Mentioned on football board that her brother is on the RU football team. Checked the roster and it appears to be true. Not sure if it has ever been mentioNed here. Sorry if this is old news.

No fire, no killer instinct tonight after the early going.

Free throws were awful but not nearly the reason why they lost. Points off turnovers was an even bigger issue - UM 17 pts on 13 TOs while RU 3 pts on 10 TOs.

Throw in the disastrous play be Reiber who in 5 first half mins managed to allow UM to literally get back in the game.

2nd half they drew within two and the RAC was ready to explode and nothing but poor passes by Caleb and stagnant ball movement in the half court offense.

This was a game they should have won and they gave it away again.

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Wondering where he lands now, big time 5 man that had TCU in his final list along with Kansas.

Anyone else making the trip this weekend?

I was just listening to Chris Carlin on the radio. He’s a season ticket holder to RU basketball. He and Canty gave a shout out to Pacheco. Carlin was at the game last night and called out Michigan fans at the game that were obnoxious. He put them in his top 5 of most obnoxious fans along with Penn State and Syracuse. Gotta love him

Pike getting a lot of flack from other BIG fans for not accommodating MSU/Minny for the scheduling change.

Pike showed backbone and told them no. We’re the only team that had 11 road games. We’re the only team that had a win stolen (and officially acknowledged by the league). We have gotten the short end on home/away game splits for the conference challenges. If they want us to accommodate them, they need to stop giving us the short end of the stick.

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In sports there always seems to be a time when a team plays it's worst. In baseball it's the June Swoon or the Dog Days of August. For my NY Jets it's anytime between Labor Day and Christmas. For RU basketball it's a two week period in February. For the past four years we have had a NCAA caliber team. All of them have had similar records in mid February:

2023: 1-4
2022: 0-3
2021: 2-4
2020: 1-4
In each of these prior years we've come back to play some pretty good basketball down the stretch and beyond. I still have faith in this team despite some of the problems we've shown. Among them:

Paul dribbles too much for no apparent reason
Cliff has to play a minimum of 35 minutes a game
Dean can not play against a legitimate Power 5 center. He just can't handle it.
Wolf needs to get Dean's minutes
Simpson can not be trusted with the basketball in a big moment.
Hyatt maybe the biggest Jekyll and Hyde player RU has ever had. Some days he looks like an NBA player and others, he's terrible.
For a guy who has played P5 basketball for 5 years Caleb makes some of the worst in game decisions I've seen.

Please remember that due to the time difference I can rarely watch a complete game so these observations are based on an incomplete sample size. I still have confidence in Pike (despite some of his mind numbing decisions today) and this team to finish strong. What better place to start the turn around than State College.

The Smikles, she is doing very well with the women's basketball team and he is listed as a defensive back on the football team!

The Rutgers Scarlet Knights are back on the diamond in South Carolina for their first game in the Swig & Swine Classic. Rutgers was originally scheduled to play against Canisius College but will now play against the George Mason Patriots. First pitch is at 5 pm EST. Lineups will be posted soon.

I’ve been critical about Rieber but in the grand scheme of things, the kid has been forced to play the 5 for two years bc Pikiell has never addressed a proper backup to Cliff.

We were spoiled with Myles/Shaq Carter and Myles/Cliff

Slip sliding away, slip sliding away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you're slip sliding away


No one needs a long recap after this debacle at the RAC and Ive probably made a 100 posts in other threads and this is likely not to be something more than a rant. RU loses its 2nd straight game at the RAC, its 4th overall of the season and with Michigan not projected in the field as of now, that is 3 losses to non ncaa teams at home. I wondered after the Nebraska loss if RU had reached bottom yet. Sure this team gutted out a win down Caleb at Wisconsin but it did not mean Rutgers was back. I thought the game tonight was HUGE for comfortably making the NCAA tourney. Our highest stakes game of the season. It was setting up so well. The blackout crowd was absolutely electric and the 13-3 RU in the first 6 minutes gave us the best atmosphere of the season. Can't say the players were not ready to play. They were. I am absolutely shocked at the lack of fight they showed tonight and thats two in a row at the RAC.

