NEWARK, N.J. – When the blare of the final buzzer ended the Highlanders' unprecedented 51-game losing streak Wednesday night, fans and players at the New Jersey Institute of Technology jumped into group hugs and wagged their index fingers as if they had just won a conference championship rather than a single game.

"I feel good for the players," NJIT President Robert Altenkirch says of his school's hard-earned 61-51 win over Bryant University. "The only bad news is that we probably won't get much publicity...