The school’s men basketball team had their very first season in 1968. The Rams had won 3 CAA Tournament titles and 3 CAA regular season titles.
The team was first invited to a NCAA Tournament in 1985 as a #2 seed the highest seed ever achieved by the team. Furthermore as winners of CAA, VCU has participated in 4 NCAA Tournaments; one of them as guests.
In 2005 season VCU was 19-3 and finished second in the CAA with a conference record of 13-5 and received an offer to the NIT.
Although in 2006 the VCU Rams did not make it to a postseason participation. In 2006 coach Jeff Capel left VCU and was replaced by Anthony Grant. |