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Way off topic...when i was checking out Yale I realized Princeton returns everyone from their team last year. Princeton, Yale and Harvard are all very good.
Yale was 23-7 last year. Upset Baylor in the NCAA Tournament and only lost to Duke by 7 in the next round.
If they return everyone, as someone posted, they should be a pretty good scrimmage opponent.
"It's only Yale" is a Rutgers inside-joke. This was a quote by one of Bannon's players before the team lost to, you guessed it, Yale in the 2002 NIT.
Yale lost 5 seniors from last years team. The big ones are Justin Sears, Brandon Sherrod and Nick Victor.
Sears was their best player last season, Makai Mason is their best returning player this season.
Albany beat Yale by 34 last year without Justin Sears who was injured for them.
Yale was great on the offensive boards last year, mainly thanks to the guys who are gone. (Sears was 36th in the nation at OR%...plus he's a Jersey kid from Plainfield so we should all like him)
hoops hipster @hoopshipster1 13h13 hours ago
Sources say that Yale might be good again. Ask Rutgers.
Sources say that Yale might be good again. Ask Rutgers.
Yale is very talented and is going to give a lot of teams problems that don't have dominate perimeter defenders, which is an emphasis for RU to improve this year....
Dumb comment for sure, but I would LOVE to have a kid with Coleman's three points shot on the current roster! He electrified the RAC with his deep 3's.
So it looks like our offensive strategy might be - shoot, miss and then go get it on the offensive glass.
haha yea, more misses means more opportunities for offensive rebounds... so we got em right where we want them
I remember watching the Purdue game last year where it seemed they were missing shots on purpose to set a record for offensive rebounds against Rutgers.This year with more height Rutgers should be in a better position to rebound both offensively and defensively.Rutgers problem with 3 point shooting has been a ongoing problem where the roster was lacking in that skillset.
Not being able to shoot the 3 is a killer to half court offense. The defense will pack it in, we won't get drives to the basket, and it becomes very difficult to score.
Luckily for us we are scoring alot of transition points.
Our three point shooting will be the difference of us being an NCAA team and struggling to get into the NIT. But this was no secret. We will not be a great three point shooting team. But we will be bigger and faster than most teams and that will account for winning as many games as we lose.
People need to temper their expectations.
I am one of those people. Before seeing this stat sheet, I was thinking the blowouts were over and we'd be competing / close in almost all of the games. This shows that while we've added bodies to the roster, we haven't added any shooters.