After finishing in third place in the Atlantic 10 during the regular season , Richmond defeated the University of Dayton to win the 2011 Atlantic 10 Men 's Basketball Tournament . With the championship , Richmond was awarded an automatic bid to the 2011 NCAA Men 's Division I Basketball Tournament , where it received a 12-seed and defeated Vanderbilt in the second round of the tournament before eliminating Morehead State in the third round . The Spiders fell in the Sweet Sixteen to Kansas
2011 Atlantic 10 Men 's Basketball Tournament
2011 Atlantic 10 Men's Basketball Tournament
2010–11 Richmond Spiders men's basketball team