Women's Basketball | 2/26/2016 1:59:00 PM

Game 29	NJIT (4-24, 1-12 A-Sun) at USC Upstate (18-10, 9-4 A-Sun)
Date | Time	Saturday, February 27, 2016 | 2 pm
Location | Arena	Spartansburg, SC | Hodges Center
Live Video|Audio	ESPN3 streaming telecast (WatchESPN app., www.watchespn.com)
Live Stats	In-game statistics (free)
Social Media	@njithighlanders
All-time series	USC Upstate leads, 1-0 | Upstate 51, NJIT 41 (1.9.16)
Game Notes	NJIT Notes | Upstate Notes

The game will be shown live 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.
 
For more details on how to watch NJIT on ESPN3, go to the section at the bottom of this page.

NJIT, in its first season as a member of the Atlantic Sun Conference, will close out the 2015-16 regular season on February 27 at USC Upstate at 2pm.

Every team qualifies for the Atlantic Sun Conference championship tournament, which begins on March 4 with the quarterfinal round at the campus sites of the top four seeded teams.

NJIT will be the eighth seed unless the Highalnders win at Upstate and Lipscomb, currently #7, loses at Kennesaw State on Saturday.

If NJIT is seeded is eighth, it would open the tournament at runaway first-place winner Florida Gulf Coast.

Saturday will mark the second all-time meeting between the two schools.  The Spartans defeated NJIT 58-41 in Newark in the first meeting.

SCOUTING USC UPSTATE
Upstate enters the regular season finale with an 18-10 overall record and 9-4 mark in the Atlantic Sun Conference.  The Spartans suffered a 75-69 overtime loss at Jacksonville on Monday.

Senior Brittany Starling leads the Atlantic Sun in rebounds (12.1 rpg) and is second in scoring (15.5 ppg) and free throws. She is sixth in rebounds, tied for seventh in double-doubles(9) and eighth in rebounds per game among NCAA Division I players.

Travonda Haddock is third in the league in blocks (36) and eighth in rebounds while classmate Kristin Dickerson ranks fourth in free throws and fifth in steals.

HEAD COACH TAMMY GEORGE
Head Coach Tammy George in her 11th season at the helm of the Spartans, is the all-time leader in victories (143) at USC Upstate.  She guided the Spartans to two Women's Basketball Invitational (WBI) tournament appearances in 2010-11 and 2013-14.  In 2013-14, the Spartans finished with the third-best season in Division I history (currently in ninth season as a Division I program; first season 2007-08) with a 17-15 overall mark, 11-7 in the Atlantic Sun.

In her first season at USC Upstate in 2005-06, she led the Spartans to the NCAA Tournament for the first time since the 1994-95 season, finishing with a 16-14 overall record.

USC UPSTATE LEADERS
Points: Brittany Starling (15.5ppg)
Rebounds: Brittany Starling (12.1rpg)
Field Goal Percentage: Brittany Starling (165-317; .521)
3-Point FG Made: Raven Jefferson (31)
Assists: Kristen Dickerson (74)
Steals: Kristen Dickerson (44)

NJIT (1-12 A-Sun, 4-24) got 12 points, five rebounds and four assists from junior point guard Alana Dudley against North Florida.  Dudley finished 5-for-9 from the field.  The junior has 88 assists on the season, which ranks fourth all-time at NJIT in the Division I era (first season 2006-07) and has at least one assist in 26 of NJIT's 27 games. 

Alana's sister, Olivia Dudley was NJIT's other double-digit scorer with 10 points, including a pair of three-pointers, and four assists.  Freshman Kelly Guarino and Tatianna Torres added eight points for NJIT.  The eight points for Torres is a new personal-best. 

Guarino moves into third all-time in the Division I era at NJIT with 61 three-point baskets made.   The record stands at 77 by Denisa Domiterova (2011-12).

NJIT LEADERS
Points: Leah Horton (10.7 ppg)
Rebounds: Leah Horton (7.6  rpg)
Field Goal Percentage: Leah Horton (87-for-201; 43.3)
3-Point FG Made: Kelly Guarino (61)
Assists: Alana Dudley (88)
Steals: Alana Dudley (36)

How to watch NJIT sports programming on ESPN3
ESPN3 is the live platform for at least 23 NJIT men's basketball games this season. Every NJIT game in the Atlantic Sun Conference throughout the regular season and into the A-Sun postseason tournament will be covered on ESPN3. 
 
ESPN3 is ESPN's live multi-screen sports network.  It is accessible online at WatchESPN.com, on smartphones and tablets via the WatchESPN app and streamed on televisions through Amazon Fire TV and Fire TV Stick, Apple TV, Chromecast, Roku, Xbox 360 and Xbox One. 
 
The network is currently available to more than 99 million homes at no additional cost to fans who receive their high-speed Internet connection or video subscription from an affiliated service provider. 
 
ESPN3 is also available at no cost to approximately 21 million U.S. college students and U.S.-based military personnel via computers, smartphones and tablets connected to on-campus educational and on-base military broadband and Wi-Fi networks. That means devices served by NJIT's on-campus computer network can link directly to ESPN3.
 
Others can access ESPN3 through WatchESPN if they receive ESPN programming from an affiliated service provider. Those users need to provide the username and password they use in online communication with their regular service provider (can usually be found on regular billing material from the service provider).
 
Here is a link to Frequently Asked Questions about WatchESPN.