
BY MATT SUGAM
NEWJERSEYNEWSROOM.COM
PISCATAWAY – Mike Rice insists it’s a business as usual like any other road game. That rhetoric comes as no surprise. Anyone who knows Rice is well aware he’s not the sentimental type.
But Rutgers road trip to Pittsburgh is a homecoming of sorts for the second year head coach.
Yes, the Scarlet Knights played in Pittsburgh last season, but it was at the Consol Energy Center against Auburn. Now Rice returns on Wednesday night to face Jamie Dixon and the program that gave him his first big break in coaching as an assistant coach on Pitt’s staff.







