Gary Waters nearly took Rutgers to the tournament in 2004. Waters’s replacement, Fred Hill Jr., was fired in 2010 for a profanity-laced tirade directed at Pittsburgh coaches at a Rutgers baseball game. Eddie Jordan, a star guard from the university’s 1976 Final Four team, took the job in 2013 after three unsuccessful stints as an N.B.A. When Jordan was fired, Rutgers had lost 33 of its previous 34 conference games, playing home games in half-empty arenas. tournament.

Source: New York Times March 21, 2021 03:56 UTC