That is,why you have to have two categories,
Believe we lost to Syracuse in 78/79 and won 77/78. Could be wrong but I think 78 was the last time we beat them. Didn’t beat for another 20 years I believe until the naked free throw guy. Good times.
That's fair
Somehow I missed numbers 2 and 4 but this is a great list. I think #5 was actually the ‘77-78 season. And as to #4, we had a clear path to the final four if we beat St. John’s in the Sweet 16. We had beaten them Twice during the season but lost that game. Penn would have been next and we would have been heavy favorites followed by Magic Johnson’s team.
#5 was 77-78. 78-79 we lost to St. John’s. You are correct Penn was next and very beatable.
Was that the year we should have beaten UNC in Chapel Hill but the Tarheels got the home whistle?
One of the most fun games was the ND/Troy Murphy game (mid/late 90s). The crowd was dogging him the entire game and Rashod Kent did a great job on defense. Murphy got T'ed up and almost thrown out. That was an enjoyable blowout.
That game and the “Lane’s a p***y” game vs Seton Hall were 2 l missed that i wish i would have been able to attend
2019 was the 14-0 start on SHU,
2001 was Coleman/Shields, 2003 was shields/douby, both fun years with 3 pt bombers that beat a lot of ranked teams at home and couldn’t buy a win on the road
Playing Temple was always fun. When was the Choke-um Chaney incident? I remember those taunts during games.
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Was a 3rd year medical student at Rutgers, attended the game and saw that also. Court was stormed and student heckler foolishly got right in his face. James Bailey was awesome at end of that game.
Speaking of ND, and switching from men to women, 2001 54-53 victory over #1 ranked Irish - turned out to be only game ND lost becoming NCAA tournament champs that season. Got a bunch of my 5/6 th grade girls rec team to go
yep that was an incredible game and so sad to see how the program has fallen from that time and how Rutgers is now an afterthought as womens hoops is now at peak popularity
I’ve always thought that WVU game too as it was probably the most people ever allowed in the RAC. End of year and actually a warm day. RAC held a lot more then both behind the baskets and behind the team.
I remember that 1991 Temple game well... was super excited because I went to Vegas, too. My first trip ever to Vegas. I've been there at least 25x since, most recently the tourney at MGM.
And they continued playing the song. There were student seats in 300 back then and we jumped all over it.
Me too. Was my favorite win ever until beating PSU in the A10 tourney championship in 1989. Was in the student section as a sophomore and the RAC was simply insane with #6 WVU in the house along with CBS. That team likely would've made the tourney had it been 64 teams (was 48 that year), as we were 19-9/9-5 with two top ten wins (UCLA and WV) and a generally tough schedule. One funny comment: a couple of guys I knew stole the Scarlet Knight's head in the insanity after the game.
Then what were 24 better wins at home during that time period?
Correct. Rutgers was very mediocre to outright terrible in basketball for a long time.
It was a terrible game, for both teams, with the exception of the final shot
