Game	ASUN Quarterfinals | NJIT (14-15) vs. UNF (13-18)
Date | Time	Monday, Feb. 26 | 7:30 p.m.
Location | Arena	Newark, NJ | WEC
Live on ESPN3	Watch (Link to ESPN3) | Matt Provence (PBP); Rob Kennedy (Color)
Live Stats	In-Game statistics (FREE)
Social Media	@njithighlanders | @NJITHoops
All-time Series	UNF, 4-2 (1-1 in 2017-18)
Game Notes	UNF/NJIT

   
The Highlanders closed the regular season with a 76-67 victory at USC Upstate on Thursday, while North Florida dropped an 86-81 decision at Jacksonville.
 
NJIT is 0-2 all-time in ASUN Tournament contests after falling in the quarterfinals to No. 7 seed Stetson in 2015-16 and No. 2 seed Lipscomb in 2016-17.
 
The winner of this contest will play the winner of No. 1 seed Florida Gulf Coast/No. 8 seed USC Upstate in the ASUN Semifinals on Thursday, March 1.
 
NJIT went 10-6 at the WEC this season.
 
This marks the second meeting in nine days between the two teams after North Florida picked up an 86-75 win on Feb. 17 in Jacksonville.
 
The game can be seen live on ESPN3 (quarterfinal and semifinals of ASUN Tournament). The ASUN Championship game will be televised on ESPN.
 
A simple way to find ESPN3 is on NJIT's official athletics website, http://www.njithighlanders.com.
 
Near the middle of the home page under the headlines section, an upcoming events calendar lists scheduled NJIT contests. After finding the event, click the camera icon to the left of the event listing. That brings you to an ESPN3 portal where you can access the desired program.
 
Matt Provence, the voice of the Highlanders, is on play-by-play with expert analysis from Rob Kennedy.
 

All-Time Series
 
North Florida leads the all-time series by a 4-2 count after picking up the afore-mentioned 86-75 victory on Feb. 17 in Jacksonville.
 
In that contest, NJIT went on a run late in the first half to tie things at 39 apiece heading into the locker room, but North Florida scored the first 12 points of the second half en route to the win over the Highlanders on Saturday.
 
Head coach Brian Kennedy's squad did not go quietly as they cut the lead to five on a couple of different occasions, but the Ospreys seemingly had an answer for every Highlander run.
 
Sophomore forward Anthony Tarke (20 points, 10 rebounds) and junior forward Abdul Lewis (20 points, 11 rebounds) each had a double-double to pace NJIT, while junior guard Donovan Greer chipped in with eight points.
 
Sophomore guard Ivan Gandia-Rosa led the way offensively for the Ospreys with a game-high 23 points and was joined in double figures by senior guard Osborn Blount who added a career-high 17 points, sophomore guard Garrett Sams who chipped in with 15 and freshman forward Noah Horchler came through with 11 points and seven rebounds.
 
Blount's previous career-high was 16 points against Florida National on Jan. 2, 2018.
 
In the last meeting in Newark on Jan. 18, NJIT used a 34-9 first half run and led by double digits for the final 33 plus minutes of the game in a 91-59 victory over North Florida.
 
The two teams split a pair of meetings a year ago.

 
F-U-N WITH U-N-F
 
North Florida led 34-31 at halftime, but was outscored by a 52-40 margin in the second half in Jacksonville's 86-81 win on Thursday night.
 
The Dolphins shot a blistering 63.3% (19-of-30) from the floor in the second half.
 
Sams had 19 points on 7-of-12 shooting to pace UNF, while the duo of Gandia-Rosa and Horchler added 17 points apiece.
 
Head coach Matthew Driscoll's squad shoots a league-best 37.5% from beyond the arc and ranks second in scoring at 81.2 ppg.
 
Gandia-Rosa leads six Ospreys averaging in double figures at 14.2 ppg and he is joined by Sams (12.2 ppg), Horchler (11.7 ppg), redshirt sophomore guard J.T. Escobar (11.3 ppg), freshman forward Trip Day (11.3 ppg) and sophomore forward Wajid Aminu (10.1 ppg).
 
Horchler and Lewis are tied for the ASUN lead in rebounding at 8.7 rpg, while Horchler ranks fifth in field goal percentage at 54.9%.
 
North Florida features two of the top five rebounders in the ASUN with Horchler and Aminu, who ranks fifth at 6.8 rpg.
 
Driscoll is in his ninth season at the helm of the Ospreys and has led his club to two ASUN regular season titles in the past three years and a berth in the 2015 NCAA Tournament.
 
In 2015-16, North Florida won a school-record 21 games and hosted Florida in the opening round of the NIT.
 
Driscoll is also the winningest coach in program history.
 
Prior to coming to North Florida, Driscoll spent six seasons as the top assistant at Baylor and helped lead the Bears to their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 20 seasons in 2008.
 
Driscoll's son, Chase, is a senior guard for the Ospreys.
 
Aminu's brothers, Alade and Al-Farouq, played collegiately at Georgia Tech and Wake Forest, respectively. Al-Farouq currently plays for the NBA's Portland Trail Blazers while Alade plays professionally in France.
 
Sophomore guard Benedikt Haid's father, Johannes, was a two-time NAIA All-American at Hawaii Pacific and signed with the Detroit Pistons before suffering a severe knee injury.
 
Freshman guard Brian Coffey II's cousin, DeAngelo Hunter, currently plays college basketball at West Virginia whom the Highlanders squared off against earlier this season.

 
NJIT Outlook
 
The Highlanders led by just two at halftime, but pulled away early in the second half en route to the 76-67 win at USC Upstate on Thursday.
 
With 18:44 to play, sophomore guard Shyquan Gibbs hit a three to kickstart a 23-10 run that was capped by a Mohamed Bendary jumper that gave NJIT a 67-52 lead at the 8:28 mark of the second half.
 
Freshman guard Shawndale Jones led a balanced Highlander attack with 13 points, while the trio of Greer, freshman guard Zach Cooks and junior guard Diandre Wilson chipped in with 11 points apiece.
 
Seven different Highlanders scored at least six points in the game.
 
Greer was 3-of-6 from beyond the arc and is shooting 18-of-40 (45.0%) from beyond the arc in ASUN play. The Houston native is averaging 9.3 ppg over his last four games.
 
Cooks was also hot from three as the Lawrenceville, Ga., native sank 3-of-5 from deep and ranks third in the ASUN in three-point percentage at 44.9%.
 
On the season, Tarke leads the team in scoring at 15.8 ppg and is joined in double figures by Lewis (12.2 ppg) and Wilson (10.5 ppg). Lewis is also tied for the league lead in rebounding at 8.7 boards per game.