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Amid March Sadness, Steve Pikiell and Rutgers Basketball Taught Fans a Lesson

“Enjoy the journey,” Steve Pikiell is fond of saying.

“You want to get to the end of the book. I love the first few chapters,” he said after Bryant.

Well, we are at the end of the book and Steve Pikiell has never been more right. The ending of this book sucks. There’s no way around that. The Big Ten Tournament was canceled about fifteen minutes before the Rutgers Michigan game was about to tip. They pulled the players off the court and now the NCAA Tournament h canceled as well.

Twenty-nine years after Rutgers last made the Big Dance, it looked like Rutgers was about to crash the party again.