Twitter reacts to Rutgers basketball being left out of the NCAA Tournament
Rutgers basketball wasn’t part of ‘Selection Sunday’ in what was one of the most shocking twists of the NCAA Tournament bracket.
Despite holding a solid 18-13 regular season record (10-10 Big Ten) and advancing to the quarterfinals of the Big Ten Tournament, Rutgers was left out of the NCAA Tournament. This despite a number of at-large teams making it with far lesser resume credentials than the Scarlet Knights.
Following a difficult close to the regular season that included losses in three of their last four games, Rutgers seemed to right the ship during the Big Ten Tournament. In the conference tournament’s second round, Rutgers beat Michigan by double-digits. And then in the quarterfinals, they lost by five points to eventual champion Purdue.
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Their exclusion was a twist that no one saw coming. At worst, Rutgers seemed destined for a play-in game, not unlike last season.
The Rutgers omission left social media buzzing and Rutgers was trending on Twitter. Check out some of the top tweets about Rutgers being left out of the NCAA Tournament.
Danny Breslauer
Absolutely gutted.
It is likely #Rutgers entered the week dead to a Big Ten Tournament title, because it's clear the NCAA committee deemed that 4 Quad 3 losses was disqualifying.
Not even the first team out, so that's all you need to know.
Finality is crushing.#TheKnighthood
— Danny Breslauer (@DannyBreslauer) March 12, 2023
Tough argument
Comparing #Rutgers résumé to some of the other "bubble" teams, it's hard come to the conclusion that RU doesn't belong in the tournament (and avoiding Dayton). Based on the metrics that are supposed to help judge teams, RU is easily in pic.twitter.com/qlARJij9cY
— Mike Broadbent (@MikeBbent) March 10, 2023
Ron Harper Jr. feels for Caleb McConnell
Caleb don’t deserve this. Shame on the committee man this is crazy.
— Ron Harper Jr. (@__RHJR) March 12, 2023
NET Rankings were Net Zero for Rutgers basketball
Why even have the NET rankings if a team 27 spots behind us makes the tournament over us https://t.co/IWARGkzOEj
— TJ #CHOP 🪓 (@TJHitchings) March 12, 2023
It's NIT Time for Rutgers basketball
The committee is a joke #rutgers pic.twitter.com/VzvQdpJQd7
— BMBL (@The_BMBL) March 13, 2023
We think we got the reference...
Where #Rutgers thought they were going: Where the NCAAB Committee sent them: pic.twitter.com/wTLpuYPJwh
— Jacob T. Schmidt (@baseballjake8) March 12, 2023
The Bus heads to the NIT
The Selection Committee's First Four Out.#MarchMadness pic.twitter.com/w1qirGJjI6
— NCAA March Madness (@MarchMadnessMBB) March 12, 2023
Todd Frazier isn't holding back
Weird @RutgersMBB gets the RU screw again. All west coast teams get in (USC, Nevada, Arizona state) chris reynolds and company got it wrong once again. Ridiculous
— Todd Frazier (@FlavaFraz21) March 12, 2023
The math doesn't seem to add up on this one
This is the first time EVER a team that was in on 95% of https://t.co/JrhF3irrN7’s brackets is OUT of the field.
— Alec Crouthamel (@aleccr12) March 12, 2023
