
The NJIT Ladies' Basketball team got their
2nd consecutive conference win this season with a 76-61 victory over California State University - Bakerfield on Friday night (11 Jan2008).

Freshman guard <i>Jessica Gerald</i> produced the best individual scoring game of the season for NJIT, setting a new NJIT Women's basketball Division I record with 37 points.
With this win, NJIT is right now 4-10 (overall) and 2-0 (Independent Conference) this season.
The lady Highlanders would be hosting Cornell at the Prudential Center in downtown Newark for their next game which would be their 1st ever game at the US$380 million arena on Tuesday (January 15).
The NJIT's Men's Basketball team who are currently 0-17 would be playing a home game against Columbia today (saturday).

In a recent interview with Sports Illustrated, coach <i>Jim Casciano </i> admitted that his team is 2 recruiting seasons away from becoming a competitve Division 1 team. See
http://sportsillustrated.cnn.com/200....ap/index.html for more details.