The Official BIG 10 Tournament First Round Game: Rutgers-USC Prediction Thread

[bac2therac]

RUTGERS 83 USC 74

 

[fatsam98]

Feels like USC mentally checked out of the season

Rutgers 97
USC 80

 

[bac2therac]

Feels like USC mentally checked out of the season

Rutgers 97
USC 80

Mussleman just ripped into his team for not caring about the usc-ucla rivalry

 

[Rufans]

Rutgers 81
USC 78

 

[RUBigFrank]

RU 80
USC 71

 

[robjknight]

The dynamic duo come to make some noise in the tournament RU 81-70

 

[scarletnewyorker2006]

RU 97 USC 93, OT

 

[Loyal_2RU]

Rutgers wins 82-73 makes sense

 

[Degaz-RU]

To predict the outcome, we need to predict if either team is going to care about this game, playing at 9pm in a mostly empty, cavernous arena. Just because Rutgers won its last game and USC got blown out, I'll go with the good guys.

Rutgers 81
USC 79

 

[RUJMM78]

Rutgers 77 USC 71

 

[toby83]

these conference tournaments should have some decent upsets, so many guys with foot out the door, not giving a shit

 

[lion1983]

So ... never make predictions. BUT ... within this thread I woill poiont out some USC trends for the season:

1) When USC scores LESS than 70 points in a game, they are 0-8.

2) When USC scores LESS than 77 points in a game, they are 2-14.

So ... one key would be keeping USC below 70 points ... but they average 76+ ppg, and are a good offensiev team - and RU is NOT a good defensive team. So maybe target keeping USC at 75-77 points - becaues they are not a good defensive team either.

 

[Rutgers56]

Rutgers 74
USC 70

Keep this broken down jalopy on the road for one more day.

 

[dfr1966]

RU 78-69

 

[RUSJ73]

RU 81 USC 77

 

[RUbacker]

RUTGERS 83 USC 74

who cares about predictions ? play the game and we find out predictions mean squat .

 

[bac2therac]

bump

 

[rubs]

Not close
RU 83-70

 

[BigEastPhil]

I think USC wants season to end.

I don’t think we want season to end as much !