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The Departed: Chandler's exodus still stings restructured Knights

It has been nearly three months since Corey Chandler was unceremoniously dismissed from the Rutgers men’s basketball team for a violation of athletic department policy.
A host of new players arrived at Rutgers in the time since to replace Chandler and four other Scarlet Knights that moved on, but the memory of a departed teammate still lingers.

The Departed: Prince's early exit highlights loss of three starters

Epiphanny Prince single-handedly won games last year, scoring nearly 20 points per game and representing 30 percent of the team’s scoring.
Kia Vaughn’s heart and post presence carried the Rutgers women’s basketball team to its 2007 NCAA Championship Game appearance. Forward Heather Zurich’s shooting touch was always good for a boost and forward Brooklyn Pope’s spark off the bench brought a different kind of energy to the court.
And now it’s all gone.

Great Expectations

With Prince gone Rushdan has to shoulder the load as a scoring guard

Khadijah Rushdan knows how to score — just ask anyone in the state of Delaware.
When the McDonald’s All-American graduated high school and joined the Rutgers women’s basketball team, Rushdan was the all-time leading scorer in the entire state with 2,414 points in four years.

Super Sophomores

Busy summers help Rosario, Echenique forget dissapointing rookie campaign as year two approaches

By the conclusion of the 2008-09 season, Mike Rosario had more losses in one year than in his entire life.
“It was hard for me because I didn’t really understand losing,” Rosario said in reference to the Rutgers men’s basketball team’s 11-21 flop last season. “To go through a drought of losing games has put me in a position where I’m thinking to myself, ‘Wow, I’ve come a long way since high school to college and I was never losing how I was.’ It’s at a point where it’s like, ‘Wow, what’s going on?’”
But this is year two.

Hill needs to show results now

Fully Franko

Welcome to the pressure cooker, Fred Hill Jr.
Hill, now in his fourth year at the helm of the Rutgers men’s basketball program, has to win and has to do it this year.
Bottom line. Plain and simple.

Get ready for strange season

Hell's Kitchen

This year is going to be a strange one.
The expectations are nowhere near as high as they usually are. There is no star power — yet. And two of the greatest players in Rutgers women’s basketball history, Epiphanny Prince and Kia Vaughn, are elsewhere.
There’s just a RU team that clearly wants to play basketball — and a Hall of Fame head coach.

Fresh faces heighten postseason expectations

It is tough to say a team with only one senior has experience.
But to some extent, the Rutgers men’s basketball team has it.
Sophomores Mike Rosario and Greg Echenique started nearly every game in their campaign as true freshmen and their development is essential to the Scarlet Knights’ success. But junior forward and transfer from Florida Jonathan Mitchell brings the most valuable experience — one no other RU player has — in the form of postseason play.

Stringer's 39th season to be one of her toughest

For someone who admittedly looks forward to a challenge, the upcoming season for the Rutgers women’s basketball team should not disappoint head coach C. Vivian Stringer.
One of the most prolific scorers in the country, a four-year starting center and a versatile perimeter shooter are gone.
Make no mistake, without the big name players that it has been used to over the past several years, the team does not anticipate success simply falling into its lap.