Rutgers lost to Fordham today...

mikewebb68

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And Fordham is, well, not good. We can talk about them being closer in games and thus improved, but until they start winning, it is still lolRutgers, imo.
 
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And Fordham is, well, not good. We can talk about them being closer in games and thus improved, but until they start winning, it is still lolRutgers, imo.

lolRutgers almost taught us a hard lesson in football this year. Hopefully Collins will have the boys ready!
 
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And Fordham is, well, not good. We can talk about them being closer in games and thus improved, but until they start winning, it is still lolRutgers, imo.

A top-ten Virginia team lost to a 16th seed in last year's NCAA tourney. Rutgers had a bad game. Ask Miami how LOL Rutgers was in the ACC challenge.
 

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A top-ten Virginia team lost to a 16th seed in last year's NCAA tourney. Rutgers had a bad game. Ask Miami how LOL Rutgers was in the ACC challenge.
We'll see where Rutgers is at the end of the year. I predict 14th jn the BIG.
 

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We'll see where Rutgers is at the end of the year. I predict 14th jn the BIG.
Eh, while they had a bad loss to Fordham, they've looked feisty and darn near respectable in more games than not. I'm a bit surprised you think they will finish behind your hated perma-enemy in Illinois. I'm not saying Rutgers is good, but they are a lot better than they've been. I'd take them to finish 12th or 13th. And thus far in 4 seasons they've finished 2-16, 1-17, 3-15, and 3-15 in conference... I'd take the over on 3.5 this year (though admittedly that's sort of a low bar for a 20-game schedule).
 

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Eh, while they had a bad loss to Fordham, they've looked feisty and darn near respectable in more games than not. I'm a bit surprised you think they will finish behind your hated perma-enemy in Illinois. I'm not saying Rutgers is good, but they are a lot better than they've been. I'd take them to finish 12th or 13th. And thus far in 4 seasons they've finished 2-16, 1-17, 3-15, and 3-15 in conference... I'd take the over on 3.5 this year (though admittedly that's sort of a low bar for a 20-game schedule).
With the strength of this conference, I would happily the under on 3.5. Illinois is bad, but neither they,, nor any other BIG team, will likely come close to losing to a team as horrific as Fordham this year-- they are a really, really bad team...
 

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With the strength of this conference, I would happily the under on 3.5. Illinois is bad, but neither they,, nor any other BIG team, will likely come close to losing to a team as horrific as Fordham this year-- they are a really, really bad team...
I guess we will see! Illinois has struggled, but I’ll grant they have played quite a tough schedule thus far. I will informally take the over on 3.5 for Buttgers... I don’t think they are good by any means, but I think you are over extrapolating by a single performance and looking past a number of good performances they’ve had. Especially when you play the style of game that Butty does (physical, with a focus on defense and rebounding), you are going to end up in a lot of close, low scoring rock fights, which means on a given day if a handful of shots fall or don’t fall, you can beat good teams or lose to bad ones.
 

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Fordham followed their win over B1G Rutger with a loss at home to NJIT. Yes, powerhouse New Jersey Institute of Technology. Huh.
 

ricko6543211

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NJIT beat Michigan a couple years back, in Ann Arbor (obviously).
Yeah I was thinking of that one too. And didn’t MSU have an absolutely awful loss in pre conf schedule 2-3 years back? They most likely turned out alright that season... though granted maybe that was the year they ended up losing to 15 seed MTSU in the tournament... think it was a year or two prior though.

You don’t need to look too hard to find NU bball seasons where we had absolutely atrocious losses pre conference (or even were 1-2 pts away from that... Wheaton, Md E Shore, etc) and ended up being competitive in conference play. Anything can happen on a given day in college sports. Rutgers will be okay.