UNION, N.J. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | New Jersey City University saw three players score 19 points or better, highlighted by a career-high 27 points from senior point guard Jourdan Roberson (Brooklyn, NY/University (Newark)) and the Gothic Knights posted their best scoring effort in four years in a 100-70 New Jersey Athletic Conference road throttling of host Kean University on January 24 at Harwood Arena.
 
Senior small forward Neville Joseph (Newark, NJ/West Side) and junior shooting guard Khalid Muhammad (Orange, NJ/Orange) each scored 19 points for NJCU (6-11, 4-7 NJAC) as NJCU improved to an incredible 79-2 all-time when scoring 100 points in a game.
 
The Knights led 51-33 at the half when the club shot a scintillating 64.3 percent (18-28) and reached the 50-point threshold in the first half of a conference game for the first time since the 2006-07 season.

Overall, NJCU easily shot a season high from the field and three-point range, at 58.6 percent (34-58) and 57.1 percent (12-21), respectively, knocking down a dozen triples. NJCU was equally awesome from the line where it hit on 20-of-24 attempts (.833).
 
Roberson was 6-for-6 from the field (two threes) in the first half when he netted 15 points and Joseph was 5-for-5 from the floor, also connecting twice from deep in the opening stanza.
 
Roberson finished with a game-best and team-season high 27 points on 9-of-11 shooting, including 3-of-4 three-point tries, while converting 6-of-7 at the line with three assists and two steals in only 28 minutes of action.
 Joseph shot 6-of-8, also connecting on 3-of-4 from three-point distance and was 4-of-4 from the line in only 18 minutes. Muhammad scored at least 19 points for the third straight game to draw within 56 points of 1,000 for his career. He made 7-of-12 from the field (2-5 3FG) with seven rebounds and four assists in 32 minutes.
 
Also for NJCU, freshman guard Joseph Kelley (Newark, NJ/University) continued to be a spark off the bench, scoring a career-high 11 points (4-5 FG) in 12 minutes. Senior shooting guard Jamall McDaniel (Jersey City, NJ/Lincoln) added eight points (3-6 FG, 2-3 3FG) and six assists.
 
Kean received 25 points (8-17 FG, 4-9 3FG) from Tommy Soulias and Emmanuel Omowole had 15 points (4-8 FG, 7-10 FT). J.J. Hladik had eight points on 2-of-5 three-point shooting and Kevin Grek finished with five assists.
 
NJCU scored the first five points of the game and were never challenged by Kean after the first four minutes of the game. The Knights elevated the lead to double figures with 10:38 left in the opening half (24-14). After the Cougars drew within seven (33-26) with 6:21 to go, NJCU pulled away for good with eight quick points over the next 73 seconds to go in front by 15 (43-28).
 
Leading by 18 at the half, the NJCU advantage was rarely under 20 throughout the second half. With an opportunity to still reach the century mark, NJCU scored the final 12 points of the game over the final 3:27 with the final 30-point outcome its largest lead of the game. Leading 97-70 after a rebound with 47 seconds left, McDaniel beat the shot clock with a triple for the 100th point with 11 seconds to go.
 
QUOTES:
NJCU head coach Marc Brown (eighth season)
On the result: "This was a great, complete, offensive game. We really shared the ball and we finally hit shots. These are the same shots we have been getting all year. They went in today. We also shot well from the foul line. We just are trying to continue to play better."

 
OF NOTE:

• Series: 132nd known meeting. NJCU leads all-time known series, 95-37.
• NJCU sweeps season series, winning 64-45 on November 22 in Jersey City.
• NJCU is 79-2 all-time when scoring 100+ points in a game.
• NJCU's last 100-point effort was February 7, 2011 in a 103-47 home win over Berkeley (NJ).
• NJCU last 100-point effort in an NJAC game was a 118-116 triple overtime loss in Jersey City to Rutgers-Newark on December 1, 2010.
• NJCU scored 50 points in the first half of a game for the first time since November 22, 2011 vs. Medgar Evers in a 99-79 win.
• NJCU scored more than 51 points in the first half for the first time since an 80-46 win over Berkeley on December 8, 2008.
• NJCU score more than 51 points in the first half of a conference game for the first time since January 27, 2007 against Rowan when it had a 52-43 halftime lead.
• NJCU's previous season scoring high was in a season-opening, 85-84 win over Bridgewater State (November 15, 2014).
• NJCU's 12 made three pointers are a season high. The previous high for threes was 9 (9-25) in a 58-56 loss to Stockton on January 7.
• NJCU's 12 threes are the most in a game since hitting 12 at Ramapo College on November 23, 2013. It was only the third time since the 2007-08 season NJCU has hit a dozen threes in a game.
• NJCU's .571 three-point percentage (12-21) is the highest in a game since shooting a school-record .688 (11-16) in a 76-71 road upset of #8 Richard Stockton on the road on December 5, 2009.
• NJCU's .586 field goal percentage (34-58) is a season high; the previous high was .500 (22-44) on January 14 against Rutgers-Camden.
• The last time NJCU had a field goal percentage better than .586 was February 7, 2011 vs. Berkeley when the Knights shot .597 (40-67).
• Jourdan Roberson reached double figures in scoring for the 16th time in two seasons at NJCU and fourth time in 2014-15.
• Roberson's previous career high was 19 against Rutgers-Newark on November 26, 2013 as a junior. He shot 11-for-11 from the line in the game.
• Roberson's 15 points in the first half alone exceeded his previous season high of 14 against Montclair State (January 17).
• Khalid Muhammad reached double figures in scoring for the 53rd time in 72 career games and 11th time this season. He has 944 career points.
• Neville Joseph scored in double figures for the 12th time in 15 games in his only season at NJCU.
• Joseph Kelley scored in double figures for the second time. His previous high was 10 in a neutral court game against Elizabethtown on January 4.

 
WHAT'S NEXT?
On Monday, January 26 the Knights play their final non-conference regular season game before a seven-game NJAC swing with the league tournament still within reach. NJCU will head to Phoenixville, Pa for a non-conference game with Valley Forge Christian College (8-7). Last year in Jersey City the clubs met on February 10, 2014 (after a February 3 snow out) with NJCU winning, 73-57.
 
Series: Third meeting. NJCU leads, 2-0. It will be the first meeting in Phoenixville between the clubs who also met on a neutral court in 2012-13.