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Big Ten Basketball: 5 bold predictions for 2020-21 season

By Trevor Sinodhinos

COLLEGE PARK, MD - JANUARY 28: The Big Ten logo on the basketball court at the Xfinity Center on January 28, 2018 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by G Fiume/Maryland Terrapins/Getty Images)
COLLEGE PARK, MD - JANUARY 28: The Big Ten logo on the basketball court at the Xfinity Center on January 28, 2018 in College Park, Maryland. (Photo by G Fiume/Maryland Terrapins/Getty Images) /
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MADISON, WISCONSIN – FEBRUARY 23: Ron Harper Jr. #24 of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images)
MADISON, WISCONSIN – FEBRUARY 23: Ron Harper Jr. #24 of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights (Photo by Dylan Buell/Getty Images) /

Rutgers best in-conference winning percentage since 1990-91

The last time Rutgers Basketball finished a season with a conference winning percentage better than .700, Keith Hughes averaged 21 points per game as the ninth-seeded Scarlet Knights lost in the first round to Arizona State in 1991.

The 1990-91 season would also mark the last time the Scarlet Knights ended the season with a winning conference record as well as earn an invitation to the tournament. That was when they played in the Atlantic Ten, those stretches of futility will come to an end next season in the Big Ten.

The Scarlet Knights finished 11-9 last season in the Big Ten and finished the season ranked No.24 in the nation. Regardless of their performance in the Big Ten tournament, the Scarlet Knights were going to participate in their first tournament in 30 years. It took a global pandemic and the cancelation of the NCAA tournament as a whole, to prevent Rutgers from making history.

The 2002-21 season will not only see the Scarlet Knights participate in the tournament, but the new season will also see Geo Baker and Ron Harper Jr. lead the Knights to a conference winning percentage of at least .700.

Nobody knows exactly how each team’s schedule will look, but there will be a focus on the in-conference games If the Scarlet Knights play 20 conference games as they did last year, they will not be losing more than six.

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