Poll: The last time Rutgers was ranked...

[RUDave_01]

I'm curious as to how many fans on here were cheering for the team back in 1979 vs the younger crowd.

I was just an infant at the time.

 

[ScarletteK80]

I begrudgingly checked my answer.

 

[MV9000]

born in 92'. Was not close to a thought at the time lol.

 

[knight82]

My freshman year at RU

 

[wisr01]

Fan since 1975-76. I was 11 years old and the star from my HS team began his career at Rutgers. His name....Rutgers HOFer Abdel Anderson. I was the ball boy for that team and Coach Grasso was a good friend of my Dad's. It is also where I first met Mike Lamberti who has been writing about local HS sports since then...

 

[Scarlet Blind_rivals]

Born in 1975 so I was 3 almost turning 4 at the time of the last AP poll in 1979

 

[DHajekRC84]

I'm curious as to how many fans on here were cheering for the team back in 1979 vs the younger crowd.

I was just an infant at the time.

You missed the option of being a student sitting mid court on then bench seats down low in 100s. While beating Louis Orr and cuse on ECAC NBC game of the week!

 

[overnout57]

I was a junior at Rutgers and saw the glory days and seeing them rekindled now is awesome.

 

[bethlehemfan]

We really should have gone to the sweet sixteen that year.

 

[ChrisNalwasky]

I was -2 years old haha

 

[ClassOf02v.2]

This all depends. What month were we ranked? I was born in August 1979.

 

[RUDave_01]

@ClassOf02 - I think it was an end of season poll from the 1978-79 year, so probably around March of '79.

 

[DirtyRU]

I was -2 years old haha

I was +2, ha.

 

[S.W.A.I.N]

Fan since Littlepage...just been walking around work shaking my head in disbelief/excitement/joy/anxiety. This is R time.

 

[DHajekRC84]

This poll explains A LOT if the results continue to trend this way.

 

[RU_Travesty]

My parents were 12

 

[FELONIOUSMONK]

Sitting in Southern Roots BBQ in North Charleston.The ESPN crawl just went by with us 24 .I cried.

 

[RUBigFrank]

Was in Greensboro when we lost to the Redmen in the East Regional semis.

 

[wisr01]

Fan since Littlepage...just been walking around work shaking my head in disbelief/excitement/joy/anxiety. This is R time.

Littlepage was the original Great Satan to me. So bad it was stunning. He ruined the end of my college years. Then came along Terry Shea and made Littlepage look like just a minion. Then we were hit with a Flood and everything burned to Ash.

But Pike and Schiano are here and I am feeling better than ever.

 

[RUnTeX]

My parents were 12

Waiting for a high schooler to post that his/her parents were not born yet!

 

[RutHut_rivals]

Was a big Sixers fan. We had this wood chandelier thing in our living/dining room and I'd role up a sock and finger role it into the thing like I was Dr. J or Doug Collins or something. Made up my own leagues and keep track of with stats, etc. Did the same thing with baseball with a tennis ball against the porch. The Phils or Sixers would win more often then not.

 

[ColonelRutgers]

Things are a little bit different than back then:

 

[ruman]

We really should have gone to the sweet sixteen that year.

We lost to SJU in the Sweet 16 in 79. Beat Georgetown in first round. Tourney was only 32 teams back then. Was in HS but was a big RU fan

 

[czxqa]

I was ten, we were all about Cosmos soccer

 

[bethlehemfan]

We lost to SJU in the Sweet 16 in 79. Beat Georgetown in first round. Tourney was only 32 teams in back then. Was in HS but was a big RU fan

You know you’re right. I meant final 4. Believe Penn went. We would have beaten them

 

[gef21]

I was born in 1985. Threw up in the river dorms when I was 4 with my baby sitter.

 

[ecojew]

We really should have gone to the sweet sixteen that year.

We lost in the Sweet 16. Had we managed to defeat St. John's for the 3rd time that year, we would have faced UPenn in the east regional final for a berth in the FF. We were oh sooo close.

Back then, there was relatively little TV and fans had to beg the local NY stations to televise the game, which one of them (Channel 9?) did. So I recall watching St. John's big man dominate the last few minutes of the game to seal the victory. IIRC, RU led most of the way. Anyone recall if Jammin James was in foul trouble?

 

[bethlehemfan]

We lost in the Sweet 16. Had we managed to defeat St. John's for the 3rd time that year, we would have faced UPenn in the east regional final for a berth in the FF. We were oh sooo close.

Yep just realized that when someone else corrected me above.

 

[RUBigFrank]

Lost on a Wayne McCoy tip-in - RU beat the Johnies twice in the regular season.

 

[Scarlet1984]

My parents were 12

Haha. Don’t rub it in.

 

[bac2therac]

I was 9. Even though i followed RU football and attended the Alabama game at Giants Stadium. I hadnt discovered college hoops yet. It would take a couple more years til i discovered college hoops but do remember watching RU play SW Louisiana in the NCAA tourney on tv in in 83

 

[Scarlet1984]

I was 9. Even though i followed RU football and attended the Alabama game at Giants Stadium. I hadnt discovered college hoops yet. It would take a couple more years til i discovered college hoops but do remember watching RU play SW Louisiana in the NCAA tourney on tv in in 83

I was just reminiscing about the SW Louisiana win (followed by another loss to St. John’s in the tournament). A few of us drove back and forth to Hartford from NB for both games. I was chatting with my friend about it. So long ago the memories get vague.