NEWARK, NJ — Damon Lynn scored 32 points, leading four double-figure scorers, all sophomores, for NJIT, which defeated visiting Fisher 96-70 in men's basketball Saturday afternoon in the Fleisher Athletic Center.
 
The win for NJIT (15-10 overall) was its 10th in the last 11 games and the fifth victory in a row. The Highlanders previously won five straight from December 30 through January 14 before losing at Dartmouth on January 17. They won two days later at Maine and have not lost since.
 
Fisher falls to 18-7 with the defeat. Located in Boston, the Falcons are part of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics, a governing body with more than 300 member institutions that sponsors 23 national championships in 13 sports (NJIT's forerunner institution, Newark College of Engineering, was NAIA national co-champion in 1960 in men's soccer and NJIT, departed the NAIA for the NCAA in 1974).
 
In a statistical oddity, each half of Saturday's game was exactly 48-35 in favor of the Highlanders.
 
In addition to Lynn's game-high 32 points, the Highlanders got a career-high 18 from Rob Ukawuba, 17 points from Tim Coleman, and an NJIT career-high 14 from Osa Izevbuwa (he played his freshman season at Williston State in North Dakota).
 
The Highlanders dominated the rebounding, pulling down 46 to just 21 for the visitors, and Ukawuba matched his career-best 9 rebounds, tying senior teammate Daquan Holiday for game honors. Coleman, who posted a game-high three blocked shots, added eight rebounds for the winners.
 
Lynn, who came in leading NCAA Division I with 93 three-point baskets, added four more to that total, while shooting 10-for-11 at the foul line. He also finished with five assists, second in the game to teammate Winfield Willis' seven assists. Willis also had a game-high three steals and scored nine points while shooting 7-for-7 at the foul line.
 
Lynn's 32 points vs. Fisher were the second-highest single-game total of the sophomore's 54-game college career, exceeded only by his program Division I-record 34 points at North Carolina A&T in January of 2014. He had 11 previous games this season with at least 20 points.
 
Fisher, which used 16 different players in the game, had one double-figure scorer, senior Chris Green, who scored 18 points. Green, who is from Long Island, played a year of prep basketball at NIA Prep in Newark before heading to college. Another senior, OJ Moore, led the Falcons on the boards with five rebounds.
 
Although the Highlanders held the lead for more than 35 minutes and finished with a 26-point margin of victory, NJIT had to play well to achieve the result it did against Fisher. Fisher has three regular season games plus NAIA postseason play to reach the 20-win level for the third time in the history of the men's basketball program that began in 2001-02.
 
Green made a three-pointer 18 seconds into the first possession of the game and the Falcons later tied the game at 15 apiece on Brandon Robinson's jump shot with 11:50 left in the first half.
 
NJIT did not get ahead by more than four until Ukawuba's three at the 9:01 mark made it 21-17 and the Highlanders took their first double-digit lead, 28-17, on another Ukawuba shot from downtown with 7:59 left in the half.

Free throws by Green at the 5:17 mark trimmed the NJIT lead to 38-29, but Izevbuwa hit back-to-back three-pointers, pushing the bulge to 15 with 4:18 left.
 
Fisher fought back to within nine points, but Ukawuba made four foul shots in the last 1:27 for a 48-35 lead at the break, paced by 16 points for Ukawuba, 11 for Izevbuwa, and 10 for Coleman. Fisher's Green led all scorers at halftime with 15 points.
 
Lynn, who would score 25 of his game-high 32 points in the second half, drained a three-pointer 13 seconds into the half, sparking an 8-0 run that pushed NJIT into a 56-35 advantage with 16:50 remaining.
 
The Highlanders led by at least 13 points the rest of the way and they built their biggest margin of the day, 29 points, at 96-67 on a pair of Willis free throws with 1:59 left.