Rutgers University–New Brunswick
Public university in New Brunswick and Piscataway
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| 2024 | Anticipating a highly-ranked recruiting class featuring two McDonald's All-American players: forward Airious 'Ace' Bailey and guard Dylan Harper. |
| 2024 | Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball team completed the 2023–24 season with a 15-17 overall record and 7-13 in Big Ten conference play, finishing tied for 12th place in the conference standings. |
| 2024 | In the Big Ten tournament, the team was seeded No. 13 and was eliminated in the first round after losing to Maryland. |
| 2024 | Steve Pikiell begins his ninth season as head coach of the Rutgers Scarlet Knights men's basketball team, continuing to lead the program in the Big Ten Conference. |
| 2023 | In their most recent NIT appearance, Rutgers lost to Hofstra in overtime in the First Round. |
| 2023 | Both Ron Harper Jr. and Caleb McConnell enter the NBA, continuing Rutgers' tradition of producing professional basketball players. |
| December 28 2023 | Rutgers won the 13th Bad Boy Mowers Pinstripe Bowl against the Miami Hurricanes with a score of 31-24. |
| 2022 | Men's Soccer team won the Big Ten Tournament championship. |
| 2022 | Rutgers returns to the NCAA tournament as the lowest NET-ranked team (77th) to receive an at-large bid. |
| 2022 | The team's most recent appearance in the NCAA tournament, continuing their tradition of competitive collegiate basketball. |
| 2022 | Eugene Omoruyi joins the NBA, playing until 2023. |
| 2022 | Rutgers participated in the First Four of the NCAA tournament, losing to Notre Dame in double overtime. |
| March 2022 | Rutgers president Jonathan Holloway admitted the athletic department was 'highly unlikely' to break even financially, despite Big Ten revenue. |
| 2021 | The Rutgers field hockey team won their first-ever Big Ten Tournament championship by defeating the Michigan Wolverines 1-0 in the championship game, becoming the first Rutgers program to achieve this milestone. |
| 2021 | Women's Soccer team won the Big Ten Regular Season championship. Women's Field Hockey team won the Big Ten Tournament championship. |
| 2021 | Rutgers accumulated $265 million in debt since joining the Big Ten conference, causing concern from New Jersey's governor. |
| 2021 | Won the first Big Ten team title in school history, achieving an undefeated record against Big Ten teams during the regular season. |
| 2021 | Rutgers breaks its 30-year NCAA tournament drought, earning a 10-seed and achieving its first tournament win since 1983 by defeating Clemson in the first round. |
| December 31 2021 | Rutgers lost to Wake Forest 38-10 in the Taxslayer Gator Bowl. |
| 2020 | Old Gibbons Hall on Douglass Campus was closed. |
| 2019 | Under coaches Geo Baker and Ron Harper Jr., Rutgers reaches 20 wins for the first time since 2003-04, with an 18-1 home record and four wins against ranked opponents. The team ranks in the top 25 of the AP men's college basketball poll for the first time since 1979. |
| September 2019 | The Daily Targum organization lost a student referendum vote regarding minimal funding through students' term bills, leading to the removal of the opt-out cost. |
| 2016 | Steve Pikiell is hired as Head Coach, marking the beginning of a renewed period of success for the program. |
| 2016 | Davidson Hall on Busch Campus was closed. |
| January 2016 | Rutgers established the Food Pantry in the College Avenue student center to support students who may have difficulty affording food. |
| 2014 | Rutgers Women's Basketball team won the WNIT Championship. |
| 2014 | Rutgers plays its first season in the Big Ten conference. |
| 2014 | The medical school was returned to Rutgers after previously being separated to create the College of Medicine and Dentistry of New Jersey. |
| 2014 | The medical school was returned to Rutgers University. |
| December 26 2014 | Rutgers won the Quick Lane Bowl against the North Carolina Tar Heels with a score of 40-21. |
| 2013 | A scandal involving head coach Mike Rice Jr. occurs, where he is shown on video verbally and physically abusing players, resulting in his firing and the resignation of athletic director Tim Pernetti. |
| 2013 | Ford Hall on College Avenue Campus and Corwin Hall on Cook Campus were closed. |
| December 28 2013 | Rutgers lost to Notre Dame 16-29 in the New Era Pinstripe Bowl. |
| August 2013 | The Grease Trucks are forced to relocate from their long-standing location on the College Avenue Campus due to the construction of an $84 million student apartment complex. |
| 2012 | Football team became Big East Conference co-champions. |
| 2011 | Professor William C. Dowling received the Drake Group's Robert Maynard Hutchins Award for opposing commercialized Division I athletics. |
| 2011 | Hamady N'Diaye enters the NBA, playing until 2014. |
| 2011 | RutgersFest is held for the final time on Busch Campus, featuring musical guests Yelawolf, Pitbull, and 3OH!3. The event is subsequently cancelled indefinitely due to violent incidents, as announced by President Richard McCormick. |
| December 20 2011 | Rutgers beat Iowa State 27-13 in the Pinstripe Bowl. |
| 2010 | Rutgers football team set a record high Academic Performance Rate (APR) of 992 for a Football Bowl Subdivision team. |
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