OT: Rutgers-ND Play In Game Thread (Headed to 2OT)
March 16th, 2022 at 11:53 PM ^
The ends of regulation and first OT were both so incredibly Rutgers.
March 16th, 2022 at 11:53 PM ^
This has been nuts! What a game.
March 16th, 2022 at 11:56 PM ^
These teams are so tired.
March 16th, 2022 at 11:59 PM ^
The winner's gonna be absolutely dead after flying cross country to play early Friday.
March 17th, 2022 at 12:01 AM ^
Alabama cheering on another OT.
March 17th, 2022 at 12:04 AM ^
What in the world. Fucking Rutger, play some D. Jeez.
March 17th, 2022 at 12:04 AM ^
Nice, Rutgers. To hell with Notre Dame.
March 17th, 2022 at 12:07 AM ^
What a great game. Sad to see Rutgers lose. Gio Baker was taking terrible shots as usual despite Ron Harper being on fire.
March 17th, 2022 at 12:10 AM ^
I can point out at least 5 complete mental lapses by Mulcahy from the first overtime on that were costly. Notre Dame getting switches by Rutgers bigs allowed several offensive rebounds for ND and ultimately cost them the game. They also had a timeout left and didn’t call it with 1.4 left. They need their S taken back.
Oh, and Seth Davis is a fucking douche that hates the big ten for some reason. He feels vindicated by this Rutgers loss
Just figured out he went to Duke. That explains it all now.
Davis (much like Bilas) looks like a coastal child of privilege. His dad: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lanny_Davis
Rutgers isn't exactly in "flyover," but most of the Big Ten schools are. That anything interesting goes on there doesn't compute to some people.
March 17th, 2022 at 10:05 AM ^
I have met a couple of nice Duke grad in my life but the vast majority are like Davis in that they were rich enough to get into an Ivy but not smart enough and they absolutely want you to focus on the prior and not realize the latter.
March 17th, 2022 at 12:10 AM ^
Entertaining game. Sad to see it end in a Rutger.
March 17th, 2022 at 12:11 AM ^
It’s a strange world when your spellcheck recognizes Rutger with no S.
March 17th, 2022 at 12:19 AM ^
At some point your device dropped that s….
March 17th, 2022 at 10:50 AM ^
AI knows everything. Soon enough Buttgers won't get spell checked!
March 17th, 2022 at 12:14 AM ^
Rutgers has a bunch of ball hogs ..you can tell how bad a team is coached ,when you watch teams like this . Someone gets the ball with 18 on clock ,dribbles down to 3 and takes a wild 22 footer,probably 15 times this game.
Im willing to bet Rutgers didnt have 8 assists and they scored 87 ,i see why they had the worst assist ratio in D1
March 17th, 2022 at 12:17 AM ^
22 assists on 36 made baskets. If Mulcahy inbounds the ball correctly to Harper in the first overtime, they are shooting free throws for the win.
March 17th, 2022 at 12:50 AM ^
Rutgers gave up close to 60 points in the paint. All the talk was about how physical Rutgers plays, give me a break! It was lay up after layup. I really think Rutgers was so bad maybe they should of started fouling ND when they got the ball in the paint and make them hit free throws.
I was there and the BIG10 tournament helped Rutgers run out of gas!!! They had it and it all slipped away with 1.5 seconds left!!!
They played one game last Friday. Huh?
Both teams balled out. Rutgers had its best chance to win it in regulation but couldn't get a great look. Double-OT with a tip-in with 1.4 seconds left is a classic whether in the First Four or Final Four.
It sounds like going to bed at halftime of this game did turn out to be a mistake after all.
Not really. I fell asleep with 2 minutes to go and woke up in the middle of OT, same thing for OT and Double OT, I can't even stay up till 12 anymore FFS.
March 17th, 2022 at 11:40 AM ^
If for nothing else, I was hoping that Rutgers would win the battle of the former Big East teams, just to give the Big Ten another win the Big Ten-ACC rivalry and prevent more talk about how this season’s Big Ten has been highly overrated.
Maybe it was the “Luck o’ the Irish” after the clock went past midnight in Dayton. Maybe it was Notre Dame’s strategy as much as luck. Notre Dame’s big men, Yale transfer and grad student Paul Atkinson Jr. and senior Nate Laszewski, shot 19 for 23 and scored 44 points. Rutgers never did much of anything to stop them.
As Notre Dame was dominating in the paint and Cliff Omoruyi, Rutgers’ big man and rim protector was running out towards the three-point line, I kept thinking that Rutgers should’ve been switching defenses and playing some 2-3 zone, preventing Notre Dame from getting fewer switches for easy drives to the hoop, and maybe bringing in 6-10 Dean Reiber to play with Omoruyi and Ron Harper, Jr. on the back line with Geo Baker and Caleb McConnell out front.
Even though Notre Dame had beaten Syracuse 79-69 just three weeks ago (LINK), so they had recent experience going against taller players in that 2-3 zone, Atkinson and Laszewski were 11 for 22 in that game, compared to 19 for 23 last night. And it’s not like Notre Dame’s three-point shooters were all that good against Syracuse. They were 6 for 23 against Syracuse and 6 for 19 last night.
So now, the College Football Playoffs Committee gets to watch Alabama play Notre Dame in a meaningful post-season game for the first time since January 1, 2021. LINK