When — not if — Corey Sanders scores his third point Tuesday night against Fordham, the junior guard becomes the 42nd Scarlet Knight in program history to reach 1,000 career points. He then becomes the first Rutgers player to reach the mark since Kadeem Jack in 2015.
It took Sanders 72 games across two-and-a-half seasons to achieve the milestone, with plenty of twists and turns along the way.
He went from a highly-touted, four-star recruit who featured as the focal point — the John Wall, if you will — of Eddie Jordan’s Princeton offense and NBA coaching style to a crucial cog in Steve Pikiell’s high-motor, defense-and-rebounding hustle system.