2021–22 NJIT Highlanders men's basketball team

2021–22 NJIT Highlanders men's basketball
ConferenceAmerica East Conference
Record11–18 (6–12 America East)
Head coach
Assistant coaches
  • Jeff Rafferty
  • Joe Gutowski
  • Ricardo Rush Jr.
Home arenaWellness and Events Center
2021–22 America East Conference men's basketball standings
Conf. Overall
Team W   L   PCT W   L   PCT
Vermont 17 1   .944 28 6   .824
UMBC 11 7   .611 18 14   .563
Stony Brook* 10 8   .556 18 13   .581
New Hampshire 10 8   .556 15 13   .536
Hartford 9 9   .500 12 20   .375
Albany 9 9   .500 13 18   .419
Binghamton 8 10   .444 12 17   .414
UMass Lowell 7 11   .389 15 16   .484
NJIT 6 12   .333 11 18   .379
Maine 3 15   .167 6 23   .207
2022 AmEast tournament winner
*Ineligible for the 2022 AmEast tournament due to changing conferences in 2022

The 2021–22 NJIT Highlanders men's basketball team represented the New Jersey Institute of Technology in the 2021–22 NCAA Division I men's basketball season. The Highlanders, led by sixth-year head coach Brian Kennedy, played their home games at the Wellness and Events Center in Newark, New Jersey as second-year members of the America East Conference. They finished the season 11–18, 6–12 in America East play, to finish in eighth place. They lost in the quarterfinals of the America East tournament to Vermont.