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[QUOTE="Scangg, post: 3634081, member: 7946"]
Hoping for a good game and both teams bring it for some quality bball. Both teams first real P5 test.

A lot of concern from Rutgers board about facing the zone since we are a poor outside shooting team and we won't have our senior leader Geo Baker. Syracuse is missing 2 starters and on the road so that seems like a bigger hurdle to me as Rutgers did pretty well last season when Baker missed some time.

If we have a rare good 3 point shooting night then we are really tough to beat, but I think this game will be decided by how well RU can attack the interior of the zone. This will largely fall to how well Mulcahy plays at the FT line of the zone. 6'7 pass first PG with excellent vision. He really doesn't look for his own offense a lot so it will be interesting to see how aggressive he is from that spot and how Syracuse chooses to defend it. He will ideally look to dump it down to Cliff Myles or Harper from there for some dunks and lobs but can get caught overpassing when he needs to look to score

Another major key will be rebounding. Rutgers excels when we relentlessly attack the rim and offensive glass.

Transition D. Rutgers looks to get out and run. RU half court offense can struggle at times. When Young gets going in transition he is almost impossible to stop and he brings the energy the entire team feeds off of... if you can limit Young in transition it will put more pressure on RU to execute in the half court
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