Rutgers faced red-hot Iowa in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals needing a win to sew up an NCAA Tournament bid.
athletic director Patrick Hobbs and offered words of encouragement — with no room for ambiguity, either, about what would happen next for the Scarlet Knights.
Here’s the problem, of course, and the reason why Hobbs and anyone else associated with this program might not sleep much over the next 48 hours: Rutgers keeps on giving the people who pick the tournament reasons not to put them in the field, and this performance in the Big Ten Tournament quarterfinals is just one more to throw onto the pile.get in, too, because the Scarlet Knights are without question one of the best 68 teams in the country.
To get a second T? In a game with these stakes? Unthinkable. Rutgers head coach Steve Pikiell, hours removed from a He might be right. It isn’t hard to see the team that beat four straight ranked opponents in February making a run that begins in Dayton and ends in the Sweet 16. If the committee values quality wins above anything else, then that stretch alone, with victories over Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin and Illinois, should be enough to get the Scarlet Knights in the field.
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