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Q&A With Big East Coast Bias on DePaul

The Rutgers men’s basketball team faces their biggest test of the young season tonight in Chicago against former conference mate DePaul. The two schools last played in the 2013 Big East Tournament, which saw Rutgers win that first round game 76-57. Both programs have new head coaches since that last meeting and they are very familiar with each other. DePaul head coach Dave Leitao was an assistant coach at UConn when Steve Pikiell was a player there under Jim Calhoun. The two sat on the bench together for one season when Pikiell became an assistant at UConn. There will probably not be much that will surprise the other during tonight’s game.