Rutgers is back in March Madness. 'It's meant to be,' the Rutgers star said after a nerve-wracking 48 hours.
on Sunday night, and unlike his confident teammates, Baker feared the worst.
Then, five minutes after the show began, it happened. “RUTGERS” popped up on the screen, and the look on Baker’s face was a combination of shock, relief and joy. He jumped out of his seat and hugged his longtime teammate, Luke Nathan, as tears filled his eyes. Let there be no doubt on this: Baker’s legacy would have been the same had the selection committee snubbed the Scarlet Knights entirely. He is one of the most important Rutgers athletes of the 21st Century, an under-recruited kid out of New Hampshire who came to Piscataway on a promise and helped build this program out of nothing.
While he never wavered in that belief, Pikiell still gathered his players together before the watch party and told them to prepare for the worst. He wanted this moment to gather everyone around his program together — a moment that COVID stole last March — even with the risk of having CBS broadcasting their disappointment.
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