NJAC Standings | R-N Men's Basketball Highlights

PITMAN, N.J. (January 19, 2016) - Senior guard John Snow of the Rutgers University-Newark men's basketball team was named the New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) Player of the Week, it was announced Monday afternoon.

The honor is the second of the season for Snow and comes on a week in which he averaged 29.5 points and 6.0 rebounds per game in a key 2-0 week for the Scarlet Raiders.

The Newark native started the week with 17 points, six rebounds and three assists in a 76-75 overtime victory over conference rival Ramapo College. Three days later, he scored a career-high 42 points on 14-of-21 shooting while adding six rebounds, two assists and two steals in the Raiders' fourth-straight NJAC victory.

Snow - who currently ranks fourth in the NJAC in scoring at 18.4 points per game - tallied the most points by a conference player since January 17, 2007.

The veteran guard racked up 59 total points on 20-of-32 shooting (62.5 percent) from the field, 3-for-7 (42.9 percent) from three and 16-for-21 (76.2 percent) from the line. He has scored in double figures in every game but two this season for the Scarlet Raiders, scoring 20-plus six times and 30-plus twice.

Rutgers-Newark now has at least one player with 30 or more points in its last three games as senior forward Jordan McDaniel scored 32 in back-to-back conference wins before Snow's big night.

The Scarlet Raiders are currently 12-4 overall and 7-2 in the NJAC, tied for first place with New Jersey City University who is next on the schedule. R-N will head to Jersey City Wednesday night at 8 p.m. for a revenge game against the Gothic Knights as the two teams hold a one-game lead over Stockton University and Ramapo who are each 6-3 in the standings.