Went to San Antonio six years ago for final for, stayed in the same hotel as Pike and the rest of the coaches. I will put in for the lottery again. Tickets for all three games in the uppers are $300 (a steal), and the application deadline will be May 31st. You put the money down up front plus a $25 non refundable fee. The lottery takes place in August, If you dont get selected you get a refund of your deposit minus the $25.00. Ticket allocation takes place in December of I recall correctly.

Last time i sold two of my four seats in stubhub and it paid for full set of tickets. On the day of the final sold the uppers for a fraction of the original cost and upgraded to lowers vacated by Kansas and Loyola fans at at a great price, The final four is a fantastic event.

Next year the sweet sixteen is at the Rock, will also go for those tickets. I hope RU is at both, but will go regardless.

Apologies if this subject is addressed in another thread.

If you're interested then please reply below with the system you're on, your gamertag and what program you plan on being. Obviously not everyone can be Rutgers so this will be a first come, first serve basis.

Surfside, Cal to be specific. Headlined by defending National Champion and pre-season #1 Stanford, the 11 team event features 7 squads that played in the '24 NCAA Regionals. Rutgers is the geographic outlier here as no other team comes from east of Nevada. Holmdel's Megha Ganne one of Stanford's players but is not entered. The B1G's Washington is also entered.

This is the 2nd year in a row RU is playing in this event. Last season the team finished 9th with Oregon taking the title.

Rutgers will go with a lineup of Jr Grace Lu, Frosh Joline Truong, Sr Lucrezia Rossettin, Soph Emily James, and Soph Krystal Li. Frosh Mami (Judy) Amano is entered as an individual.

So far this season, RU has finished T6th at Wisconsin's' Badger Inv and T4th at Lousiville's Cardinal Classic. Individually Truong has started her RU career in very good fashion with 2 Top 10 finishes, T4 and T6. Transfer from William and Mary, Edison's Lu finished T2 at the Cardinal after holding the lead for a time.

The team will be paired with the U of San Francisco and Washington State for tomorrow's 2 rounds with the 18 hole final Tuesday.

So ... in between watching various NFL games (including my beloved Vikings win again), I watched the YouTube video of the open scrimmage on Saturday that osmeone posted today. I watched it like I was watching a real game, and kept score for each player.

I kept score for each player by each "half", but then combined each player's total stats for one "box score" for each player.

Here it is:

Presumed Starters:

Harper: 15 points, 3 reb, 6 ass, 1 TO, 1 Stl, 1 BS, 6-12 fg (1-5 from 3), 2-2 FT

Bailey: 15 points, 10 reb (2 offensive), 2 ass, 4 TO, 0 stl, 1 BS, 7-14 FG, 1-5 3 pt, 0-0 FT

Williams: 8 points, 2 reb (1 offensive), 2 ass, 4 TO, 0 stl, 0 BS, 4-8 FG, 0-2 3 pt, 0-0 FT

Ogbole: 8 points, 1 reb (1 offensive), 0 ass, 2 TO, 1 st, 1 BS, 3-8 FG, 2-4 FT

Martini: 2 points, 3 reb (1 offensive), mo other stats, 1-2 FG, 0-1 3 pt, 0-0 FT


Presumed Reserves:

J. Davis: 11 points, 3 reb (2 offensive), 3 ass, 2 TO, 0 st, 0 BS, 4-7 FG, 0-1 3 pt, 3-4 FT (the articles said he had 13 points and 5-6 FT - but I had him 3-4 FT, with Sommerville 2-2 FT - the articles must have assigned those 2 FT's to Davis)

