Thanks to a sensational effort by Corey Sanders, Rutgers lived for another day in the conference tourney thanks to a 65-54 victory over Minnesota before a mostly Scarlet-clad crowd of 14,681 at Madison Square Garden.
With the win, 14th-seeded Rutgers (14-18) advances to face 6th-seeded Indiana on Thursday night.
"I think sometimes teams look at the 14 (seed) and just think that they're going to come in (and) it's going to be an easy win for them,'' Sanders said. "But we know this is the type of team that's going to fight hard through all the adversity and all the hard times, and we're going to fight.