Robert Morris category, Page 3
Transfer portal roundup: Former Duquesne forward picks Akron
Halil “Chabi” Barre committed to Akron, the team announced Friday. Barre, a 6-foot-9 junior forward, played the past three seasons at Duquesne. The native of Natitingou, Benin, whose full name is Abdou Halil “Chabi” Barre, averaged 4.1 points and 3.5 rebounds in 11.5 minutes per game this past season. He...
Transfer portal roundup: Robert Morris lands power forward from North Carolina A&T
Robert Morris’ roster rebuild continued Tuesday night as men’s basketball coach Andy Toole secured a fourth commitment from the transfer portal. Sophomore power forward Nikolaos Chitikoudis, who played at North Carolina A&T the past two seasons, committed to the Colonials, according to verbalcommits.com. Chitikoudis averaged 10.8 points and 9.3 rebounds...
Transfer portal roundup: Robert Morris’ Alvaro Folgueiras headed to Iowa
Winning Horizon League Player of the Year honors helped Alvaro Folgueiras gain national attention. So there was plenty of interest when he entered the transfer portal. On Sunday, he committed to play in one of the top conferences in the country. Folgueiras, who helped lead Robert Morris to the Horizon...
Transfer portal roundup: Robert Morris lands 3 commitments
Robert Morris men’s basketball coach Andy Toole received commitments from three players over the weekend as he tries to rebuild his roster. Ta’Zir Smith (6-foot-3), a sophomore point guard, made his commitment on X. Let’s work ✝️✝️ pic.twitter.com/jRTBzrln8n— Tazir Smith (@SmithTazir) April 12, 2025 Smith attended Louisiana-Monroe this past season...
Jerry DiPaola: 5 decades covering Pittsburgh sports has provided memories to last a lifetime
I guess my love for the written word began on the living room floor at 326 Elizabeth Ave. I was nuts for the Pirates and Pirates box scores, and I used to spread out the Pittsburgh Press newspaper on the floor and devour every detail from the previous day’s game....
Former Robert Morris standout Amarion Dickerson transfers to Southern Cal
Amarion Dickerson has become the first men’s basketball player from Robert Morris’ latest NCAA Tournament team to find a new home. The reigning Horizon League Defensive Player of the Year will head to the West Coast and join Southern Cal next season. The 6-foot-7, 185-pound Dickerson, who scored 25 points...
From shutdown to reopen, a timeline of how the sports world was impacted by covid-19
The covid-19 pandemic affected all corners of humanity in the United States, touching everything from myriad industries to patterns of social interaction to politics and methods for healthcare. Sports might not have the societal importance of many of the other areas, but it did serve as a significant public bellwether...
3rd time’s a charm: Winding road leads former RMU skater, Wexford native Brian Kramer to Frozen 4Video
When the Frozen Four gets underway next week in St. Louis, nine college hockey players with Western Pennsylvania ties will be on the ice. Seven of them will be on Penn State’s roster, as the Nittany Lions have qualified for the national semifinal for the first time in program history....
Robert Morris’ Andy Toole agrees to contract extension after leading Colonials to NCAA Tournament
Now that he, apparently, has decided to stay put, Andy Toole’s next order of business appears to be a reconstruction of the Robert Morris men’s basketball roster, decimated by the loss of seven players into the NCAA transfer portal, including the entire starting lineup. If anyone, particularly at the mid-major...
D.J. Smith becomes 5th Robert Morris starter to announce plans to transfer
Guard D.J. Smith made it a clean sweep Friday when he became the fifth member of the Robert Morris starting lineup to announce plans to enter the transfer portal, verbalcommits.com reported. Smith joins former RMU teammates Kam Woods, Alvaro Folgueiras, Amarion Dickerson and Josh Omojafo, all of whom have decided...
Robert Morris’ Josh Omojafo, Kam Woods join 3 teammates in transfer portal
The unfortunate remnants of success struck Robert Morris again Thursday when 6-foot-5 shooting guard Josh Omojafo and point guard Kam Woods announced plans to enter the transfer portal. That makes four starters to enter the portal since the end of the season. Omojafo spent two seasons at Division II Gannon...
6 Saint Francis men’s basketball players enter transfer portal
A week after playing in just its second NCAA Tournament, Saint Francis’ decision to reclassify its athletic program to Division III and join the Presidents’ Athletic Conference in 2026-27 has sparked a mass exodus of men’s basketball players. Six more from the Northeast Conference school, including leading scorer Riley Parker,...
