GAME 3
Bucknell (1-1) vs. Robert Morris (0-2)
Wednesday, November 18, 2015 • 7:00 p.m.
Charles L. Sewall Center (3,056) • Moon Township, Pa.
 
Radio: 730 AM WPIT
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Quick Hits
 
- The Robert Morris University men's basketball team welcomes Bucknell to the Charles L. Sewall Center for a 7:00 p.m. tip Wednesday in its 2015-16 home opener.
 
- The Colonials opened the year with a pair of road losses, falling @ Penn (11/13/15) in their season opener, 76-75, before suffering a 106-44 setback @ Cincinnati (11/15/15). Senior guard Rodney Pryor led RMU in scoring in both games, scoring a game-high 28 points against the Quakers and 17 versus the Bearcats.
 
- Pryor's jumper from the elbow with 3.2 seconds left that would have given the Colonials the win @ Penn was off the mark.
 
- Sophomore forward Elijah Minnie contributed a career-high 15 points and nine rebounds @ Penn (11/13/15), while junior guard Kavon Stewart finished with 12 points, three assists and a pair of steals.
Freshman guard Isaiah Still reached double figures in scoring for the first time in his collegiate career @ Cincinnati (11/15/15) with 11 points. He shot 4-for-8 from the field, including 2-of-5 from deep, and was 1-for-2 at the charity stripe. He also tied for team-high honors in rebounds (5).
 
- Robert Morris returns four starters and six letterwinners from a 2014-15 squad that finished with an overall record of 20-15 (.571), including a 12-6 (.667) mark in the Northeast Conference. The Colonials posted their 10th consecutive winning season.
 
- RMU earned its eighth NEC Tournament title and subsequent bid to the NCAA Tournament in 2015 and posted its first victory in the Big Dance since 1983 and second overall in program history with an 81-77 win over North Florida (3/18/15) in the 2015 NCAA First Four. In the second round of the NCAA Tournament, the Colonials fell to eventual national champion Duke (3/20/15), 85-56.
 
- RMU was tabbed second in the 2015 NEC Preseason Coaches Poll, the 10th consecutive year the Colonials have been picked to finish in the top three in the league. Senior guard Rodney Pryor was named to the Preseason All-NEC Team.
 
- Pryor led the Colonials in scoring last season at 15.6 points per game and was named the 2015 NEC Tournament MVP. In three games of the NEC Tournament, Pryor averaged 14.7 points, 4.0 rebounds and 3.0 assists per game and scored a team-high 17 points in the NEC Tournament championship game, a 66-63 win @ St. Francis Brooklyn (3/10/15).
 
- From the 2007-08 season through 2014-15, Robert Morris compiled an overall record of 183-96 (.656), with the 183 victories ranking ninth among mid-major programs in the last eight years. The Colonials have won at least 20 games in seven of the last eight seasons and have also appeared in seven postseason tournaments, including three appearances each in the NCAA Tournament (2009, 2010, 2105) and NIT (2008, 2013, 2014) as well as the 2012 CollegeInsider.com Postseason Tournament (CIT).

 
 
Cincinnati Tidbits - RMU dipped to 0-2 (.000) all-time against Cincinnati ... Robert Morris suffered its worst loss in six seasons under head coach Andrew Toole, with the Bearcats establishing team highs in points (106), field goals (38), assists (32) and steals (18) ... Freshman guard Isaiah Still reached double figures for this first time in his collegiate career with 11 points on 4-of-8 shooting, including 2-for-5 from beyond the arc, while going 1-for-2 at the free-throw line. He also tied for team-high honors in rebounds (5) ... The Colonials scored just 19 points in the second half, a team low under Toole for points in the second half ... Farad Cobb led eight players in double figures for Cincinnati with 15 points. 
 
Protect This House - Thanks to a 66-53 victory over Bryant in the semifinals of the 2015 Northeast Conference Tournament, Robert Morris concluded the 2014-15 season with a record of 10-6 (.625) at the Charles L. Sewall Center. It marked the 10th consecutive year that the Colonials have posted at least 10 wins at home. Since 2005-06, RMU has posted a record of 116-32 (.784) at the Sewal Center. In five seasons at "The Chuck" under head coach Andrew Toole, Robert Morris has compiled a record of 57-17 (.770). Robert Morris played its 30th season at the Sewall Center in 2014-15, and overall the Colonials own a record of 269-134 (.667) in the building.
 
Comeback Kids - Robert Morris has made a habit of climbing out of double-digit deficits under head coach Andrew Toole, and that bore fruit in RMU's 2015-16 season opener. The Colonials trailed Penn at halftime, 44-28, and faced a 17-point deficit, 51-34, with 14:56 to play before roaring back to grab a 72-71 lead with under four minutes left. It marks the 21st time under sixth-year head coach Andrew Toole the Colonials have erased a double-digit deficit. On 19 of those occasions Robert Morris has earned a victory.
 
Picking Up Where He Left Off - Senior guard Rodney Pryor, who was tabbed to the 2015 Preseason All-NEC Team, picked up where he left off from last season in RMU's first two games of the 2015-16 season. Thanks to a team-high 17 points @ Cincinnati (11/15/15), Pryor enters Wednesday's game having reached double figures in scoring in each of his last 12 games dating back to last season. During that stretch, Pryor is averaging 20.8 points per contest while converting an average of 3.17 three-pointers per game.
 
The Chase for 1,000 - Senior guard Rodney Pryor is RMU's active leading scorer with 591 points as the Colonials open the home portion of its 2015-16 campaign Wednesday against Bucknell. Pryor has scored a team-high 45 points in two games, a year after leading the Colonials with 546 points last year, and he is looking to become the second player in the last three years to eclipse the 1,000-point plateau in just two seasons at RMU. Former guard Karvel Anderson scored 1,123 points in 69 career games from 2012 to 2014. Pryor needs to average 14.1 points over RMU's final 29 games of the 2015-16 campaign to eclipse 1,000 career points.
 
Put Me In, Coach - The 2015-16 Robert Morris roster features just three upperclassmen, which includes seniors Rodney Pryor and Aaron Tate and junior Kavon Stewart. Combined, the Colonials entered the 20115-16 season with 224 combined games of experience. Compare that to the beginning of last season, when RMU owned a total of 355 games of experience entering the 2014-15 campaign. Pryor, Tate and Stewart will provide a large bulk of the leadership for the Colonials in 2015-16, and the trio will do that best by playing. Pryor is RMU's active leader in both consecutive games played (37) and consecutive starts (29). Tate and Stewart have appeared in 35 and 26 consecutive games, respectively, with Stewart having started 21 straight games dating to last year.

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