MADISON, N.J. (January 7, 2019) – The Rutgers University-Newark men's basketball team allowed its fewest points since the 2012-13 campaign tonight as the Scarlet Raiders led end-to-end in a 58-39 victory at Fairleigh Dickinson University-Florham. The Raiders improve to 8-6 while the Devils fall to 4-9.

The last time R-N held a team to 39 points was in a 51-39 win in The Golden Dome over New Jersey Athletic Conference (NJAC) opponent NJCU on November 28, 2012.

Tonight, a stingy Raiders defense held the hosts to just 20.8% shooting from the field in the first half and 28.9% for the game.

Rutgers-Newark had 10 different players score at least one points while senior Mark Isiofia-Thomas led the way with 14 on 6-of-13 shooting, including two trifectas. Classmate Tyler Ofray joined him in double-figures with 11 points and two 3-pointers of his own. Ofray also contributed a game-high six assists. Sophomore Mike Vick pulled down a team-best eight rebounds.

The Scarlet Raiders return to league play on Wednesday night at Stockton with tip-off scheduled for 8 p.m.

R-N got off to a fast start and dominated the game as the visitors scored the first seven points and never looked back. Newark built that early 7-0 edge into an insurmountable 21-1 lead that was cultivated over the first nine plus minutes of action.

Seven different Raiders got in on the scoring during that first half surge as Vick started the night off with a lay-in before Isiofia-Thomas added five points, sophomore Dante Ralph chipped in four, and rookie Jamir Patterson capped the run with a bucket in the paint at the 10:47 mark.

FDU would draw within 16 points with exactly eight minutes remaining in the half, but that was as close as the home team would get.

Rutgers-Newark capped an already excellent opening period with a 14-6 spurt that carried the Scarlet Raiders into the locker rooms leading 39-15. Junior Chase Barneys drained a shot from beyond the arc to put an exclamation point on the stanza with 49 seconds on the clock.

Newark's lead ballooned to as large as 28 points early in the second half with the visitors' advantage remaining above 20 points for the vast majority of the final 20 minutes.

A fast break lay-up by Vick made it a 26-point lead for the Raiders with 5:34 to play before the Devils ended the night on a 9-2 run to trim their final deficit to 58-39.