PISCATAWAY -- Not long after he made an 11th-hour decision to withdraw his name from the 2017 NBA Draft and return to Rutgers for his junior campaign, Corey Sanders met with Ben Asher, the team's special assistant to head coach Steve Pikiell, and had an unusual request:
Sanders wanted a key to the Rutgers Athletic Center.
"Coach Pikiell is huge with encouraging guys to get in the gym and whether it's morning, noon or night he doesn't care as long as guys are in the gym,'' Asher recalled. "That's a good problem to have when a kid wants to get into the gym.