HIGHLIGHTS:
• Nominated for Atlantic Sun Conference All-Academic Team in 2015-16
2015-16:
• Last 8 G: Averaged 2.8 ppg (22) while shooting 11-20 FG (.550)
• Last 3 G of Regular Season: Averaged 6.0 ppg, 2.0 rpg, 1.0 apg, inc. back-to-back, 8-point games on 2/18-2/20
• As a Starter (9 G)*: Averaged 3.9 ppg, 2.6 rpg, 0.9 apg (35, 23, 8); *NJIT went 6-3 in these games
• 12/28-1/23: Missed 9 G due to torn plantar fasciitis
• 2/20 at JU: Scored a season-high tying 8 points (4-5 FG) while adding a rebound in 17 minutes
• 2/18 at UNF: Started and finished with a season-high 8 points (4-11, 0-1) while adding 2 rebounds and an assist
• 2/1 at Lipscomb: Finished with a then season-high 7 points while tying career high with 7 rebounds (2nd career GS)
• 1/30 at Kennesaw St.: Made first start of his NCAA career; tallied four points, two rebounds, two assists in 11 M
• 1/27 vs. Lipscomb: Returned from missing 9 games, chipped in 2 points in 16 M (1-2); first action since 12/20
• 11/29 vs. UMFK: Registered a career-high 7 rebounds while tying a career-high 3 blocks; scored a season-high 6 pts
• 11/21 vs. Lafayette: Had a career-high three blocks; also recorded a rebound in nine minutes
• 11/14 at #2 Kentucky: Scored two points -- both from the free-throw line -- with a steal in nine minutes
2014-15:
• Last 15 games: Averaged 3.6 ppg (24-47, 2-5 in 154 minutes)... after 0 points in prior three games
• 3/2 vs. Howard: Had one of best games against a DI opponent w/ seven points (3-5), four rebounds, assist, two blocks
• 2/28 vs. Sarah Lawrence (DIII): Scored a career-high 10 points (5-9, 0-2) with five rebounds and an assist
• 12/23 at #7 Villanova: Tied season-high with four rebounds in just 13 minutes, added four points
2013-14:
• Did not appear in a game, but practiced throughout the season; received a redshirt
HIGH SCHOOL:
Before NJIT, he lived in the Atlantic City, NJ, area for a couple of years and is a 2013 graduate of Absegami High School in Galloway, NJ. And before that, he studied and played ball near Moscow... An independent scouting report on hoopgroup.com described him as “very fluid for his size and runs the floor very well.” And, like many European trained big men, Shustov has a well-developed ability to shoot from the outside. Added the hoopgroup.com report: “(he is) a legitimate catch-and-shoot threat from the outside.” Another scouting web site called him an “intriguing prospect…with oodles of upside if he works hard.”... In his native Russia, he competed in both national and international competition in the “School of Olympic Reserve” based in the Moscow region...
PERSONAL:
Vladmir S. Shustov... son of Sergey Shustov and Nadezda Shustovo. ... enrolled in NJIT’s Albert Dorman Honors College and majors in business... born 4/26/94 in Russia in Tomsk, Siberia -- a city of more than half a million people located about 1,800 air miles east of Moscow (which more than 4,600 air miles east of Newark)...
