For the second straight week, college basketball’s #1 team goes down.
This week it’s Rutgers cutting the heart out of Boiler Nation, downing the Boilermakers 70-68 on Ron Harper Jr.’s half court heave as time expired.
The Purdue basketball program has had a lot of success, but they had never held the #1 ranking in the country. After one game as #1, they’ve still never won a game as the #1 team in the nation.
It looked like Purdue had answered Ron Harper Jr.’s first potential game-winning shot. The Rutgers star hit a fadeaway to go up 67-66 with just less than 20 seconds remaining.