It wasn’t always pretty, but it was easy.
Northwestern played a very bad basketball team who played like a REALLY bad basketball team. Rutgers came out and got 8 points in about 2 minutes in the first quarter and proceeded to score just 13 points the rest of the entire half, a vast swath of terrible play that included multiple instances of a Scarlet Knight throwing a pass straight to Joe McKeown on the Northwestern bench. Northwestern always plays a hyper aggressive defense, but it’s hard to give the team in white the lion’s share of the credit for this one.