njit highlanders
Meet the NCAA baseball tournament's unlikely underdog
The NJIT Highlanders, less than 20 years a Division I program, are the epitome of an underdog story.
Breaking down the local college hoops landscape
Everyone dreams of March this time of year, of the possibilities and the potential. This season, several teams from the New York City area have good reason to imagine cutting...
NYC-area programs begin pursuit for NCAA Tournament berths
Seton Hall should be a lock for the NCAA Tournament. St. John’s should have its best team under Chris Mullin. But the Big East programs aren’t the only local teams...
NJIT transcendent star's career ends on cruel twist of fate
Damon Lynn never missed a game. It wasn’t a concern. There was no pain he hadn’t been able to play through. As a sophomore at NJIT, he suffered a stress...
Breaking down NYC-area teams: Who could make NCAA tourney?
It was a memorable March in the area, with four teams — Seton Hall, Iona, Fairleigh Dickinson and Stony Brook — reaching the NCAA Tournament, and two other schools —...
'This is the job I've always wanted:' Jim Engles comes home
Jim Engles was being spun in so many directions, smiling and shaking hands and small-talking with so many different people after being introduced as Columbia’s new head coach. It was...
After resurrecting NJIT program, Jim Engles bolts to Columbia
HOUSTON — That didn’t take long. Columbia’s men’s basketball coaching search lasted all of two days. Jim Engles agreed to replace Kyle Smith roughly 48 hours after Smith left the...
Cold-shooting NJIT stunned in first conference tourney
Be careful what you wish for. After nearly a decade in Division I — which included playing the previous two seasons as the nation’s only independent team — NJIT made...
Breaking down the metropolitan area's chances to dance
Seton Hall is a lock to break its decade-long NCAA Tournament drought and won’t have to sweat over anything other than seeding on Selection Sunday, but multiple conference champions in...
NJIT hoops has a long shot at NCAA glory -- all it ever wanted
Everything had changed, and still, nothing was really different. The greatest season in NJIT history had just been completed, one in which the program previously known only for a 51-game...
St. John's gets shot out of the building in demoralizing loss
St. John’s doesn’t need to turn the clock back to when Chris Mullin captivated the city on the court. Going back one week would do. Seven days after pulling off...
Guide to this college basketball season in the NYC area
The college basketball season starts in New York this week with the spotlight on St. John’s, as usual, but as the season progresses, the less-heralded local teams will steal the...
NJIT basketball finally found a home
New Jersey Institute of Technology men’s basketball program’s search for a conference has come to an end. The once-independent program will join the Atlantic Sun this coming season, a source...
Locals head to NIT, CIT after postseason heartbreak
St. Francis Brooklyn had its sights set on its first NCAA Tournament bid, the favorite to reach the Big Dance after winning the Northeast Conference regular-season championship for the first...
Best player, best team and best everything for NY-area hoops
Conference tournaments begin this week, bringing live-and-die excitement and unforgettable memories, while determining the legacies of players all across the nation. Though no regular season sprints as fast as college...
NJIT finds respect, identity, new gym -- but no conference
The best part of the season is quickly approaching, and for some, the only part of the season — conference tournaments and the NCAA Tournament — worthy of their attention....
Buzziest program in college hoops waited 8 years for this
March Madness can wait. This was a Delirious December night in Newark that New Jersey Institute of Technology won’t soon forget. The chants — “NJIT, NJIT” — began as soon...
No more a laughingstock, NJIT just needs a home
Jim Engles has never taken a win for granted. Now, he’ll never take a schedule for granted, either. Following another unbearable season of conference realignment — resulting in the disintegration...