PISCATAWAY, N.J. — As Rutgers and Michigan State stationed themselves in their locker rooms during halftime Wednesday night at the Rutgers Athletic Center, the Scarlet Knights’ mascot walked over to the Spartans’ bench, grabbed Coach Tom Izzo’s clipboard and pretended to scribble a play.
If the mascot had done so for Rutgers Coach Eddie Jordan, it would not have seemed that odd.
Losses have come by the dozen, and few have been close. Rutgers’s best player was suspended, and last month the team was stripped down to seven scholarship players. Jordan seems likely to be fired at season’s end, and with a poetic twist.