Instead of coming out fired-up, Rutgers men’s basketball was flat on Sunday in a 45-43 home loss to Seton Hall. It was a difficult performance and one that left Big Ten Network analyst Raphael Davis feeling a bit underwhelmed by Rutgers.
(And Davis was surprised by this Rutgers loss as he expected to be fully whelmed by Rutgers).
Davis, a former captain at Purdue who was the Big Ten’s Defensive Player of the Year in 2015, was surprised that Rutgers didn’t perform better on Sunday. Rutgers was coming off a midweek loss at Ohio State that was marred by a last-second missed call in favor of the Buckeyes.
It was a mistake that the Big Ten owned up to the following day.
On the Big Ten Network on Monday, host Dave Revsine posited that “I do wonder too whether the Ohio State game beat them twice to an extent.”
“A little bit of it and I’d maybe give that to a younger team, inexperience. But with those three guys with Cliff, Caleb and Paul – they’ve seen it all in college basketball,” Davis said on the Big Ten Network when asked by Revsine if the Ohio State game was a hangover effect for Rutgers.
“You take it back to the Iowa-Rutgers game…Ron Harper gets two free throws at the end of the game (that) maybe he shouldn’t have got. Iowa maybe felt like they should have won. So they’ve been in these close positions – referees maybe control the game.
“They should have been able to bounce back from that. They should have been able to go home, reset and figure out a way to prove why we deserve that one and why we deserve more going forward.”
Rutgers has lost consecutive games for the first time all season and is now 6-4 (1-1 Big Ten). They face 7-3 Wake Forest on Saturday at Jersey Mike’s Arena.
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