This! I think people are failing to understand just how many areas we need to improve. One of which is late game execution. Not to mention, who the heck knows what our rotation will/should be.
Agree. The start to this season (5-3) has put RU in a terrible spot. The BIG is a tough, physical league with many very good teams. At this point the team will have to exceed expectations to qualify for the Dance and this is reinforced by Pike's coaching and his inability to adapt to game time situations. For sure he needs to shorten his bench and limit the play of individuals.
1 week to set that rotation and figure out who gets the minutes, and who hits the bench. My bet is Grant gets more minutes than Martini. PJ and Tyson about equal. JMike was a net negative and needs his minutes cut drastically
We need to learn how to win close games. That will be the integration of all the individual lessons.
Number one, Harper has to be one of those 3 point shooters, and number two, Martini and Hayes came here as older, experienced 40% three point shooters. Harper also has to recognize the zone and not drive baseline in the situations he did. This team is so poorly coached on the offensive end of the floor, and it has been for years. We're pretty much the only team I've ever seen that has to rush 3 pointers against a zone. Pike has brought respect back to the program, is a great ambassador for the program, and a good defensive coach - a good motivator also. Can't coach much.
Gonna need 20 to get in while sweating, 21 to be comfortable. These games killed us, OCC is what matters at year end.
Disagree here . In 2021 we had 3 horrible losses and only beat Clemson(17-16) OOC. Finished 18-13 and got in. Think if we win 19-20 we’re comfortably in because more than likely means we have a nice amount of quad 1 quad 2 wins.
I could be completely wrong, but I thought the committee was valuing conference results more that year than in years after
Only way for that would be if the following years were down years for the conference . However you’re going to see a lot of these big ten games be quad 1 and quad 2 this year . Big ten will put a lot of teams in the dance .
In 2022 they mentioned our OOC schedule as a reason they left Rutgers out. But it also coincided with a terrible record after Mag went down which they also said was a major reason. This OOC schedule is much better than that year and neutral site ND and Princeton wins would be better than the home Wake Forrest win that year. I would bet they also consider how well they played against Bama and A&M in a tournament setting if they need a tiebreaker because they’ll definitely want Rutgers in if they can justify it.
well if you are getting wacked by 20 plus in a few Q1 games, yes they will see that on the team sheet....not losing by much will be reflected in the NET but yes a loss is pretty much a loss
bottom line is RU is 1-3 in road/neutral games and Notre Dame will likely end up in Q3 eventually. Wins over awful Seton Hall almost definitely a Q3 game and who knows it could wind up Q4 and Princeton likely Q3 will mean very little with the rest of them Q4 wins with the exception of Columbia which is a big landmine that will be Q2/Q3. RU is going to have a likely Q3 loss on the resume as well. They will not have one single OOC win of note to point too and will have one bad loss. It is what is. I did not like the way Pike scheduled. The Princeton game is a total waste as was the Kennesaw game
bingo...the schedule was not made ncaa resume friendly. Gave RU a thread the needle needing to win one of the tougher games in Vegas as a strong ooc win. Yes no one knew Seton Hall would be so terrible but that was probably going to be a Q3 home game anyhow. Pike doesnt want to schedule tough...its bunk he tried for Syracuse at MSG
that year RU had a few high level Q1 wins and insane total of Q1 wins..
spot on
I will say MOST teams of the tier of Rutgers don’t schedule a gauntlet outside of a feast week tournament and maybe 1 other tough game but Rutgers didn’t even do that
its just stupid considering I believe Syracuse is playing Maryland the same day but at the Barclays and Pike said he was desperately trying to schedule a game with Syracuse 🙄
beat Ohio State on the road goes along way to erasing Kennesaw State
It was for sure capped. The committee is definitely aware of how many teams they put in from a conference but I think they also try to make sure they have enough teams regionally. Meaning don’t completely leave out the west coast. It’s no coincidence which teams got in over us that year.
You have to have some relativity in your statements. Saying competing and winning are 2 different things can be a meaningful statement if we ended 1-2 and if we were blown up by top 10 Alabama and got down 10-15 and then put up a fight , then your statement can be reasoned. But it was toe to toe the whole game , we had leads at time and frankly should have been up 5 at the half instead of 41-41 all , if Martini shows up or makes an almost soft foul layup or foul shots. Then a toe for toe second half where they could not stop us . Then competing and winning have a different meaning as the game could have gone either way and was in doubt in the last minute. We got everything but the win but got the respect of Oates the Alabama coach and any basketball writer around the country.
It is not a moral victory. You watched a team grow up and looked like a ranked team which was not evident in Games 1-5 when we were actually ranked , but did not play like it. You seeing negative as your first thought is really shocking. Did you think we were beating Alabama and Texas A& M before we played them.? My guess is no . We are not playing sisters of the poor. Your thought seems so short sighted. Unless you think we are going to suck in the BIG 10.
It’s not short sited. I just understand how the NCAA committee works and how our OOC schedule is an abomination and works against us every year. Why are we playing Princeton again? Why are we playing a road game in Georgia two days before our biggest slate of OOC games in Vegas?
You do not seem like an honest man. Did you think we were beating Texas A&M after the loss to Kennesaw ? Or after we went toe to toe with Alabama ?
First off, don’t say I’m not an honest person. You’re attacking my character. But since you did that, I’ll do the same to you. You seem like you don’t understand sports. Just because a team loses to an inferior opponent, doesn’t mean they can’t bounce back and beat a quality one. The 2021-2022 team lost to DePaul, Lehigh, and Umass in consecutive games and then less than two weeks later beat #1 Purdue. So yes I do think college kids can recover. And this isn’t me upset at the players. Coach needs to do a better job.
