Basketball Rutgers Basketball WILL NOT participate in a postseason tournament
- Thread starter Richie O
- Start date
Carino's article did say that Pike wanted to give the players "agency" in the decision which tells me he didn't have enough players to field a team.
Took a team vote and decided we play like ass and said we out of here
It might not even be that money. The only player I think is a sure bet to return is Ogbole.
I said I was going Rutgers or not. I live in california and Vegas is just a short trip. Self- contained college hoops at the MGM is a good time.
Maybe it goes to the conference instead of teams for distribution.
I agree the crown was created exactly for a team like ours this year. 2 NBA players bring show cased. The problems is the players don’t want to play for each other or Pike . The program is dead and Pike has to pray for a miracle.
Gonna be interesting to see how everything shakes out with the NIT and Crown. Seems like nobody wants anything to do with the latter.
This is for the best. Not too many wanted to see more of this team. I don’t think the players themselves wanted to see more of it based upon how this may have went down. Maybe the players will pull a last minute revolt like a scene out of Rudy, all turn in their jerseys to Pike and demand they play the Crown so PJ Hayes can score his 1,000th point! 🤣
Last edited:
The 2024-25 Rutgers Basketball Season Has Come To An End
The 2024-25 Rutgers Basketball season is finally over, as the program has confirmed there will be no postseason.rutgers.rivals.com
I thought we HAD to at least play in the Crown?
How did we get out of this?
I believe if you were an automatic qualifier (the top 2 teams that didn't make the NCAAs) you were obligated to play. At large were not.
From the website: "The College Basketball Crown tournament will feature 16 teams that did not qualify for the NCAA tournament. Two teams from the Big Ten, Big 12 and Big East conferences will automatically qualify. Additional teams chosen by a committee." https://www.foxsports.com/college-basketball/college-basketball-crown
This Rutgers squad does not deserve to play in any post season tournament - whether it be traditional (NIT) or made for TV ( Crown)
2 games under .500 - you deserve to watch the post season on TV !
2 games under .500 - you deserve to watch the post season on TV !
I bet it could have been as simple as Ace and DH indicated they would not be playing. End of Story. I had seen enough of this team.
"You can pick us, but the only two players on our team that are P5 starters aren't even going to get on the airplane and we are going to lose by 50."
Definitely, but except for Harper and Bailey, you can go to Rucker Park and randomly pick anyone and they'd be better than the person on our team they'd be replacing. If this were baseball, everyone would have a negative wins above replacement level number.
this is not a good sign for player retention. I suspect somerville and grant are gone. For those advocating continued hs recruiting and player development, i don’t understand that logic. For us it’s a lose- lose situation. Recruit poorly - lose. Recruit successfully, players develop and then move on - lose.
College basketball today is 90% portal and 10 % high school.
College basketball today is 90% portal and 10 % high school.
Interesting
I think it's likley less a player vote re interest than NOT enough players to filed a team with portal indications.
Would only seek to retain the following and the rest would be best if new start:
Grant
Dortch
Ogbole
Somerville
Jmike
I think it's likley less a player vote re interest than NOT enough players to filed a team with portal indications.
Would only seek to retain the following and the rest would be best if new start:
Grant
Dortch
Ogbole
Somerville
Jmike
I am hoping …hoping , that it’s because Dylan , ace and two of thre three seniors didn’t want to play and you can’t make this work with 8
I’m worried that the exodus is about to be massive …
Why would be Grant be gone? He won’t command much on open market…he’s better off staying.
He’s not a game changer.. he’s a glue guy… literally every good team has 2 Grants at least
Looks like a mess.. the conferences made the agreements but member schools with revolts
Perhaps we just wanted to avoid the embarrassment of not being invited or the decision of Ace and Harper not going to play
Always mixed feelings. I wanted more RU basketball but not necessarily like this. Is there a three on three somewhere out there for us?
Yup. Not a surprise. Somewhere between 2-4 will probably stay.
Heck, 5 are either out of eligibility, or going to the NBA.
