Before I get to the article itself, I want to confess how I spent the time between the end of the Big Ten Conference Championship game and Rutgers being selected as an 11 seed in the NCAA tournament. I was alone, alternating between pacing around my basement, and standing in a low crouch like I was in a defensive stance. (This is similar to how intense I get when I watch Rutgers basketball on TV. I am an adult in my late thirties, and maybe it isn’t healthy to care this much, but what can you do?) I didn’t think I’d be sweating it so much, I even wrote as much in the recent OTB roundtable, but I was really sweating it.
Rutgers has beaten a Big Ten foe with similar profile to Notre Dame
