For fans of any college sports team, rebuilds of their programs after a bad stretch are exciting for the potential long term effect. Hope exists once again. However, it can be difficult to watch and live through in the early stages of such a process. If you are a Rutgers men’s basketball fan, you have likely had the majority of your life transpire through rebuild after rebuild after rebuild. It wasn’t always this way.
From the fall of 1964 until the spring of 1985 , Rutgers basketball had 19 winning seasons, two .500 records, and zero losing campaigns.