Hayes: 8 points, 1 reb, no other stats, 3-3 FG, 2-2 3 pt, 0-0 FT

Sommerville: 6 points, 2 reb, 0 ass, 2 TO, 0 st, 1 BS, 2-6 FG, 0-0 3 pt, 2-2 FT

Derkack: 4 points, 1 reb, 0 ass, 3 TO, 1 st, 1 BS, 2-7 FG, 0-3 3 pt, 0-0 FT

Grant: 3 points, 2 reb, no other stats, 1-2 FG, 1-2 3 pt, 0-0 FT

Dortch: 4 points, 2 reb (1 off), 0 ass, 1 TO, 0 st, 0 BS, 2-2 FG, 0-0 3 pt, 0-0 FT

Miscellaneous Team Observations:

1) Not surprisingly, likely due to not even the 1st full week of practice plus mixing and matching lineups, the team looked sloppy - too many careless pass turnovers, sloppy with ball handling turnovers. The 3 point shooting was basically non-existent, except for Hayes (well, they took 3 pointers, but mostly missed). One 28-minute helter skelter scrimmage is way to early to judge anything, of course, including shooting.

2) Either line-up looked the smoothest with Harper triggering the offense (duh!) - smooth and lots of open shots available for him and others.

3) The offense looked worst when Williams or Derkack were triggering the offense.

4) Davis triggering the offense was ... okay ... better than with Derkack or Williams.

Player Thoughts (obviously, things can and likely will change a lot after another 5 weeks of practice):

1) Harper: He is the real deal, and it is obvious regardless of the sloppiness ... 6 assists and 1 turnover, getting the the paint and rim at will no matter who was covering him ... creating for himself and others ... unstoppable in transition ... at least decent defense (whoever he covered did nothing while Harper was defending him). Ran the high screen and roll all the time, which was never stopped.

2) Bailey: He IS going to be great ... really ... yes, there will be some games where he does not hit shots - but when he does he could score 25+ ... a a very good rebounder, it appears: Almost always in good position for the rebound (that is natural). Still needs to work on shot selection, and at least 3 times took the shot for himself when he had a wide open teammate in the corner (twice it was Martini) - he did make one of those shots, a drive and pull up. Still, he WAS a willing passer, and made several outstanding passes - only got 2 assists because the teammates missed the shots. And is a good, athletic defender (maybe not a star defender, but willing and athletic enough to do so). One note: When he triggered or had the ball on the top or wing RU NEVER (and I mean never) ran the high screen for him. He played much more 1 on 1 than did Harper.

3) Ogbole is better than Sommerville, at this moment. Not saying that won't change over the course of practice and the season. He moves better on offense, sets better high screens, blocked one of Sommerville's shots as they were one on one, was more assertive at the rim (yes, he missed a few, especially early, but hit both at the rim in the 2nd "half". Ogbole is still a work in progress, but is clearly improved vs last season: Moves better, stronger, better fundamental footwork, high screens and even better hands. Still not good offensive moves (like, none besides dunks off passes and rebounds). Sommerville looks like he has a lot of upside, a nice soft shot, a couple of good passes.

4) I actually cannot tell how improved Davis is. Though clearly stronger, and also obviously a good rebounder, and does a decent job running the offense, I still cannot tell if his shooting is better (FT's were fine in 4 attempts). Had several assists. On the other hand, got schooled by Harper every time (maybe that is not a negative reflection - maybe Harper will do that to everyone). Williams does NOT look like a back-up PG at this stage of practice, in this scrimmage. Derkack did not look like a creator - but did play very good defense, especially help defense. But he displayed some of the weaknesses he showed last season at Merrimack: Did not make 3 pointers, and turned the ball over trying to force passes.

4) Hayes can shoot. Need I say more?

5) Martini did not show much, positive or negative ... will probably benefit as the offense becomes more structured, and as Harper and Bailey settle into how they best create openings for others. And will probably end up doing a lot of the little things that do not always show up in the box score.

I might in the minority, and I know it’s not a big deal. But he’s just so hard to listen to.

Before I start, this is still just for fun, no need to tell us the odds of us actually getting into the playoff.

