With the start of college basketball season slated for late November, we’ll be taking a long look at the conference at large as well as Indiana’s roster over the next month. Today, we preview Rutgers.
No Big Ten program was more disappointed in the ending to the 2019-20 season than Rutgers.
The Scarlet Knights had been a doormat in the conference since joining the league beginning with the 2014-15 season. But the 2019-2020 campaign was different as Steve Pikiell’s vision for turning Rutgers into a respectable program finally came to fruition.
At 20-11 overall and 11-9 in the league, Rutgers was well on its way to its first NCAA tournament bid since 1991.