March 30, 2007

NJCU'S JOHN TO BE FEATURED ON THE
MADISON SQUARE GARDEN NETWORK

PROFILE TO BE BROADCAST ON MARCH 30 WITH RE-AIRINGS ON MARCH 31

NJCU men’s basketball player Dana John will have his life story featured on the MSG Network on March 30 at 11:00 PM, immediately following the NBA game between the New York Knicks and the Dallas Mavericks. The feature, conducted by Jimmy Cavallo, will air as part of the program “MSG, NY.”

The program will also be re-aired throughout the day on March 31. His appearance on the MSG Network will mark his second on New York-area television this month. On March 12, he was featured on WWOR-TV/My-9 New York.

Additionally, it will mark the fourth time in five weeks that John is featured by a major publication or television network. On February 19, he became the second NJCU athlete this year and the first men's basketball player on record to be featured in Sports Illustrated's Faces in the Crowd. On February 22, he was featured in a lengthy article on Sports Illustrated.com. He will also have his story chronicled by ESPN The Magazine in the coming weeks.

John, in only his second year of playing organized basketball at any level, was selected First-Team All-Region by the National Association of Basketball Coaches and D3Hoops.com and First-Team All-New Jersey Athletic Conference this year. He led the Gothic Knights (19-10) to the NJAC North Division regular season championship and within one shot of the NCAA Tournament. A three-time NJAC Player of the Week, he was named the NJHoops.com Division III Player of the Month for February 2007.

John was selected to the D3Hoops.com National Team of the Week on November 21 and earned ECAC Division III Metro Player of the Week on February 12. He was tabbed NJAC Player of the Week on November 20, January 2 and February 12. He was a three-time PrestoSports/MBWA Honor Roll selection and was a member of the ECAC Division III Metro Honor Roll on January 2. John was also the Most Valuable Player of the Emmanuel College Tip-Off Tournament in the opening week of the season.

Overall, John finished the year with 516 points, becoming only the second NJCU player in the last 17 years (since 1990) to reach the 500-point plateau. Along the way he obliterated the single-season school record for three-pointers with 98; the previous NJCU mark was 65. He has already connected for 144 three-pointers in two years, just 16 shy of tying the NJCU program mark of 160.

For the season, John averaged 18.4 points, 5.6 rebounds (38-120-158), 1.8 steals (49), 1.1 assists (32) and 0.8 blocks per game (32) in 28 games. He shot .456 from the field (167-366), .426 from three-point range (98-230), and .778 from the free-throw line (84-108).

The NJAC leader in both threes made (3.50) and three-point percentage, he finished the year with 17 more triples than any other player in the league. John ranked second in the league in scoring, fifth in free-throw percentage, eighth in minutes (31.46, 881), eighth in blocks and steals, 12^th in defensive rebounds (4.29), and 16^th in rebounding.