The Spiders, led by fourteenth year head coach Michael Shafer, played their home games at the Robins Center and were members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.

It was announced that on March 10 that Shafer would not return, ending his 14-year coaching tenure at Richmond.

Shafer leaves as the all-time winningest coach of the program with 223 wins, but never led the Spiders to the NCAA tournament during his time.

[1] All Spiders games are broadcast on WTVR 6.3 with Robert Fish on the call.

The games are also streamed on Spider TV Archived 2016-10-07 at the Wayback Machine.