It's not much, but it's something.
Rutgers will gladly take it.
If the Scarlet Knights beat Illinois in Sunday's Senior Day game at the Rutgers Athletics Center in Piscataway, they will avoid finishing last in the Big Ten for the first time since they joined the league. It doesn't sound like much, but when you are picked to finish 14th, dead-last, in the conference preseason poll and you now have a shot to secure a tie for 11th, the desire is understandable.
"It would be a great jump. We could really move up into a tie with Minnesota into the 11th mark.