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The NJIT women's basketball team will host first-time opponent Dartmouth on Saturday at 2 pm in the Estelle and Zoom Fleisher Athletic Center.
The Highlanders, standing at 5-16 overall, will close out a three-game homestand playing their third-straight Ivy League opponent. NJIT is in a four-game stretch against teams from the Ivy League.
In the last game for NJIT, junior forward
Martina Matejcikova scored a career-high 18 points, but it came in a valiant effort, as the NJIT women's basketball team dropped a 75-56 decision to Harvard in a rare Wednesday afternoon contest.
NJIT is led by graduate student
Shakia Robinson, the only double-figure scorer on the Highlander squad, averaging 11.2 ppg while ranking second on the team with 6.2 rpg. Robinson has scored in double-figures 11 times this season with three double-doubles.
Matejcikova, a 5-foot-11 guard is the second-leading scorer on the squad with 8.7 ppg and 22 blocks while
Uju Nwankwo, the Highlanders 6-foot-1 forward, is the third-leading scorer with 8.7 ppg and tops the team with 9.0 rpg and 32 blocks. Nwankwo has recorded at least one steal or block in 17 out of 21 games this season.
Point guard
Alyssa Albanese ranks fourth with 7.0 ppg, while leading the Highlanders with 82 assists. Albanese has recorded at least one assist in 20 out of 21 games, while setting a program DI-record 10 assists against Fairleigh Dickinson on December 19, 2013.
Dartmouth comes to Newark with a 2-12 overall mark, looking for its first win in 2014 and first road win, after falling to Hartford and then Harvard in the Ivy League opener.
In the last outing for Dartmouth, senior Nicola Zimmer scored a team-high 16 points, but the Big Green allowed 52 points in the paint and fell to Harvard 73-63.
First-year head coach Belle Koclanes, who most recently was an assistant coach at American in 2012-13, inherited a squad that returned 13 letter-winners, including 11 under classmen. Koclanes replaces longtime Dartmouth head coach Chris Wielgus, who stepped down after 28 seasons at the help of the program.
The Big Green was selected to finish fifth in the 2013-14 Preseason Ivy League Coaches' Poll out of eight teams.
Freshman guard Fanni Szabo, from Budapest, Hungary, tops the Big Green in scoring with 17.6 ppg, plus 38 steals and 31 assists. Sophomore Lakin Roland is the second leading scorer with 9.5 ppg while leading the Big Green on the boards averaging 6.1 rpg.
Fans can follow all the action live on www.njithighlanders.com, which will carry a live video stream and webcast play-by-play and commentary from Michael Ventola, as well as an in-game real-time stat feed. Coverage begins at 1:45 p.m. with tip-off set for 2 pm.
