CENTER VALLEY, Pa. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | New Jersey City University shot under 40 percent for the seventh consecutive game and eighth time this season, shooting 23.9 percent from the floor and McDaniel College did enough to held off NJCU, 66-52, in the opening round of the Red Robin Holiday Tournament, hosted by DeSales University on January 3.

In its first game in 21 days, NJCU hit just 11-of-46 field goal attempts and struggled from three-point range (4-22, .182) to lose for the sixth consecutive outing and dropped to an
uncharacteristic 2-8 on the season. McDaniel (6-3) shot 20-of-39 overall and 51.3 percent for the game to overcome poor free throw shooting (21-40, .525). It was the first-ever meeting between the schools.

NJCU kept itself in the game from the line where it converted 26-of-31 attempts for an 83.9 percent rate.

But the .239 percentage was the lowest in the computerized stats era, as the Gothic Knights hit just 21.4 percent of its first half shots (6-28), falling behind by seven at the break, 31-24.

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