{"id":1163928,"date":"2026-02-23T09:43:24","date_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:43:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/?p=1163928"},"modified":"2026-02-23T09:43:24","modified_gmt":"2026-02-23T14:43:24","slug":"steinbach-and-the-washington-huskies-visit-conference-foe-rutgers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/steinbach-and-the-washington-huskies-visit-conference-foe-rutgers\/","title":{"rendered":"Steinbach and the Washington Huskies visit conference foe Rutgers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Huskies (13-14, 5-11 Big Ten) at Rutgers Scarlet Knights (11-16, 4-12 Big Ten)<\/p>\n<p>Piscataway, New Jersey; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST<\/p>\n<p>BOTTOM LINE: Hannes Steinbach and Washington take on Tariq Francis and Rutgers in Big Ten play Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The Scarlet Knights are 9-6 in home games. Rutgers has a 7-10 record in games decided by 10 or more points.<\/p>\n<p>The Huskies are 5-11 against conference opponents. Washington averages 76.2 points and has outscored opponents by 4.1 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Rutgers averages 70.2 points per game, 1.9 fewer points than the 72.1 Washington gives up. Washington averages 76.2 points per game, 0.5 more than the 75.7 Rutgers allows.<\/p>\n<p>The Scarlet Knights and Huskies meet Tuesday for the first time in conference play this season.<\/p>\n<p>TOP PERFORMERS: Francis is averaging 16.6 points for the Scarlet Knights. Harun Zrno is averaging 9.2 points over the past 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>Steinbach is averaging 17.8 points and 10.9 rebounds for the Huskies. Wesley Yates III is averaging 2.1 made 3-pointers over the last 10 games.<\/p>\n<p>LAST 10 GAMES: Scarlet Knights: 2-8, averaging 71.0 points, 27.1 rebounds, 13.5 assists, 5.1 steals and 3.0 blocks per game while shooting 43.9% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 79.9 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>Huskies: 3-7, averaging 67.9 points, 30.4 rebounds, 13.2 assists, 5.1 steals and 3.9 blocks per game while shooting 47.2% from the field. Their opponents have averaged 69.5 points.<\/p>\n<p>___<\/p>\n<p>The Associated Press created this story using technology provided by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dataskrive.com\/\">Data Skrive<\/a> and data from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportradar.com\/\">Sportradar<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u200b<a href=\"https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/steinbach-washington-huskies-visit-conference-094324301.html\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\">https:\/\/sports.yahoo.com\/articles\/steinbach-washington-huskies-visit-conference-094324301.html<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Washington Huskies (13-14, 5-11 Big Ten) at Rutgers Scarlet Knights (11-16, 4-12 Big Ten) Piscataway, New Jersey; Tuesday, 6:30 p.m. EST BOTTOM LINE: Hannes Steinbach&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1163928","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports","wpcat-1-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163928","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1163928"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1163928\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1163928"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1163928"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/sports\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1163928"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}