Richmond City Vaccinations

Vaccine Doses Administered

People With At Least One Dose

237,714

124,871 People Fully Vaccinated

People With Booster/Third Dose

113,381

7,790 numbers.

ARRICK WILSON Contributing Writer

POPCORN IS POPPING, THE PEPPAS ARE playing and the Stuart C. Siegel Center is filling up with fans. For the first time in almost a year, VCU basketball is back in full force with rowdy Ram fans. Havoc basketball is back in Richmond once again.

“How long have we been waiting for this?” said men’s basketball head coach Mike Rhoades in his season-opening introduction speech to Ram Nation fans in their seats.

On Saturday, the men’s basketball team opened up the season with their annual Black and Gold scrimmage, filled with fans for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic.

The main event was six segments of 4-minute scrimmages that involved all players switching teams. The switching allowed viewers to catch up on some of the newcomers to the program.

The game featured newcomers like freshman guards Jayden Nunn and Nick Kern as well as freshman forward Jalen DeLoach, who all made a combined 23 points throughout the scrimmage. Nunn was seen playing the point guard position, running the offense at times for the duration of the game.

“Jayden [Nunn] is a freshman point guard. He can guard the ball and he can make plays. You see him get in the lane and all that stuff, you just got to continue to make the game easier and you’re a student of the game, which he is,” Rhoades said during a postgame press conference.

Nunn will have a big impact on the team in the guard position, as sophomore guard Ace Baldwin is still recovering from a torn Achilles tendon injury from early June, according to VCU Athletics. Baldwin is making progress, as he was seen