Rutgers guard Jordan Derkack handed the basketball to one among his sensible freshman teammates, and like many of the 8,000 panic-stricken followers at Jersey Mike’s Arena on Saturday afternoon, he didn’t precisely love the route the place issues have been headed.
The Scarlet Knights had 6.2 seconds to go the size of the courtroom and (primarily) save their season, and now Derkack watched as Dylan Harper took the ball far too near the baseline for his liking. An undermanned Seton Hall group had clawed its solution to a 63-63 tie within the annual Garden State Hardwood Classic, and Derkack knew that if Harper didn’t begin making one thing occur quickly …