The Rutgers basketball team is the worst major conference team in CBB history

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Of the 1,067 seasons by teams in major conferences since 2002, only 35, or 3.28 percent, have clocked in below 200 in the Pomeroy ratings. Only seven, or .65 percent, dipped below 250. Nobody has ever broken the 300 barrier. Only Utah in 2012 came close. That Utah team was in their first year in the Pac-12 after losing their best players from a sub-.500 Mountain West team.

Rutgers is worse. They've finally cracked the 300 barrier. Quite frankly, it's impressive

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the Scarlet Knights are more likely to lose by 30 (or more!) than they are to keep it within single-digits, and more than half of their losses are by 20 or more. (By the way, the one loss in the 40-plus category was by 50 points.)

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When TCU went 0-18, they beat Tulsa, who made the NCAA Tournament, twice in non-conference play. That DePaul team beat Cincinnati in the Big East tournament. Here's who Rutgers has beaten:

-- Rutgers-Newark, a Division-III team

-- Howard, which is below .500 in the nation's worst conference

-- Central Arkansas, which lost to Howard

-- Central Connecticut, which is ranked dead last at 351 in Pomeroy's ratings

-- UMass-Lowell, which still isn't eligible to make the NCAA Tournament as it transitions up from Division II

-- Fairleigh Dickinson, the crown jewel of Rutgers' résumé. They sit at 288 in Pomeroy's rankings, the fifth-best team in college basketball's 30th-best conference.

The NCAA Tournament considers top-50 wins and top-100 wins as they inspect teams' résumés. Rutgers doesn't have any top-275 wins. They're 0-22 against teams better than that.

Boston College has FIVE wins better than Rutgers' best win. Rutgers only has six wins!

That's genuinely hard to do! Chicago State ranks last in Division I with just one win against a Division I opponent. But at least that win came against Western Illinois, which is all the way up at 255 in the Pomeroy ratings

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But after that there are some squads you can describe as "not good." We already talked about Minnesota, but it's not just them. Penn State won comfortably at Rutgers. Nebraska is a top-100 team, but just barely, and they've trucked Rutgers by 34 and 24 points. Illinois is the only team that's really struggled with Rutgers -- they went to triple OT! -- but still, a pair of wins.

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It doesn't seem likely to get better any soon.

Of the three recruits Jordan has brought in for next year's team, none of them has received a single offer from another major conference school, according to 247 Sports. (Senegalese forward Issa Thiam is listed as having drawn interest from St. John's and Seton Hall, 3-star wing Maishe Dailey is listed as having a slew of mid-major offers, but only interest from Wisconsin, and 2-star guard Jahlil Tripp had offers from MAAC schools, UNC-Wilmington, and that's it.)

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Those who worried the Scarlet Knights would be non-competitive on the Big Ten's fields have been completely right. In football, they've gone 4-12, with a comical scandal that contributed to Kyle Flood's firing. (To be fair, there does seem to be reason to be excited about new coach Chris Ash.) Ohio State blog Land-Grant Holy Land tabulates that across all sports, Rutgers is 76-199 since joining the Big Ten -- that's a 27.6 percent winning percentage.

Rutgers has been outmatched in virtually every Big Ten sport, and even compared with those teams, the Rutgers basketball team is outmatched.

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