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They beat Ohio St last week

During that game their best player Eugene Omoruyi was injured and is out indefinitely

Go to player is currently PG Geo Baker

 

They have a ton of height...no one on the team is under 6'4"

Terrible 3pt shooting team, bad shooting team in general.  Wins with defense which hasn't been great in conference.

 

Playing Northwestern at home after being destroyed by Purdue on the road.

Northwestern also doesn't start traditional bigs so Rutgers will probably attack them in a similar way they plan to attack us on Monday.

 

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Also got a big win against Miami in the B1G/ACC challenge, so they are capable of pulling the upset:

 

2019 Schedule

Game Plan | Opponent Tracker

Date Rk Opponent Result     Location Record Conf  
Fri Nov 9 149 243 Fairleigh Dickinson W, 90-55 74   Home 1-0    
Sun Nov 11 128 260 Drexel W, 95-66 76   Home 2-0    
Fri Nov 16 120 48 St. John's L, 84-65 72   Home 2-1   b.gif
Mon Nov 19 136 152 Eastern Michigan W, 63-36 67   Home 3-1    
Fri Nov 23 108 217 Boston University W, 54-44 69   Home 4-1    
Wed Nov 28 116 72 Miami FL W, 57-54 68   Away 5-1   a.gif
Fri Nov 30 103 3 Michigan St. L, 78-67 64   Home 5-2 0-1 a.gif
Mon Dec 3 106 17 Wisconsin L, 69-64 63   Away 5-3 0-2 a.gif
Sat Dec 8 99 219 Fordham L, 78-70 64   Away 5-4    
Sat Dec 15 107 52 Seton Hall L, 72-66 70   Away 5-5   a.gif
Sat Dec 22 108 240 Columbia W, 68-65 75 OT Home 6-5    
Sat Dec 29 113 331 Maine W, 70-55 59   Home 7-5    
Sat Jan 5 109 20 Maryland L, 77-63 72   Home 7-6 0-3 a.gif
Wed Jan 9 115 27 Ohio St. W, 64-61 62   Home 8-6 1-3 b.gif
Sat Jan 12 106 63 Minnesota L, 88-70 71   Away 8-7 1-4 a.gif
Tue Jan 15 110 15 Purdue L, 89-54 67   Away 8-8 1-5 a.gif
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Rutgers is the kind of team that when you're playing them in high school, watching them warm up across the court, you're wondering why the wrestling team is out there. They're big enough to be on the WWE circuit. They definitely shoot like wrestlers.

 

Unfortunately, they fight on the glass like wrestlers too. We will need to have our big boy pants on in the paint.

 

Baker had a huge game vs the Bucknuts, but that's the only game I've seen where he's looked like the reincarnation of Corey Sanders. Unlike Sanders in the past, I expect us to handle Baker, so as long as we don't get murdered on the boards, we should be fine. (Because it's in NJ, murder is a real possibility.)

 

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Yesterdays game against Michigan State was such a high energy game I wouldnt be surprised if some of our guys are gassed and beat up a little.

 

Still, they have three days in between... and its Rutgers. Should be able to win semi comfortably. But i wouldnt be surprised if its ugly for a half or so.

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35 minutes ago, thrasher31 said:

They have some size in the middle. Shaq doorson and Shaq Carter are both big guys. They also have Myles Johnson coming off the bench. None are GREAT, but the size advantage is there. 

 

Should be a very winnable game, but this is one game to not look past in my eyes. 

 

Leading the league in having dudes named Shaq!

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RU is 0-6 in Q1 games, including 0-2 in Q1 games at home. RU is also 1-2 in Q2 games at home, so not great against the best teams on their schedule when playing at the RAC.

 

At this point, this has slid into a Q3 game for us - very likely the last non Q1/Q2 game of the season for us. But RU is right on the cut-off line for Q2/Q3, so it could go either way as the season progresses.

 

RUTGERS (8-9) #137 (0-6) (2-2) (0-1) (6-0)
QUAD SHEET NET Q1 Q2 Q3 Q4
FDU H         W
Drexel H         W
St John's H     L    
E Michigan H         W

 

Boston U

 

H

       

 

W

Miami-Fl A     W    
Mich St H   L      
Wisconsin A   L      

 

Fordham

 

A

     

 

L

 
Seton Hall A   L      
Columbia H         W
Maine H         W

 

Maryland

 

H

 

 

L

     
Ohio St H     W    
Minnesota A   L      
Purdue A   L      
N'western H     L    

 

Nebraska

 

H

 

 

x

     
Penn St A     x    
Indiana H   x      
Ohio St A   x      
Michigan H   x      
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NU opens -10 on the road

 

O/U is 135

 

Looked back several years, but can't find another game where we were a double digit favorite on the road - for neutral site games, we were minus-14 against Rutgers in the 2016 B1G Tournament and a double digit favorite vs Mizzou State in KC this season.

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13 hours ago, throwback said:

NU opens -10 on the road

 

O/U is 135

 

Looked back several years, but can't find another game where we were a double digit favorite on the road - for neutral site games, we were minus-14 against Rutgers in the 2016 B1G Tournament and a double digit favorite vs Mizzou State in KC this season.

 

We won't be for this one either.  It's down to -9 to -8.5 and hitting -8 to start the game seems about right

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1 minute ago, HuskerFever said:

 

Interestingly he played his first 17 games with double digit minutes (22 average minutes) but the moment they played us, his average minutes went down to 3.5 in the final 13 games. Seems they've known he's been a problem for awhile now.

 

Very interesting... waiting for that shoe to drop, methinks.

 

 

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22 hours ago, HuskerFever said:

 

Interestingly he played his first 17 games with double digit minutes (22 average minutes) but the moment they played us, his average minutes went down to 3.5 in the final 13 games. Seems they've known he's been a problem for awhile now.

 

Seems more like Freshmen Ron Harper and Caleb McConnell were playing better and he got McVey'ed

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