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'It's not pretty out there': Richmond's Mooney laments state of modern college basketball

ZACH JOACHIM Richmond Times-Dispatch
Mar 11, 2026
Mar 11, 2026 Updated Mar 15, 2026
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Richmond's Chris Mooney, Mike Walz, Will Johnston after 75-67 loss to Loyola Chicago in Atlantic 10 tournament first round. Walz and Johnston scored 10 points apiece.

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PITTSBURGH — Sitting at the podium following Richmond's season-ending 75-67 loss to Loyola Chicago in the first round of the Atlantic 10 tournament on Wednesday at PPG Paints Arena, Spiders longtime coach Chris Mooney lamented the state of modern college basketball amid the transient landscape of NIL and the transfer portal.

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121025-rtd-sp-urbbp01 — University of Richmond coach Chris Mooney: “Making sure that everyone, starting from me, through the coaches and players, everyone is looking at themselves saying, ‘How could that happen? What can I do better?’"
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021526-rtd-sp-urbb — UR coach Chris Mooney: "I think all of those things that we stress all the time, because they are very repetitive things, they have to show up and coaches have to insist that they show up and demand that they show up until they do."
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MIKE KROPF, TIMES-DISPATCH

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