This past Tuesday evening, Phil Sellers passed away far too young at 69. There is no debate among Rutgers faithful that Sellers is the greatest player in the program’s 109 years of existence. Sellers is Rutgers’ all-time scoring and rebounding leader with 2,399 points and 1,115 rebounds and helped lead the 1975-76 team to the school’s first and only Final Four appearance.
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The Brooklyn-born native, who attended Thomas Jefferson High School, received a whopping 200 scholarship offers and originally signed a letter of intent to play for Notre Dame, but changed his mind and decided to stay close to home.