NJIT Men's Basketball CollegeInsider.com National Tournament Gameday Center

Game 33	Boston University (19-13) at NJIT (18-14)
Second round	2016 CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT)
Date/Time	Monday, March 21, 2016/ 7:30 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) and Rob Kennedy (analyst)
Live Stats	In-game statistics (free)
Buy Tickets Online	NJITTix.com
Social Media	@njithighlanders
All-Time Series	NJIT leads, 1-0 (Won 90-76 on November 19, 2015)
Game Notes	NJIT notes / Boston University notes

NJIT CIT Round 2 promo video

Highlight video from BU at NJIT (November 19, 2015)

Highlanders Host Boston University in CIT Second Round Monday Night
NJIT and Boston University will square off for the second time this season, with the winner of Monday's 7:30 pm game advancing to the eight-team quarterfinal round of the 2016 CollegeInsider.com Tournament (CIT), to be played at campus sites March 22-24.

NJIT (18-14) got to Monday's second round with a convincing 79-65 opening-round victory over Army West Point last Wednesday night in the Fleisher Athletic Center. Boston University (19-14) earned its second-round CIT berth with a 69-66 road win at Fordham, also on Wednesday night. It was BU's first postseason win in six years.

Tickets are on sale
A sellout is expected in the Fleisher Athletic Center and Highlander fans are urged to get their tickets in advance to avoid being shut out.

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Live coverage on ESPN3
The game will be shown live on ESPN3 with Matt Provence, voice of the Highlanders, on play-by-play, with expert analysis from Rob Kennedy.

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.

Previewing NJIT vs. Boston University; March 21, 7:30 pm, Fleisher Athletic Center
Before this season, NJIT and Boston University had never faced each other in men's basketball. That changed back on November 19, 2015, when the teams squared off in what was NJIT's home season opener, as part of the multi-site Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Classic and the Highlanders came out on top 90-76.

In the Naismith Memorial Hall of Fame Classic, NJIT and BU were part of a grouping headlined by then-#2 Kentucky that also included UAlbany and South Florida. As it turned out, the Highlanders and the Terriers each lost to Kentucky and they both beat South Florida. In addition to the head-to-head win by NJIT, Boston U beat UAlbany (69-64 at home) and NIIT lost to the Great Danes (74-73 on the road).

More than four months will have passed since NJIT and Boston University first played, so the games don't quite have the feel of being in the same season. But for BU, with its long history, this postseason rematch in Newark marks the first time since 1959 that the Terriers have had a postseason game vs. a team they played in the regular season. In 1959, they played UConn in the regular season and then faced the Huskies again in the NCAA Tournament, which featured early-round games against regional foes whenever possible in those days.

A look at Boston University (19-13)
Having defeated the fourth-place team from the Patriot League, Army West Point, in the CIT opening round, NJIT will test itself against the Patriot League's third-place team, BU.

Boston University, which began its season with a 3-5 non-conference record, found its stride in early December and posted a 4-1 record from Dec. 10 through Dec. 28, before beginning Patriot League play.

The Terriers were 11-7 in the Patriot, which was good for third place in that 10-team league. The Terriers were then upset by American, 69-64, in the opening round of the Patriot tournament.

One of the storylines for Monday night will be the coaching matchup that finds BU's Joe Jones, in his fifth year with the Terriers going against Jim Engles of NJIT. For five years, the two coaches worked side-by-side at Columbia, where Jones was head coach and Engles was his top assistant. The combination separated when Engles headed to NJIT as head coach in April 2008, but they remain close friends.

The two first matched wits on January 9, 2009 in Engles' first season with the Highlanders and the Jones-led Columbia prevailed. .

Joe Jones owns a record of 89-71 at Boston University near the end of 5 seasons; he is 175-177 between BU and Columbia. .

Boston University team stats and leaders:
Scoring (team 73.1 ppg; 0.9 ppg): Eric Fanning (6-5, Jr; 15.5 ppg); Cheddi Mosely (6-3, So; 13.3 ppg); John Papale (6-3, Sr; 11.7 ppg); Nathan Dieudonne (6-7, Sr; 9.9 ppg); Kyle Foreman (6-1, Fr; 9.2 ppg)
Rebounding (team 36 rpg; 1.2 rpg): Dieudonne (8 rpg); Nick Havener (6-8, So; 6 rpg)
Assists: Foreman (113)
Blocks: Nick Havener (39)
Steals: Havener (36)
3-pt FGM: Papale (91)

A LOOK at NJIT (18-14)
NJIT and several of its key players appeared to benefit from the rested afforded between their upset loss in the quarterfinal round of the Atlantic Sun Conference Tournament on March 1 and their convincing 79-65 win over Army West Point in the first round of the 2016 CIT on March 16.

Junior Terrence Smith, who did not play in seven of the last nine regular season games due to injury, generated a season-best 18 points and shot 8-for-10 from the floor against Army.

Another junior, Tim Coleman, who played hurt down the stretch, broke out for his sixth double-double of the season, but first in more than a month, with 16 points and a career-best tying 14 rebounds vs. Army. In the process, he became a 1,000-point career scorer, the sixth for NJIT since the program began Division I competition in 2006-07.

And Damon Lynn, who has played through an assortment of injuries that would likely sideline other players at times in the last two years, went all 40 minutes vs. Army (his 14th game this season with at least 40 minutes) and scored 16 points, while handing out 7 assists and committing just one turnover vs. Army.

Lynn raised his season's points total to a program-record 582, erasing the mark he set last season when he finished his sophomore year with 578 points.

The junior also raised his total of 3-pointers to 101. Second on the national active career list for 3-pointers, Damon has made at least 101 in all three of his college seasons.

The game against Boston U will be the 33rd of the season for NJIT, matching the record number of games the Highlanders played last season, when they finished 21-12 and advanced to the CIT semifinals.

NJIT team stats and leaders:
Scoring (team 75.6 ppg; 1.4 ppg): Damon Lynn (5-11 Jr; 18.2 ppg); Tim Coleman (6-5, Jr; 13.8 ppg); Ky Howard (6-4, Sr; 12.6 ppg);
Rebounding (team 34.9 rpg; -1.5 rpg): Coleman (7.2 rpg); Howard (4.8 rpg);
Assists: Howard (139)
Blocks: Coleman (27)
Steals: Lynn (52)
3-pt FGM: Lynn (101)

How to watch NJIT sports programming on ESPN3
ESPN3 is the live platform for at least 24 NJIT men's basketball games this season.

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.