Rutgers earned its second win of the season on Monday, but it had to work twice as hard as the first.

The Scarlet Knights (2-0) defeated Maine (0-3) in a 72-60 victory in Piscataway that went back-and-forth a couple of times. The hosts kept the Black Bears at arms length for the majority of the second half, but the visitors never trailed by more than 18, hanging around for longer than Rider did in Rutgers’ season-opening win last week.

There are multiple reasons for that: the Scarlet Knights shot 18-of-29 (62.1%) from the free throw line, went 8-of-16 on layups and committed 14 turnovers while Maine hit 9 of its 20 three-point attempts (45%) and went 6-of-10 on layups.

Rutgers made up for it by forcing 18 turnovers and scoring 25 points off of them, outrebounding Maine by 14 (37-23

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