THE BASICS
Rhode Island (4-8-3, 2-3-1 A-10) vs. VCU (5-5-4, 2-2-2 A-10)
Kickoff: Saturday, Oct. 25, 7:00 p.m. EST
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RHODE ISLAND VS. VCU - SERIES NOTES

• Rhode Island is 3-5-1 all time against VCU.
• VCU has won the last two meetings, including a 2-0 victory in Richmond last season.
• Papa Toure and Mouhamed Tucker scored the VCU goals in the meeting a year ago.
• The loss snapped a nine-match unbeaten streak for Rhode Island at the time.
• URI is 2-1 as the home team in the series.
• The teams have played each other in four different states. They have met four times in Richmond, Va, three times in Kingston, R.I. and once each in both Dayton, Ohio and Saint Louis, Mo.
• The latter two meetings came in the Atlantic 10 Championship of 2017 and 2018, respectively.

A LOOK AT THE OPPONENT 

• VCU is coming off a 3-0 victory at Loyola Chicago, the most goals it has scored in a match this season.
• Stronger on the road than at home this season, VCU is 5-2 as the road team and 0-3-4 at home.
• VCU allows 1.77 goals per game while scoring an average of 1.15 per game.
• Mouhammed Ibrahim leads the team with three goals.
• He and Andrey Salmeron (2 goals, 2 assists) are tied for the team lead with six points.

BOTH TEAMS FIGHTING FOR POSTSEASON SPOT

• VCU and Rhode Island are seventh and eighth in the Atlantic 10 standings, which would be the final two spots in the conference championship. VCU has eight points, while URI has seven.
• Three teams - La Salle, Loyola Chicago and Duquesne - are tied for ninth place with six points each. St. Bonaventure is right behind that group with five points.
• La Salle plays at St. Bonaventure, Loyola Chicago hosts Saint Louis and Duquesne plays at Davidson on Saturday.
• All six teams vying for the final two postseason spots have two conference games remaining.
• Teams earn three points for a win and one point for a tie.