PISCATAWAY, N.J. -- The Rutgers men’s basketball team hasn’t been to the NCAA Tournament since 1991, yet a projected starting forward already has an NCAA championship ring on his bureau.

Jonathan Mitchell, a 6-foot-7, 225-pound junior forward from Mount Vernon, N.Y., won a national championship as a true freshman with Florida in 2007.

“I have the ring, I didn’t have it with me today, but if the guys come to my room they can see it on my dresser,” Mitchell told reporters last week at Rutgers media day.

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