Phil Sellers is still the leading scorer and rebounder in Rutgers history.
basketball team to unprecedented heights when it reached the 1976 Final Four, died on Wednesday. He was 69.this year, including an intestinal perforation and a build up of fluid in his lungs, that required multiple surgeries and left him in a rehabilitation center. He suffered a stroke last week, a spokesman for his family said, and he did not recover.
His 1976 hoops squad is still held up in Piscataway as a shining example of what is possible for a Rutgers sports team. The Scarlet Knights turned the 2,800-seat College Avenue Gymnasium — affectionately known as The Barn — into the epicenter of East Coast basketball, winning their first 31 games before losing to Michigan in the national semifinals and UCLA in the consolation game.Sellers arrived at Rutgers in 1972.
“He put Rutgers sports on the map,” said Brian Perkins, a classmate and a Rutgers booster. “I still believe that’s the team by which all Rutgers teams are measured. I hope the broader Rutgers community will rally around him and thank him for that.”
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