1. Ranked tomorrow.
2. Playing with house money Thursday.
3. Finally, I said to my eight year old son we would fly up from South Carolina to see us at MSG if we won today. We did, so the third generation of Rutgers fans in my family gets to see his first live game.

When was the last time Rutgers basketball had two outside shooters like that?

If so a huge intangible.

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We’re going to be seeing more of this I think, as long a Mag is not in foul trouble.
Can’t press, but his minutes today with Hyatt out their with him and Cliff on the bench were impressive.

LETS GO RRRR

The unwritten rule is to not boo football, basketball or any college athlete since they're still kids,are student-athletes, etc. Only boo the coaches who are getting paid big bucks. So how do we treat kids that now get big NIL deals and are playing poorly? Is the unwritten rule invalid for NIL athletes?

Now that we got 2 of the 5 in the first midterm of the season (and coukd argue that we should have been 5-0)

Bucknell
Coppin state
At Purdue
Maryland
Iowa
At Northestern
Ohio state

My take
4 out of 7 a MUST to not fall really far behind the NCAA eight ball (3-4/11-7)

5 out of 7 is the GOAL (4-3/12-6)

6 out 7 would be AWESOME (5-2/13-5) and likely land us close to being ranked, if not ranked

7 out 7 is EPiC and would have us (6-1/14-4) and ranked about 15th

5 of 7 is what my head says …until my eyes see us get the ball in the basket more often

1/13

Nebraska at Purdue.....PURDUE
Michigan State at Illinois.....ILLINOIS

1/14

Wisconsin at Indiana.....INDIANA

1/15

Northwestern at Michigan.....MICHIGAN
Ohio State at Rutgers.....RUTGERS
Maryland at Iowa.....IOWA


Tues/Wed/Thurs: 5-1
Season to Date: 20-17

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NCAA just approved a second NCAA tournament for teams that miss out on the big dance. This 2nd NCAA tourney will be in addition to the (W)NIT.

Could start as soon as next season, '23-24. Can't wait to see how it plays out.

Rutgers moves to #2 in defensive efficiency on Kenpom based on stellar effort against a top 10 rated offense. The guys really clamped down today.

Today was such a great day with the big win and the historically big time commitment. But I am still curious if someone can enlighten me on a particular call. There was a play where Hyatt seems to have defensive rebounding position and Key seemed to go over his back for a put back, but an and one was called against Hyatt. Can anyone tell me what they saw, or what the TV commentators saw? I just hadn’t seen that call out of that position and I would like to know what I was missing.

Sunday will be a madhouse, especially if we get off to a decent start and if it's close at the end (which it probably will be). Can't wait.

Please don't kill the messenger. Heard from some inside people that discussions are happening that we will be having our new football facility right on top of the Yellow lot. When you think about it , it makes sense. The area where the bubble is might be too small and further away from the practice facility.

I for one would be livid. IMO the Yellow lot is by far the best lot for tailgating. With the performance of our team lately tailgating is one of the reasons we still go. The ripple effect would be huge. Where do they put the YL tailgaters? The blue lot, then where do the blue lot people go etc etc. We are spoiled with getting out of the YL some of my crew might just say they are done with coming to games. It isn't cheap to get / earn multiple yellow lot passes, I have three and we have two more with our crew. I am pretty sure I will have a mutiny on my hands if they go through with this.

Once again, just something I was told and it is only in discussion phase. If I get more concrete information I will post it and if anyone has resources inside athletics please ask around.

As a local sports fan, this has been one of the best days in a very, very long time! Didn’t even mention the news about the football commit from Michigan! Breaking out the good scotch tonight!

Was only a 15-12 foul disparity and we deserved most of them, including Paul's almost flagrant dumb foul at the end and on top of that we had Paul's two stupid flops. The only game I recall being really pissed at the reffing was Purdue, where it was 24-11 in fouls and 28-11 in FTs, in Purdue's favor in a game where so many touch fouls were called on us and very few on them. Our implosion at the end was almost all self-made with bad TOs, bad fouls, missed assignments and bad shots. Thankfully, the team came back to win it on the back of freakin' Cam Spencer scoring 5 of the last 7 points in the game and 23 overall, including the huge trey and the 2 FTs at the end - onions!!

Paul did have 12/6/6 and 2 steals and a block and Mag/Hyatt both had nice nights with 9 and 10, respectively. Cliff only had 4 but played much better in the 2nd half on D with 11 boards overall and 2 blocks and altered a few more. Caleb struggled on O, but played mostly great D. Nice to win with subpar performances from Cliff and Caleb and not much from the bench (Simpson had a weak game too) - going to need more bench play and production in the future though. 11-18 from three is the stat of the game though.

Would be great to capture the momentum of the day. I’m really in shock!

This program, that’s all. Life time contracts to Pike and Hobbs

Coach Pikiell attended a private Knights Of The Raritan educational event after his big on-court and recruiting wins today.

The message?

Retaining #Rutgers student athletes by giving them opportunities is critical.

Getting the five stars are critical but you hvae to give them opportunities to retain them.

Join KTR now to make that happen, the Million Dollar Match con this week. https://knightsoftheraritan.com/join/

Thanks, Jon

Nice to see Jeff and Amy Towers to amped up:

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Carino showing RU and Caleb a lot of love:

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Mag in The Freshman Corner:

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Anyone see Taryn?:

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