The head coach was Tom Young, then in his third season with the Scarlet Knights.
The team played its home games in College Avenue Gymnasium in New Brunswick, New Jersey, and was an NCAA Division I Independent.
The Scarlet Knights played an exciting, up-tempo brand of basketball, averaging a school-record of 93.3 points per game.
They entered the NCAA tournament with a perfect record (28–0), and went on to defeat Princeton, Connecticut, and VMI to reach the only Final Four in school history.
[1] After 31 consecutive wins, Rutgers fell to Michigan, 86–70,[2] in the national semifinals, then to UCLA, 106–92, in the consolation game.