So week 5 is in the books and we still are sitting at that very slim chance to make the playoffs!!! As I mentioned before the season started, we need 1)us to be at least 10-2, 2)both the ACC and B12 to be a 1 bid league, and 3)the SEC to start to eat their own. And it is still in play. First the good things:

-Lets talk about US. We needed to be 4-0 here. Now 6-2 for the rest of the season is not completely unrealistic. Splitting the next two games is HUGE.

-We are rooting for Kentucky for the rest of the season. Knocking off MSU was HUGE for us, they need to continue to upset teams like this. See, Gavin could still lead us to a playoff 😁

-Arizona beating Utah was another big game for us, as we want to keep the B12 down.

-I hate to say it, but PSU winning helped us. Now all we have to do is have Illinois split Michigan/ Oregon and our destiny is in our hands we beat them we knock them out.

-We didn't care about who won the Kansas State-Oklahoma State game, but now that Kansas State won, we now root for OSU the rest of the season, especially against BYU.

-On a side note, Both Navy and Army are undefeated right now, how bananas would it be if the Army/Navy game had playoff implications?

Now the bad things:

-Both USC and ND winning now is bad, we don't want the winner of that game to be in the playoff and take a spot

-Boy things would have been great if VT pulled that one off against Miami. It would have almost guaranteed a 1 bid league in the ACC.

-BYU still undefeated is scaring me a little bit. We can't have them sneak in with another B12 team.

Now who are we rooting for this week?

-Of course Washington, I feel Michigan is not that great this year, they need to be buried

-Speaking of being buried, OSU needs to hammer Iowa, need to keep them behind us

-The SEC eating their own has to continue, and Texas A&M beating Missouri or even better Arkansas beating Tennessee would be awesome if it happens this week.

-Boy what are the chances that FSU actually shows up and beats Clemson. They have the talent.

And thats it! Keep rooting! We are still walking that thin read line of the CFP!

Someone asked me that, and I have no idea which sections those are. I assume the end of the upper decks maybe?

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Oregon State, WSU, Boise, Fresno, CSU, SDSU to start. Add a few schools like UNLV, Hawaii, maybe talk to a few FCS powers like Montana or NDSU if they want to move up to FBS, and that's actually a pretty decent G5 conference.

Curious how it was and if Fanatics guys were signing.

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Expect a lot of zone blitzes.
Just like Rogers, Raiola is too good to let hang back there patting the ball. His arm talent is even better than Rogers, which is ridiculous given how good Rogers is.
Unlike Rogers, he's not a 5th year senior that's seen all sorts of coverages known to man. And that's precisely where we MAY have a chance to dial up some zone blitzes to quickly force the ball out of his hands.
You can't play man against him all day with his huge WRs bc he's mobile and sees the field really well. He'll simply buy time and beat you deep. With his ball placement skills and the size of his WRs, those 50/50 balls are more like 60/40 balls, which could be a problem on 3rd and Long.

The plan is simple: Force him into quick throws, tackle really well, and hope he eventually makes some mistakes along the way. With our pass rush, or lack thereof, that means we need a lot of blitzes. #4 has been 'no bueno,' but he could actually be perfect for the game plan this week as a 3rd safety/small LB to bring on blitzes. As far as matching up against the run with #4 in there, their RBs are nowhere as good as Coleman so I like those odds vs having a 3rd LB in there against a pass-leaning offense.

We run a very similar scheme to the Illini on both sides of the ball and they had success against the Huskers on both sides. It is my opinion that they do have a better D and QB than we do, but not by much. With the right scheme, we can take advantage of Raiola's inexperience. It's our only shot. Either that or Kyle and Sam run for 300+ yards and Raiola is on the sidelines the whole game.

There's so much going on right now with conference realignment and the smaller conferences, figured making one big thread on all of this would be much easier.

Got to speak with TJ Berkel of the Common Fan Husker podcast about our upcoming game. Made a mistake on FCS vs MAC for Miller, they'll have to edit that.

I'll have a show out later discussing the game.

Does he have 1 more year of eligibility after this season?