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Basketball Rutgers Basketball holds off Saint Peter's with late defensive surge

And you thought we'd lose. LOL! Quite frankly, I was sweating bullets too!!!

Yeah that Randolph kid brought back memories of that Minny game where they had one kid who was knocking down 3s with his eyes closed. I’m glad we found a way and it was probably wasn’t a bad thing for some leadership roles to take shape in closing the game out. Dylan is still a frosh and that showed at the end with that traveling turnover. Jordan and Zach played like our veteran leaders and we’re going to need them for that.
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Basketball Rutgers Basketball holds off Saint Peter's with late defensive surge

Disagree. The team was making young mistakes in the first half. That got corrected at halftime, which is good coaching. The play in the second half was much better.

I actually think the coaches did a good job overall and the team will learn a ton from this game.

Also, I was very impressed with our player’s ability to tolerate what seemed like a lot of hard fouls through the second half without getting rattled. Lot of young players playing with good maturity tonight. To me, since we got rattled in the first half, but not in the second, that’s again due to really good coaching.
Impressive composure. It's extremely frustrating playing a game like that but it didn't seem like any of the players let it get to them. Dylan and Derkack draw a lot of contact

Basketball Rutgers Basketball holds off Saint Peter's with late defensive surge

Disagree. The team was making young mistakes in the first half. That got corrected at halftime, which is good coaching. The play in the second half was much better.

I actually think the coaches did a good job overall and the team will learn a ton from this game.

Also, I was very impressed with our player’s ability to tolerate what seemed like a lot of hard fouls through the second half without getting rattled. Lot of young players playing with good maturity tonight. To me, since we got rattled in the first half, but not in the second, that’s again due to really good coaching.
Actually, Mildone, I would have to agree with you. Because I was unable to watch the game on TV, I was relying on Internet updates and stats. You are so right. We played like Rutgers in the second half and only gave up 23 points. Now that is excellent defense.

With that said, it still baffles me how Pikiell's teams always start slow and don't play well in the first half. Somehow, some way he needs to change that. We need to start fast, especially against this kind of competition.
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