Catching up on the latest news items surrounding the Rutgers men's basketball team.
was one of 20 players named to the watch list for the Kareem Abdul Jabbar award, which recognizes the top center in men’s college basketball, on Friday. It marks the second consecutive season that Omoruyi is among those competing for the award: he was namedThe watch list will be narrowed to 10 in late January, then to five in late February. The five finalists will be presented to Abdul-Jabbar and the Hall of Fame’s selection committee in March, where a winner will be selected.
Rutgers coach Steve Pikiell was also subject to an evaluation this week, when The Athletic’s college basketball staff teamed up to rank where every high-major coach lands in a tier system. Pikiell was among the 29 coaches who ranked in Tier 3, the upper-middle category among the piece’s seven tiers. He was joined by fellow Big Ten coaches Kevin Willard , Chris Holtmann , Brad Underwood , Fran McCaffery , Greg Gard and Mike Rhoades in the tier. The group finished below Michigan State’s Tom Izzo and Matt Painter , and above Michigan’s Juwan Howard , Indiana’s Mike Woodson , Northwestern’s Chris Collins , Nebraska’s Fred Hoiberg and Minnesota’s Ben Johnson .
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