Just keeping it real. They had a chance to finish strong and they fate was their to control. They blew it so they left it in someone else's hand. That's the harsh reality of subjective selections for post season play in college sports. And we are not a blueblood so we don' have the luxury of "the benefit of the doubt." It sucks but reality does bite when you are in our situation. Control what you can control and the rest sorts itself out.
In 2022-23 we lost 6 of our last 8 and split the Big Ten Tourney games. That includes losses to Minnesota and Nebraska, who finished just behind us, and to Michigan and Illinois, who just finished ahead of us. Other loses were to Northwestern, who were decent that year and Indiana (No. 18). The control as to just take any two of those and it was clear they were in. But that's not how it ended so they were at the mercy of the odds that they lost.
And no need to call anyone a tool if they don't agree with you.
Yeah we also beat Purdue and Wisconsin and Penn State on the road , all tourney teams , and avenged the Michigan loss in the first round of the Tourney , another tourney team . We finished 10-10 in the Big 10 . Yes we lost some games down the stretch including Northwestern another tourney team but it was almost consensus that Rutgers still did enough to get it at about 97% of the bracketologists and after beating Michigan in the tourney , it went to 99% of them. You must have been a big part of that 1% of the crowd that yelled “ No Rutgers this year.
No one that was picked deserved to be in ahead of us and all had losing streaks or flaws and didn’t have the wins we had nor the screw job at Ohio State that the committee had a chance to consider and correct the improper ref move but did not. Leaving it in the hands of the committee doesn’t mean you expect them to leave their common sense at home.
Sorry didn’t mean to call you a tool but found it incredulous that you are in the 1% versus the consensus 99% who thought Rutgers was in , and you only looked at negatives and never considered the positives.
