. >> christie: kenny brooks has to be pleased with his group. >> john: madison's head coach kenny brooks joins us now. john castleberry along with kristine christie scott. >> the effort of the kids are coming and giving us hasn't been perfect but the effort mixture if it. when you play hard good things happen. >> christie: you changed up defense things, coach and you went zone and that seems to have disrupted the vcu flow. >> the noon machine went good. we went to zone out of necessity. they said you have two fowls. i said everybody has fouls. we are fortunate they were missing some of their free throws. we can't rely on that. we have to play strong defense. >> john: kenny, thanks for your time. good luck in the 2nd half. james madison leading 32-24 at the spiegel center. come back at halftime from richmond right after this. families searching for loved ones; parents trying to feed their children. but we can all do something. we can help the american red cross as it delivers the food, water, and medicine that can save lives. donate $10 by texting "haiti" to 9-0-9-9-9. visit redcross.org

dawn evans and hislop and williams and newman and kenny brooks has done a great job. now his eighth year in charge. lane and patterson along with wallace, moss and courtney on that front line. beth cunningham in her 7th year in charge of richmond. >> christie: these she's done a tremendous job with the rams. >> john: now it's time for our keys to the game. >> christie: the key for vcu. if they can get defensive pressure. they had three double figure scores all season long. james needs control the board. james madison is out rebounding 6 per game. they need scorer and sore score often. guards have been a huge part of the offensive success for the dukes. >> john: we are just about set to go. and again, vcu. and james madison two games in the loss column. waller will bring it up. >> christie: jimenezz inside. early on defense. >> john: and they get it. >> christie: that was rather easy. one-on-one isolate isolation down in the lane. she's not going to miss any of those. >> john: jimenez one of the back door play and well l defended by waller. moss moss again. the lady ra

kenny brooks probably just wants to talk about a few things. let's look at last year's championship game between drexel and james madison in harrison burg. >> christy: it was an exciting game. there you see dawn evans slashing down a jumper. >> john: drexel scores. what an outstanding player. >> christy: she's just and to watch. it's a fantastic experience for those young ladies. holding up number one finger. that's why he bse daw evcludslop : dorliels p a iddl dle ♪ :chhaw yot p a iddl >> john: welcome to vcu where the rams are taking it on the chin tonight courtesy of james madison. vcu got up to a good start with moss coming out and getting a couple jump shots. >> christy: d'andra moss averaging just under 18 points a game and she's going to get buckets and she did that early in the gim but then a dry spell. >> john: then it looked like trouble for gentleman. even though they lead they lost dawn evans to a sprained ankle. certainly a lot of reason for concern your james madison. give them a ton of credit because everyone on the ball club ste