With the match more than an hour away, the Green Lot immediately next to the RAC was already half full. There was a steady stream of fans walking toward the building. The gates were supposedly going to open at 1:00, an hour before the match, but by 12:30, there were people already inside the building.
It was a sellout (8,319) against the No. 1 team in the country, the first in Rutgers history. Coach Scott Goodale understood how good Penn State was and may have thought about the potential buzzsaw his No. 18 Knights were facing when he said earlier in the week that it isn’t about the wins and losses but about wrestling tough in every match.