In 52 games at Rutgers, McCourty started the last 39 contests at weak-side cornerback, recording 238 tackles (149 solos) with a 4-yard sack (two assisted), 14.0 stops for minus-34 yards, two pressures, two forced fumbles and five fumble recoveries … Deflected 27 passes and intercepted six others for 105 yards in returns (17.5-yard average) and two touchdowns … Also blocked seven kicks (six punts, one field goal) for 102 yards in returns, as six blocks led to Rutgers scoring drives (also scored on an interception return, another on a kickoff return, had two other pass thefts that set up Scarlet Knights scoring drives and a fumble recovery that led to a Rutgers touchdown) … Registered 49 special teams tackles that included 28 stops on the kickoff squad and 21 more for the punt unit … In his last 39 games, the opposition managed to complete just 35.20 percent of the passes thrown into his area (88-of-250) for 684 yards and just two scores, as they averaged 7.77 yards per pass completion and 2.75 yards per pass attempt … During that span, McCourty defended 33 passes (six thefts, 27 deflections) and rerouted his main pass coverage assignments, preventing them from getting to 148 other throws … McCourty's three blocked kicks in 2007 were the most by a Division I player in a season since James King of Central Michigan blocked a total of seven kicks in 2001 … His total of 49 tackles on special teams are the most by a Big East Conference player during the 2006-09 season time span … His total of 94 third-down stops (78 vs. the pass, 16 vs. the run) are the most of any active defensive back in college football and the most of any active Big East player … Also registered 35 fourth-down stops during his time with the Scarlet Knights … His two interception returns for touchdowns are tied for seventh on the conference season-record list … His 98-yard kickoff return vs. Connecticut in 2009 tied Hall Conors (vs. Maryland in 1998) for the third-longest kickoff return in school history, topped by 100-yard runbacks by Nate Jones vs. both Syracuse and Tennessee in 2002 … Finished second on the team with 80 tackles in 2009, as an eye injury forced him to miss most of the St. Petersburg Bowl. Prior to that game, he almost became the first cornerback in the history of Rutgers football (university officially began compiling defensive statistics in 1974) to lead the team in tackles during a season (78 during the first 12 games of 2009).