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The Princeton Invitational was not on the original schedule. It was added as a make up for the Quail Valley Collegiate which was cancelled due to the destruction caused by Hurricane Milton in the Vero Beach, Fla area last October. With this weekend's weather forecast, it may be difficult to get 3 or possibly 2 rounds in. It might just be the combination of the Knights and Tigers the weather gods don't like as the only time they met this year was at the weather shortened Johnny-O in March. In that 2 Round event Princeton finished 9th, 2 strokes ahead of RU in 10th.

This week's venue, Springdale GC, dates back to the 1890's. It is a 6,428yd Par 71. In the 1920's famed course architect William Flynn (Shinnecock, Merion, Cherry Hills, Philadelphia) took on a complete remodel. The yardage is a lot shorter than the courses Rutgers usually plays. The last 3 courses were Johnny-O - 6,933yds, Hootie - 7,282yds, and Haskins - 7,086yds. I understand Springdale makes up what it may not have in length with some rough and difficult greens. Anyone who's played it might want to add a comment.

#83 Princeton and #125 Rutgers are the only teams of 14 entered ranked in the top half of D1. Other teams include #168 Seton Hall, #184 Georgetown, #198 Penn, Harvard, Yale, and Temple. At #143, Princeton's Riccardo Fantinelli is the highest ranked Player. Noah Kumar, at #255, is RU's highest ranked. He has two 2nd place finishes this season, 1 each in the Fall and Spring. Brother of PGA Tour's Max Greyserman plays for Princeton and will be in their lineup.

Team lineup is one of a couple not yet posted. Figuring Rutgers will send out the 5 who have played the most in Noah Kumar, Weston Jones, Bennett Espenshade, Argyle Downes and Derek Gutierrez. Also don't know if RU will bring anyone to play as an individual.

Coming off their third championship in the past year, Rutgers returns to the 2 day, 54 hole event at Ohio State. The Scarlet Course is a Par 72, 6,319yd Jack Nicklaus design.

Lead by #17 Ohio State the 12 team field includes #25 Michigan St, #63 Indiana, and #76 Wisconsin. A twist this week is two D2 squads are entered in 2024 Nat'l Champ and current D2 ranked #5 Fidlay along with #9 Grand Valley. At #115 Rutgers is the 6th ranked D1 team entered. Last Year Ohio State won by 20 strokes over a 12 team field that included 11 B1G teams. Rutgers finished 9th ahead of PSU, Nebraska, and Iowa.

Rutgers will be represented by the 4 who have been starters most of the year in Lucrezia and Lorena Rossettin, Joline Truong, and Edison's Grace Lu. Rutgers Invitational champ, Emily James, gets her 2nd start in a row. At #465 RSSO Lu is the highest ranked team member, followed by Frosh Truong at #496.

At #17 Kary Hollenbaugh (OSU) is the highest ranked D1 player in the field, followed by MSU's Brook Biermann at #52. Findlay's twin sisters Mary and Erin Mulcahy are ranked #5 and #24 in D2 along with Grand Valley's #11 Olivia Stoll.

The teams are scheduled to play 36 holes Saturday with the 18 hole final Sunday.

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are back on the diamond for their series finale versus the Purdue Boilermakers. Rutgers looks to avoid getting swept after dropping the first two games in their series to the Boilermakers. First pitch is at 1 pm EST. Lineups will be posted soon

Now that would be a get. Mulkey must be thrilled.

He had his only hit,No.1 on Billboard,in November of 1963,"Deep Purple",with his late sister,April Stevens.
Oddly,he and the recently late Lenny Welch,also a Nov.1963 hit marker,died in the same week.

@Richie O AJ Pena of URI just entered the portal. Somerville HS alum and first team FCS AA. Any chance he comes to RU?

He should’ve fired his staff (except Thompson and Youg) as soon as the season was over. It’s like he’s given up at this point. I’d be shocked if he’s still here after next season.

