JERSEY CITY, N.J. (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | In a back-and-forth second half of a must-win game for the New Jersey City University men's basketball, The College of New Jersey led 58-54 with 2:24 remaining before the Gothic Knights scored the final nine points of the contest, including a key go-ahead offensive rebound and putback by junior shooting guard Khalid Muhammad (Orange, NJ/Orange) with 1:15 to go as NJCU squeaked out a 63-58 New Jersey Athletic Conference win over the Lions on February 7 at the John J. Moore Athletics and Fitness Center.
 
NJCU improves to 9-11 overall and evens its NJAC mark at 7-7, winning for the sixth time in seven games. After a disappointing 3-10 start to the season which included a 1-6 ledger in the league, the Knights are writing a comeback script eerily similar to the 2012-13 campaign when a Muhammad-led squad opened the season 4-9 overall and 0-7 in the league, before reeling off 10 wins in 12 games—including 9-2 in the NJAC—to reach the post-season, in the best mid-year conference turn-around in Division III history.
 
More importantly, the win allows NJCU to keep pace in the NJAC with a make-up game with first place and No. 25 William Paterson University looming on February 9. The Knights stay a half-game in front of Ramapo College (7-8 NJAC) after the Roadrunners stunned No. 17 Stockton, 52-46 in an earlier game.
 
TCNJ (12-10, 8-7 NJAC) and Rowan (8-7), both of whom NJCU split with during the regular season, is now just one game ahead of the Knights in the league standings with two weeks remaining prior to the NJAC Tournament.
 
For NJCU it also exacted revenge on the Lions after TCNJ rallied from a 19-0 deficit to outlast the Knights in Ewing, NJ, 61-59, in the first meeting this season between the clubs on January 10.

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