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August 24, 2026: The Rutgers Scarlet Knights might be the only example in college athletics of a team that has done a complete 360 in under 10 years. This was a program that could barely collect 3 conference wins and a perennial conference loser (in every conference they’d been a part of) and joined the Big Ten to suddenly become a competitive team with winning seasons and NCAA tournament bids and wins only to give it all back and find themselves as one of the worst teams again in the league.

For whatever reason, Rutgers has very little donor support so it funds itself struggling in the new era of college athletics with the unlimited transfers and pay to play. Both of which seem to affect them more than other programs. And in the Big Ten this disadvantage really adds extra pressure almost assuring them of a future of struggle and failure. Will Pikiell stick around? Will the university fire probably the best coach in its history because of their lack of success? Many questions around this program and few of them positive.

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