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HACKENSACK, N.J. -- The Fairleigh Dickinson men's basketball team (10-20, 6-10 NEC) will participate in the Northeast Conference Tournament for the first time since 2010 when it travels to Moon Township, Pa. to face regular season champion and top-seed Robert Morris (19-12, 14-2 NEC) on Wednesday night at the Sewell Center, with tipoff scheduled for 7 p.m. The quarterfinal contest will be broadcast live on NEC Front Row.

Both sides will be facing each other for the second time in a week after playing their only meeting of the season on Feb. 27 inside Stratis Arena. The Knights led the Colonials, 62-47, with a little over eight minutes to go. But Robert Morris then took over and ended the game on a 22-2 run to escape with a 69-64 victory. FDU did not score a point over the final five minutes.

"Knights Notes"
•  The Knights improved from two to six wins in NEC play this season under first-year head coach Greg Herenda.
•  The Knights have now qualified for 27 of the 33 NEC Tournaments. FDU has made 17 semifinal appearances and nine championship game appearances.
•  FDU has not won a tournament game since 2006 when it lost in the NEC title game to Monmouth. The Knights have dropped their last three in tournament play, including a pair of quarterfinal exits in 2007 and 2010, by a combined total of four points.
•  The #8 seed for FDU is its lowest seed ever in the NEC Tournament. The Knights have been a #7 seed four times, going 1-3, including a 63-61 victory over Monmouth in the quarterfinals at Wagner in 2003.
•  FDU is 27-22 all-time in the NEC Tournament and has reached the finals nine times (4-5).
•  FDU won NEC Tournaments in 1985, 1988, 1998 and 2005.
•  The Knights are 3-4 all-time vs. Robert Morris in the NEC Tournament, which includes a perfect 2-0 record against the Colonials in the quarterfinals. FDU is 0-2 in tournament games at RMU, losing the 1989 title game by one point and in the semis one year later (both times RMU was the top seed).
•  FDU and Robert Morris last faced each other in the NEC Tournament back in 2006 when the top-seeded Knights handled the Colonials, 71-55, in the semifinals inside Stratis Arena.
•  FDU is 14-8 all-time in NEC quarterfinal/first round games, 9-8 in the semifinals, 4-5 in championship games and 0-1 in out bracket games.
•  FDU's four NEC Tournament championships rank third all-time to Robert Morris' seven and LIU Brooklyn's five.
•  Senior guard Sidney Sanders Jr. (Charleston, S.C./Burke) scored his 700th career point at FDU on Saturday and currently sits at exactly 700. His 577 points this season are the fifth most on the Knights' single-season chart and he needs 23 more to become the fourth player to score 600 or more.
•  Sanders  Jr. has lifted his scoring average from 4.6 ppg as a junior to 19.2 ppg this season, the second-best mark in the NCAA.
•  Junior guard Mustafaa Jones (Philadelphia, Pa./Neumann-Goretti)  is fourth on the FDU single-season list with 72 made three-pointers.  He is also 51-of-55 (.927) from the free throw line in his two years at FDU.

Robert Morris
2013-14 Season: 19-12 (14-2 NEC)
When: Wednesday, March 1 - 7 p.m.
Where: Moon Township, Pa. (Sewall Center)
Series History: RMU leads 37-30
Last Meeting: Feb. 27, 2014 - Robert Morris 69 FDU 64
What You Need To Know: The Colonials, who have won 12 straight in the series, are the 2013-14 NEC regular season champions, with a home loss to CCSU (74-73) and last time out at Wagner (59-48). Senior guard Karvel Anderson was named NEC Player of the Year; junior Lucky Jones was named Second Team All-NEC; Head Coach Andy Toole was named NEC Coach of the Year. More on Robert Morris:

•  Robert Morris won its fifth NEC regular season title in seven years and 11th overall (counting a pair of divisional titles in 1982 and 1983). The Colonials have earned the NEC's automatic bid to the Postseason NIT.
•  The Colonials are making their 11th straight appearance in the NEC Tournament and 30th overall.
•  Over the last seven years, Robert Morris owns a record of 99-25 (.798) against league foes.
•  Robert Morris has posted nine straight winning seasons, extending a school record.
•  The Colonials had a seven-game win streak snapped by Wagner on Saturday.
•  Robert Morris is one win away from becoming the first program in NEC history to post six 20-win campaigns in a seven-year span.  In that time, RMU has won 160 games, the most wins by an NEC program over a seven-year stretch. A 20-win campaign would mark the ninth in school history.
•  Robert Morris owns an all-time record of 34-22 (.607) in the NEC Tournament. The 34 wins are the most in conference history and the Colonials rank second all-time behind Rider (.786) in win percentage.
•  The Colonials also hold the league record with seven NEC Tournament championships (1982-83, 1989-90, 1992, 2009-10).
•  The Colonials are 23-7 in NEC Tournament games held in Moon Township.
•  The second-longest win streak in NEC Tournament history is eight, shared by Robert Morris (1982-84 and 2009-11) and Rider (1993-95). 
•  Robert Morris will be making its 11th straight NEC Tournament appearance. The Colonials have advanced to the semifinals eight times and the NEC Championship game in four of the past five years.
•  Robert  Morris has won back-to-back league titles three times (1982-83, 1989-90 and 2009-10).
•  The Colonials have advanced to the semifinals of the tourney six straight years and 17 times in school history, tied with Fairleigh Dickinson for the most in NEC annals.  
•  Robert Morris has won at least 10 games at the Sewall Center in each of the last nine seasons and owns a record of 103-25 (.805) at home since the beginning of the 2005-06 campaign.

Up Next
The winner advances to the conference tournament semifinals on Saturday, March 8, at either 12 p.m. or 2 p.m., with the opponent and site to be determined.