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So what do we know about Robert Morris and North Florida? Not a lot as of the Selection Show.
North Florida is 23-11 and out of the Atlantic Sun Conference, also home to, ahem, Mercer. So any thoughts you had of immediate superiority, get over it.
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North Florida has played South Carolina (lost 81-56), Chris Collins' Northwestern (L 69-67), Northern Iowa (close enough to a power conference team, L 66-49) and FSU (L 93-77).
The only win in these games was against Purdue, 73-70.
They're a smaller team, which is fairly typical for a first-round opponent.
Matthew Driscoll is the coach and has been since 2009. Former UNLV big man Sidney Green was the coach for two years in the late '90s.
Driscoll seems to be building intelligently.
The university is in Jacksonville and with 16,000+ students is reasonably large.
Dallas Moore, a 6-1 guard with an attitude (meaning he won't back down) is their best player.
The Ospreys average 76 ppg, 35 rpg, 14 apg, 12 tpg, shoot 46.9% from the floor, 72.4% from the line and 39.1% from three point range. They like the three quite a bit.
They really only go seven deep, so fouls are a big deal.
As for Robert Morris, the Colonials are out of Moon, Pa., a suburb of Pittsburgh.
It's smaller - just around 4,100 students with 1,000 or so grad students. Robert Morris plays in the Northeast Conference, which is smaller than the Atlantic Sun, with members like St. Francis, Bryant, Mt. St. Mary's, another St. Francis, Sacred Heart, LIU Brooklyn, Wagner, Farleigh-Dickinson, alma mater of Seth Greenberg, and the Central Conn. State Blue Devils.
Robert Morris nearly upset Villanova as a # 2 seed a while back and did famously take out Kentucky in the NIT. The Colonials also beat St. John's last year. Clemson played them this past December and won by just seven, 64-57.
So there you have the first basics. It's certainly not going to be as easy as it appears when you just see the #1 and #16, no matter who the opponent is.