Larry Brown Sports
Brown Bag it, Baby
Benches cleared on Friday night during the A-10 game between Saint Louis and VCU at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Mo. The Billikens beat the Rams 88-75 to improve to 25-2 and drop VCU to 21-7. Saint Louis was leading 88-69 with 6.4 seconds left when …
An intense brawl broke out Tuesday during a men’s college basketball game between VCU and Saint Louis. The incident happened as Saint Louis led VCU 69-63 with just over a minute left at Chaifetz Arena in St. Louis, Mo. The CBS broadcast showed …
Sunday’s Atlantic 10 championship game was hit with an unexpected interruption early in the second half. The game between Duquesne and VCU had to be stopped with 17:54 remaining in the second half when the celebratory confetti was accidentally …
Imagine playing a whole season only to reach the NCAA Tournament and have it end due to COVID without even playing a game. That’s what happened to VCU. The NCAA announced on Saturday that the scheduled first-round game between Oregon and VCU …
No one ever wants to be the boring person who picks all top-ranked teams to reach the Final Four in their bracket. I’d much rather lose taking my chance at finding the needle in the haystack than not even really trying. History, both recent and …
College basketball is in full swing, which means most eyes are on the power conferences. As the big boys battle one another, they attract almost all of the nation attention. For mid-major clubs, it can feel like they are toiling away, giving their …
VCU blew a 10-point lead with 3:38 to go against Stephen F. Austin in the first round of the NCAA Tournament on Friday and ended up going to overtime after a bad foul in a game they eventually lost. The Rams were up 67-63 with 10.5 seconds left and …
Miley Cyrus apparently is pretty useful in a sports setting. Remember in November when a Belmont fan sang “Wrecking Ball” when North Carolina’s James Michael McAdoo was at the free throw line and caused him to brick? Well Virginia …
VCU was one of the stunning stories of last year’s NCAA Tournament when they reached the Final Four as a No. 11 seed. This year they’re a No. 12 seed, and a lot of people were calling their opponent — No. 5 seed Wichita State …
VCU took out an ad in Monday’s NCAA Tournament special section of the Washington Post where they said they were “back to bust your bracket.” The Rams of course reached the Final Four last year as a No. 11 seed. This year …
The run VCU has been able to make to the Final Four in Houston has become — as expected — a complete sideshow. The university recently shelled out $2,000 to let Dick Vitale know he was wrong and students and fans alike have been partying …
VCU has become the darling of the NCAA Tournament this year, developing into this year’s Butler (which incidentally could also be said about this year’s Butler). Their head coach is Shaka Smart who has emerged as a leading candidate for …
There have been few times in sports history where a team has made an analyst insert their foot in their mouth quite like VCU has done with Dick Vitale and Jay Bilas. Both ESPN analysts completely ripped the selection committee for even putting the …
If you didn’t think VCU reaching the Final Four was big, then this video of the town of Richmond celebrating after the upset win over Kansas will set you straight: The streets were packed as you can tell in that video. Here are some pictures of …
When the NCAA Tournament brackets first came out, the at-large selections that drew the biggest criticism were VCU and UAB. Even Dick Vitale, who sees more positive signs in college hoops than a third grade math class, ripped the selection of VCU. …
