In 2014-15, the Rutgers Men's Track & Field team came in 12th at the Big Ten Indoor Championships. Twelfth.... out of 12 teams. The team scored two points. It was 35 points behind 11th place Purdue. Thirty-five points!
Fast forward to last weekend. The 2015-16 version of RU's men's team finished in ninth place, scoring 40 points. The team was ten points behind eighth place Iowa and two points ahead of Illinois. There were two individual champions as Corey Crawford won gold in the long jump and Izaiah Brown won the 400 meter in school record time.