It is clear from Richie’s podcasts that no one of note is coming next year via the portal.
Pike himself has said no changes on staff and its going to be the same ol mess.
Thus, the results will be the same. And pike will be fired after next year. That is abundantly clear.
Then the question becomes - who will come to RU that js the schiano equivalent in BB in terms of raising NIL fumds.

One game, both healthy, who was better?

Goodbye Nebraska

Well, we're 4+ days out from the start of the likely storm late Wednesday evening and we're seeing some shifting around in the models, as usual, but the signal for at least a significant (4-8" is my definition of "significant") to major storm (8-14" is my definition of major) has increased, while the signal for an historic storm (14-24" is my definition of historic; we've had 24 such storms in 155 years in NYC, for example and similar numbers for NB) has decreased a bit, i.e., we might be looking at a higher floor, but a lower ceiling. Note I'm using the Kuchera snowfall estimates as this is likely going to be a pretty cold storm with temps in the 20s, so >10:1 ratios are very likely.

This is because the two outliers showing just a coastal scraper (significant snow only for SENJ really with minor to moderate snow for 95 and NW), the GFS and the Euro-AIFS (AI model), came NW significantly and now show a significant storm (AIFS) to a major storm (GFS) for just about the whole Philly-NJ-NYC region. On the other hand, the Euro which has been showing historic snowstorms for the region for a few days has backed off significantly showing only 3-6" for 95 and NW and 6-10" towards the coast; no idea if that's a blip or not. On the other other hand, the CMC continues to show a major snowstorm, while the UK is showing an historic snowstorm, as is the ICON. The fact that all of the models are at least showing a significant storm and most are showing at least a major storm with a couple of those showing historic storms tells me that the floor has been raised, but the ceiling has come down some. Also, the ensemble means continue to indicate at least a significant snowstorm.

None of this means that there can't still be major changes, since we're still 4+ days out, but the chances of a complete out to sea miss or a snow to mostly rain cutter are both very low now, whereas there is still a decent chance of a coastal scraper (minor snow for 95 and significant snow only towards the coast) or an inland runner that puts down 6"+ for most, but then turns the precip to mostly sleet/rain for 95 and SE of 95, while hammering areas well to the NW of 95 with a major snowstorm.

I'm not going to microanalyze the global models other than to say numerical weather prediction is still chaotic, meaning uncertainties 4 days out are still moderately high and the difference between a coastal scraper and inland runner is only about 100-150 miles in the track forecast, which isn't bad, actually since the "storm" won't even be on the map for 3 days (the pieces that form it are all pretty far away still and have to come together just right for a major snowstorm. Also keep in mind that if we get a major to historic (still on the table) snowstorm, which becomes quite powerful, blizzard conditions or close to it would be possible with gusty winds, plus minor coastal flooding could be an issue for a powerful coastal storm (this looks like a "Miller A" that skirts across the Gulf states then heads NE up the east coast). All of the relevant maps and deeper discussion are in the AmericanWx thread below and I included a link to Tomer Burg's nice explanation of the meteorology and some potential outcomes.

https://www.americanwx.com/bb/topic...time-between-18z-wed-219-12z-fri-221/page/16/

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2/16: Changed thread title from "OT: Significant to Major Snowstorm Possible for Thursday 2/20" to current thread title
2/17: Changed thread title from "Winter Storm Thursday 2/20: Could range from a miss (most likely) to a minor event (possible) to a moderate event (unlikely)" to current thread title

Princeton beat Brown 17-7
Lehigh beat Colgate 12-9
St. Joe’s beat Hobart 15-7
Stony Brook beat Monmouth 13-9
UMass beat St. Bonaventure 15-4
St. John’s lost to Villanova 10-7
Army beat Navy 12-11 in OT
Loyola beat Holy Cross 21-10

Penn State beat Hopkins 10-4

Maryland is up on OSU 11-6 with about 10 minutes left in the game. It was 11-3, but OSU has scored 3 in a row.