It FINALLY happened to US for a change!!!

[SBP]

WE finally give the much deserved dagger for a win, and if not for a few minutes in the second half, we out played a tough Purdue team.

I was surrounded by Purdue fans! You fools who didn’t come need to just give up your seats! My voice is gone, but so proud of the fight and Jersey toughness.

No Hyatt tonight, and I think Pike has found a nice combo with Mag starting.

The RAC was BACK!

 

[Joey Bags]

Straight buckets baby

 

[Danprusa_4]

WE finally give the much deserved dagger for a win, and if not for a few minutes in the second half, we out played a tough Purdue team.

I was surrounded by Purdue fans! You fools who didn’t come need to just give up your seats! My voice is gone, but so proud of the fight and Jersey toughness.

No Hyatt tonight, and I think Pike has found a nice combo with Mag starting.

The RAC was BACK!

The RAC was rocking tonight, wasn’t next to any Purdue fans but I can only imagine their faces once Ron drilled the game winner! Enjoy your night and the win!

 

[Scangg]

It was sooooo close to classic heartbreaking loss too

 

[leftoright]

Knights outplayed the no.1 team. Get Geo and Hyatt back and away we go.

 

[RUsojo]

Felt good

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

WE finally give the much deserved dagger for a win, and if not for a few minutes in the second half, we out played a tough Purdue team.

I was surrounded by Purdue fans! You fools who didn’t come need to just give up your seats! My voice is gone, but so proud of the fight and Jersey toughness.

No Hyatt tonight, and I think Pike has found a nice combo with Mag starting.

The RAC was BACK!

Kudos to the fans at the RAC.. on TV, from a thousand miles away these days, I could hear Purdue fans cheering at times but rarely.. you guys were in it all the way and, in my book, really affected the game.

You deserved a court-storming after that and if you checked out this board this week and saw the thread talking about the best-ranked teams we came close against.. or beat... this game went straight to the top of the heap.

Rutgers has played basketball for 115 years including this season and that means many Rutgers fans lived and died without having seen Rutgers beat the top-ranked team.

You guys there now define the elite Rutgers RAC JAMC experience as does every Rutgers fan who watched the game tonight on TV or merely rooted for the victory.. to a lesser extent of course.

Well done and thank you for helping make it possible.

 

[FastMJ]

I was surrounded by about 40% Purdue fans. Pissed me off

 

[SBP]

I was surrounded by about 40% Purdue fans. Pissed me off

Upper 200s right?

 

[ColonelRutgers]

Hyatt played but didn’t really contribute. Was also one of the players who had been battling the flu.

 

[FastMJ]

Upper 200s right?

306 nosebleeds

 

[wheezer]

there were quite a few

it appeared the Purdue fans were confident, if not cocky

saw a number of selfies being taken around the arena, smiling away, no slinking about from them

there were 2 Purdue fans behind me that would make various comments, like "here we go", once then got a couple of buckets in a row.....and look, we only hit x three pointers out of 20 attempts and we are still up eight, etc....

that kind of stuff IS fair enough, if discussed between them and I don't have to hear it

I did turn around when we got the score down to about 4 down, and told the guy, "I just want you guys to have to sweat it"

they took that good well enough...... when we took the one point lead, the guy said to me, yes, I am sweating it

the game winner resulted in a very stunned look on their faces

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

there were quite a few

it appeared the Purdue fans were confident, if not cocky

saw a number of selfies being taken around the arena, smiling away, no slinking about from them

there were 2 Purdue fans behind me that would make various comments, like "here we go", once then got a couple of buckets in a row.....and look, we only hit x three pointers out of 20 attempts and we are still up eight, etc....

that kind of stuff IS fair enough, if discussed between them and I don't have to hear it

I did turn around when we got the score down to about 4 down, and told the guy, "I just want you guys to have to sweat it"

they took that good well enough...... when we took the one point lead, the guy said to me, yes, I am sweating it

the game winner resulted in a very stunned look on their faces

Sounds like a Syracuse fan that we always tried to convince to come to games with us... whenever he showed up, Syracuse lost to Rutgers... football or basketball.. did not matter.

He stopped coming to games.

But that first time.. you could tell he was expecting a sure victory.. then was shocked at how loud it got.. it is almost as if no first-time visitor expects a Rutgers team to be well supported by fans... because, ya know, we're Rutgers...

 

[RUDave_01]

I had a couple of Purdue fans behind me in 204, who were really respectful the entire game. After Ron hits his shot, they were stunned, but one of them actually started clapping like he was honoring the performances of both teams. That's a class act.

 

[Rokodesh]

I had a couple of Purdue fans behind me in 204, who were really respectful the entire game. After Ron hits his shot, they were stunned, but one of them actually started clapping like he was honoring the performances of both teams. That's a class act.

I don't think I could do that if Purdue won like that lol

 

[RV-GORU]

Upper 200s right?

Row M in 200s surrounded by Purdue fans

 

[Letitrip]

This board never disappoints. I was in 206 and there were a handful of Purdue fan in the RAC and that included the usual front runners who live in NJ and show up whenever a visiting team gets hot. Trust me - the RAC was on fire and the few Purdue fans were irrelevant.

 

[Letitrip]

Row M in 200s surrounded by Purdue fans

BullXXXX

 

[tychicus.]