Michigan finished the first half on a 23-10 run where RU made only 3 fg in the last 14 minutes of the half. RU punched them hard. Michigan punched back. RU never recovered. One failed attempt after going down 8 got the RAC rocking and appeared to set the stage with RU closing to 40-38 with 10 minutes to go. RU's D at come alive and shots were going down. Pathetically Rutgers would go almost 10 minutes with just 2 made fg until Dereks meaningless bucket with 12 seconds left. Til that point, Michigan finished the last 10 minutes on a ridiculous 17-5 run over 9:48 seconds. Those last 10 minutes were reminiscent of a Fred Hill era offense. Filled with laughably bad possession after bad possession, bonehead moves and embarrassing turnovers. It was every bit as ugly as you remember.

And RU had one last gasp actually at 48-42 after a Caleb steal for a layup RU down 2 possessions but they acted like they were down 20. The lack of leadership and poise and heart down the stretch was not something you usually see from a Pike team. Not sure which of the 3 is worse but they are all problematic in their own way. A rock bottom performance for the 2022-23 edition of the Scarlet Knights

Do not be afraid to be hard on this team. This is big boy basketball. Pike gets paid the big bucks. His players put up a dreadful performance. Pike's own performance was dreadful highlighted by two momentum killing drives, the first at 13-3 while RU was smelling blood in the water..out goes Cliff and Cam and all that joy from the first 6 minutes was gone. And yes momentum is a thing in hoops. RU may have shit the bed anyway but the rug was pulled out from under them. Not the first time the mass subs which maddeningly HAVE TO HAPPEN at the same time every game have tripped RU up. Then in the 2nd half, after RU fought its way back to come within 2. Cam goes out, Paul goes out. Look like an absolute chinese fire drill trying to dribble and pass the ball. All our momentum was lost yet again and it was goodnight Irene. Missed shots but moreso about 4 turnovers did Rutgers in and then even the upperclassmen performed pathetic in the last 5 minutes. This is on all of them. Its on the coach. its on the players.

We can talk about Mag if we want. Mag does not miss 3-11 free throws. Mag is not seniors missing 4 or missing one and ones or missing two after blowing a transtion dunk on a small foul yet again. RU played pretty good D today overall. Michigan only scored 58. They only had 26 at halftime. They only had 40 with 10 minutes. You should be able to win at home with those numbers. You cannot win when you leadership and decision making and offensive gameplan is atrocious. I do not know what kind of offense Pike runs but it isnt good. We had this debate ad nauseum. Everyone can see it. Just because RU wins game 61-55 this year does not mean we cannot talk about it. Pike has no bench. Our bench isnt good and its not at this level and I have no problem saying it. Pike has about 5 misses on this team. I always wondered how RU would replace Ron and Geo and Pike did a phenomenal job hiding how bad our offense was. For all the bravado from beat writers and others declaring that this team is so deep and has hidden talent that truly is not the case apparently. Mag is a huge loss. This is true. He is one player. To see this utter breakdown in all facets of the offense from passing to dribbling to taking a shot is alarming at this level. This was Fred Hill level.

So now it is scary when it comes to the NCAA tournament. 3 games left, 2 on the road, the next one to a team RU handled easily at the RAC by 20 and a team like tonight fighting for a NCAA bid. But so is Rutgers now. Suddenly the all but lock is now in question and the pressure is on. The eye test says this is not a tourney team. The resume ON THIS DAY says it is. After 3 more games the resume may also say its not a tourney team. Not sad about this team. There is nothing unfortunate. This on the, Reality may be setting in. Funny things happen in February and March, I have seen teams tank their way out of the NCAA tourney. I have seen teams throw up a string of bad losses but then somehow pull out a huge win to salvage the season. I have no clue what this team will do but I do know that the nearer to its destination the more it appears they are slip sliding away.


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Who has been there? Mr & Mrs Screw??

We don’t have nearly a strong enough bench to try and rest a chunk of our starters at any given time.

He needs to ride momentum for as long as he can when we are scoring

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The primary B1G Indoor Track and Field Champs threads are in the "Baseball,Soccer, and more" forum, but I want to congratulate RU's Sincere Robinson for winning the the men's long jump in today's B1G Indoor Championships.

With the first day of championship competition still going on, outstanding pole vaulter Chloe Timberg is competing in her event as I write this. Five other RU athletes have already qualified for the finals in their six events by qualifying in today's prelims. (Men's mile, Women's mile, Men's 60m & 200m, Women's 60m, Women's 800m) A top 8 finish in an event will score points for the team. Go RU.