February in College basketball means big games. Teams battle for conference championships. Ranked teams fight to the death for one higher seed. Bubble teams either rise to the Dance like Purdue last season or wilt and are banished to the land of ghosts and silence that is the NIT. By the end of the month you get what is becoming an even better extension to the NCAA Tournament in Championship Week, where virtually every school can hit the reset button and hope to get hot for 4-5 games and steal an automatic bid.
The best game of the bunch may be coming, however, and Tuesday, February 23rd is its date:
Rutgers (6-21, 0-14) at Minnesota (6-21, 0-14)
Just look at it for a moment.