The 2016–17 NJIT Highlanders women's basketball team represented New Jersey Institute of Technology during the 2016–17 NCAA Division I women's basketball season. The Highlanders, led by fifth year head coach Steve Lanpher, played their home games at the Fleisher Center as second year members of the Atlantic Sun Conference. This will be their final season playing at the Fleisher Center before moving to the Wellness and Events Center in 2017. They finished the season 11–19, 4–10 in A-Sun play to finish in fifth place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the A-Sun Tournament to Kennesaw State.
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Conference | Atlantic Sun Conference |
Record | 11–19 (4–10 Atlantic Sun) |
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Home arena | Fleisher Center |
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Team | W | L | PCT | W | L | PCT | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Stetson | 13 | – | 1 | .929 | 26 | – | 7 | .788 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Florida Gulf Coast † | 12 | – | 2 | .857 | 26 | – | 9 | .743 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Jacksonville | 11 | – | 3 | .786 | 23 | – | 9 | .719 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kennesaw State | 8 | – | 6 | .571 | 10 | – | 20 | .333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
NJIT | 4 | – | 10 | .286 | 11 | – | 19 | .367 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
North Florida | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 10 | – | 20 | .333 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Lipscomb | 3 | – | 11 | .214 | 6 | – | 24 | .200 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
USC Upstate | 2 | – | 12 | .143 | 9 | – | 21 | .300 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
† 2017 ASUN Tournament winner As of March 18, 2017 Rankings from AP poll |
This was their last season playing at Fleisher Center as they moved in to the newly built Wellness and Events Center beginning in the 2017–18 season.
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Schedule
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Rank# | Opponent# | Result | Record | Site (attendance) city, state | ||||||
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Non-conference regular season | |||||||||||
11/12/2016* 2:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Wagner | W 68–45 | 1–0 |
Fleisher Center (400) Newark, NJ | |||||||
11/15/2016* 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
St. Joseph's (NY) | W 87–53 | 2–0 |
Fleisher Center (300) Newark, NJ | |||||||
11/17/2016* 6:00 pm |
at Bucknell | L 36–67 | 2–1 |
Sojka Pavilion (445) Lewisburg, PA | |||||||
11/21/2016* 6:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Fairleigh Dickinson | L 61–66 | 2–2 |
Fleisher Center (300) Newark, NJ | |||||||
11/25/2016* 7:00 pm |
at Vermont TD Bank Classic semifinals |
L 42–64 | 2–3 |
Patrick Gym (478) Burlington, VT | |||||||
11/26/2016* 5:00 pm |
vs. LIU Brooklyn TD Bank Classic 3rd place game |
W 50–48 | 3–3 |
Patrick Gym Burlington, VT | |||||||
11/30/2016* 7:00 pm |
at Lehigh | L 52–84 | 3–4 |
Stabler Arena (537) Bethlehem, PA | |||||||
12/04/2016* 12:00 pm |
at Harvard | L 38–59 | 3–5 |
Lavietes Pavilion (507) Cambridge, MA | |||||||
12/06/2016* 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Binghamton | L 44–68 | 3–6 |
Fleisher Center Newark, NJ | |||||||
12/11/2016* 1:00 pm |
at Delaware State | W 57–43 | 4–6 |
Memorial Hall (389) Dover, DE | |||||||
12/13/2016* 7:00 pm |
at Saint Joseph's | L 36–75 | 4–7 |
Hagan Arena (207) Philadelphia, PA | |||||||
12/16/2016* 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Howard | W 70–55 | 5–7 |
Fleisher Center (277) Newark, NJ | |||||||
12/28/2016* 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Rutgers–Newark | W 83–52 | 6–7 |
Fleisher Center (299) Newark, NJ | |||||||
12/30/2016* 3:00 pm |
at Chicago State | W 57–42 | 7–7 |
Jones Convocation Center (140) Chicago, IL | |||||||
01/04/2017* 11:30 am, ESPN3 |
Columbia | L 51–65 | 7–8 |
Fleisher Center (996) Newark, NJ | |||||||
Atlantic Sun regular season | |||||||||||
01/07/2017 4:30 pm, ESPN3 |
at USC Upstate | L 58–75 | 7–9 (0–1) |
G. B. Hodge Center (237) Spartanburg, SC | |||||||
01/14/2017 1:00 pm, ESPN3 |
North Florida | W 64–62 | 8–9 (1–1) |
Fleisher Center (499) Newark, NJ | |||||||
01/16/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Jacksonville | L 56–75 | 8–10 (1–2) |
Fleisher Center (355) Newark, NJ | |||||||
01/21/2017 4:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at Florida Gulf Coast | L 53–73 | 8–11 (1–3) |
Alico Arena (1,459) Fort Myers, FL | |||||||
01/23/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at Stetson | L 43–77 | 8–12 (1–4) |
Edmunds Center (498) DeLand, FL | |||||||
01/28/2017 1:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Lipscomb | W 76–68 | 9–12 (2–4) |
Fleisher Center (300) Newark, NJ | |||||||
02/02/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at Kennesaw State | L 64–75 | 9–13 (2–5) |
KSU Convocation Center (355) Kennesaw, GA | |||||||
02/04/2017 2:30 pm, ESPN3 |
at Lipscomb | W 76–53 | 10–13 (3–5) |
Allen Arena (560) Nashville, TN | |||||||
02/08/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Kennesaw State | L 56–66 | 10–14 (3–6) |
Fleisher Center (300) Newark, NJ | |||||||
02/11/2017 1:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at Jacksonville | L 59–75 | 10–15 (3–7) |
Swisher Gymnasium (633) Jacksonville, FL | |||||||
02/13/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
at North Florida | L 51–61 | 10–16 (3–8) |
UNF Arena (301) Jacksonville, FL | |||||||
02/18/2017 1:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Stetson | L 37–60 | 10–17 (3–9) |
Fleisher Center (388) Newark, NJ | |||||||
02/20/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
Florida Gulf Coast | L 46–77 | 10–18 (3–10) |
Fleisher Center (200) Newark, NJ | |||||||
02/25/2017 1:00 pm, ESPN3 |
USC Upstate | W 70–66 | 11–18 (4–10) |
Fleisher Center Newark, NJ | |||||||
Atlantic Sun Women's Tournament | |||||||||||
03/03/2017 7:00 pm, ESPN3 |
(4) | at (5) Kennesaw State Quarterfinals |
L 60–62 | 11–19 |
KSU Convocation Center (983) Kennesaw, GA | ||||||
*Non-conference game. #Rankings from AP Poll. (#) Tournament seedings in parentheses.
All times are in Eastern Time. |