The 2016–17 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team represented the University of Richmond during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. Richmond competed as a member of the Atlantic 10 Conference under 12th-year head coach Chris Mooney and played its home games at the Robins Center. They finished the regular season 19–11, 13–5 in A-10 play to finish in a tie for third place. Due to tiebreaking rules, they received the No. 3 seed in the A-10 tournament, where they defeated George Washington in the quarterfinals before losing to VCU in the semifinals. They received an invitation to the National Invitation Tournament, where, as No. 6 seed in the Iowa bracket, defeated No. 3 seed Alabama and No. 7 seed Oakland before falling to No. 4 seed TCU in the quarterfinals.
Previous season The Spiders finished the 2015–16 season with a record of 16–16, 7–11 in A-10 play to finish in ninth place. They defeated Fordham in the second round of the A-10 tournament to advance to the Quarterfinals where they lost to Dayton.
Preseason Richmond was picked to finish in sixth place in the Preseason A-10 poll. T. J. Cline was selected to the Preseason All-Conference First Team while ShawnDre’ Jones was named to the Third Team.
Departures Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Notes Trey Davis 5 G/F 6'5" 215 RS Senior Richmond, Virginia Graduated Deion Taylor 11 F 6'7" 215 Senior New Orleans, Louisiana Graduated John Moran 13 G 6'3" 185 Senior Phoenixville, Pennsylvania Walk-on; graduated Terry Allen 15 F 6'8" 240 Senior Houston, Texas Graduated KoVien Dominaus 35 F 6'7" 170 Freshman Columbus, Ohio Transferred
Incoming transfers Name Number Pos. Height Weight Year Hometown Previous School Kwesi Abakah 34 F 6'8" 212 RS Senior Suwanee, Georgia Graduate transfer from Northeastern, eligible immediately
Recruiting
Recruiting Class of 2017
Roster
Schedule and results
!colspan=9 style=| Non-conference regular season
!colspan=12 style=| Atlantic 10 regular season
!colspan=9 style=| Atlantic 10 tournament
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Source:"University of Richmond Spiders Men's Basketball 2016–17 Schedule ."
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