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NEWARK, NJ—Junior Chris Flores scored a game-high 13 points to lead New Jersey Institute of Technology to a 78-28 win over visiting NYU-Poly in men's basketball Sunday afternoon in the Estelle and Zoom Fleisher.
 
Flores saw all of his action in the first half of the cross-divisional game that saw the Division I Highlanders outscore the Division III Fighting Blue Jays by identical 39-14 scores in each half.
 
NJIT is 2-2, while NYU-Poly falls to 0-2.
 
Sunday's game was the 60th men's basketball meeting between the schools and the third in the last three years. The schools first played in 1929 and they were regular opponents until NJIT left Division III for Division II in 1997. The series, which NJIT leads, 51-9, was on hiatus until December 30, 2009, when the Highlanders, in Division I competition since 2006-07, defeated NYU-Poly, 67-31. Last season, NJIT was a 96-49 winner.
 
Flores played 15 minutes in Sunday's first half and he had three assists and three steals to go with his 13 points. The only other double-figure scorer for NJIT was senior Sammy Schickel, who came off the bench for 10 points.
 
Isaiah Wilkerson finished with nine points. Like Flores, Wilkerson did not play in the second half after playing 13 of the opening 20 minutes. He scored seven of his team's first nine points in the opening 2:43.
 
The top scorer for NYU-Poly was senior guard Eddie Ortiz, who scored 11 points, nine coming on 3-for-6 shooting from 3-point distance. He was the only player on his team to make a three.
 
Four players collected four rebounds apiece for NJIT, while NYU-Poly's Jason Samuels and Stefan Stoyanovich shared game rebounding honors with five each. The Highlanders had a 38-25 team rebounding advantage.
 
The Highlanders scored the game's first 18 points, before the visitors got on the board on a jump shot by freshman Evan Azzam with 9:45 left in the first half. NJIT got its first-half lead as high as 28 points, first at 36-8 on a 3-pointer by Flores with 1:50 remaining before the break.
 
NJIT, which opened the second half with a completely different group from the five that started the game, led by at least 32 points for the last 15 minutes and the final margin of 50 matched the Highlanders' biggest lead of the day.
 
The top scorer in the second half was junior Ryan Woods, who picked up nine points and pulled down four rebounds. Woods, who is expected to be a key player for NJIT, made his first college game appearance since late in the 2009-10 season, when he was a star at Division II Pace.
 
He sat out the entire 2010-11 season at NJIT under NCAA transfer rules and he missed the first three games this season while rehabbing from offseason surgery on his left (non-shooting) shoulder. Woods connected on 3-of-5 shots from the field in his Highlander debut and made all four of his free throws in 18 minutes of action—five in the first half and 13 in the second half. He also grabbed four rebounds, all on the defensive end.
 
The Highlanders, who have played four games in the first eight days of the season, are off until Saturday afternoon, when they host St. Francis (NY) in a 2 pm Thanksgiving weekend contest.
 
Last year, in the first-ever men's basketball meeting between the schools, St. Francis topped NJIT, 72-47, in Brooklyn on December 30.