You’ve got to deserve to win and you’ve got to finish the game, and we didn’t. The first grievance I want to air after the Pittsburgh Steelers’ first-half Minnesota meltdown Thursday night is about … me. Those are good players, I trust them at the end of games to make good decisions, and they’ve made a lot of good decisions this year. Six games away from Jersey Mike’s out of eight…Guys have been tired and we lost Mawot in the middle of this thing, another veteran guy. This was our toughest stretch since I’ve been here. We just didn’t handle that well."Ģ-Pikell on whether his veterans are suffering mental fatigue: “I think so. Boys AAA Invitational (Top AAA Level Teams) 2014-2007 Birth Years. We are offering 20+ competitive age levels of and expect to have the strongest field of teams to date. Come play in Minnesota's best AAA hockey tournament of the year. 3 QUOTESġ-Steve Pikiell on mishandling the press late: “Aundre (Hyatt) had the ball I don’t know why he turned around and threw the ball backwards (on the next-to-last possession). The 27th annual Minnesota Meltdown is gearing up for great hockey this April. Needless to say, emotions will be running high at Jersey Mike's Arena. It’s also Senior Night, and McConnell, Mulcahy, Aundre Hyatt, Oskar Palmquist and walk-on Andrew Fulin will be recognized in a pregame ceremony. Remember, the selection committee barely considered conference tournament results in recent years. Everyone else can talk about it we’ve got to get ready for Northwestern.”Īlthough Northwestern has dropped three straight, the Wildcats are still a Quad 2 opponent and would be a quality win. We’ve done a lot of good things…We have 10 wins in the league, we have 18 wins overall. "I know everyone talks about it after every game. “At the end of the year they decide who goes to the tournament they don’t do it after every game," Pikiell said. By taking their fourth Quad 3 loss of the season, their NCAA Tournament hopes are on the rocks. The Scarlet Knights threw away a chance to earn a top-four finish in the Big Ten standings, which comes with a double-bye in the conference tournament, but that's small potatoes. Rutgers now has an urgent mission in Sunday’s regular-season finale at home against Northwestern (20-10, 11-8) at 7:30 p.m. And Simpson was on the bench at crunch time, when he probably should have been on the court. It's hard to fathom why freshman Derek Simpson, fresh off his dynamite performance at Penn State, logged just 13 minutes while Mulcahy played 35. Rutgers' veterans wilted against the full-court trap and Pikiell didn't help the situation one way he could have - by alleviating some of Paul Mulcahy's duties as the senior continues to struggle. But the offense couldn't handle Minnesota's late-game curve ball.
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