(John Munson | NJ Advance Media for NJ.com)
NEW YORK -- Minutes before the Rutgers and Wisconsin men's basketball team were set to tipoff at Madison Square Garden, there was a palpable buzz inside the "World's Most Famous Arena.'
David Stern, the former NBA commissioner who graduated from Rutgers in 1963, walked to his seat behind the Rutgers bench, where he sat next to Scarlet Knights Athletics Director Pat Hobbs.
Across the way, Rutgers football coach Chris Ash was mingling with university Board of Governors chair Greg Brown, the CEO of Motorola Solutions who is one of the athletics program's biggest donors.