POINT PARK
RMU PPU Overall 0-0 2-0 Conference 0-0 0-0 Streak L1 W2 Friday, Nov. 11 // 10:00 a.m. Home 0-0 0-0 Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center Away 0-0 2-0 Live Stream: NEC Front Row Live Stats: RMUColonials.com Neutral 0-0 0-0 Adam Gusky, play-by-play Twitter: @RMUWBasketball Justin Pyles, color analyst THE CAPSULE TALE OF THE TAPE The Robert Morris women’s basketball team begins the RMU* PPU 2016-17 campaign with some local flair, welcoming Point 63.8 Points Per Game 66.0 Park to The Chuck for a special 10:00 a.m. season opener 59.9 Points Allowed Per Game 44.0 on Friday, Nov. 11. The Colonials went 20-13 last season + 4.0 Scoring Margin + 22.0 and return eight players from its Northeast Conference .395 Field Goal Pct. .362 (NEC) Tournament championship-winning squad, while the .338 3-Pt. FG Pct. .250 Pioneers own an overall mark of 2-0 with victories over 6.8 3-Pt. FG Per Game 6.0 Washington Adventist (D.C.) and Bluefield (Va.). RMU is one .678 Free Throw Pct. .700 of two NCAA Division I teams that PPU, an NAIA school in .381 FG Pct. Defense .351 the River States Conference, will be facing this year as the .282 3-Pt. FG Pct. Defense .257 Pioneers travel to Youngstown State on Dec. 21. + 1.3 Rebound Margin - 1.0 13.2 Assists Per Game 14.5 THE SERIES VS. POINT PARK 16.2 Turnovers Per Game 12.0 Once a regular fixture in the early schedules of the Robert Turnover Margin + 2.5 Morris program, this meeting will mark the 15th between the + 0.9 0.8 Assist / Turnover Ratio 1.3 two teams and their first in 27 years. The Colonials have 7.7 Steals Per Game 13.0 been victorious in all 14 previous tilts, last claiming a 79-56 3.5 Blocks Per Game 4.5 win on Dec. 7, 1989 behind a 13-point effort from Rachel (* - 2015-16 statistics) Mathena off the bench.
PIONEERS
2016-17 SCHEDULE & RESULTS 11.11 POINT PARK
10:00 a.m.
Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center
11.13
MONMOUTH
1:00 p.m.
11.16
@ Lafayette
7:00 p.m.
11.19
@ Kent State
2:00 p.m.
11.22
@ Vanderbilt
11:00 a.m.
11.25
vs. Stetson ^
2:00 p.m.
11.27
FIU Tournament ^
12.01
@ Delaware
7:00 p.m.
12.4
HOWARD
1:00 p.m.
12.9
@ Iowa
7:00 p.m.
12.18
@ Morgan State
2:00 p.m.
12.29
@ Sacred Heart *
1:00 p.m.
12.31
@ Fairleigh Dickinson *
1:00 p.m.
1.7
ST. FRANCIS BROOKLYN *
1:00 p.m.
1.9
LIU BROOKLYN *
7:00 p.m.
1.14
@ Wagner *
1.16
SAINT FRANCIS U *
2:00 p.m.
1.21
BRYANT *
1:00 p.m.
1.23
CENTRAL CONNECTICUT *
7:00 p.m.
1.28
@ Mount St. Mary’s *
1:00 p.m.
A NEW, BUT FAMILIAR VOICE After spending 13 seasons under his father, Charlie Buscaglia enters his first season as head coach of the Colonials. Coach B, as he is respectfully called, has served as the associate head coach for eight seasons under Sal Buscaglia and was an assistant for the five seasons before that. A 2003 graduate of Manhattan College, Coach B has excelled on the recruiting trail during his career, bringing to Moon Township some of the program’s all-time greats, such as Artemis Spanou, Angela Pace, and Sade Logan, among many others.
1.30
@ Saint Francis U *
7:00 p.m.
2.4
@ St. Francis Brooklyn *
1:00 p.m.
2.6
@ LIU Brooklyn *
7:00 p.m.
2.11
WAGNER *
1:00 p.m.
