Introduction:
This is it: The inflection point, the prove it year, whatever you want to call it.
The Rutgers University Men’s Basketball program has an opportunity to use this upcoming season as a stepping stone to becoming a certified blue blood. The vision is clear, given what would have been three consecutive trips to the big dance if it hadn’t been for COVID interrupting 2020, and New Jersey, as it often does, followed the results adoringly. Following this success at the birth of the decade, a tumultuous season full of injuries, poorly called games, and an offense whose speed, creativity, and execution often resembled that of I-95 on Labor Day weekend, all gave Scarlet Knights a mixed bag of projections by both the public and a handful of analysts for the upcoming season.