University of Richmond
DELAWARE
Lindsay Leads Spiders Past Delaware In Opener
11/09/2013 | Men's Basketball
UNIVERSITY OF RICHMOND, Va. - Senior Cedrick Lindsay scored a game-high 20 points to lead the Richmond men's basketball team to a 71-69 victory in the season opener Friday night in front of a sold-out crowd in The New Robins Center.
On a night when Richmond's 42-year-old arena made its debut with an interior facelift to rave reviews, Lindsay made 8-of-12 field goals and had three steals to lead the Spiders to their 13th-straight season-opening victory. The Washington, D.C. native has now scored at least 19 points in eight of his last 12 games.
Richmond led by as many as 11 mid-way through the second-half, but needed junior Kendall Anthony's two free throws with 2.3 seconds remaining to ice the victory.
Anthony finished the game with nine points, while sophomore Alonzo Nelson-Ododa tied his career-high 13 points. Despite battling foul trouble, Spiders sophomore Terry Allen just missed a double-double with 11 points and nine rebounds.
Sophomore Trey Davis also came close to a double-double with seven points and nine rebounds in his first collegiate start. Senior Derrick Williams scored six points.
“I don't think we played part well,” Richmond head coach Chris Mooney said. “I thought we had a tremendous stretch beginning of the second half. Cedrick made a couple of big time plays and Terry Allen was tremendous.
The New Robins Center was all it was hyped up to be after undergoing a $17 million renovation in the offseason. With new lighting, new seating closer to the court, a painted ceiling and four gigantic video boards, the arena wowed the sellout crowd of 6,721.
“I thought the atmosphere was incredible, the renovations are just beyond belief,” Mooney said. “It's amazing how much more intimate the setting is, how much louder it is.”
The Spiders (1-0) will host Belmont on Monday at the Robins Center at 7 p.m., before hosting Minnesota of the Big Ten on Nov. 16 at 7 p.m.
