THE ESSENTIALS WHAT #109 Michigan (8-20, 3-14 B10) at #95 Rutgers (14-13, 6-10 B10) WHERE The RAC Piscataway, NJ WHEN 8:30 PM THE LINE Kenpom: RU-5 Torvik: RU-3 TELEVISION FS1 (link) THE OVERVIEW Randy and Jason Sklar are a brilliant comedy duo, a pair of identical twins who went to Michigan then carved out a career in Hollywood, most famously with their own ESPN show The Cheap Seats, plus regular TV and film appearances, and of course stand-up. That show returns this weekend to where it all started, Mark Ridley's Comedy Castle in Royal Oak, MI. There are still tickets left for those shows, including one tonight at 7:30 PM. If you can't make it to see the Sklars, but you're still up for a laugh on a Thursday night, Michigan basketball travels to Rutgers for a matchup between the fourth-worst Big Ten offense (relative to the conf average on Kenpom) since my freshman year in college, and the 13th worst defense since 1998-'99. The words "Historically Bad Basketball" are unusable in this context, only because it would be almost impossible to reproduce anything as unwatchable as the last 17 minutes between these teams, at least from the Michigan perspective. What happens when you transport that game to The RAC? Maybe not much? Rutgers just lost there 63-46 to Maryland, a team they beat (56-53) on the road. The vagaries of their consistently atrocious offense opposite their consistently excellent defense make this Rutgers team consistently immune to predictive metrics. This Michigan team on the other hand has been remarkably consistent in their passivity. Even with Dug McDaniel finally cleared to travel once again, they're without Olivier Nkamhoua, their most defense-independent scorer. So I say again: The Sklars. In Royal Oak. Guaranteed good time, hilarity without the darkness, and afterwards you can go up and tell the stars that everything's alright because Michigan won the national championship in football without them getting the least bit annoyed. Just don't tell them the Rutgers score. [After THE JUMP: You wanna know what's funny?]