20 wins or bust

[RUwishbone]

Still on course for the dance, Saturday is a need to win game or its do or die in the next home game vs. Purdue

 

[read option]

I think somehow, someway we’ll need one win in the B1G tournament to lock up a spot in the big dance.

 

[RUJMM78]

The parity in the B1G makes it difficult to predict the number of wins necessary for a NCAA bid.I expect the majority of B1G teams to have 10 or more losses because of the difficulty winning on the road.

 

[gordel1]

No question 19 will do it as long as RU beats Nebraska and NW.

 

[RUinPAC10land]

18 wins- 40/60
19 wins- 50/50
20 wins- 60/40
21 wins- 75/25
22 wins- 100%!

 

[RutgersNYCB1G]

Not to sound unconvinced but 20 wins guarantees us nothing...you saw today how we are still perceived in the media and in the eyes of some coaches as a fluke ...that is a fair assessment based upon Rutgers past history... if we are at 20 wins and somebody thinks padunk U is more deserving we can’t feign surprise until we win another 7-8 games ... then we can *****...Just Win Rutgers !!!!!!!!!!

Come on, man. We are ranked. 20 wins almost certainly gets us in as a Big Ten team and a feel-good story. My only concern is the lack of a quality road win.

 

[RUwishbone]

The break down holds as I see it.

Wins over Nebraska & Northwestern at home up to 2- bridge jumper games

A couple losses to Purdue & Maryland on the road- playing with house money games

A split of the Michigan games at MSG and home up to 3 got dealt 2 aces happy with a black jack and a loss for an overall win.

Take 2 of 3 home games vs. Illinois. Purdue and Maryland up to 5 – Need to make hay games and earn our keep

Find a road win at Iowa, Ohio State, Penn state or Wisconsin up to 6 – got dealt a 14 or 15 on 4 different hands and hoping for a good 6 or 7 to have a winning hand. Overtime losses mean nothing here it is still a loss.

status FEB 3
2 in the books on the plus side, 4 more wins for the invite

 

[PiscatawayMike]

RU found its way to 20 regular season wins.

Kudos to you, RuWishBone!

 

[RUBOB72]

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Come on, man. We are ranked. 20 wins almost certainly gets us in as a Big Ten team and a feel-good story. My only concern is the lack of a quality road win.

the 20 wins includes a win ( Caldwell College) which for all intensive purposes is a glorified high school ...that win does not count so we need to win 21 ...that means to be safe here...just beat those guys in maize and blue on Thursday... hey I am a died in the wool Rutgers person so I want this as much as anyone.

 

[RUwishbone]

looks like 20 wins is alock now

 

[RUwishbone]

if Indiana or Purdue fail to win another game i can see them getting picked ahead of Us

 

[BillyC80]

Here’s what I don’t understand about the Caldwell game. How is it any different than playing a D1 bottom feeder that we would have destroyed anyway? Would an extra Q4 win have mattered to our NET score?

The way I see it, we have 20 wins, of which 19 are D1 wins which are good enough to give us a NET ranking strong enough for the big dance.

 

[RU848789]

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the 20 wins includes a win ( Caldwell College) which for all intensive purposes is a glorified high school ...that win does not count so we need to win 21 ...that means to be safe here...just beat those guys in maize and blue on Thursday... hey I am a died in the wool Rutgers person so I want this as much as anyone.

Please stop - we are in. Period.

 

[RUBOB72]

Ok so we should make hotel reservations next Sunday night after the selection show got it. Like the weather things can change both negatively and positively. I saw the latest dumb *** thing is if we have a bad loss Thursday we ‘ re screwed.