Robert McCurdy (February 26, 1952 – July 29, 2020) was an American college basketball player for the Richmond Spiders from 1973 to 1975.

[3] He led the team in scoring that season, including a season-high 40 points against Maryland's duo of Tom McMillen and Len Elmore.

[3][5] McCurdy then played for one varsity season with the Cavaliers, but Bill Gibson, the coach who had recruited him, left the school.

[3][5] Due to NCAA transfer eligibility rules, McCurdy was forced to sit out for one full year before suiting up for Richmond.

[3] McCurdy was the Spiders' second leading scorer behind Aron Stewart, who averaged 26.5 points per game, and was named to the All-Southern Conference Second Team.

[6][7] He scored a total of 855 points that season, and on February 26 (his birthday) he had a career high 53-point outing against Appalachian State.

[6] Averaging 22.8 field goal attempts per game, the 6-foot-7-inch (2.01 m), 200-pound (91 kg) forward took 35 percent of the team's shots while rarely passing; he was credited with only 11 assists for the season.

[10] He never played a game in the league, however, and it is speculated that the constant cortisone injections into his foot during his senior year may have scared off teams from giving him a chance.

The suit argued that he was given improper chemotherapy treatment,[2][13] receiving only 25 percent of the supposed dosage he should have been given of the drugs Fluorouracil and Mitomycin.