GAME 30
Robert Morris (16-13 / 12-4 NEC) @ Fairleigh Dickinson (8-18 / 6-9 NEC)
Sunday, February 23, 2020 • 3:30 p.m.
Stratis Arena (5,000) • Teaneck, N.J.

Radio: ESPN 970 AM & 106.3 FM
Talent: Chris Shovlin (pxp)
Video: RMUColonials.com • NECFrontRow.com 
Twitter: @RMUMBasketball • Instagram: @RMUMBasketball
 
Quick Hits
 
- The Robert Morris University men's basketball team concludes the road portion of it 2019-20 regular season schedule Sunday with a 3:30 p.m. tip against Fairleigh Dickinson in Teaneck, N.J., at Stratis Arena.
 
- The Colonials halted a two-game skid by erasing a 10-point deficit in the first half in posting a 68-60 triumph over Mount St. Mary's (2/21/20) at Peoples Court at the UPMC Events Center. Redshirt senior guard Josh Williams led the way with 22 points, a season-high against a Northeast Conference opponent, while also registering four rebounds, two assists and two steals.
 
- Senior forward Yannis Mendy contributed 13 points and seven rebounds in the victory over the Mount, converting four of his six shots from the field and going 5-for-6 at the free-throw line. Mendy has scored in double figures in three consecutive games and is averaging 10.4 points and 4.9 rebounds during the month of February.
 
- RMU has clinched a berth in the 2020 Northeast Conference Tournament, extending the league's longest active streak for consecutive appearances in the tournament to 17. Over the last 13 years, Robert Morris owns a record of 160-70 (.696) against league opposition during the regular season.
 
- Robert Morris enters Sunday's game @ Fairleigh Dickinson leading the Northeast Conference in assists (16.34 per game) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.28). The Colonials, who rank 15th in NCAA Division I in assists, have only lead the conference in dimes on two occasions, the last of which came in 2007-08 when RMU averaged a school record 17.56 assists per contest.
 
- Against NEC foes, the Colonials rank in the top three in the league in seven categories. RMU paces the league in assists (16.81 per game) and assist-to-turnover ratio (1.40) while ranking second in scoring defense (63.2 ppg), scoring margin (+6.6) and turnover margin (+2.44). Robert Morris also ranks third in field goal percentage (.459) and three-point field goal percent defense (.325).
 
- Forwards AJ Bramah and Yannis Mendy rank second and fourth, respectively, in the Northeast Conference in field goal percentage. Bramah is shooting 56.1 percent (143-for-255) from the floor, while Mendy converts 54.5 percent (109-for-200) of his attempts from the field. Against Northeast Conference foes, Bramah and Mendy have combined to shoot 58.6 percent (156-for-266) from the floor.
 
- Junior forward AJ Bramah is averaging 15.4 points and 8.9 rebounds against Northeast Conference opposition while shooting 61.3 percent (95-for-1455) from the field. He leads the league against NEC foes in field goal percentage while ranking fourth in the circuit in rebounding and sixth in scoring.

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Mount St. Mary's Tidbits - Robert Morris swept the 2019-20 season series from the Mount and has won three of the last four meetings ... The Colonials own a 36-35 (.507) edge in the all-time series against Mount St. Mary's ... RMU shot 54.2 percent (13-for-24) from the field in the second half and 47.1 percent (24-for-51) overall ... Jalen Gibbs scored 14 points in the first half for the Mount and finished with a team-high 19 points on the strength of a 5-for-8 performance from beyond the arc ... Robert Morris outscored Mount St. Mary's, 30-18, in points in the paint ... The Mount owned its biggest lead of the contest, 26-16, at the 6:22 mark of the first half.
 
Consistency - Redshirt senior guard Josh Williams found his touch in a 68-60 win over Mount St. Mary's (2/21/20), scoring a game-high 22 points to help the Colonials halt a two-game skid. Williams finished 5-for-10 from beyond the arc, pushing his season total in three-pointers to 91. Williams is looking to become the first student-athlete in program history to post multiple seasons with at least 100 triple is a season. In his first season with the Colonials last year, Williams recorded 103 three-pointers. He ranks 11th all-time in program history in just two seasons with 194 triples and is six shy of becoming the 10th player in school history to convert at least 200 career three-pointers.
 
Dunkin Donuts - Junior forward AJ Bramah has proven to be active around the rim for Robert Morris in his first season with the program in 2019-20, and one only needs to look at his dunks to prove that. Bramah posted a dunk in a 68-60 triumph over Mount St. Mary's (2/21/20) to push his season total in the category to 38. It's the most dunks by an RMU student-athlete in 10 years under RMU Pat Gallagher Head Coach Andrew Toole, eclipsing the 37 former forward Billy Giles (2015-17) posted during the 2016-17 campaign.
 
The Golden Corral - Junior forward AJ Bramah became the first student-athlete in program history to record at least 16 rebounds in a game three times after finishing with 16 caroms in a 64-54 victory over Bryant (1/20/20). Former forward Earl Cureton did it twice in his only season at Robert Morris in 1976-77, while former forward Vaughn Luton (1986-89) also turned the trick twice. Bramah, who owns 233 rebounds on the 2019-20 campaign, is currently on pace to finish the 2019-20 regular season with 250 rebounds. Thanks to 10 caroms in a 68-60 win over Mount St. Mary's (2/21/20), Bramah moved into seventh in the RMU single-season record book for rebounds.
 
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