Robert Morris, the No. 15 seed in the 2025 NCAA Tournament, will play No. 2 Alabama in a first-round matchup in Cleveland, Ohio, on March 21. The Colonials punched their ticket to the big dance last week after winning the Horizon League tournament on Tuesday night, 89-78 over Youngstown State, giving them their first tournament berth since 2015.

The Robert Morris Colonials may have been the No. 1 seed in the Horizon League Tournament, but that does not tell the full story for a program that was far from relevant a season ago.

The surprising Robert Morris Colonials will play in the NCAA Tournament for the first time in a decade. A first, too, as a member of the Horizon League. Picked to finish ninth among 11 teams, Robert M