Robert Morris made it two one-sided victories in three days against visiting Division III opponents, thumping Pitt-Greensburg, 81-57, on Thursday night at UPMC Events Center.

The win — however uninspired it seemed to RMU coach Andy Toole — comes on the heels of a 93-47 rout of Geneva on Monday night.

He was happy for this latest win, but it was how the Colonials performed that disappointed the coach.

“You want to see growth, you want to see progress, you want to see improvement,” Toole said. “There’s a number of guys that touched the floor tonight that just looked really out of it.”

With little fanfare, Robert Morris dispatched Pitt-Greensburg with a second-half surge after UPG had led for nearly 2 minutes early in the game and trailed the Colonials just 35-29 at halftime.

It certainly wasn’t what Toole was expecting, but he wasn’t surprised.

“We’ve got to get better,” Toole said. “It doesn’t matter who you’re opponent is. If you’re not going out there to try to improve and get better at this time of year — and, obviously, win — that’s when you get frustrated as a coach.”

Nikolaos Chitikoudis and DeSean Goode each registered their second double-doubles of the season for Robert Morris (3-1).

Chitikoudis, a 6-foot-9 transfer from North Carolina A&T, finished with 19 points and 10 rebounds, and the 6-8 Goode, an IU Indianapolis transfer, contributed 13 points and 12 rebounds.

Ryan Prather Jr. and freshman Darius Livingston added 10 points apiece for the Colonials.

In RMU’s 81-79 overtime victory at Drake on Nov. 6, Chitikoudis got 18 points and 10 rebounds, and Goode went for 13 and 10.

Freshman Tony Martin led Pitt-Greensburg with 15 points. Ty Keffer, a Southmoreland graduate, added 13 and Trent Rozich chipped in 11 for the Bobcats, who were the preseason favorite to win the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference championship.

Rozich, a 6-foot-5 senior from PIAA District 6 Richland, was voted the AMCC Preseason Player of the Year.

“I was really proud of the effort,” Pitt-Greensburg coach Chris Klimchock said. “I thought we played a full 40 minutes, and that’s all we can ask of these guys. We ask for toughness and energy, and I was really proud of how we battled.”

The game served as an exhibition for Pitt-Greensburg (2-1) and does not count on the Bobcats’ regular-season record.

It was the second game in successive nights for UPG, which beat Grove City, 70-64, on Wednesday.

Robert Morris, which outrebounded Pitt-Greensburg, 55-22, but committed 16 turnovers to UPG’s 14, is idle until traveling to St. Bonaventure on Wednesday night.

“The troubling thing is, ‘What was your intention?’ ” Toole said. “If the intention was right, then you can live with the mistakes. If the intention is to try to find yours or to take a break, those are the things that are really troubling as a coach. I don’t think any of us — coaches, players — are ever too good to not go out and play the right way and give the game the effort it deserves.”

Following next Wednesday’s game, the Colonials play at Monmouth on Nov. 23 before returning home to host Illinois-Chicago on Nov. 26.

Was Toole glad to get through the past two games against inferior competition?

“We play St. Bonaventure next. I’m not sure I like that, either,” he said.

After a pause, Toole took one last shot: “If you can’t play well and right in these scenarios, and you just assume you’re going to go to Olean (N.Y., to play the Atlantic 10’s Bonnies) next week and play well and right, I’m not sure that’s how the process works.”

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