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[QUOTE="SURU, post: 3571027, member: 5817"]
Here’s my unsolicited breakdownas an RU season ticket holder.

Rutgers was ranked for a lot of the season last year and returns more than 80% of their minutes. They also added a top 50 center. They will almost definitely be ranked when they play Cuse

Their offense is not impressive at all (KP adjO 72). They ran iso sets more than any other Big Ten team and have a difficult time from 3 and the stripe. They are a very big team so they create a lot of matchup problems all over the floor but they are more athletic than skilled (tons of missed put backs and bunnies, bad shooting percentages). They only have one player in their rotation under 6’4”. Shouldn’t be much of a problem for Cuse as they are also longs. They normally take many more shots than their opponents due to superior rebounding. When Rutgers gets out rebounded they have a very tough time winning.

OTOH their defense is very very good (KP adjD 6). They play almost exclusively tight man D. They have multiple lockdown defenders and are great at rebounding. Their freshman center Cliff Omoruy is a plus athlete and defender but he can only score at the rim. The defense should be improved overall

Rutgers wins when the game is ugly and low scoring. They struggled against sharpshooters last season so this isn’t their best matchup. They were also great at the RAC (18-1) but that’s because of the crowd. An empty RAC won’t have the same advantage.

This could go either way honestly. Rutgers will be favored by a couple points in the metrics but it’s a total toss up IMO
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