Senior guard Matty McConnell of the basketball team has been picked as the Peoples Natural Gas RMU Male Student-Athlete of the Week for Jan. 30, 2019. In helping the Colonials stretch their winning streak to four with a pair of home wins last week, McConnell averaged 13.5 points, 9.0 rebounds and 2.0 steals in victories over Sacred Heart (1/24/19) and Wagner (1/26/19) at the North Athletic Complex. In a 72-64 victory over the Pioneers, McConnell scored a season-high 19 points and added six rebounds, three assists, a block and two steals. Two days later McConnell, a native of Oakdale, Pa., grabbed a career-high 12 rebounds in a 57-51 win over Wagner while scoring eight points and posting a pair of steals. McConnell, who is RMU’s activing leading scorer with 981 points and is 19 shy of becoming the 25th member of the Robert Morris 1,000-Point Club, is averaging 9.4 points, 4.6 rebounds and 1.9 steals per game in 2018-19.
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