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What The Rams Need In The Stretch
The college basketball season is arduous. Certain nights you'll fire on all cylinders. Others you'll sputter your way through the 40 minutes of play. Some you just need to find a way to survive.
For Rhode Island (20-7, 12-3), Wednesday at Rose Hill Gymnasium against the lowly Fordham Rams was the latter. Aided by a...
Assessing the 2020 URI Rams with Assistant Coach Kevin Sutton
Rhode Island (19-6, 11-2) continued its strong season over the weekend with a pull-away victory against Saint Joseph's. Now the Rams are in the midst of their first bye week of the Atlantic 10 season. David Cox's team gets some much needed rest via sitting out the customary Tuesday and Wednesday games as it...
Rams Exhibiting the Mark of a Good Team
CATCH THE RAMS VS. GEORGE MASON TUESDAY, JANUARY 28 AT 7:00PM ET. ON YURVIEW, COX CHANNEL 4 IN RHODE ISLAND.
Today doesn't feel like a day to write. It feels more like a day to put down the pen, or fold up the laptop and step back from the game of basketball — after learning...
T.J. Buchanan is Mastering the Game from a New Perspective
CATCH THE RAMS VS. ST. BONAVENTURE SATURDAY, JANUARY 25 AT 3:00PM ET. ON YURVIEW, COX CHANNEL 4 IN RHODE ISLAND.
Current Rhode Island assistant coach T.J. Buchanan blends competitor with class. While a player with the Rams, he battled through the uncertainty of a coaching change and heavy rebuild years to make an NIT in...
Rams Look to Reset as Atlantic 10 Play Begins
THE RAMS TAKE ON RICHMOND SUNDAY, JANUARY 5TH AT NOON ON YURVIEW, COX CHANNEL 4 IN RHODE ISLAND
It happens to many teams. An annual event — the fall flat on your face game. Playing Mad Libs, it's the game where you your opponent about 20 game-minutes too long. By then, you're in a...
Ishmael Leggett: “URI Was Everything I Could’ve Wished For”
About a week ago, Rhode Island received its second Class of 2020 commitment from Ishmael Leggett, a 6-foot-2 guard out of St. John's College High School in Washington D.C. A consensus 3-star recruit, Leggett was sought after by many before choosing the Rams.
I caught up with the newest Ram commitment to discuss life and...
Rhody Summer Notes: Deep Diving into a Brutal Non-Conference Schedule
There's a saying that resurfaces around this time every year, "Summer deserves a speeding ticket." Somehow, we're less than 70 days away - 67 to be exact - from URI tipping off its 2019-20 season with an exhibition against in-state foe Rhode Island College on October 26th. As the curtain draws on our Narragansett...
Rams Poised to Improve in Key Areas
Performance metrics are everywhere. As a communications professional by day and a college basketball analyst by night, I can't escape them. Nightmares of Kenpom and Google Data Studio will both dot my future. That aside, I've learned a few things from bathing in metrics all too often. One is that all the data in...
Rams Commit Jacob Toppin: “URI Felt Like Home to Me”
Jacob Toppin, a 6-7 forward from Ossining, NY, committed to the Rhode Island program last weekend. He's a long, 185-pound, rangy forward who can shoot it from the deep and possesses good ball skills. He's used to playing on the perimeter, having grown seven inches - from just six-feet - within the last two...
Jeremy Sheppard Adds Firepower to URI Rams Lineup
Rhode Island received a back court boost when former East Carolina guard and 2016-17 American Athletic Conference All-Rookie team selection Jeremy Sheppard committed to David Cox's program last weekend.
If we crank back the time machine to Sheppard's 2016-17 All-Rookie season at ECU, he averaged 9.2 points, 2.1 rebounds, and 3.5 assists in 26.6 minutes...
