Rutgers Hammers Miami / Tough Homecoming

PISCATAWAY, N.J. – When Mike Rice first got the Rutgers job he found an opening early in his non-conference schedule.

“Half of the BCS seemed to be on my desk of people wanting to play us,” Rice joked about his under-manned team that features nine scholarship players.

Even though he inherited a schedule that included Ivy League favorite Princeton and MAAC favorite Fairfield as the first two outings, Rice went ahead and picked Miami for the third game.

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It was a tough homecoming for New York guards Durand Scott and Malcolm Grant. Read about that here.