A lot was made about how bad Rutgers was before the game as the Scarlet Knights came into it at 0-14 in the conference and facing historic struggles. I was actually pretty excited to see how bad they were. But for much of the first half it looked like the Gophers might actually be on par with them in the crap department.
But then Rutgers took it into overdrive. Playing with just six scholarship players, the Gophers basically ran circles around them in the second half, stretching a one-point lead to double digits in no time and culminating in an 83-61 blowout.