The drive to succeed that made Rice such a success at Robert Morris a Northeastern Conference school in Pittsburgh's western suburbs wasn't part of a switch that Rice flipped on whenever he entered a huddle.

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The fifth-seeded Mountaineers came in riding a nine-game win streak after upsetting top-seeded Robert Morris for a chance to play in the finals.

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The Wildcats, preseason No. 3, had themselves been pitched from the lowly National Invitation Tournament by a lowly school called Robert Morris.

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He planned to start a gym franchise, but after a free 13-week entrepreneurship class at Robert Morris University, paid for by the federally funded Veterans Business Outreach Center in Pittsburgh, he quickly found out the numbers didn't add up.

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Turned down by an Atlantic 10 school in Fordham, and content to stay at an NEC school in Robert Morris, suddenly he was in the Big East with a dream job.

WSJ: Rice's abrasive nature apparent early in career

In addition to these Rothkos selected from the 295 works donated in 1985-86 to the National Gallery of Art by the Mark Rothko Foundation (formed by his children) the exhibition also includes 10 early works by other artists (among them Arshile Gorky, Adolph Gottlieb, Morris Louis, Robert Motherwell and Jackson Pollock) that set up a rich context for the early Rothko paintings.

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Rice went 44-51 in three years and posted a 16-38 mark in the Big East after going 73-31 in three seasons at Robert Morris.

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He posted a 16-38 mark in the Big East, after going 73-31 in three seasons at Robert Morris.

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