Rutgers has the worst Big Ten basketball team in at least 14 years

Submitted by BJNavarre on
After tonight's epic 50 point loss at home to Purdue, Rutgers is now ranked 280th by Kenpom. No Big Ten team has finished the season ranked worse than 220th since Kenpom started his ratings in 2002. They've lost their last 5 games by at least 22 points, which must be approaching some sort of record in futility. How much longer must we suffer through their incompetence before they get the boot?
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LSAClassOf2000

January 18th, 2016 at 10:27 PM ^

There was, but in a fashion only Rutgers could achieve, it marched right out the back door, right into the Raritan, and now several local agencies are trying to wrest the quest from a very agitated goose who is under the impression that the quest is now his to complete (probably consume, but whatever). Meanwhile, sports remain difficult in Piscataway.  

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LSAClassOf2000

January 19th, 2016 at 8:42 AM ^

My own personal inclination was to leave it for the morning, but - at the request of the OP - it was removed earlier than that. In any case, sometimes when a thread like that gets created, admittedly the replies get pretty entertaining and it is amusing to leave it for a time, which is what was going on there. The subject of the OP - save for a certain array of topics - is not necessarily a non-starter. Yeah, threads like that usually don't go well in the end though.

Also, in the future, please put comments like this in the sticky. If I'm going to be called out for being a smidge lazy on occasion (and I don't get paid to provide this service, mind you), that's a much better place for it. 

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Blazefire

January 18th, 2016 at 10:01 PM ^

And even the football team has some history of being good besides, "Old and Greg Schiano got us bowl eligible, once." Maryland is Purdue - High quality BBall, lousy football that wasn't always lousy, and probably won't always be lousy

Rutgers is Purdon't. Purdue when everything is at its worst.

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Big Boutros

January 18th, 2016 at 10:27 PM ^

Also, Maryland is a fine academic institution. That used to be a priority for the Big Ten -- less so now with Nebraska and Rutgers, but Maryland would have qualified academically for the old Big Ten. USNWR has it about tied with Wisconsin, Illinois, Penn State, etc.

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Fuzzy Dunlop

January 18th, 2016 at 11:43 PM ^

Rutgers is ranked 72 in US News and World Report college rankings, only slightly behind Maryland (57), and ahead of numerous Big Ten schools including Indiana, Michigan State, Iowa, and others.  Not sure where the belief that Rutgers is poor academically comes from.

http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/rankings/na…

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Tuebor

January 19th, 2016 at 11:22 AM ^

Rutgers and Maryland are AAU members and Nebraska was an AAU member from 1909 until 2011 when they were removed for a lack of on campus medical school (the medical school is seperate from the Nebraska University system) and a change to the AAU's membership criteria which resulted in USDA funded agriculture research not being included anymore.  Note that Syracuse voluntarily left the AAU at this point rather than face an expulsion due to the new criteria as it was apparent they wouldn't qualify any more.

 

Nebraska is still a CIC member though, any idea if they are trying to regain AAU membership?

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Blue Durham

January 18th, 2016 at 9:56 PM ^

What the hell did you expect, Rutgers is in New Jersey!* *Blue Durham is from New Jersey. It is a good place to be from. I try to be from there as much as possible.

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Blue Durham

January 18th, 2016 at 10:08 PM ^

I have either post fail, humor fail, sarcasm fail, reading comprehension fail, or just plain fail fail.

What I meant was that New Jersey is a great place to be from... as in away from.

You used to be Quiverfull?  Damn, no wonder, I liked your posts.

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xtramelanin

January 19th, 2016 at 8:08 AM ^

some computer glitch happened to my 'quiverfull' account about the time the blog changed servers in the fall of '14.  i could post, read and use it no problem, but most folks couldn't see what i'd post.  i was, like doc daneeka, 'disappeared'.   so i started over. 

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bacon

January 18th, 2016 at 11:03 PM ^

To be fair, Rutgers was established in 1766 and clearly their sports programs have not improved since then. Amazingly, their "national championship" is from 1869, when there were two teams (Rutgers and Princeton), and they split the season series 1-1 and were named co-champions. They haven't been relevant since.

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cheesheadwolverine

January 18th, 2016 at 11:39 PM ^

Checked Kenpom (not sure if it has updated since Purdue).  For context they would be last in the Ivy League. The gap between them and second-to-last would be more than 30 spots.  They would be last in the MAC by almost 60 spots.  They would be last in the Summit League by 50 spots. 

I could go on, but I think the point is made.  They are almost unfathombly bad. I honestly think they'd lose an AAU team.

PS: They are 90 spots behind our old friends at NJIT.

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