NJIT will visit Lehigh in a Wednesday afternoon matinee on 'Education Day' at Stabler Arena. Tipoff is slated for 11am.
The game can be seen on Lehigh's All-Access Network.
A simple way to find Lehigh's All-Access Network video link is on NJIT's official athletics website, http://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 the Lehigh portal where you can access the desired program.
All-Time Series
Wednesday will mark the 12th all-time meeting between the two teams with Lehigh leading the all-time series, 11-0. In the last meeting between the two schools, Lehigh topped NJIT, 84-52, on November 30, 2016.
Education Day
Lehigh Athletics invites schools to participate in a fun and Educational Day filled with basketball and learning.
A Look at Lehigh
Lehigh enters Wednesday's game with a 5-4 overall record. The Mountain Hawks are coming off a 65-55 loss at Sacred Heart, paced by sophomore Gena Grundhoffer, who registered her second career-double-double with 18 points and a career-high 13 rebounds, but a second half rally by the Mountain Hawks fell short.
Coming off a 10-20 record last season, the Mountain Hawks return 11 of their 15 players, who accounted for 92.5 percent of the team's points and 91.1 percent of the team's minutes from the 2016-17 season.
All five starters are back from a season ago, including Third Team All-Patriot League selection Quinci Mann (15.4 ppg, 3.2 rpg, 1.2 apg), who finished third in the league in scoring.
Lehigh also returns three starting sophomores in Gena Grundhoffer (9.9 ppg, 3.7 rpg), Camryn Buhr (7.0 ppg, 4.4 rpg) and Hannah Hedstrom who tied for third in the PL with 3.5 assists per game.
This season, Quinci Mann paces the Mountain Hawks, averaging 12.8 ppg followed by Camryn Buhr (12.0 ppg) and Gena Grundhoffer (10.1 ppg). Buhr sits atop the team at 6.9 rpg.
Patriot League Preseason Poll
The Lehigh women's basketball team was picked seventh in the Patriot League Preseason Poll.
A Look at NJIT
NJIT, still in search of its first win of the 2017 season, is coming off a 55-43 loss at Morgan State. Redshirt junior
Tatianna Torres with 16 points followed by freshmen
Ellyn Stoll, who posted 10 points. Freshmen
Dez Allen grabbed a team-best six rebounds.
Torres paces the Highlanders in scoring (11.6 ppg), assists (23) and steals (14). Her 14 steals ranked tied for fourth in the ASUN Cofnerence.
Taj Lewis is the Highlanders other double-figure, who is averaging 10.6 ppg. Lewis is second on the team in rebounds at 5.4 rpg. The senior forward ranks second in the ASUN in field goal percentage at 52.8.
Stoll paces the Highlanders wit 12 three-point field goals and ranks third on the team averaging 7.9 ppg.
Wellness and Events Center
NJIT celebrated a Ribbon Cutting ceremony on November 10, 2017 to open the new state-of-the-art Wellness and Events Center nicknamed the "WEC" – which will feature a 3,500-seat basketball arena and compare favorably with many Division I mid-major facilities throughout the country, allowing NJIT to continue to grow their men's and women's basketball programs.
The WEC will be three stories high and its north side will be all windows, through which natural light will flood into the building. The tall windows will overlook the new athletic field, which will open in Fall 2018.
ASUN Conference
The Highlanders, who became the eighth full member of the A-Sun effective July 1, 2015, will begin its third season in the ASUN Conference, will have 15 games, home-and-away, against the other seven conference teams, three of which played in the 2017 post-season.
NJIT was selected sixth in the 2017 Preseason ASUN Conference poll, combining for 21 points ahead of USC Upstate (19 points) and Lipscomb (14 points).
After winning last year's ASUN Conference women's basketball championship title, FGCU was picked to repeat by the league's head coaches in the 2017-18. The Eagles garnered six first-place votes among the head coaches in the league, while also being selected first in the media poll.
Next Up
NJIT will conclude its three-game road trip on Sunday, December 10 at Binghamton in Vestal, New York and return home to play the next six at home in the new state-of-the-art Wellness and Events Center in Newark, NJ.
