Robert Morris category, Page 3
For Robert Morris, ‘Losing was not an option … We didn’t want to let the city down’
With an 83-62 Horizon League quarterfinal win over Wright State on Thursday night, the Robert Morris men’s basketball team did something we haven’t seen recently in Pittsburgh sports. They delivered. At home. In the postseason. In fact, the Colonials were the last team to do that in March of 2020...
Robert Morris women defeat Northern Kentucky, advance to Horizon League semis Monday
During the women’s basketball regular season, Northern Kentucky gave Robert Morris fits. On Thursday in the Horizon League Tournament quarterfinals, the Colonials returned the favor. Noa Givon scored a season-high 23 points, and No. 4 seed Robert Morris defeated No. 5 Northern Kentucky, 70-57, at UPMC Events Center to advance...
Robert Morris men top Wright State in Horizon League quarters in front of record crowd
Robert Morris’ UPMC Events Center was rocking Thursday night. And why not? The Colonials are a hot ticket these days. They certainly didn’t disappoint their screaming faithful in passing their first test in the Horizon League Tournament for their eighth consecutive victory and 14th in the past 15 games. Kam...
Well-traveled Woods plays important role in getting Robert Morris the top seed for the Horizon League Tournament
In high school, Kam Woods was a phenom on the basketball court. After all, he didn’t score nearly 4,000 career points by accident. He averaged 38.1 as a senior at Pinson Valley in suburban Birmingham, Ala. It’s just one small highlight in the big picture of Woods’ illustrious background that...
Robert Morris basketball brings ray of sunshine to bleak Pittsburgh sports landscape
Every Pittsburgh sports fan will admit one unfortunate truth these days: The entire local sports scene is at low tide. The Penguins are about to miss the playoffs for a third straight year. The Steelers haven’t won a playoff game in eight seasons. And the only thing the Pirates can...
Robert Morris men to host Wright State in Horizon League quarterfinals
The Robert Morris men’s basketball team Tuesday night learned who its quarterfinal-round opponent will be in the Horizon League Tournament. The top-seeded Colonials (23-8) will play host to No. 8 Wright State (15-17) at 8 p.m. Thursday in the second game of a doubleheader at UPMC Events Center. In the...
Robert Morris men claim 3 Horizon League postseason awards
Five years into its Horizon League membership, Robert Morris finally is proving the prognosticators wrong. Picked to finish ninth in the 11-team conference and with no one on the preseason all-league men’s basketball teams, the Colonials on Monday claimed three of the Horizon’s major postseason awards less than a week...
Folgueiras’ health a concern for top-seeded Robert Morris as Horizon League Tournament approaches
Top-seeded Robert Morris entered the week with a bit of uncertainty as the start of the Horizon League Men’s Basketball Tournament loomed. The Colonials (23-8), one of five teams with first-round byes, were looking ahead to the quarterfinals on Thursday night with an eye on the status of injured sophomore...
Robert Morris men win, clinch their 1st Horizon League regular-season title
After four agonizing seasons in the Horizon League, Andy Toole finally is back on top. And the longtime Robert Morris men’s basketball coach is hoping for even more. “We’ll enjoy this tonight and then we’ll be back to work (Friday) trying to figure out what we’ve got to do to...
Robert Morris men roll past Milwaukee for 12th victory in past 13 games
And just like that, Robert Morris is in first place in the Horizon League men’s basketball standings. For the first time. Ever. Don’t tell coach Andy Toole, though. He’s not biting. “We’ve just got to keep doing what we do,” Toole said Sunday after Robert Morris’ 72-59 victory over Milwaukee...
Robert Morris men top Green Bay for 11th win in past 12 games
Everyone in the Robert Morris locker room was delighted with another victory. Nobody could’ve been thrilled with much else. Not even Kam Woods, the Colonials senior guard who flirted with a triple-double. This was Green Bay, after all. “It’s your biggest fear as a coach,” Robert Morris’ Andy Toole said...
Robert Morris opens 2025 football season on the road with back-to-back games vs. WVU, Youngstown State
Robert Morris’ 2025 football schedule, released Tuesday by coach Bernard Clark and the Northeast Conference, will include five Saturday home games at Joe Walton Stadium. The opener is Aug. 30 at West Virginia, a first-time opponent and the Colonials’ first game against a Big 12 team. Before the home opener...
