It’s easy to forget as the years go by and Steve Pikiell continues to elevate Rutgers basketball but during the first two seasons in the Big Ten, the Scarlet Knights were just 3-33 under former head coach Eddie Jordan. Things got a little better during Pikiell’s first two seasons, as RU went 6-30 in Big Ten regular season play but this program was still buried in the basement. While they upset 11 seed Ohio State as the 14 seed in the first round of the 2017 Big Ten Tournament, upstart Northwestern blew them out of the gate the following day on its way to a first and only NCAA Tournament appearance.
Rutgers’ dominant run against Indiana parallels rise of program
