RECORDS: Robert Morris 26-10, Fairfield 21-14
SKINNY: The two teams meet for the first time. ... Fairfield defeated Manhattan in the second round of the tournament 69-57. Maurice Barrow scored a game-high 18 points while Keith Matthews came off the bench to tie his career high with 15 points for the Stags, who used a 17-4 run late in the second half to pull away. ... Rakim Sanders leads the Stags in scoring (16.7 ppg) and rebounding (8.3 pg) and had a career-high seven assists and just one turnover against Manhattan. ... Robert Morris defeated Indiana State 67-60 and Toledo 69-51 in the tournament. Both were road games. ... RMU made 10-of-21 3-point shots in the Toledo game, the sixth time this year that the team reached double figures in 3-pointers made. Robert Morris won all six of those games. ... Velton Jones leads the the Colonials in scoring (16.1 ppg) and Coron Williams averages 10.9 points (85-of-205 3-pointers, 41 percent).
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SKINNY: The two teams meet for the first time. ... Fairfield defeated Manhattan in the second round of the tournament 69-57. Maurice Barrow scored a game-high 18 points while Keith Matthews came off the bench to tie his career high with 15 points for the Stags, who used a 17-4 run late in the second half to pull away. ... Rakim Sanders leads the Stags in scoring (16.7 ppg) and rebounding (8.3 pg) and had a career-high seven assists and just one turnover against Manhattan. ... Robert Morris defeated Indiana State 67-60 and Toledo 69-51 in the tournament. Both were road games. ... RMU made 10-of-21 3-point shots in the Toledo game, the sixth time this year that the team reached double figures in 3-pointers made. Robert Morris won all six of those games. ... Velton Jones leads the the Colonials in scoring (16.1 ppg) and Coron Williams averages 10.9 points (85-of-205 3-pointers, 41 percent).
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