Tariq Francis set to return to Rutgers Basketball for 2026-27 season
Rutgers Basketball locked down another returnee of the offseason, as guard Tariq Francis announces his return for the 2026-27 season.
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Tariq Francis set to return to Rutgers Basketball for 2026-27 season
Rutgers Basketball locked down another returnee of the offseason, as guard Tariq Francis announces his return for the 2026-27 season.www.on3.com
Good news. Despite his limitations, he was RU's best offensive player by a significant margin last season. And, with RU's budget, I do not see them getting a better guard in the portal while also addressing the front court.Tariq Francis set to return to Rutgers Basketball for 2026-27 season
Rutgers Basketball locked down another returnee of the offseason, as guard Tariq Francis announces his return for the 2026-27 season.
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Some may disagree , but I like what appears to be our backcourt rotation of :
Mark and Francis
J Mike
Powers
Duarte and Wooten
Now get to work on the front court
Mark and Francis
J Mike
Powers
Duarte and Wooten
Now get to work on the front court
We’re in line to return 36.5 ppg of offensive production from our guard room and we have a frosh coming in who by all counts is coming off a great senior year. If we add another piece to the backcourt later great but this is about the best we could’ve hoped for.
Provided we get a real frontcourt. let’s see.
I would be surprised if they land another quality guard at this point. Go all in at center and forward.
I think whether this is OK or not completely depends on how much of our salary budget we had to spend to get to this point. This is potentially a serviceable but budget backcourt. So if we signed these players frugally so we can focus on frontcout players, then it's OK. If we had to spend half our budget to get to this point, it's not OK.
Without ever getting the exact figures we’ll know that answer soon based on who we bring in
at this point looking for any signs of life by getting even ONE legit big man
And now the real work begins. Wonder how much $$$ we have left at our disposal.
This is the thing many (maybe even including Pike and GM Smith?) seem to miss.
I can't wait until we bring in underwhelming frontcourt starters because we already spent money on the backcourt bench.
"Ya, we have no serviceable frontcourt players but....look at how great Wooten, Durate and Powers are sitting on the bench."
Wooten is a frosh who I really believe could actually turn out to be good from day one. He’s worth the 100K or whatever we’re paying in my opinion. First guard with a scouting report that says good at D in a long time and dropped 29 ppg this year. agree on Duarte. Don’t get that one at all. Powers hasn’t signed yet so…. We’ll see.
Agreed. Duarte feels more unnecessary than ever. I’m confused as to why we added him. But then, I really hated the staff decision to add TF so maybe this will turn out like that.
