Chicago, IL -- The DePaul mess took another step backward last Tuesday night at the Allstate Arena in Rosemont. The bleak corner of Touhy and Mannheim was the scene of a second half beat-down of DePaul by Rutgers. After leading by as many as 17 points with five minutes remaining in the first half, the Blue Demons were outscored something like 54-33 in the rest of the game, and were out-rebounded by 15 boards.
Down two with 42 seconds left, DePaul fouled with eight seconds left on the shotclock rather than continuing to play defense and play for the potential game winning shot. The end of the game was a comedy of errors that result....