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Meet surging Rutgers women's basketball team: 13-2 start, 8-game win streak and a revenge tour

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You can divide the Rutgers women's basketball team into halves or thirds, but it won't stop adding victories.

With coach C. Vivian Stringer regularly going 10-12 deep on her roster, players affectionately call themselves Platoon One (the starters) and Platoon Two (the reserves).

Or you can look at as three mini-teams: The players who endured the embarrassment of last season's 6-24 record, the players who sat out last season as redshirts and the players who joined the fold this season.

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The units combined Thursday afternoon on a 58-50 victory against Purdue, which extended Rutgers' winning streak to eight straight games -- its longest within the same season since capturing nine in a row in 2013-14.