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Game 25	Kennesaw State (7-17; 3-5 A-Sun) at NJIT (13-11; 4-4 A-Sun)
Date/Time	Saturday, February 6, 2016/ 4 pm
Location/Venue	Newark, NJ/ Estelle and Zoom Fleisher Athletic Center (1,500)
Live Coverage	ESPN3 streaming telecast (WatchESPN app; www.watchespn.com)  Matt Provence (play-by-play); Dave Calloway (analyst)
Live Stats	In-game statistics (free)
Buy Tickets Online	NJITTix.com
Social Media	@njithighlanders
All-Time Series	NJIT leads, 1-0 (75-67 at KSU, January 30, 2016)
Game Notes	NJIT notes / Kennesaw State notes

 
The game will be shown live on ESPN3 (all remaining NJIT basketball games--home and away--will be 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.
 
Matt Provence, voice of the Highlanders, is on play-by-play with expert analysis from former Monmouth coach and star player Dave Calloway.
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Atlantic Sun Conference Game: Kennesaw State at NJIT (Saturday, 4 pm)
A week after the first-ever meeting between the teams (won by NJIT in Georgia, 75-67), the teams will have a rematch, completing the home-and-home regular season A-Sun series.
 
NJIT begins a three-game homestand having won its last two in a road trip that began at Kennesaw State last Saturday and continued two days later with a 90-78 win at Lipscomb in Nashville.
 
In the first meeting between the Highlanders and Owls, NJIT got out to a 27-8 lead in the opening half. Kennesaw State fought back into contention and eventually tied the score in the second half.
 
However, the Highlanders, who, remarkably, have never trailed in any of their A-Sun wins, staved off the challenge and won, paced by 22 points from Damon Lynn, 17 from Rob Ukawuba and 12 apiece from Tim Coleman and Chris Jenkins.
 
The dynamic backcourt of Yonel Brown (19 points) and Kendrick Ray (15 points) led the way for KSU.
 
A LOOK at KENNESAW STATE (7-17; 3-5 A-Sun)
Located in Kennesaw, GA, about 25 miles north of Atlanta, KSU has turned to Al Skinner to lead its men's basketball program. Coach Skinner brought a thick resume to the job, having won 385 games in a 22-year career as head coach at Rhode Island and then Boston College, where he is the winningest coach in school history.
 
A member of the UMass Hall of Fame for his accomplishments as a player that continued into a successful stint in the old ABA and NBA, he is also in the Hall of Fame at URI for his coaching tenure that included two NCAA berths, two NIT berths and three 20-win seasons.
 
At Boston College, he led the Eagles to six NCAA Tournaments in one seven-year stretch. He won multiple national Coach of the Year awards when BC finished 2000-01 with a 27-5 record and he was twice voted Coach of the Year in the BIG EAST Conference. Four of his Boston College teams finished in the AP National Top 25, with the 2001 and 2007 squads ending at #7.
 
After losing to NJIT last Saturday, the Owls bounced back with a convincing 75-62 win over USC Upstate to sweep the season series against Upstate.
 
Kennesaw State team stats and leaders:
Scoring (team 70.7 ppg; -7.3 ppg): Yonel Brown (5-9, Sr; 18.4 ppg); Kendrick Ray (6-1, R-Jr; 18.3 ppg)
Rebounding (team 33.3 rpg; -5.1 rpg): Aubrey Williams (6-6, R-Jr; 6.4 rpg); Ray (5.2 rpg)
Assists: Ray (65)
Blocks: Bernard Morena (6-8, R-Sr; 18)
Steals: Ray (36)
3-pt FGM: Brown (61)
 
A LOOK at NJIT (13-11; 4-4 A-Sun)
After losing its season opener at then-#2 Kentucky, NJIT rebounded for three wins in a row (at South Florida, and home vs. Boston University and Lafayette).
 
The Highlanders, who have not won three in a row since, will try for their first such streak in the Atlantic Sun Conference, as they enter Saturday's rematch with Kennesaw State having won back-to-back at KSU and Lipscomb.
 
NJIT will also aim to recapture the home court success it enjoyed for more than a year on Fleisher Family Court. In the record-setting 2014-15 season, the Highlanders were 15-2 at home, including three wins in the postseason CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT).
 
The success continued into this season, when NJIT captured its first four home games and went 5-2 in non-conference games in Newark. However, the Highlanders are 1-3 in Atlantic Sun home games, which is puzzling, considering their 3-1 record in A-Sun road games, which is the opposite of conventional expectations.
 
The three-game homestand that begins against Kennesaw State represents the last three home games on the regular season schedule. NJIT will host Stetson on February 11 at 7 pm and Florida Gulf Coast on February 13 at 4 pm. A Top Four finish in the regular season standings will guarantee NJIT at least one home game in the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament in March.
 
NJIT team stats and leaders:
Scoring (team 76.5 ppg; +1.4 ppg): Damon Lynn (5-11 Jr; 18 ppg); Tim Coleman (6-5, Jr; 14.3 ppg); Ky Howard (6-4, Sr; 12.8 ppg);
Rebounding (team 35.1 rpg; -1.9 rpg): Coleman (7.1 rpg); Howard (4.5 rpg); Terrence Smith (6-6, Jr; 4.4 rpg)
Assists: Howard (105)
Blocks: Coleman (21)
Steals: Lynn (42); Coleman (36)
3-pt FGM: Lynn (85)
 
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.