![]() Obviously, it's the best league in the country. I know it's a great thing for the media after every game in, out whatever it is, it's been like this for four years. I say at the end of the year, your resume is going (tell whether) you're going to be in or you're not. ![]() Even my players know I never bring this thing up. On making a case for Rutgers to be in NCAA tournament: We just have to play better and these guys are very capable of that." Everything comes down to a basket or a free throw. As you guys can see, this league is a monster, everybody's good. You got to play good defense and good offense playing really good teams. The other day we scored, and our defense wasn't good, so we've got to have both at this time of the year. Again, obviously didn't do enough to beat Northwestern." We're not a great scoring team to begin with and they're really good defensively, but I still think we could have won this game if we just kind of grinded a few possessions when we had some momentum just to finish off some plays and we just didn't do enough. We had, early in the year, shot really well from the free throw line and these guys are good foul shooters but it didn't go in. We could have really kind of hung around and made it a little bit interesting with the free throws. ![]() I'm going to watch the tape, but we didn't make a three in the second half. On player fatigue at this point in the season: We're looking forward to the other two parts of the year." You've got the regular season, then you've got the conference tournament, then you've got the postseason. We start a new season coming up here with the tournament. He couldn't practice yesterday and to play, couldn't take him out today, 38 minutes it's a credit to them. Six steals right here this guy's ( Caleb McConnell) been awesome all year. We didn't, but very thankful that you guys are here and all the people here that came to support. We played tough but you got to do more to beat Northwestern. We just weren't able to finish plays, make free throws, the whole gamut. I thought we did a good job on Boo Buie and Chase Audige and they still were able to get us. But Northwestern, they've had a great year and they've been really good defensively. ![]() Not obviously the way we wanted to finish the regular season. I really appreciate the cheerleaders, the band, the Riot Squad, they do an awesome job for us. They were out, I think at four o'clock tonight for 7:30 tip off the line started. I think we sold out every game this year. You could be anywhere tonight and you're here. "Always appreciate all year long you guys coming. Rutgers will take on Michigan at the United Center in Chicago on Thursday morning at noon eastern time. The Scarlet Knights tied last year's total in wins (18) and finished off ninth in the Big Ten Conference at a record of (10-10). Caleb McConnell, Paul Mulcahy, Aundre Hyatt, Oskar Palmquist and Andrew Fulin were all celebrated on Senior Night. Senior point guard Paul Mulcahy had eight points, four assists and five rebounds.Freshman guard Derek Simpson had 12 points, two assists and two rebounds off the bench.įive graduates were honored in a pregame ceremony with their family and friends in attendance. Junior center Clifford Omoruyi had 14 points and six rebounds.Senior guard Cam Spencer had nine points, three assists and five rebounds. Rutgers was 36 percent from the field on the night. Rutgers shot 2-for-17 from three-point range and 11-for-21 from the free throw line. He is six steals away from tying Eddie Jordan for first on the list (220). McConnell tied a career-high with six steals and passed Myles Mack (210) for second all-time on the Rutgers steals list with 214 career steals. With fifth-year graduate Caleb McConnell playing his last game at Jersey Mike's Arena the Rutgers men's basketball team lost 65-53 to the Northwestern Wildcats in front of a sold-out crowd on Sunday night to wrap up the regular season. – The Scarlet Knights lost a tough one on Senior Night.
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