You guys so mercurial

 

[Letitrip]

It was sooooo close to classic heartbreaking loss too

Loser post

 

[S_Janowski]

I had a couple of Purdue fans behind me in 204, who were really respectful the entire game. After Ron hits his shot, they were stunned, but one of them actually started clapping like he was honoring the performances of both teams. That's a class act.

For the amount of Purdue fans around me in the 200s (prob 40% of my section) they were very quiet all game.

Not even close to obnoxious like a lot of other BIG10 fan bases are when the visit.

Seemed like a good bunch of people.

 

[Letitrip]

For the amount of Purdue fans around me in the 200s (prob 40% of my section) they were very quiet all game.

Not even close to obnoxious like a lot of other BIG10 fan bases are when the visit.

Seemed like a good bunch of people.

what arena were you in - I was in the 200's and there were not 40 percent P fans there - you are either smoking or just negative. why post this nonsense

 

[BigEastPhil]

Not many Purdue fans near me in the 100s however those that were near me were quite respectful. I’m cool with that not like the Cuse /UConn scum.

 

[GORU2014]

For the amount of Purdue fans around me in the 200s (prob 40% of my section) they were very quiet all game.

Not even close to obnoxious like a lot of other BIG10 fan bases are when the visit.

Seemed like a good bunch of people.

Didn’t notice anywhere close to that but regardless, agree about their fanbase. Pretty shocking seeing the difference between them and Indiana

 

[Joey Bags]

You guys so mercurial

Do you get a free bowl of soup with that vocabulary?

 

[RU848789]

Only a few quiet ones in 102, but over in 103 I could see several really loud PU fans in the first few rows getting into it with some RU fans and I thought security was going to have to come over. Would've loved to have been there to shut them up at the end.

 

[S_Janowski]

what arena were you in - I was in the 200's and there were not 40 percent P fans there - you are either smoking or just negative. why post this nonsense

The 6-8 rows behind me in 213 were a majority Purdue fans. They were actually very subdued all game - I don’t think people realize how many they had there.

Maybe it wasn’t like this in every 200 section but there were a lot in 212/213.

 

[anon_ivydyf0amkzay]

You guys so mercurial

Nice…good word!!

 

[29PAS]

For the amount of Purdue fans around me in the 200s (prob 40% of my section) they were very quiet all game.

Not even close to obnoxious like a lot of other BIG10 fan bases are when the visit.

Seemed like a good bunch of people.

Glad to hear Purdue fans were ok. Wisconsin fans are the worst, imo.

 

[FastMJ]

Glad to hear Purdue fans were ok. Wisconsin fans are the worst, imo.

Syracuse fans are the worst in sports....PSU worst in Big Ten.

 

[RUHouston]

I'm jealous of y'all for being there since I had to watch from Texas...but I take solace in having been there for the A-10 game in '89 (my profile pic is from the game before in the Palestra in the A-10 Tourney after we beat Temple..)

Anyway, it was a GREAT thing to watch on TV and you could hear how loud it was!

By the way, the Jaden Ivey windmill was SICK...props on that to that young man..it was fun to watch (and didn't cost us in the end...)

 

[rob kight]

Aside from the win, it was just a great basketball game. A classic boxing match including lousy referees which in spite of- the deserving team won.

 

[G- RUnit]

Purdue fans are a classy bunch. No problem at all with them.

 

[Pancho1939_rivals]

You could easily explain this away as Rutgers getting lucky by pulling this out with a pretty lucky shot but how many times has this happened to us. The Iowa buzzer beater stands out most for me. At end of day we put ourselves in a position to win and won. Great job but team

 

[SBP]

Row M in 200s surrounded by Purdue fans

I’m in row O

 

[GoodOl'Rutgers]

The 6-8 rows behind me in 213 were a majority Purdue fans. They were actually very subdued all game - I don’t think people realize how many they had there.

Maybe it wasn’t like this in every 200 section but there were a lot in 212/213.

I gave you some crap about your "suck it" and "stfu" posts in another thread.. but I have to back you up on the number of Purdue fans and I wasn't there... I HEARD THEM on TV pretty clearly... not that they had much to cheer until the beginning of the second half.

Bottom line.. it was obvious to TV viewers with reasonable hearing that the visiting team got some unexpected cheers when they got to that 8-10 point or so lead.

I don't know why people here are pretending there were very few Purdue fans there.

 

[S_Janowski]

Glad to hear Purdue fans were ok. Wisconsin fans are the worst, imo.

Yep Michigan fans also are obnoxious.

 

[Loyal-Son]

Purdue fans are a classy bunch. No problem at all with them.

WRONG!

Good for you. You happened to have some classy fans sit near you.

We had at least a dozen sitting in the row behind us. They "Boiler-upped" throughout the game. After every positive Purdue play they literally screamed with delight. One woman even drew a cartoon before the game showing a Purdue boilermaker hammering a scarlet knight into submission. She waited until the point when they were 10 points ahead to break it out and show it to all of us.

We seldom get the last laugh on obnoxious opposing fans, so this result felt extra good.

Like any fanbase, there are ***-hats and quality people. There just seemed to be more of the former in our section - maybe the worst set of opposing fans I have encountered at the RAC.

 

[SirPerceval]

And before we start accusing our own fans of dumping their tickets, there have been a lot of open seats in the 200s all year that are either owned by brokers or sold by RU though some deal with Stub Hub.