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Rutgers best defensive player has graduated and the offense was woeful last season .Griffiths must be a double digit scorer along with a transfer portal point guard in order for Rutgers to be a top 25 team.The Athletic has Rutgers at Number 25
Our best defensive player was a not-insignificant reason why the offseason was woeful.Rutgers best defensive player has graduated and the offense was woeful last season .Griffiths must be a double digit scorer along with a transfer portal point guard in order for Rutgers to be a top 25 team.
Replacing McConnell with Griffiths by itself moves you up the chart offensively like 25 spots.Rutgers best defensive player has graduated and the offense was woeful last season .Griffiths must be a double digit scorer along with a transfer portal point guard in order for Rutgers to be a top 25 team.
I think it's even more because everything changes and we had one of the worst offenses among high majors.Replacing McConnell with Griffiths by itself moves you up the chart offensively like 25 spots.
You're not looking at the entire picture. If Griffiths can score like we think he can, then it changes everything. We become harder to guard, and teams have to respect that possibility. If Pike adds another transfer similar to Cam, why not?Rutgers best defensive player has graduated and the offense was woeful last season .Griffiths must be a double digit scorer along with a transfer portal point guard in order for Rutgers to be a top 25 team.
Defense will always be Pike's calling card. Losing McConnell is a big blow to the defense, but what Pike teaches defense, I suspect the defense will not fall off a cliff. On the flip side, adding someone like Griffiths instantly makes the offense a bigger threat. As I said above, if Pike adds another impact player (transfer portal) like Cam, we jump many schools because the combined results of the defense and offense take Rutgers to another level. Rutgers has accomplished a lot strictly by the defense alone.I think it's even more because everything changes and we had one of the worst offenses among high majors.
If you only swap the two players and keep all else constant, it's a significant difference, if you make other changes to take advantage of your player's strengths - which I think/hope Pike is really good at - then it's an even bigger improvement.
Rutgers best defensive player has graduated and the offense was woeful last season .Griffiths must be a double digit scorer along with a transfer portal point guard in order for Rutgers to be a top 25 team.
I am extremely impressed with what Lunardi did. Some of his mid-major seeding analysis is spot on. He didn't fall into a St John's trap by making them a tourney team with only Soriano on the existing roster. He didn't jump full tilt buggy onto the Duke hyped wagon and actually made them a 3 seed. He recognized that as of today the Big Ten will be down and only hyped Michigan State and Purdue. Michigan State is spot on. And we know that the Big Ten will get 8 slots and someone has to fill in the 7-11 slots. Rutgers is most certainly a top 5 Big Ten team with all that returns,so the ranking and slotting is fully justified by working backwards.Lunardi's first 2024 bracket has us as a 9 seed. 8 Big Ten teams including both Michigan and Indiana in Dayton. MSU and Purdue are 1s, Wisconsin a 6, MD an 8 and OSU a 10.