Episode No. 128 of the On The Banks podcast welcomes Rutgers baseball head coach Steve Owens ahead of his third season in Piscataway.
After achieving the program’s best ever finish in Big Ten play last season with an eighth place finish and .477 winning percentage, the Scarlet Knights look to make even more progress this Spring. RU was picked to finish sixth in the projected Big Ten standings forecasted by D1Baseball.com.
Topics discussed with Owens include rebuilding the program during a global pandemic, the progress made so far, the importance of the returning players, replacing starting pitching and the overall depth of the bullpen, newcomers to watch for, the non-conference schedule, the support for the program, expectations and much more.