Rutgers Scarlet Knights

During this season for volleyball, Rutgers has had one night of evidence about its sustained success. Friday was about whether it could be the same team twice. Saturday asked something harder,...

Natassja Kolff Martini turns 22 on Wednesday. She owns a Pan American bronze medal, four seasons in Argentina’s top professional women’s league, a FIBA U19 World Cup appearance, and, as of...

Greg Schiano returned to Rutgers in 2020 to stabilize a program that went through many down years and found itself near the bottom of, not just the Big Ten, but the nation as a whole. As we sit...

After losing 37-21 in week one against UMass, Rutgers fell to a different team from Massachusetts in week 2 as they lost 28-21 to Boston College on the road. Despite a slight push in the second...

On the 25th anniversary of 9/11, Boston College hosted Rutgers in its annual Red Bandanna Game on Friday night. It had special meaning for both schools.

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers took seven shots Friday night, fewer than in any match this season. Five hit the target. Three went in. A center back scored the first, a substitute who had not...

A woeful start to the 2026 season has Schiano on the hot seat in New Jersey

Eight matches in, Rutgers had exactly one night of evidence that it could be one team. Friday was about whether it could be the same team twice. Thursday was that night. Rutgers swept Stony Brook...

Rutgers Football has been laughingstock around the nation for the last eight days. How can that be fixed? Go out and win a game on Friday night. The Scarlet Knights will head to Chestnut Hill to...

Rutgers fans, it’s game day! The Scarlet Knights are up in Chestnut Hill, MA, looking to rebound from their loss to UMass as they prepare to take on the Boston College Eagles. The game will be...

Rutgers football will look to rebound after an ugly season opener this Friday as they head up to Boston College to take on the Eagles in their annual Red Bandana game to commemorate the 25th...

Bringing back one of my favorite series of last year, I wanted to take a deeper look at Boston College’s game against Cincinnati and what the Scarlet Knights can do to win this pivotal football...

It was a beautiful Tuesday morning as I drove up the Parkway to my job as a vice principal at Livingston High School. As I got up around exit 135 I could look to the east, and I saw them so...

EUGENE, Ore. — Oregon had gone an entire season without conceding a goal in the run of play. Rutgers needed four minutes and eleven seconds of the second half. Amanda Thornton scored from the...

Seven matches in, Rutgers still had not answered the only question worth asking about it: which team is this? The one that swept Arkansas on Sept. 1 for the program’s first win over an SEC...

Over the past few days, several national college football publications and websites have released power ranking lists for all 138 FBS college football teams following Week 0 and Week 1 of the 2026...

Rutgers will look to turn thing around on the road against a former Big East foe. The Scarlet Knights will head to Chestnut Hill to take on the Eagles in the Red Bandana Game on Friday night. This...

It has now been six days since Rutgers turned in one of the worst performances in recent memory on its home field against a team that went winless last season. Head coach Greg Schiano met the...

Due to an injury that Dylan Lonergan sustained late in Rutgers’ season opening lost to UMass, backup AJ Surace will be the team’s starter this week against Boston College. In the off-season,...

Rutgers Men’s Basketball coach Steve Pikiell announced that he is being treated for cancer following a successful surgery this summer in a letter to fans on Wednesday. Pikiell underwent surgery to...

Six matches in, Rutgers has played like two different teams wearing the same jersey. One of them swept Arkansas on Sept. 1 for the program’s first win over an SEC opponent since 2001. The other...

Rutgers will start junior quarterback AJ Surace on Friday night at Boston College as Dylan Lonergan continues to recover from an injury sustained in the opener.

AJ Surace will officially make the first start of his career on Friday night. On Tuesday, head coach Greg Schiano announced that Surace will start vs. Boston College. Multiple outlets have...

B1G stadiums are big….were they full? Fans can be a fickle lot. And they are different, depending on where you are. Can you imagine Nebraska not selling out? Can you imagine Rutgers always selling...

The worst loss of the college football season came in Week 1.

