Game 12	Howard (2-6) at NJIT (4-7)
Date | Time	Friday, December 16, 2016 | 7pm
Location | Arena	Newark, NJ | Fleisher Athletic Center (1,500)
Live Video | Live Audio	ESPN3, streaming telecast (WatchESPN app, www.WatchESPN.com) Michael Ventola (play-by-play); David Gass (color)
Live Stats	In-game statistics (free)
Social Media	@njithighlanders
All-time series | Last Meeting	Howard leads 3-1 | Howard 80, NJIT 73 | November 17, 2013
Game Notes	NJIT Notes | Howard Notes

NEWARK, NJ—NJIT will return home from a two-game road trip to host Howard on Friday evening at the Fleisher Athletic Center with opening tip slated for 7pm.

The game will be shown live on ESPN3 (all remaining NJIT home basketball games can be seen on ESPN3).

A simple way to find ESPN3 is on NJIT's official athletics website, www.njithighlanders.com. Near the middle of the home page NJIT TV section, click Upcoming Events for a list of scheduled NJIT contests. After finding the event, click the camera icon to the right of the event listing. That brings you to an ESPN3 portal where you can access the desired program.

Michael Ventola, the voice of the Highlanders, is on play-by-play with expert analysis from David Gass.

ALL-TIME SERIES
Friday marks the fifth all-time meeting between the Highlanders and Bison with Howard having won each of the last three meetings. In fact, the last meeting was decided by six points, 80-73.  Alana Dudley's 14 points on 6-for-9 shooting from the field paced the Highlanders.

NJIT picked up its lone win, 60-57, over Howard on December 10, 2010.

A Look at Howard
The visiting Bison enter Friday's contest with a 2-6 overall mark, including wins in the last two out of three contests.  Howard's most recent victory came against Mount St. Mary's, 95-62, in the 2016 home opener, paced by senior Sydni Johnson, who just missed out on a double-double with a season-high 21 points and nine rebounds. Johnson went 7-of-14 from the floor, including four three-pointers.  

After coming up with a 95-62 triumph over Mount St. Mary's, redshirt senior Te'Shya Heslip was selected as the Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference (MEAC) Co-Player of the Week and freshman Imani Bryant earned Rookie of the Week honors. 

Heslip tallied her seventh double-digit point total of the season against the Mount with 18 points. She shot 6-of-12 from the floor to go along with eight assists, five steals and four rebounds.  She has led the Bison in scoring in seven of eight games and is averaging a team-high 17.5 points, 4.5 assists and 3.6 steals.

It is the second straight week that Bryant has been named the league's Rookie of the Week. She recorded nine points on 4-of-7 shooting and paired it with three blocks and a steal. The 6-1 forward posted her third consecutive game with double-digit rebounds with 11.  Bryant is putting up 7.9 rebounds per game and shooting 65.6 percent (21-32) from the field. Both marks are the best on the team. 

Howard dropped its first five games of the season before recording its first victory of the season at St. Francis Brooklyn on November 30.  The Bison, with a challenging schedule, played its first seven games on the road, including at No. 21 West Virginia, Michigan and Cincinnati.

The Bison were selected to finish ninth out of 13 teams in the Preseason Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference coaches' poll.  Johnson, who averaged 10.6 ppg and 5.5 rpg in 2015-16, was named to the Preseason MEAC All-Conference team.

A Look at NJIT
NJIT(4-7) are coming off a tough loss against Atlantic 10 member Saint Joseph's, 75-36, on Tuesday evening, paced by Dudley's team-best 11 points.

Dudley paces the Highlanders in scoring (11.0 ppg) and assists (36) while senior forward Leah Horton follows at 10.2 ppg and 5.8 rpg, which ranks second on the team.

Redshirt sophomore Kelly Guarino sits in third averaging 7.1 ppg while leading the Highlanders in three-point field goals made (15).

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