JERSEY CITY, NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | New Jersey City University's lowest field goal percentage of the season came at the most inopportune of times. In a matchup to determine the final berth in the 2012 New Jersey Athletic Conference Tournament out of the NJAC North Division, the defending NJAC champion Gothic Knights had their chances of a repeat derailed by shooting 30.9 percent overall and 13.6 percent from three-point range and Rutgers-Newark held on in the final minute for a 55-51 victory on Wednesday night at the John J. Moore Athletics and Fitness Center on "Coach Charlie Brown Court"

After opening the year with six straight wins and a 9-1 record during the months of November and December, the Gothic Knights (17-7, 7-6 NJAC) went just 8-6 during the 2012 portion of the schedule and do not qualify for the conference tournament for the fourth time in the last five years under the current two division format.

Newark (14-11, 7-6 NJAC), finished with the same league mark as NJCU, but claimed its sixth appearance in the NJAC Tournament in the last eight years, by sweeping the Gothic Knights in a season for just the second time in the history of the series, which NJCU leads 58-13. Newark, which also won the first meeting between the teams on January 25 by four points (73-69), last swept NJCU in 2010.

Had NJCU won, the Knights would have hosted an NJAC Quarterfinal game and clinched the No. 2 seed after Montclair State University upset Ramapo College on the road on Wednesday night. Newark clinches the No. 3 seed and will travel to NJAC South #2 seeded Kean University on Saturday, February 18 for a first round game. Ramapo holds onto the No. 2 seed in the north division with NJCU's loss.

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