They were led by 18th-year head coach Chris Mooney and played their home games at the Robins Center as members of the Atlantic 10 Conference.

On February 17, 2023, Richmond announced that Mooney would miss the remainder of the 2022–23 season due to heart surgery to address an aneurysm in his ascending aorta.

6 seed, they defeated Rhode Island, VCU, Dayton, and Davidson to win the Atlantic 10 tournament.

With the NCAA granting student-athletes an extra year of eligibility due to impacts from the COVID-19 pandemic, two scholarship Spiders who would have otherwise exhausted their eligibility elected to return for the 2021–22 season: Matt Grace and Andre Gustavson.

[2][3] Sources: In addition to freshman Walz, Richmond also brought in three new players via transfer: Neal Quinn from Lafayette,[4] Isaiah Bigelow from Wofford,[5] and Jason Roche from The Citadel.