MUSKET SHOTS > Robert Morris is 132-38 (.776) at the Sewall Center since 2004-05, including 90-18 (.833) in NEC games > The Colonials are 3-7 in their last 10 openers, but snapped a three-game skid last year against West Virginia Wesleyan > Anna Niki Stamolamprou is one of 21 members of the program’s 1,000-point club, having joined on Jan. 2 against Sacred Heart > Sal Buscaglia retired after the 2015-16 season, leaving behind a legacy of success with a school record 224 victories, 712 career wins, and four NEC Tournament titles > The Colonials return 74 percent of their scoring from last season, including five of their six leading scorers
2.13
MOUNT ST. MARY’S *
7:00 p.m.
2.18
@ Central Connecticut *
1:00 p.m.
2.20
@ Bryant *
8:00 p.m.
2.25
SACRED HEART *
2.27
FAIRLEIGH DICKINSON *
PROBABLE STARTERS
3.5
WE ARE THE CHAMPIONS, MY FRIENDS Robert Morris enters the 2016-17 season with a familiar label attached: reigning NEC champions. The Colonials won their sixth NEC crown in March and advanced to their fourth NCAA Tournament; all appearances coming since the 200607 season.
P G G G F C
# Player (based on previous game) 4 Anna Niki Stamolamprou (5-9, Sr., Thessaloniki, Greece) 10 Rebeca Navarro (5-11, Sr., Galicia, Spain) 11 Janee Brown (5-8, Sr., Mitchellville, Md.) 22 Megan Smith (6-1, Jr., Barrie, Ontario) 21 Mikalah Mulrain (6-3, Jr., Brampton, Ontario)
SERIES VS. POINT PARK
Overall 14-0 Streak W14 Home 3-0 Trend Unbeaten vs. PPU Away 2-0 Last Game W, 79-56 Neutral 1-0 12.7.89 at RMU
PPG RPG 13.7 5.5 7.3 2.9 3.4 0.9 7.8 5.7 6.4 5.6
Note 2016 NEC Tournament MVP Led NEC with 43.3% three-point shooting Played in all 33 games as a junior Paced the team in rebounding in 2015-16 Tied for 4th all-time in blocks (102)
Off the Bench G 0 Shakema Dashiell (5-9, Jr., Salisbury, Md.) 2.4 0.9 Scored career-best 13 points at Bryant G 2 Nia Adams (5-10, So., Paterson, N.J.) 1.4 1.0 Saw action in all 33 games as a freshman G 3 Ja’lynn Burton-Jones (5-6, Fr., Middletown, Pa.) --- --- Averaged 20.2 PPG as a HS senior G 12 Lucia Striešová (6-1, Fr., Banská Bystrica, Slovakia) --- --- Member of Slovakian National Team F 1 Jocelynn Jones (6-0, Jr., Sicklerville, N.J.) 5.5 4.6 Played team-high 15.2 MPG off bench F 32 Nadège Pluviose (6-0, Fr., Montreal, Quebec) --- --- Won two CEGEP National Championships C 33 Nneka Ezeigbo (6-2, Fr., Ewing, N.J.) --- --- Averaged 12.6 PPG and 9.2 RPG as HS senior
3.8
3.12
Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center Easton, Pa. // Kirby Sports Center Kent, Ohio // M.A.C. Center Nashville, Tenn. // Memorial Gymnasium Miami, Fla. // FIU Arena
TBD
Miami, Fla. // FIU Arena
Newark, Del. // Acierno Arena
Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center Iowa City, Iowa // Carver-Hawkeye Arena Baltimore, Md. // Hill Field House Fairfield, Conn. // William H. Pitt Center Teaneck, N.J. // Stratis Arena
Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center Staten Island, N.Y. // Spiro Sports Center
1:00 p.m.
Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center Emmitsburg, Md. // Knott Arena Loretto, Pa. // DeGol Arena Brooklyn Heights, N.Y. // Pope Center Brooklyn, N.Y. // Steinberg Wellness Center
Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center New Britain, Conn. // Detrick Gymnaisum
Smithfield, R.I. // Chace Athletic Center // ESPN3
Noon
Moon Township, Pa. // Sewall Center // ESPN3
7:00 p.m.
Moon Township, Pa. // Charles L. Sewall Center
NEC Tournament Quarterfinals
TBD
NEC Tournament Semifinals
TBD
NEC Tournament Final
TBD
TBD // TBD TBD // TBD
TBD // TBD // ESPNU
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