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Minnesota Basketball: Previewing Rutgers

Iowa fans still aren’t shutting up about feeling wronged by a late call that happened to go against them, but now that the dust has long settled the season reset is this: the Gophers have won back-to-back games for the first time in a month and are clawing their way back up the Big Ten standings.

Standing in the way of a three-game winning streak is everyone’s favorite punching bag, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights. Yes, the Knights are 2-10 in the conference and losers of four of their last five, but they’ve had a bit of pep in their step the past few weeks and have been slugging it out with conference foes.