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NiTeKnight

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Was this the highest ranked team RU MBB has ever beaten on the road?
Maybe the final four team had a better road win?
Terrific win. So happy for the guys. Keep it up!
 
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NiTeKnight said:
Was this the highest ranked team RU MBB has ever beaten on the road?
Maybe the final four team had a better road win?
Terrific win. So happy for the guys. Keep it up!
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not the final 4 team, st johns might have been ranked somewhat when we played them at the garden, but
probably not in the top 15
 
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IIRC we were so close a few years back to taking out MSU when they were ranked 4th I think. Made a great comeback and Sanders missed a jumper at the buzzer to win and we lost in OT
 
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Maybe the highest ranked road team beaten, but Best, & most dramatic win on road over top 20 team was in 1975 at #17 LaSalle..(wKobe’s dad)..Rutgers down 15 with ten minutes to play, ended up winning by 14!.. I was there..
Lots of similarities with these wins, as that win showed that Rutgers had arrived. Got their first NCAA bid that year & nearly knocked off #3 Louisville in opening round.
Yesterday showed the country, that RU is an NCAA team....
 
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JavaDunk18 said:
Maybe the highest ranked road team beaten, but Best, & most dramatic win on road over top 20 team was in 1975 at #17 LaSalle..(wKobe’s dad)..Rutgers down 15 with ten minutes to play, ended up winning by 14!.. I was there..
Lots of similarities with these wins, as that win showed that Rutgers had arrived. Got their first NCAA bid that year & nearly knocked off #3 Louisville in opening round.
Yesterday showed the country, that RU is an NCAA team....
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That game was at the Palestra. I recall watching it on TV. And I remember Mike Dabney in the post-game interview, responding to a comment about the number of RU fans at the Palestra that night, saying "They love us up there." Love your "Kobe's dad" comment!

But that wasn't the 1975-76 undefeated season. It was the year before that and the first year of the regional ECAC tournaments to provide 3 auto-bids to eastern teams. So after the LaSalle win, RU went to the Garden (that's MSG, for those not in the know) and won its way into its first ever NCAA tournament, back when there were only 32 teams invited.
 
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JavaDunk18 said:
Maybe the highest ranked road team beaten, but Best, & most dramatic win on road over top 20 team was in 1975 at #17 LaSalle..(wKobe’s dad)..Rutgers down 15 with ten minutes to play, ended up winning by 14!.. I was there..
Lots of similarities with these wins, as that win showed that Rutgers had arrived. Got their first NCAA bid that year & nearly knocked off #3 Louisville in opening round.
Yesterday showed the country, that RU is an NCAA team....
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I remember -- that Lasalle team was my second favorite at the time because it had Charlie Wise from my high school. It was a team of nearly 100% Philly/South Jersey players and coaching staff. Because of that identity it had extra appeal where I grew up. I was pretty unpopular the next school day when I wore an RU shirt. That LaSalle team also had a lot of personality with Paul Westhead and his turtlenecks; JB, as they called him, being the first 6'10" guy we had ever seen to that point with a great handle; the Wise/Collier backcourt being the maybe quickest I have seen. They barely lost to Syracuse in OT in the NCAA first round, and 'Cuse went to the final four. The LaSalle media guide that year predicted that RU would be joining the "elite" of Eastern basketball. Have to give them credit for that prediction. https://digitalcommons.lasalle.edu/...&article=1017&context=basketball_media_guides
 
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Yes, as I mentioned it was the year before the final 4.. This was the year where Rutgers showed it had arrived. Starting From the opening upset win at Hawaii. Another huge win that year was beating that Syracuse team, that went to the Final 4, at Manley Field House. - ending a long home winning streak they had there. Sellers sinking the clinching free throws while getting pelted with orange peels..
 
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When Keith Hughes was a Junior we came really, really close to taking down #1 Missouri on the road.
 
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BigEastPhil said:
I remember that game. Talk about a shocker !
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And it was right after a RAC upset of top-20 Nova, IIRC. Hard to believe Fred Hill coached the last RU team before this year’s team to beat 2 ranked opponents in consecutive games.
 
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Rokodesh said:
I remember half the board was more worried about the color of Fred Hill's tie than beating a top 15 team on the road
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Sorry that worry read at his press conference. And it panned out
His lack of attention to many details and his lack of social skills did him in on many ways.
 
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Rokodesh said:
I remember half the board was more worried about the color of Fred Hill's tie than beating a top 15 team on the road
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Sorry that worry was about his press conference. And it panned out
His lack of attention to many details and his lack of social skills did him in on many ways.
 
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wheezer said:
not the final 4 team, st johns might have been ranked somewhat when we played them at the garden, but
probably not in the top 15
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I was at that game.

Reading some archives I see one site saying SJ was #14 and another that says #15.

But technically MSG was a neutral site for the ECAC tournament
 
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Phi_1055 said:
I was at that game.

Reading some archives I see one site saying SJ was #14 and another that says #15.

But technically MSG was a neutral site for the ECAC tournament
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technically yes....I don't remember if they were playing their regular home games at the garden yet, or still on campus

I was there, and it remains as one of my favorite games
 
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We won a few more in the 20-25 range but mainly focused on close results between 1-15,
95-96 @ Syracuse(14) 80-81
96-97 Won @Temple(16) 72-63
98-99 @ Miami(11) 63-68
07-08 Won @ Pitt(13) 77-64, Fred Hill, 5 in double digits, Reb- RU 36-33
FG 29-54, 3pt 9-14, 19 TOs, Pitt FG 27-70, 3pt 6-21, 16 O. Reb, 13 TOs
*08-09 played 5 consecutive ranked Dec 28-Jan 10(0-5)* neither road close
@ UNC(1), vs Pitt(3), @ UConn(2), vs Marquette(18), vs Cuse (11)
10-11 @ ND(9) 69-76
11-12 @ G'Town(10) 50-52, PF 29-14, held them 3 FGs, no 3s, RU 25-20 half
FG 20-53, 3pt 6-16 FT 4-7, G'Town FG 12-41, 3pt 3-14, FT 25-36

Pikiell years,
17-18 @ MSU(4) 72-76 OT
18-19 @ Wisc(12) 64-69
18-19 won @ Iowa(22) 86-72
19-20 @ Iowa(19) 80-85
19-20 @ Md(9) 51-56
19-20 @ PSU(16) 64-65
20-21 @ Michigan(3) 64-71
21-22 won @ Wisc(14) 73-65

People are still questioning his abilities as a coach.
 
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