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Both Second Round Games Reach Overtime in Pittsburgh’s March Madness Slate

Michael Deemer
March 25, 2024

PITTSBURGH-- The madness continued in the Steel City Saturday night. Two competitive games each with a ticket to the Sweet 16 on the line. The first game of the night featured two Cinderella's in their downright. 14th-seeded Oakland and 11th-seeded NC State were in a dogfight...

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Records, Brackets Busted at PPG Paints Arena on Day 1 of March Madness

Michael Deemer
March 22, 2024

PITTSBURGH-- For the second time in three years and the seventh time overall, Pittsburgh is the host city for the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship, universally known as 'March Madness.'Four games grazed the hardwood at PPG Paints Arena in the first of two days of tournament...

The womens basketball team lost in the first round of the tournament to Milwaukee

The Horizon League Tournament Needs to Stay at a Single Venue

Samuel Goldberg
March 23, 2023

Editor’s Note*: The opinions shared in this article do not reflect Colonial Sports Network as a whole. You may read the conflicting argument here With the conference tournaments in college basketball concluding, there is an age-old question going around of should conference...

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‘This is something you can get greedy for’ says Toole after NEC Championship win

Logan Carney, Digital Content Director
March 11, 2020

MOON TOWNSHIP -- The Robert Morris men's basketball team (20-14, 13-5 NEC) is going dancing after defeating Saint Francis (22-10, 13-5 NEC) by the score of 77-67 to win the NEC Championship. The win for Robert Morris clinches them a spot in the 2019-2020 NCAA Tournament and it'll...

MOON TOWNSHIP -- Josh Williams drives to the hoop against Saint Francis Brooklyn on March 6, 2019 (Tim Kelly/RMU Sentry Media). Josh Williams had a game-high 21 points on the night.

Men’s basketball ties third largest comeback in program history to win in overtime

Logan Carney and Logan Carney
March 6, 2019

MOON TOWNSHIP -- In the first ever playoff game in the history of the North Athletic Complex, the Robert Morris Colonials (17-15, 11-7 NEC) defeated the Terriers of Saint Francis Brooklyn (17-15, 9-9 NEC) in overtime by the score of 69-65. The Colonials came back after being...

RMU Proclamation: Sports and the dichotomy of winning and losing

RMU Proclamation: Sports and the dichotomy of winning and losing

Jon Fisher, Assignment Editor
March 21, 2014

What are sports? I'm not looking for the simplistic and sarcastic answer to that question. That is remedial at the lowest level of thinking for the average sports fan. Sports are people playing for a living. Sports are groups of men and women joining forces to achieve the...