Imagine, if you will, that there wasn’t a five game losing streak in the middle of the season. Instead, picture those losses spaced out during the schedule. Rutgers never goes into a big slide—and instead of big win streaks and big losing streaks, the schedule and results are just kind of... normal... for a good team.
Because that is what Rutgers is—a good team. And the reaction to their past two wins have been ridiculous—as if they were thirty point blowout losses.
The problem, however, has been with the fanbase. A tortured group that hasn’t seen basketball success in 30 years, only to have it tragically ripped out from under them last year because of a global pandemic.