GAME 30
RMU (9-20, 7-9 NEC) @ Sacred Heart (11-16, 10-6 NEC)
Thursday, February 25, 2016 • 7:00 p.m.
William H. Pitt Center (2,062) • Fairfield, Conn.

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Quick Hits
 
- The Robert Morris University men's basketball team concludes its 2015-16 regular season with a pair of road games, beginning Thursday with a 7:00 p.m. tip in Fairfield, Conn., against Sacred Heart at the William H. Pitt Center.
 
- RMU wrapped up the home portion of its 2015-16 slate with an 82-72 setback to St. Francis Brooklyn (2/20/16) at the Charles L. Sewall Center. Senior forward Rodney Pryor paced the Colonials with 14 points and grabbed five rebounds, while junior forward Billy Giles contributed 13 points, three boards and two blocks.
 
- Freshman guard Isaiah Still returned to the rotation against the Terriers after missing three games due to a violation of athletic department policy and finished with 12 points and three assists off the bench.
 
- Still has reached double figures in each of his last five games, averaging 17.6 points and 4.4 rebounds per contest over that span while shooting 46.6 percent (27-for-58) from the field and 76.3 percent (29-for-38) at the free-throw line.    
 
- Robert Morris opened its final homestand with a 74-67 win over LIU Brooklyn (2/18/16). The win helped RMU clinch a spot in the Northeast Conference Tournament for the 13th consecutive season. Senior guard Rodney Pryor led Robert Morris by garnering game-high honors in both points (24) and rebounds (9) while recording two steals.
 
- Freshman guard Steven Whitley scored a career-high 16 points in the win over the Blackbirds, junior guard Kavon Stewart finished with 13 points, eight assists and three steals and junior forward Billy Giles contributed 11 points and five boards.
 
- Senior guard Rodney Pryor became the 24th member of the RMU 1,000-Point Club by connecting for a pair of free throws with 37 seconds to play against LIU Brooklyn (2/18/16). Pryor eclipsed the mark in 60 career games, the second fastest mark in school history. Only all-time leading scorer Myron Walker (1990-94) did it quicker, reaching the threshold in 55 career contests.
 
- Prior to defeating LIU Brooklyn, Robert Morris earned a 72-70 victory @ Fairleigh Dickinson (2/13/16). Senior guard Rodney Pryor notched his seventh double-double of the 2015-16 campaign to pace the Colonials against the Knights with 27 points and a career-high 14 rebounds. He also finished with three assists and three steals in the win.
 
- Junior forward Billy Giles contributed 18 points on 9-of-11 shooting from the field while recording five rebounds and two blocks in the win over Fairleigh Dickinson. Junior guard Kavon Stewart finished with 11 points and six assists.
 
- Robert Morris, which has posted a record of 35-11 (.761) in six seasons under head coach Andrew Toole in the month of February, concludes the 2015-16 regular season with a Saturday, Feb. 27, with a 4:00 p.m. tip against Wagner at the Spiro Sports Center on Staten Island, N.Y., after taking on Sacred Heart Thursday.


 
St. Francis Brooklyn Tidbits - RMU was swept in the season series by St. Francis Brooklyn for the first time since 2003-04 ... The Robert Morris bench scored 22 points, the highest total during Northeast Conference play this season ... The Colonials tied a season high with 13 steals, a total that is also a season high against league foes ... Freshman guard Jordan Lester scored four points in the span of 21 seconds in the first half, his first points since contributing seven in a 67-64 win over Mississippi Valley State (11/28/15) ... RMU finished with just 22 rebounds against the Terriers, a season low ... Sophomore forward Andre Frederick scored six points on perfect 3-for-3 shooting and also established a season high with three blocks while recording a steal.
 
Get To The Rim - Robert Morris enters its final road trip of the 2015-16 regular season in the midst of its best stretch of the year offensively despite struggling to convert from beyond the arc. Over its last five games, a stretch in which the Colonials are 3-2 (.600), RMU has converted 54.9 percent (116-for-211) of its two-point field goal attempts and 47.3 percent (138-for-292) overall. Robert Morris has scored at least 40 points in the paint in three of its last five games as well as four of its last seven contests. During the month of February, the Colonials are averaging 39.0 points in the paint per game. RMU's frontcourt that consists of junior forwards Billy Giles and Conrad Stephens and sophomore forward Andre Frederick have combined to shoot 68.2 percent (58-for-45) from the field this month.
 
Billy The Kid - Since the calendar switched to February, there hasn't been a hotter member of the Colonials than junior forward Billy Giles. Giles has scored in double figures in each of his last six games, averaging 14.8 points and 5.7 rebounds over that span while shooting a white hot 71.2 percent (42-for-59) from the field. Giles, who overall on the 2015-16 campaign ranks second in the Northeast Conference in field goal percentage (.606), is looking become just the fourth student-athlete in program history to shoot at least 60 percent from the field in a season.
 
Vin Diesel - Freshman guard Steven Whitley is coming off his best stretch in a Robert Morris uniform as the Colonials conclude the 2015-16 regular season with road games this week at Sacred Heart and Wagner. In a 74-67 victory over LIU Brooklyn (2/18/16), Whitley contributed a career-high 16 points. Two days later against St. Francis Brooklyn (2/20/16), Whitley paced RMU in rebounds (6) and assists (4), both career highs, while also tying a career high with three steals to go along with nine points. In his six games as a member of the starting lineup, Whitley has produced averages of 7.7 points and 3.2 rebounds per contest while shooting 45.9 percent (17-for-37). 
 
Joining The Club - Thanks to hitting a pair of free throws with 37 seconds to play that helped secure a 74-67 victory over LIU Brooklyn (2/18/16), senior guard Rodney Pryor became the latest member of the RMU 1,000-Point Club. He finished with a game-high 24 points against the Blackbirds and in the process became the 24th member of the club. Pryor is the second player in the last three years to eclipse the 1,000-point plateau in just two seasons at Robert Morris, joining former guard Karvel Anderson, who scored 1,123 points in 69 career games from 2012 to 2014. Pryor, who owns 1,018 career points, is also the fourth player in school history, and third at the Division I level, to score at least 1,000 points while playing just two years.

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