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Rutgers Gymnastics Reloads With a Three-Gymnast Class After a Record-Breaking Season
For a Rutgers Gymnastics program that just posted the highest team ranking in its history, the natural question is how to keep chopping towards an even stronger future. Part of the answer is already on its way to Piscataway as the Scarlet Knights will welcome a three-gymnast class for the 2026-27 season. This will be […]
Big Ten Announces Game Times for First Half of Rutgers’ Football Season
Several Rutgers football games for the 2026 season had their game times announced as part of a special run by the Big Ten conference and its television partners. The Scarlet Knights will open up the 2026 season at home with a 6:00 pm ET kickoff against UMASS, which is coached by former Rutgers DC Joe […]
What to do with baseball….and other sports. Next steps?
Rutgers Baseball bowed out of the Big Ten Baseball Tournament early, with two consecutive losses. That followed a must-win series win over Northwestern just to get in. The team earned the 10-seed, but left Omaha quickly. The short time in Nebraska led to a few comments on various sites, including here, as to whether this […]
Rutgers Women’s Rowing Heads Down to Georgia for NCAA Championships
Rutgers Women’s Rowing is looking for its best national finish in program history as it heads down to Lake Lanier Olympic Park in Gainesville, Georgia, this weekend to compete in the NCAA Championships for the seventh consecutive season. Their 7 consecutive appearances in the national competition is the longest active postseason streak in the athletic […]
Rutgers makes the expanded 24-team CFP….twice….sorta
Matt Brown is a managing editor for The Athletic College Football. He also created a site called Extra Points, a newsletter that he describes as covering “off-the-field stuff in college sports”. Right up my alley. Hold that thought. There’s been a lot of discussion lately about expanding the just-two-year old CFB from its current 12 […]
Rutgers Athletics Named Finalist for 2026 Community Service Award
Rutgers Athletics has been named one of the five finalists for the 2026 Community Service Award, presented by the Fiesta Bowl. The announcement came via the National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics (NACDA) and is designed to recognize Division I athletics departments that prioritize volunteerism and community service. Rutgers Athletics has supported a wide […]
Four best teams in B1G earning bids to NCAA baseball tourney
UCLA won the B1G Baseball Tournament and received the conference’s automatic berth. They will be joined by Oregon, Nebraska and USC, each receiving at-large berths into the 64-team field. UCLA, Oregon and Nebraska will each host regionals. The Men’s College World Series takes place June 12-22 at Charles Schwab Field Omaha in Omaha, Neb. Rutgets’ […]
Will Rutgers Sports Be Better in 2026-2027 After Rough 2025-2026 Campaign?
In a recent article by Zach Barnett of FootballScoop.com, he pointed out that Rutgers Athletics has missed the postseason in every single sport that his site covers: football, men’s basketball, women’s basketball, softball, baseball, and volleyball, being the only Power Four school to do so last season. The article itself is an overall tough read […]
Big Ten coach makes bold prediction about Greg Schiano at Rutgers
Greg Schiano is entering year seven during his second stint at Rutgers. The Scarlet Knights brought Schiano back ahead of the 2020 season to help bring the program back to relevance after an era under Chris Ash that will be remembered as one of the worst of all-time. After a disappointing 2025 season, there are […]
Women’s Hoops: Twins, Tate, & a triumphant trajectory
William Tate IV is appointed as President of Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. That event is shortly followed by the appointment of Keli Zinn as athletic director. Then, following the basketball season, Coquese Washington is let go and Gary Redus II is hired. Key point? They were all last employed by LSU. They […]
A day of remembrance
I entered Rutgers in the fall of 1969. It was a turbulent time in our nation with the Vietnam War taking the lede on the evening news. It became even more tumultuous in the spring of my first year when the University went on strike following the military incursion into Cambodia. There I was, standing […]
Rutgers AD Keli Zinn Discusses Aid to Olympic Sports Programs at the Scarlet Table
Recently, Rutgers athletic director Keli Zinn filmed a podcast with Chris Carlin and University President William Tate IV, where she had the opportunity to discuss several happenings in the athletic department. One topic discussed on the podcast was scholarship and NIL aid for various Olympic sports on campus. The first and most significant thing she mentioned was […]
A Brief Facilities Update From the Scarlet Table
