Rutgers opened the 2020-2021 season with a commanding 86-63 victory over Sacred Heart on Wednesday night in front of no fans at the RAC due to COVID-19. The most important thing is basketball is back, no matter how strange conditions.
Head coach Steve Pikiell’s opening comments in the postgame press conference brought that reality to the forefront. He said, “I’m real thankful for Sacred Heart, Coach (Anthony) Latina for going through all the protocols to play this game today, they were awesome. I wanna really thank our medical team, Doctor Bershad, Doctor Womack, Rich Campbell, Pat Hobbs for all that went into playing a basketball game today.