The close ones keep on coming at Robert Morris seemingly at rapid-fire succession.
This time, it was Green Bay testing a Colonials team that’s made a habit of playing nail-biters. And this time, RMU took another close loss.
C.J. O’Hara scored 18 points and Caden Wilkins and Justin Allen added 17 each to lead Green Bay to a 71-67 victory Saturday at UPMC Events Center.
Green Bay held a 62-50 lead just inside the midpoint of the second half before Robert Morris chipped away and crept within three points on DeSean’s Goode’s 3-pointer with 9 seconds remaining.
After Green Bay’s Marcus Hall missed a free throw, Robert Morris had a chance to tie but turned the ball over with 1 second left.
The Phoenix (12-10, 7-4 Horizon) nearly wasted all of a 12-point second-half lead, but managed to hang on and rebound from an 88-81 loss two days earlier at Youngstown State.
The loss was Robert Morris’s fourth in six games.
The Colonials (13-9, 5-6), by their standards, were coming off a relatively easy 88-76 home victory over Milwaukee.
RMU is 4-4 in games decided by four points or less.
Goode led Robert Morris with 17 points and 12 rebounds. Ryan Prather Jr. added 14 points and Nikolaos Chitikoudis chipped in 10 points and finished with seven rebounds for the Colonials.
Robert Morris plays the final game of a three-game homestand on Wednesday against IU Indianapolis.
This story will be updated.
