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A leader from the day he stepped foot on campus, former men’s basketball standout point guard and team captain
Jourdan Roberson `15 enters his third season as assistant coach of the nationally-ranked
New Jersey City University men’s basketball program in 2017-18. He was appointed acting head women’s basketball coach on December 21, 2017.
Roberson served on Coach
Marc Brown’s staff as a graduate assistant coach during the highly-successful 2015-16 and 2016-17 seasons in which NJCU enjoyed back-to-back 21-win campaigns, the program’s seventh Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Metro championship in 2016 and a return to the NCAA Division III Tournament in 2017. The Gothic Knights entered the D3hoops.com Top 25 national poll in 2017 for the first time in the poll’s existence.
Roberson, who transferred to NJCU for the final two years of his collegiate career, was a team co-captain in both 2013-14 and 2014-15, leading the Gothic Knights to a pair of New Jersey Athletic Conference Tournament appearances and the 2014 ECAC Metro Tournament. NJCU won 27 games in his two seasons.
Roberson is the school's all-time free-throw percentage leader at 85.6 percent (95-111), breaking the more than quarter-century old record of all-time great guard
Jeffrey Jordan.
An excellent student, he was voted First-Team Academic All-NJAC as a senior in 2014-15. He earned Honorable Mention Academic All-NJAC as a junior.
In two years, Roberson tallied 415 points, 164 assists, 156 rebounds and 79 steals in 1508 minutes while playing in 54 games (52 starts). He averaged 7.7 points, 3.0 assists and 2.9 rebounds while logging 27.9 minutes per game.
Roberson was named to the 2013-14 College of Staten Island Tournament of Heroes All-Tournament Team
As a junior he ranked fourth in the NJAC in assists and assist/turnover ratio, sixth in steals and 10th in three-pointers made per game (1.7). His .833 free throw percentage would have ranked fourth in the league with enough attempts to qualify. As a senior he ranked ninth in assists. He shot 87.7 percent from the foul line (50-57); had he had enough attempts to qualify,
Roberson would have been .003 points out of leading the league.
Roberson earned a Bachelor of Science in Fire Science from NJCU in May, 2015. He is currently completing a master’s degree in National Security Studies.
A Brooklyn, NY resident,
Roberson is a graduate of University High School in Newark.
