Robert Morris Gives Men’s Basketball HC Andy Toole Multi-Year Extension

MOON TWP, Pa. — After leading Robert Morris to a 26-win season and a third NCAA Tournament bid since becoming head coach 15 seasons ago, the university rewarded Andy Toole with a new multi-year contract extension, according to Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports.

Toole and the Colonials tied the program’s record for highest single-season win mark this past season, won the school’s first ever Horizon League regular-season title and Horizon League Championship and won the conference’s Coach of the Year, Player of the Year and Defensive Player of the Year awards.

All of that combined resulted in the Robert Morris administration signing Toole to an extension.

While the two parties have yet to release the exact terms of the agreement, it managed to lock up the program’s all-time win leader for the foreseeable future, which is hard to do with good coaches at the mid-major level.

Former Colonials head coach Mike Rice hired Toole to his staff way back in 2007. Toole later succeeded Rice as the head coach of the program in 2010 when he was just 29-years-old.

Since Robert Morris hired Toole as the head coach, he has led the Colonials to an overall record of 251-241, two NEC Championships and now one Horizon League Championship. Toole guided the Colonials their first NCAA Tournament win in 33 years when Robert Morris defeated North Florida in the First Four back in 2015.

Toole and the Colonials won the NEC Championship again in 2020, but they never made the trip to the NCAA Tournament because of the pandemic. Following the conclusion of that season, the Colonials made the jump to the Horizon League.

As Toole helped the Colonials make the transition to the new conference, the world shut down, which made it virtually impossible to recruit. That made the first few years of play within the Horizon League rough sledding for Robert Morris. After going through just three losing seasons while in the NEC, Toole and the Colonials had losing seasons in each of their first four seasons as a member of the league.

Colonials’ athletic director Chris King previously stated that Toole was signed through the end of the 2026 season at least, but he stated that that was said prior to the “multi-year” extension, which now makes the deal run until the end of the 2028 season at the very minimum.

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