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Basketball Rutgers Basketball WILL NOT participate in a postseason tournament

Weird, feels like the Crown was invented for a team like us. Made for TV with teams That didnt make the NCAAs. NIL $& for playing too. Are we a program that can turn our noses down at non NCAAs like UNC? Maybe because we have 50,000 banners hanging in the RAC already they felt like they didnt need one more. Even though only 3 of those are for actual national championships. Oh well.

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.
 
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.
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! 🤣
 
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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
"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."
 
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I have a feeling it was more than those 2.
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.
 
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
 
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.
Why would be Grant be gone? He won’t command much on open market…he’s better off staying.
 
Would we have been able to field a team?
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?
 
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