Well that was ugly. On a day that the Rutgers-Seton Hall rivalry resumed, the honoring of the 1967 NIT team occurred and Pat Hobbs seeing his world's colliding, everything was upstaged by reports that Chris Ash was close to being named the new head football coach. It was a positive development, considering the men's basketball team failed to show up in a 84-55 blowout loss to the Pirates. Seton Hall outmuscled, outplayed and clearly wanted it more than Rutgers, outrebounding them by a staggering 53-32 margin.
Rutgers came out on fire, hitting eight of their first ten shots and taking a 20-11 lead 7 minutes into the game.