It's May, but it's never too early to look ahead to the 2021 NCAA Men's and Women's Basketball Tournaments that's expected to go on unless a bomb drops or another pandemic hits (or murder hornets multiply exponentially).
The Rutgers men will enter the 2020-21 season with a 30-year drought of not making the "Big Dance", though the Scarlet Knights -- by all accounts -- would have made the tournament this year if it weren't for COVID-19.
Anyway, CBSSports' Jerry Palm (yes that guy) has Rutgers IN his bracket which was last updated on April 9. He was Rutgers has a No. 6 seed in the Midwest Region facing 11th-seeded BYU in Dallas in the first round. Top-seeded Creighton and second-seeded Iowa are the region's top seeds.
Furthermore, most recently ESPN's Joe Lunardi released his early 2021 bracket on May 12 and he also has the Scarlet Knights as a No. 6 seed, this time in the South Region. He has Rutgers playing the winner of a play-in game between 11th-seeded Syracuse and 11th-seeded Seton Hall in the opening round. There's some local rivalry flavor there. Baylor is the No. 1 seed in the South while Michigan State is No. 2.
As for the women, Charlie Creme's bracket on ESPN features C. Vivian Stringer's squad as a No. 10 seed going up against seventh-seeded LSU in the first round.
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