This past Thursday, the No. 6 Rutgers Scarlet Knights field hockey team defeated No. 8 Maryland in a penalty shootout, 3-2. With the win, Rutgers improves to a perfect 10-0, 2-0 in the conference, while Maryland drops to 7-3, 0-1. The Scarlet Knights are the nation's only D1 undefeated field hockey squad after No. 1 Iowa fell to No. 10 Ohio State this past Friday.
This begs the question. Is Rutgers now a field hockey school? I admit that when I covered the field hockey team in the late 1980s for the Daily Targum, I had little knowledge of what I was watching.