a win.  VCU goes to DC and beats GWU by eight, and George Templeton has a look at the couple of things that made it happen.

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VCU scraped, scrapped, and found a way to win at Dayton, notching its biggest victory of the season in a game that looked all but lost.  George Templeton is celebrating, and you should too!

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Another night at the Stu, and another complete domination of a conference foe.  This time it was against La Salle, and the Rams won by 30 in a game that wasn't even that close.  George Templeton has his look back.

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After a disappointing loss earlier in the week, VCU takes out its frustration on hapless Richmond, destroying them by 41 points in front of a sell-out crowd at the Stu.  George Templeton is celebrating the performance!

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VCU travels to Saint Louis and lays an egg, performing dismally in all facets of the game, and loses by nine.  George Templeton looks at what happened.

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Despite a dismal first half, VCU turned on the offensive jets in the second half and pulled away to notch a 14-point win at the Stu versus SBU ... winning their sixth straight game in the process.  George Templeton has his recap.

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Apologies for the delayed episode, as life got in the way of this one.  But, George got a chance to review the 24-point road win over URI and was very, very happy ... with the exception of about eight minutes.

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VCU goes on the road and wins its fourth straight game, taking down St. Joe's by nine points and grabbing a share of first place in the A10.  George Templeton says VCU's arrow is pointing way up right now.

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VCU IS IN THE WINNER'S BRACKET! The Rams take down the South Florida (even if it's not in southern Florida) Bulls by 12 in the first round of the Battle for Atlantis, despite a horrific first four minutes of the game.  The win sets up a showdown in round two with Vanderbilt.  George Templeton has the recap and the look forward.

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It's pretty rare that a team wins by 16, and you think that should have been a lot more, but that happened when VCU hosted SLU at the Stu, and completely dominated them.  George Templeton has his thoughts on this fantastic win.

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Zach Joachim from the Richmond Times-Dispatch joins George for a wide-ranging conversation about how VCU got to this point in the season, and where they go from here.

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Given everything going on in the City of Richmond and the surrounding areas right now, and the resulting fact that no fans were allowed into the Siegel Center to watch the game, a sloppy 12-point win isn't the worst outcome by a mile.  George Templeton takes a look at what happened against Fordham.

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After a sluggish first half and beginning of the second half, VCU picks it up in a BIG way to walk away from Loyola Chicago with a 19 point win.  George Templeton says it's hard to know where to begin when talking about this game.

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