Robert Morris’ Alvaro Folgueiras joins teammate Amarion Dickerson in NCAA transfer portal
A day after Robert Morris lost Amarion Dickerson to the NCAA transfer portal, teammate and Horizon League Player of the Year Alvaro Folgueiras also entered his name in the portal, coach Andy Toole told TribLive. Folgueiras, a sophomore, was the Colonials’ second-leading scorer (14.1 points per game) and leading rebounder...
Robert Morris’ Amarion Dickerson, Duquesne’s Kareem Rozier among area players to enter transfer portal
It took a full season, capped by a spectacular performance last week in the NCAA Tournament, for Amarion Dickerson to make his mark on the local sports scene. It took the Robert Morris basketball star barely any time at all to say his goodbyes. Dickerson, a 6-foot-7 small forward, who...
Who’s No. 1, Andy Toole’s current Colonials or Matt Furjanic’s Robert Morris teams from the ’80s?
Andy Toole said he might get text messages from people challenging his claim that this season’s Robert Morris team is the best in school history. Matt Furjanic didn’t send a text, but he certainly could have an argument with Toole. Furjanic coached the first Robert Morris teams that went to...
Cleveland crowd embraces Robert Morris in thrilling 1st round battle with Alabama
CLEVELAND — Robert Morris led for just 30 seconds of its 90-81 loss against No. 2 Alabama in the NCAA Tournament on Friday afternoon, but the Colonials grabbed the attention of the college basketball world for two hours during a thrilling East Region first-round matchup. That was especially the case...
‘They kept fighting’: Robert Morris fans proud of hoops team after loss to Alabama
Watching Robert Morris play in the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament on Friday kept Kassidy Mislan and her friends on the edge of their seats at a campus gathering. The Colonials took the lead over the heavily-favored Alabama Crimson Tide with just a little bit over 7 minutes remaining in the...
Robert Morris rally falls short in 90-81 loss to No. 2 Alabama in NCAA Tournament
CLEVELAND — Sensing something historic, the Rocket Arena crowd got behind Robert Morris with all its vocal ferocity Friday afternoon, roaring with approval and anticipation while the 15th-seeded Colonials exchanged blow after blow with No. 2 Alabama. In the end, however, Alabama came after Robert Morris with superior athleticism and...
Robert Morris’ Amarion Dickerson shines in front of hometown crowd
CLEVELAND — As Amarion Dickerson slowly walked onto the podium inside a Rocket Arena interview room, he wore a towel, as he often does, loosely on his head. His eyes appeared swollen, and he struggled to contain his emotions. So, too, was the case for a pair of his Robert...
Robert Morris looks to add to highlight-filled season vs. Alabama in NCAA Tournament
Robert Morris’ rotation is tight. On most occasions, it goes just seven players deep. The pride of this particular team, however, extends much further. “Again,” Robert Morris coach Andy Toole began, about to repeat the team’s unofficial slogan, “all year long, we’ve had a group of guys that have been...
Breaking down No. 2 Alabama vs. No. 15 Robert Morris
No. 2. Alabama vs. No. 15 Robert Morris 12:40 p.m. Friday, Rocket Arena, Cleveland TV: truTV Winner plays: Winner of No. 7 Saint Mary’s (28-5)/No. 10 Vanderbilt (20-12) on Sunday in second round Series history: Alabama leads 1-0 Alabama (25-8) Coach: Nate Oats How they got here: Alabama earned an...
Slowing Alabama All-American Mark Sears a top priority for Robert Morris
Andy Toole remembers Mark Sears. The Alabama All-American was a freshman five years ago at Ohio University who stood out to the Robert Morris coach during a scrimmage between the teams. “We were like, man, this guy is pretty good,” Toole said Thursday. “(Now), obviously, he’s at Alabama.” One of...
Andy Toole emphasizes importance of mid-majors, low-majors in NCAA Tournament
As his team was preparing to play in the NCAA Tournament on Friday, Robert Morris coach Andy Toole wanted you to believe there’s value in the little guys. So, please, he implored, don’t minimize them at any cost. “One of the reasons that people watch this tournament is because of...
A star on the rise, Greensburg CC grad Bailey Kuhns follows her heart to Robert Morris
When Mercyhurst announced a “leadership change” in cutting ties with women’s basketball coach Brooklyn Kohlheim four days after the season ended, junior forward Bailey Kuhns scrambled to reset her future. She didn’t have to go anywhere, but with Kohlheim gone, things would surely be different in the looming offseason and...
For ‘locked in’ Robert Morris vs. Alabama, the goal is to play like they’ve practiced
When coaches want to get more out of their players in between games they may implore them to practice like they play. For Robert Morris heading into their massive first-round NCAA Tournament challenge against No. 2 seed Alabama, head coach Andy Toole wants them to play like they’ve practiced. “We’ve...
