JERSEY CITY, NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Four-time New Jersey Athletic Conference Rookie of the Week KHALID MUHAMMAD (Orange, NJ/Orange) hit a running right-handed floater from the right foul line extended as time expired after New Jersey City University inbounded the ball with just 2.1 seconds on the clock and the first buzzer-beating basket by the Gothic Knights in 11 years vaulted NJCU to a 51-50 NJAC victory over rival Rutgers-Newark on January 23 at the John J. Moore Athletics and Fitness Center on 'Coach Charlie Brown Court.'
 
Muhammad inbounded the ball from the left baseline, slipped a bounce pass to rookie forward FARAJI JAMES (Irvington, NJ/Bloomfield Tech), then quickly was handed back possession and with three deliberate dribbles, zipped around the top of the key and floated a shot less than a tenth of a second before the red light on the backboard illuminated.
 
NJCU (8-11, 3-9 NJAC) snapped a two-game losing streak while knocking off a Rutgers-Newark (14-5, 8-4 NJAC) squad that had won eight of its last nine games with its only loss during that span coming by a mere point.
 
"There wasn't a lot of time and we wanted Khalid [Muhammad] to catch the ball back on the inbounds and draw to his right and get the best shot he could," described sixth-year head coach Marc Brown after the exciting conclusion. "We wanted either him or Rondre [Kelly] with the ball in their hands for the last shot."
 
"It was just exciting. We're not dead yet. It's about time. We deserved a break and deserved to win. We deserved to win a lot of close games [this year] and have always come up short. This is the first time we were on the positive end of one of these plays."

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