The last remaining independent in Division I college basketball has reportedly found a home.
As first reported by NJHoops.com, NJIT will join the Atlantic Sun and become that conference’s eighth member beginning with the 2015-16 academic year. According to the Asbury Park Press, the school will hold a press conference Friday to make the news official. For the Atlantic Sun this is an important addition, as the league lost Northern Kentucky to the Horizon League earlier this spring.
As for NJIT, this move gives their programs a conference home they’ve lacked since the Great West (which was a cumbersome grouping of schools) dissolved in 2013.