Robert Morris and longtime men’s basketball coach Andy Toole have agreed to a multi-year contract extension following the Colonials’ historic run to an NCAA Tournament bid, a source confirmed to TribLive on Wednesday.
No other details were immediately available.
Sources: Robert Morris’ Andy Toole has received a multi-year contract extension.
Led the Colonials to 26 wins this season and took Alabama to the brink in the first round of the NCAA Tournament.
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Toole, 44, whom RMU athletic director Chris King previously said was signed through at least the 2026 season, led the Colonials this season to a 26-9 record and their first Horizon League Tournament championship.
It marked the program’s third NCAA Tournament bid in Toole’s 15 seasons as coach.
The Colonials entered the 68-team field last month as a No. 15 seed in the East Region, where they were beaten by No. 2 Alabama, 90-81, in a first-round game March 20 in Cleveland.
Since then, six players, including the team’s entire starting lineup, have entered the NCAA transfer portal.
“He has stood the test of time. We’re happy to have him at RMU,” King told TribLive in a prior interview. “His longevity here, the success this year is going to propel us to be able to sustain that success for this program for some time.”
Toole came to Robert Morris in 2007 as an assistant on former coach Mike Rice Jr.’s staff and was promoted to associate head coach the following year.
He succeeded Rice as coach of the Colonials, when Rice left to become coach at Rutgers before the start of the 2010-11 season.
Toole, who played two seasons each at Elon and Penn, has compiled a record of 252-241 at Robert Morris with two regular-season and Northeast Conference Tournament championships each in addition to the Horizon Tournament title this year.
His teams also have made two appearances in the National Invitation Tournament.
In a 2013 NIT first-round game, Toole and Robert Morris notched arguably the program’s highest-profile victory by beating Moon native John Calipari and Kentucky, 59-57, at the former Sewall Center a year after the Wildcats had won a national championship.