JERSEY CITY, NJ (NJCUGothicKnights.com) | Father and son are now No.1 and No. 2 all-time on the New Jersey City University men's basketball wins list. In the first home playoff game since Charlie Brown's final game at the helm of the program in March 2007, his son's 2016 Gothic Knights outscored Centenary College 46-37 in the second half and ousted the Cyclones, 86-75, in the Eastern College Athletic Conference (ECAC) Division III Metro/Upstate Quarterfinals on March 2 at the John J. Moore Athletics and Fitness Center.
 
On the court named in his dad's honor—Coach Charlie Brown Court—the younger Brown's No. 2 seeded Gothic Knight squad punched its ticket to the ECAC Semifinals as four different players scored in double figures. The win is the 19th of the season for nine-year head coach Marc Brown's team and the two-time New Jersey Athletic Conference Coach of the Year and 2016 winner of that award claimed his 134th career victory. That moved him past former coach and athletic director Larry Schiner (133 wins) for second place in the program's annals. He now trails only Charlie Brown on the wins list; the elder Brown won 483 wins in 25 years from 1982-2007.
 
Charlie and Marc Brown become one of the winningest father-son combinations in the history of college basketball at any level and one of the rare few to be No. 1 and No. 2 at the same school.
 
NJCU (19-8), facing No. 7 Centenary (14-13) for the first time ever—despite the two schools being in the same state—were challenged in the first half and only led by two at the break (40-38) before a stretch of three consecutive plays in the final seven minutes aided by a tenacious press allowed the Knights to pull away.
 
With the win, NJCU advances to face No. 3 seeded Baruch College in the ECAC Semifinals on Saturday, March 5 at the Rutgers-Newark Golden Dome. Baruch ousted No. 6 Farmingdale State College, 81-76 in another quarterfinal on Wednesday night while No. 4 Ithaca College edged No. 5 Medgar Evers, 95-94; the Bombers will meet top-seeded and host Rutgers-Newark. The two semifinal winners square off in the championship game on Sunday, March 6 at 3 p.m.

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