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Getty Deante Johnson and Cleveland State will need to get past a new Robert Morris team on Thursday, March 3 to keep their NCAA tournament hopes alive.
No. 1 seed Cleveland State (19-9) faces No. 10 seed Robert Morris (8-23) in the Horizon League basketball tournament on Thursday, March 3.
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The game (7 p.m. ET kickoff time) isn’t on TV, but anyone in the US can watch Robert Morris vs. Cleveland State live on ESPN+:
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Robert Morris vs. Cleveland State Advance
For Cleveland State to return to the NCAA tournament, the Vikings will see one of the early Cinderella hopefuls from March Madness take on Robert Morris.
Eight-game winning Robert Morris Colonials defeated No. 7 seed Youngstown State 77-73 to open the Horizon League tournament on Tuesday, March 1. Kahliel Spear led the Colonials with a double-double of 19 points and 13 rebounds against the Penguins.
Cleveland State can’t ignore the Colonials. The Vikings won two close games with RMU during the season with the first coming by a thread on Jan. 7 in a 78-77 win. It took a perfect free throw, going 6-for-6 in the final 1:05, to hold off the Colonials.
Robert Morris hasn’t been consistent all season. The Colonials snapped a four-game losing streak by defeating Youngstown State. RMU put together back-to-back wins once all season with wins over Wisconsin-Milwaukee and Green Bay in January.
However, Cleveland State has also taken its licks of late. The Vikings lost to Detroit and Oakland in the final two games of the regular season. The Vikings are also not more than two games in a row since a four-game winning streak in late January.
D’Moi Hodge leads the Vikings in scoring with 15.4 points per game, including a .342 mark from 3-point range and .741 from the free throw line. Hodge is also averaging 3.2 rebounds, 1.3 assists and 2.3 steals per game.
Torrey Patton is an effective scorer and rebounder for the Vikings. He is averaging 13.6 points and 6.1 rebounds per night. He also has 3.5 assists and 1.5 steals per game.
Tre Gomlin is averaging 10.4 points, 4.7 rebounds, three assists and one steal per game. Deante Johnson leads the team in rebounding with 6.8 rebounds per game and is averaging 7.5 points per night.
For RMU, Spear has been a go-to player all season. He leads the Colonials with 14.6 points and 7.8 rebounds per game. He also posts 1.5 assists and 1.1 blocks per night.
RMU notably lost its previous leading scorer, Rasheem Dunn, who left the team in January, according to Pittsburgh Sports Now. Dunn averaged 12.8 points, 3.7 rebounds, 4.1 assists and 1.3 steals in 12 games this season.
Michael Green has stepped up for the Colonials with 10.6 points and 3.4 assists per game. He is also averaging 2.4 rebounds and 1.2 steals per night.
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