PISCATAWAY, N.J. - Rutgers women's basketball (7-11, 0-6) returns home to Jersey Mike's Arena to host Wisconsin (3-12, 0-5) on Sunday, Jan. 16 at 2 p.m. streaming live on B1G+ in a game presented by the R Fund. 

ON THE AIR

• Watch on B1G+ (Dom Savino & Dominique Patrick)
• Listen on Fox Sports Radio New Jersey 93.5 FM/1450 AM (Ralph Bednarczyk & Mark Peterson)
• Listen on WRSU 88.7 FM (Shaun Nadkarni & Dylan Allen)

AT THE ARENA

Rutgers Athletics announced that effective immediately, attendees at all indoor athletics events must provide proof of full vaccination or proof of a negative COVID-19 PCR test within 72 hours of the event accompanied by a photo ID. Doors for all events will open 90 minutes prior to the start.
 
Click HERE for a full listing of Rutgers Athletics COVID-19 protocols.

The 5 Things to Know

1. THE SCOUT

• Wisconsin is also searching for its first Big Ten win on Sunday.
• Despite three players scoring in double figures and putting together three of its best scoring quarters of the season, the Badgers fell to Minnesota, 82-66, on Wednesday in the Kohl Center. Wisconsin scored 20-or-more points in three quarters for the first time this season Freshman Krystyna Ellew led the Badgers with 19 points and also had a team-high six rebounds. Julie Pospíšilová added 18 points and five rebounds while Halle Douglass tied her career best with 12 points.
• Junior Julie Pospíšilová and sophomore Brooke Schramek rank among the top Big Ten players for most improved scorers. Pospíšilová ranks fifth, upping her scoring from 8.9 last season to 14.7 this season, an improvement of 5.8 ppg. Schramek ranks ninth, improving her scoring from 2.9 as a freshman to 6.6 this season, plus 3.7 points.
• Pospíšilová continues her double-figure scoring streak, having scored 10-or-more points in all 13 games she has played this season. The 6-foot guard leads the Badgers and ranks 14th in the Big Ten with 14.7 points per game.

2. THE HEAD-TO-HEAD

3. NEVER OUT

Rutgers erased a 21-point deficit to tie the game at Purdue before a heartbreaking Boilermaker buzzer-beater on Jan. 2, and last time out, shrunk a 15-point deficit at Northwestern to one in the final minute of play before Northwestern forced two turnovers to hold on for the win. The Scarlet Knights came back from 18-down in a victory over Harvard on Nov. 19, the second-largest comeback for a win in school history. Rutgers then shrunk an 18-point deficit down to two points in a close loss to DePaul in the Virgin Islands on Thanksgiving Day.
 

4. 55 ALIVE & WELL

Rutgers has the second best scoring defense in the Big Ten at 57.5 points allowed per game, trying to finish the season leading that conference category for a third consecutive year. The Scarlet Knights' pressure up front has led to a No. 3 conference ranking with 9.7 steals per game and the presence down low has RU ranked No. 4 in the B1G in blocked shots per game at 4.1.
 

5. OH MY OSH

Osh Brown, a graduate transfer from Ball State now with 1,647 career points, is the NCAA Division I active career leader in rebounds with 1,269 and in double-doubles with 54. Brown grabbed her first Rutgers double-double in grand fashion in the Paradise Jam opener with a 20-point, 20-rebound performance against DePaul, Rutgers' first 20-20 since Betnijah Laney's in 2014 against UNC. She added her fifth this season with 22 and 16 at Northwestern.

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• Joiya Maddox had her highest scoring output (12) at Northwestern since her career-high 14 points on Nov. 9, 2019.

• Rutgers enjoyed its best three-point and free throw shooting performances of the season at Northwestern, connecting on 8-of-19 for 42 percent from beyond the arc and 13-of-14 (.929) from the stripe.

• Shug Dickson's eight assists against Wagner tied her career-high from March of last season when she played for Mizzou against Alabama.

• Sayawni Lassiter is averaging 3.3 assists per game over the last six games in the starting lineup. She set a new career-high with seven assists in the CCSU win, passing her previous best of six with Florida State against Wake Forest on Feb. 3, 2019.

• RU held opponents an average of 12.5 points under their season scoring averages over contests from Dec. 1 to Jan. 6.

• The Rutgers defense has held opponents under their scoring average in 34 of its last 37 games, and 121 of its last 132 dating back to 2017-18.

• Rutgers' 24 assists against Delaware State were the most in a game since 25 vs. Hampton on Dec. 18, 2020.

• Rutgers ranks 13th in the country in total steals (175) and 25th in total blocks (74). Its per-game marks (4.1 blocks and 9.7 steals are both top-four in the Big Ten).

• Against No. 8 Maryland, Tyia Singleton recorded the second double-double (10pts, 12reb) of her career and the first since the 2020-21 regular-season finale against Ohio State. It was her fifth career game in double-figure scoring and fifth with double-digit rebounds.

• Osh Brown's 20-point, 20-rebound double-double vs. DePaul was Rutgers' first in a game since Betnijah Laney's 24-24 against UNC on Dec. 5, 2014 in a 2OT game (21-20 at the end of regulation). It fell two shy of Brown's career-high of 22 rebounds, set in the 2021 NCAA Tournament last season, a Ball State program record.

• Rutgers passed out 21 assists on its 22 field goals in the St. Peter's victory, setting a school modern-era record (since 2001-02) for the highest percentage of field goals assisted (95%).

• In the St. Peter's win, Rutgers forced its most turnovers by an opponent (34) since 38 against Penn State during the 2014-15 season.

• The nation's fourth-best steals per game team last season, Rutgers grabbed 21 steals in the 2021-22 season opener, the most since 22 at Wisconsin in Game 2 last season on Dec. 11, 2020.
 
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