GAME 6
Robert Morris (0-5) vs. Hampton (1-3) - Barclays Classic
Friday, November 25, 2016 • 7:30 p.m.
SECU Arena (5,200) • Towson, Md.

Radio: ESPN 970 AM
Radio Talent: Chris Shovlin (pxp) & Jim Elias (color)
Video: None
 
Quick Hits
 
- The Robert Morris University men's basketball team concludes a six-game road trip as well as play in the Barclays Classic with a pair of games in Baltimore, Md., at Towson University. The Colonials will face off with Hampton Friday for a 7:30 p.m. tip and will meet either Stony Brook or the host Tigers Saturday.
 
- Under seventh-year head coach Andrew Toole, RMU owns a record of 5-2 (.714) in neutral site contests, including a mark of 4-1 (.800) in regular-season tournaments played at a neutral site.
 
- RMU is coming off a 61-40 loss @ Kansas State (11/22/16) in falling to 0-2 in the Barclays Classic. Sophomore guard Isaiah Still was the only student-athlete to reach double figures for the Colonials, supplying 10 points, six rebounds and three steals.
 
- Redshirt senior forward Aaron Tate tied a career high with 11 rebounds @ Kansas State (11/22/16) and is RMU's active career leader in caroms with 352. Tate leads the Colonials and ranks fifth in the Northeast Conference with an average of 8.2 rebounds per game.
 
- Robert Morris opened play in the Barclays Classic with an 81-69 setback @ Richmond (11/20/16). Sophomore guard Isaiah Still paced RMU with a game-high 20 points, converting six of his 12 shots from the floor, including 3-of-5 from beyond the arc, while also going 5-for-6 at the free-throw line. Still also posted three assists and established a career high with four steals.
 
- Senior guard Kavon Stewart became the 10th player in school history to eclipse 400 career assists thanks to five @ Richmond (11/20/16), and he enters Friday's game against Hampton with a career total of 404.
 
- Prior to its game @ Richmond (11/20/16), Robert Morris dropped a 75-62 decision @ Bucknell (11/16/16). Senior forward Billy Giles paced RMU with 18 points and six rebounds, converting eight of his 10 shots from the floor while going 2-for-2 at the free-throw line. Sophomore guard Matty McConnell added 13 points.
 
- Robert Morris opened its six-game road swing with a 78-72 setback @ DePaul (11/13/16). Sophomore guard Isaiah Still led RMU by scoring 17 of his career-high 26 points in the second half. He finished 10-for-17 shooting from the field, including 4-for-8 from beyond the arc, and went 2-for-3 at the free-throw line.
 
- Senior guard Kavon Stewart added 13 points, four rebounds, five assists and four steals against the Blue Demons, while freshman guard Dachon Burke tallied six points, five rebounds and four steals.
 
- The Colonials christened the 2016-17 campaign and their 41st season of Division I basketball with a 67-50 setback to Penn (11/11/16) at the Charles L. Sewall Center. Sophomore guard Isaiah Still paced RMU with 15 points and six rebounds.
 


Kansas State Tidbits - Tuesday's game against the Wildcats marked the first game in the all-time series between the two programs ... The 40 points scored against KSU tied a school record for the lowest point total in a game in the program's 41-year Division I history ... RMU shot just 22.3 percent (13-for-57), the lowest field goal percentage in a game in Andy Toole's seven years as head coach ... Robert Morris converted just 17.6 percent (6-of-34) of its attempts from the field after halftime ... The Colonials held a 40-38 edge on the glass against the Wildcats, including a commanding 21-11 cushion in offensive rebounds.
 
Steal City - Robert Morris has consistently been at the top of the Northeast Conference leaderboard in steals throughout head coach Andrew Toole's tenure, as the Colonials have topped the circuit four times (2012, 2013, 2014, 2016) under Toole and six times in the last nine years. In 2015-16, RMU averaged 8.28 thefts per contest to pace the circuit. In the first five games of 2016-17, Robert Morris has compiled 36 steals, an average of 7.2 per game that is tops in the NEC. Sophomore guard Isaiah Still leads the league with an average of 2.00 thefts per contest thanks to a team-high 10 steals.
 
Start Me Up - Head coach Andrew Toole, who is in his seventh year at the helm of the Colonials in 2016-17, has already employed three different starting lineups this season. Toole, who has won 120 games in seven seasons as head coach at Robert Morris, has used 55 different starting lineups during his tenure. That equates to an average of 2.18 victories per starting five. In his seven seasons on the sideline, Toole has used an average of 8.7 starting lineups per year.
 
Under/Over - The 2016-17 version of the Colonials are one of the youngest teams in head coach Andrew Toole's seven-year tenure at RMU, as three freshman and three sophomores help make up the rotation. Through the first five games of the year, the Robert Morris underclassmen have supplied the Colonials with 49.9 percent (499-of-1,000) of the minutes played and 59.7 percent (175-of-293) of their scoring.
 
Board Stiff - Robert Morris is coming off a 2015-16 campaign in which it ranked ninth in the Northeast Conference in rebounding offense, grabbing an average of 32.5 caroms per contest. Bolstered by the return of redshirt senior forward Aaron Tate, the Colonials have gotten off to a solid start rebounding in the first five games of 2016-17. RMU has been either even or better in each of its first five games this season, including a season-high 44 caroms in its 2016-17 season opener against Penn. In 2015-16, Robert Morris eclipsed 40 rebounds in a game just four times, going 3-1 (.750) in those contests. In five games this year the Colonials have pulled down an average of 39.4 rebounds per game and own a rebounding margin of +1.8.

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