Robert Morris basketball stays hot, defeats Purdue Fort Wayne
The ball worked its way inside the paint and back to the arc as the shot clock ticked into single digits. Back inside and out to Kam Woods in the right corner. Woods’ 3-point shot went up and bounded off the back of the iron before kissing the backboard and...
With tenacious coach Andy Toole leading the way, Robert Morris surges in Horizon League
When Andy Toole took the men’s basketball reins at Robert Morris in 2010, he was going by his given name, Andrew. As time passed, it, naturally, morphed into Andy. A decade later, the Colonials, for years among the top contenders in the lightly regarded Northeast Conference, made their way to...
Tim Benz: After finishing a game with no healthy goalies and an empty net, RMU hockey finds an EBUG
A week after the Robert Morris men’s hockey team had to finish a game without a goalie, the Colonials are preparing for this weekend’s games with the NCAA version of an EBUG: Emergency Backup Goaltender. The Colonials entered last weekend’s series against Bentley with one of their goalies, Croix Kochendorfer,...
Robert Morris defeats Horizon leader Cleveland State
Robert Morris sent a stern message Wednesday night to the rest of the Horizon League men’s basketball teams. League-leading Cleveland State certainly heard it loud and clear: “Beware.” “You can’t beat a team like Cleveland State on the road unless you get contributions from everybody, and that’s what we did...
Alvaro Folgueiras scores 35 to propel Robert Morris past Northern Kentucky
Robert Morris made another strong statement Saturday in its bid for a first-round bye in the Horizon League Tournament, and Alvaro Folgueiras spoke the loudest. Folgueiras scored a career-high 35 points and grabbed 10 rebounds for his 10th double-double, Kam Woods scored five straight points late to give Robert Morris...
Robert Morris looks to follow path of fellow mid-major Duquesne to NCAA Tournament
Remember last season? Who could forget when Duquesne won the Atlantic 10 Tournament in men’s basketball and surged to its first NCAA Tournament in something like a million years? Remember that? It had been 47 seasons — the year was 1977, to be exact — since the Dukes made The...
Robert Morris men bounce back to swat away Detroit Mercy
Amarion Dickerson appeared in disbelief. “A school record?” the Robert Morris junior forward said, repeating what someone just told him. “Really, a school record?” But for Dickerson, honestly, it was business as usual. He entered the night fourth in Division I in blocks with 59. The total swelled to 67...
Robert Morris men come up short at Wright State
Even with its late-game miscues, the Robert Morris men’s basketball team nearly kept its long winning streak alive Sunday at Wright State. But the Colonials weren’t able to come through. Andrew Welage’s jumper and Jack Doumbia’s free throw in the final 11 seconds completed a run of 10 unanswered points...
7 players score in double figures as Robert Morris men rout IU Indy
As the seasons progress in men’s basketball, Robert Morris’ desire to make noise in the Horizon League grows stronger. The surging Colonials were deafening Thursday night at UPMC Events Center, doubling up IU Indianapolis, 106-53, for their sixth consecutive victory and 10th in the past 12 games. “We’re getting hot...
Robert Morris men edge defending league champion Oakland for 5th straight victory
Robert Morris is on a roll in men’s basketball, and the Colonials are doing it by winning the close ones. They claimed another one Saturday, their fifth consecutive victory and fourth by three points or fewer during that time to keep pace with the Horizon League leaders. “(Again) a pretty...
Robert Morris men run road winning streak to 4 with late victory over Youngstown State
Robert Morris’ midseason surge in men’s basketball continued Wednesday night with another road victory, the Colonials’ fourth consecutive success away from UPMC Events Center. Kam Woods’ driving layup with 2 seconds left carried RMU to a 72-70 victory against Youngstown State at Beeghly Center in Youngstown, Ohio, giving the Colonials...
Behind 5 double-digit scorers, Robert Morris edges Milwaukee for 700th win in program history
Josh Omojafo and Kam Woods scored 15 points apiece to pace five double-figure scorers for Robert Morris, and the Colonials defeated Milwaukee, 81-79, on Sunday at UW-Milwaukee Panther Arena for their third consecutive road win in men’s basketball. It also was the Colonials’ third straight victory overall and fourth in...
Amarion Dickerson scores 22, Robert Morris beats Green Bay
GREEN BAY, Wis. — Amarion Dickerson scored 22 points as Robert Morris beat Green Bay, 89-67, on Friday night. Dickerson shot 8 for 11 (2 for 3 from 3-point range) and 4 of 5 from the free-throw line for the Colonials (12-7, 4-4 Horizon League). Kam Woods scored 20 points...
