First game of the year! Weather is 35 degrees and sunny, 15-25 mph winds. With stronger gusts expected.

FanDuel has Rutgers -1.5. Excited to see what we look like this year.

Rutgers opens up as a 1.5 favorite on Draftkings.

I know various town have been discussed in different threads. My wife is looking at us possible making our next move into this area. What would be the good/Bad/Ugly?

I am not worries about School Systems except for resale value down the road if we sell. It would be our primary home and not a rental purchase. Are there areas to avoid and why?

Thanks

Harper decision to play against Michigan State at MSG was his.
He had doctors and trainers clearance and asked Pike to let him give it a go,
I haven’t met many coaches who hold out their best player after getting medical clearance.

That’s why Pike gets a pass, the medical staff doesn’t get a pass, they did a poor job assessing the re-injury or making it worse scenario.

IMO it’s highly unlikely the original ankle roll was a high ankle sprain, it was your standard rolled ankle that evolved into a more debilitating high ankle sprain by clearing him to play.


Through out history, playing injured, sick, compromised, grieving has produced legendary heroic performances… there’s no way Pike wasn’t going to play him.

Go RU… Beat Michigan

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Please PM if selling single ticket -- season ticket holder although rest of the group can't go today so sold my upper level seats in hopes I can upgrade.

links to come

Likely Miami bound per Matt Zenitz. I guess the buyout too much for ru to overcome.

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Schiano

Hope this is not the beginning of a conference trend.

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It obviously sucks with Dylan out today, but today represents our last chance to string something together that’s quality enough to get within sniffing distance of an at-large bid. Unfortunately I think Michigan is an extremely tough matchup for us with their 2 exceptional 7 foot bigs. But if we somehow find a way today, I think Illinois is highly overrated (plus it’s at home). Maybe Dylan returns after Illinois and we have some gas left in the tank. But today’s game feels like the last big whopper to make a run before there’s just simply too many L’s on the resume.

Let’s hope the RAC is hopping and Ace understands he can’t do it solo today. We need efficiency from him today, and need the supporting cast (Martini, Derkack, Grant, Acuff) to play a ballgame. Let’s go, baby.

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Yoo-hoo!

Too bad this didn't happen when Josh and Ted were spreading misinformation about the Rutgers Football program and smearing Bob Mulcahy
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If we find a way to best Michigan today, we have a real shot a making the Tourney…

I know I’m expecting Harper to play eventually but I was just checking out their NET and KenPom rankings and for a team that lost on the road to a a mediocre Kennesaw State team and to a Princeton team on basically a buzzer beater on a neutral court they are in remarkably ok shape . The KenPom has our strength of schedule ranked pretty high. I know it’s a lot to ask and would say they have to go 7-3 over the last 10 games before the B1G Tournament. That would place them at 18-13(11-9 in the B1G). Almost every game they have left is a Quad 1 opponent except Minnesota and Washington. They have 3 Quad 1 wins already. Michigan also has 3 Quad 1 wins. The overall record doesn’t do them any favors but they have life and while I think that 4-6 and 5-5 seems more realistic, 7-3 really will be really strong and help us with our resume.

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Loved watching him get crushed against Ridge Lovett, along with that bouncing, bobbing and weaving, mophead, Braeden Davis. Was justification for how he and his father turned their back on this program.

This is a local kid who was totally overlooked by UM. This is his chance to get a measure of payback, of sorts. I predict double digital scoring at least.

After two games, his ability to get to the hoop is very impressive. Probably the best part of his offensive game.
Many times the only way to stop him is to foul. He has already taken a number of tough fouls.
These fouls will get tougher as we step up in competition. Fortunately he is very physically mature for his age but you have to wonder about the wear and tear.