From mid-December to mid-January, it would be hard finding a more dominant college basketball team than the Virginia Commonwealth University Rams.

Since Dec. 15 when the record was 5-5, Coach Will Wade’s squad has won 10 straight games with an average victory margin of 17.2 points.

The 10th consecutive victory was the 84-76 conquest of St. Bonaventure last Sunday at the Siegel Center with the Rams’ JeQuan Lewis continuing to dazzle as a shooter and ball handler.

Trying to extend the winning streak to 11 games won’t come easy.

Next up for the Rams (15-5 overall, 5-0 in the Atlantic 10 Conference) is a trip Friday to Davidson College in North Carolina, where VCU has bad memories. A year ago, the Rams were waxed 82-55 at Davidson. It was the worst loss in the Coach Shaka Smart era.

Davidson began this week 11-6 overall, but 10-0 on their home court near Charlotte.

The Wildcats average an A-10 Conference best 82 points per game and feature the conference’s leading scorer, 6-foot junior Jack Gibbs, who averages 26 points per game. Gibbs also leads the A-10 in assists, 5.3 per game.

VCU has an ace junior guard of its own in Lewis, who has emerged as a difference maker. Fueling the Rams’ second-half comeback against St. Bonaventure, Lewis had 26 points and seven assists, hitting 8 of 15 from the floor and 8 of 9 at the foul line.

Give a hand to the man from Tennessee. In 39 minutes choreographing VCU’s attack, the Dickson, Tenn., native was charged with zero turnovers.

Averaging 5.3 assists, Lewis is second in the conference behind Gibbs. In his last two outings, Lewis had 15 assists against just one turnover.

Melvin Johnson had 21 points against St. Bonaventure to move past Bernard Harris into16th place on VCU’s all-time scorers list.      

In fairness to the “old timers,” Johnson has had many more opportunities.

Harris scored 1,379 points in 81 games from 1970 to 1974.

Johnson’s 1,397 points have come in 124 games.

Eric Maynor is VCU’s career scoring leader (1,953), but Len Creech had 2,019 for VCU and Richmond Professional Institute (RPI) combined in the1960s. VCU was formed in 1968 by the merger of RPI and the Medical College of Virginia. 

Against St. Bonaventure last Sunday, Justin Tillman, “Dr. Detroit,” added 17 points on 7-for-9 shooting with most of those points coming from inside.

The spring-loaded, 6-foot-7 sophomore from the Motor City is 31 of 38 shots (82 percent) in his last five games.

It’s hard to say who is harder to deny — the Rams of late or their fans.

The game against St. Bonaventure, originally scheduled for Saturday, Jan. 23, was moved to Sunday, Jan. 24, because of the huge snowfall.

Despite dicey, even treacherous, driving conditions, VCU extended its streak of consecutive sellouts to 7,637 fans. There may have been a few empty seats, but all tickets were sold.

The Rams will be on the visiting side of a frenzied audience at Davidson, where a full house is expected at Belk Arena. That’s the floor where former Wildcat Stephen Curry sparkled.

Davidson, Winthrop (S.C.) and, coincidentally, VCU, were the only schools to offer Curry a scholarship coming out of Charlotte Christian School.

A late bloomer, Curry led the NCAA in scoring as a junior (28.6) before moving on to NBA stardom.