Wearing their black uniforms to celebrate Black Friday, the Rutgers Scarlet Knights basketball team welcomed the University of Massachusetts Minutemen to the RAC for a 2 pm tip-off. The former Atlantic Ten foe had raced to a 5-0 record to begin the season but dropped two straight to Virginia and St. John’s since. Rutgers was looking to win their third straight.
Both squads started out slow, illustrated by RU breaking the UMass press four times in a row but coming away with just two points due to missed layups, bad passes, and overall lack of offensive flow in their secondary break.