Men's and Women's Basketball
See also: Robert Morris Colonials men's basketballThe 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 seven NCAA Tournaments and two NIT tournaments.
- 1982 Lost to Indiana (first round)
- 1983 Lost to Purdue (first round)
- 1989 Lost to Arizona (first round)
- 1990 Lost to Kansas (first round)
- 1992 Lost to UCLA (first round)
- 2009 Lost to Michigan State (first round)
- 2010 Lost to Villanova (first round)
In 1983, they won their only NCAA Tournament game, a "Play-In" game against Georgia Southern, which earned them the right to play Purdue in the first round.
In 2008 and 2013 they played in the NIT (National Invitational Tournament).
In recent years, both the Men's and Women's teams have had success in their conference, with the Women's team winning the NEC Championship in 2008 and making an appearance in the NCAA Tournament, only to bow out in the first round to Rutgers, while the Men's team played in the 2008 NIT and 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.
The men's team won the 2009 NEC Championship, beating Mount St. Mary's 48-46. With the win, the school qualified for the 2009 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament, their sixth trip to the tournament. Their seventh trip came a year later, when the Colonials became the first team to beat Quinnipiac on the Bobcats home court all season. The 52-50 win set up a date with Villanova in the 2010 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament. Behind 23 points from freshman guard Karon Abraham, No. 15 Robert Morris nearly pulled off an upset of the No. 2 Wildcats, leading much of the game before falling 73-70 in overtime.
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