The dominant forward led the 1975-76 Rutgers squad to an undefeated season and a trip to the Final Four.
That team, which lost to Michigan in a national semifinal, finished 31-2 and remains the gold standard for Scarlet Knights basketball.
Rutgers All-America forward Phil Sellers, right, gets a hug from teammate Jeff Kleinbaum after they beat Virginia Military Institute 91-75 in the NCAA East Regional championship basketball game in Greensboro, N.C., March 20, 1976.The talented Sellers had originally committed to Notre Dame before he was convinced to stay closer to home.
A game during the 1974-75 season has stood the test of time for Hefele as the best example of the type of player Sellers was.Rutgers played at Syracuse in a hostile Manley Field House on Feb. 6, 1975.
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