Rutgers football will honor the lives lost on Sept. 11, 2001, with a special uniform combination when it takes the field against Boston College on the 25th anniversary of the attacks. The Scarlet...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers put four shots on goal Sunday night. Two came from a fullback, one from a center back and one from a central midfielder. No Rutgers forward hit the target, and only one...

The Rutgers vs UMass disaster was one few could predict, especially the Rutgers fans who write for this site. We all learned a lot about, more than we cared to know, who our team was in that game....

New week, new opponent, turn the page. That is the mentality that Greg Schiano and the Scarlet Knights must have this week after a disastrous season-opening 37-21 loss to UMass. Turning the page...

No. 20 Rutgers took seven shots against No. 5 Virginia on Friday and lost 2-1. It took 20 against No. 12 Syracuse on Sunday, spent most of the fourth quarter short-handed, equalized anyway and won...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Remember the name Lilia Calvert, she’s made her arrival, and she’s not going anywhere. Rutgers beat Princeton 4-2 on Sunday at Yurcak Field, and the freshman who gave away the...

It’s my own fault that I’m looking this up! Well, Thursday evening was fun, wasn’t it? And, now that football season is over in Piscataway, we can look at other football related matters. A little...

Gavin Rossi and Micah Lawson finished three-tenths of a second apart on the Goodman Campus course Friday night, and the absence of a gap between them is the reason Rutgers is bringing a trophy...

Rutgers women’s basketball has received its first commit of the 2027 class, as Emily Forrester, a 6-foot-3 forward out of Saint James Academy High School in Virginia, has decided to commit to the...

The Scarlet Knights entered Thursday night with plenty of optimism surrounding the 2026 season. A new year meant a fresh opportunity to establish themselves in the Big Ten and build on the...

PISCATAWAY, N.J. — Rutgers took 14 shots at Devin Armstrong on Friday night and put six of them on frame. Armstrong saved all six. Til Kauschke’s penalty in the 48th minute was the only goal Seton...

Rutgers basketball has landed its first commit of the 2027 class: shooting guard RJ Moore, who has committed to play for the Scarlet Knights, according to 247Sports, which ranks him as a 4 Star...

Sisi Eleko was finished. She had played four college seasons, two at Canisius and two at Eastern Michigan, and she closed the last one leading the Mid-American Conference in rebounding and sitting...

Rutgers' stunning 37-21 home loss to UMass could put Greg Schiano's job in jeopardy after one of college football's biggest early upsets.

A humiliating season-opening defeat to the Minutemen placed the winningest coach in program history squarely on the hot seat

Rutgers entered its opener as a 29.5-point favorite but was stunned by UMass in one of the most embarrassing upsets of the college football season.

Rutgers’ historic loss to UMass was already humiliating. Then the fireworks started above a nearly empty SHI Stadium.

Ed Henry got beat in the state championship game on one of the wildest trick plays you will ever see — fake 23 blast with a backside George reverse. As Coach Boone and Coach Yoast are celebrating...

Pop Watson III passed for 197 yards and three touchdowns as UMass ended a 16-game losing streak with a 37-21 win over Rutgers in the season-opener for both teams on Thursday night.

UMass won its first game in over a calendar year in statement fashion -- dominating Rutgers 37-21 on the road in New Jersey.

The hope of a new season often brings a sense of optimism for even the worst college football teams. Those hopes were quickly dashed for Scarlet Knight fans during the team’s season opening 37-21...

The Minutemen went 0-12 last season and entered the game as 29.5-point underdogs

Here's a breakdown of the Minutemen's losing streak and a look at who now holds the longest active winless streak.

William "Pop" Watson III tossed three touchdown passes to help visiting UMass end the program's 16-game losing streak by beating Rutgers 37-21 Thursda

Rutgers fans, its game day! The wait is over as the Scarlet Knights are set to kick off tonight at 6 p.m. against the UMass Minutemen. As is tradition here at OnTheBanks, the staff will try to...