Robert Morris Colonials
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| University | Robert Morris University |
| Conference |
Northeast Conference (Primary) Atlantic Hockey (Ice Hockey, m) CHA (Ice Hockey, w) MAAC (Rowing) |
| NCAA | Division I |
| Athletic director | Craig Coleman |
| Location | Moon Township, Pennsylvania |
| Varsity teams | 16 |
| Football stadium | Joe Walton Stadium |
| Basketball arena | Charles L. Sewall Center |
| Mascot | RoMo |
| Nickname | Colonials |
| Colors | Blue, White, and White |
| Website | www |
The Robert Morris Colonials are the athletic teams for Robert Morris University, in Moon Township, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Pittsburgh. The Colonials compete in NCAA Division I (FCS, formerly Division I-AA, in football). The Colonials are members of the Northeast Conference in most sports. The school colors are RMU Blue, RMU Red, and RMU Gray/Silver.
In December 2013, Robert Morris announced the school was cutting seven sports programs after the 2013-14 season: men's indoor and outdoor track, tennis and cross country and women's golf, tennis and field hockey.
A member of the Northeast Conference, Robert Morris sponsors teams in six men's and ten women's NCAA sanctioned sports:
Men's Intercollegiate Sports
Women's Intercollegiate Sports
The men's and women's basketball teams play in the Charles L. Sewall Center.
The men's team, which achieved NCAA Division I status starting with the 1976-77 season, has played in eight NCAA Tournaments:
In 1983, they won their first NCAA Tournament game, a "play-in" game against Georgia Southern, which earned them the right to play Purdue in the first round.
The men's team played in the National Invitational Tournament (NIT) in 2008, 2013, and 2014. They defeated defending national champion Kentucky in the first round of the 2013 NIT, a game that was played on the Robert Morris campus because Rupp Arena in Lexington, KY, was not available.
In recent years, both the men's and women's teams have had success in their conference. The women's team won the NEC Championship in 2008 and made an appearance in the 2008 NCAA Tournament, only to bow out in the first round to Rutgers. The women's team won the NEC Championship again in 2014, losing to Notre Dame in the first round of the 2014 NCAA Tournament.
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