Recently, Rutgers athletic director Keli Zinn filmed a podcast with Chris Carlin and University President William Tate IV, where she had the opportunity to discuss several happenings in the athletic department. One topic that was discussed was capital improvements and renovations to the various Rutgers athletic facilities, and improvements to the fan experience on top […]
Rutgers Baseball: Three Scarlet Knights Announce Intentions to Transfer
The college baseball transfer portal is a week away from opening, and three Scarlet Knights have already made clear their intentions to transfer, according to The Knight Report. Unlike the Basketball and Football transfer portals, the college baseball transfer portal window is much longer, opening on Monday, June 1st, and closing on Tuesday, June 30th. […]
Bucknell Transfer Hope Masonius Commits to Rutgers Women’s Basketball
Rutgers women’s basketball has struck again in the transfer portal. This time, they have successfully brought home another New Jersey talent to represent their home state on the hardwood, as former Bucknell guard and Spring Lake, NJ, native Hope Masonius announced her commitment to the Scarlet Knights on her social media. Masonius spent the last […]
Rutgers Track and Field Sends Program Record 28 Athletes to NCAA East First Round
Rutgers Outdoor Track and Field will send a program record 28 Athletes to the NCAA East first round, which is being hosted in Lexington, Kentucky, on Wednesday, May 27th- Saturday, May 30th. Qualifiers from the East First Round will compete in the NCAA Outdoor Championships, held June 10-13 in Eugene, Oregon. The event will be […]
Rutgers Football Recruiting Weekend Preview: 5/29/2026
The first of Rutgers three major official visit weekends is just under a week away. The hope for the Rutgers coaching staff is that they will secure commitments from those recruits they have eyed the most and convince them to shut down their recruitment as well. The staff has been known to use the Jersey […]
Scarlet Table: another sit down with Tate & Keli
Chris Carlin is back with the second edition of Scarlet Table, a sit down with University President William Tate IV and AD Keli Zinn. Depending on your perspective, watching this will either make you excited about the future of Rutgers Athletics or sick at how previous administrations (maxbe one in particular that rhymes with cobs) […]
Reviewing Rutgers Facilities: Renovating the Basketball Arena Pt2
Rutgers athletics has seemingly always been playing a game of catch-up with its facilities, with a decent amount of work that still needs to be done to bring the university’s facilities to the same level as the rest of the Big Ten. Our last article in this series talked about what sort of renovations need […]
How Rutgers Sports Brings The Campus Together
Rutgers is a massive university. Spread across multiple locations statewide, packed with residential buildings, classrooms, and thousands of students constantly moving from one obligation to the next, it can sometimes feel less like one unified school and more like multitudes of different student experiences existing side by side. Even the New Brunswick campus alone is […]
Rutgers Basketball vs Houston Set For Round 1 of Players Era 8 Bracket
The first opponent for Rutgers basketball in the Players Era Tournament has been announced, as they are now scheduled to play Houston on November 17th, 2026, for the tournament’s opening round, according to Jon Rothstein of CBS Sports. Houston and Rutgers have squared off once before in the Steve Pikiell era. In 2021, both teams […]
Former Rutgers star duo headlines NBA All-Rookie Teams
Rutgers welcomed a historic recruiting class in 2024 and it became clear that the star duo of Dylan Harper and Ace Bailey would become great at the next level. Both Harper and Bailey would become top-five picks after spending one year at Rutgers. After successful rookie years, the former Scarlet Knights were selected to All-NBA […]
Transfer Long Snapper Talan Shields Commits to Rutgers Football
Rutgers football has added a new long snapper to its roster, as former Southeastern long Snapper Talan Shields has committed to the Scarlet Knights. His commitment comes not too long after he made the trip up to campus on May 11th, according to The Knight Report. Shields did not play during his one season at […]
Rutgers Wrestling Adds Former Penn 141 pounder Kelly Dunnigan in the Transfer Portal
A former New Jersey high school wrestler is returning home to represent their home state university on the mat, as Rutgers has landed Pennsylvania 141-pounder Kelly Dunnigan in the transfer portal, according to The Knight Report. Dunnigan hails from Waldwick, New Jersey, and wrestled for Don Bosco Prep (NJ) in high school for four years, […]
Rutgers Baseball ends season in Big Ten Tournament with loss to Ohio State
The Scarlet Knights entered a must-win game on Wednesday to keep its season alive in the Big Ten Tournament. Rutgers got a strong start on the mound — and rallied to take a lead late — but could not pull it out in the end. Rutgers fell to Ohio State, 3-2, at Charles Schwab Field […]
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