Jan. 21, 2012

Box Score

BALTIMORE, MD - Visiting Dickinson connected on 22 of 28 free throws and shot 55 percent from the field in the second half and the Red Devils beat Johns Hopkins, 76-59, in Centennial Conference men's basketball action. The Blue Jays fall to 10-6 overall and 6-3 in the conference, while the Red Devils improve to 8-9 and 5-5 in the conference.

The lead changed hands six times over the course of just minutes with Dickinson taking it for good at 14:54 on a three-pointer from Adam Honig. Chris Barsanti pushed the lead to three with a putback off a missed Logan Furr triple. Sophomore Connor McIntyre made it a one-point game with a bucket in the paint, but Gerry Wixted countered with a pair of free throws just 20 seconds later to kick-start a 15-6 run that saw the Red Devils take a 10-point lead with 7:38 to play.

Hopkins sandwiched three-pointers around a Greg Nichol free throw and the lead was down to five less than two minutes later. The Red Devils answered however, with a 15-3 game-ending run, fueled by an 11-of-16 showing from the free throw line.

Dickinson went on top to open the game with a Honig layup but six straight points from junior Adam Spengler put the home team on top 6-2 less than three minutes in. The teams traded baskets over the next two minutes, before back-to-back buckets for the Red Devils tied the game at 11-11 with 14:05 to play. Hopkins responded with consecutive three-pointers from sophomore Daniel Corbett and freshman Jimmy Hammer to go up six. Dickinson came right back and the teams were all tied up at 17 midway through the half.

The Blue Jays put together a 10-2 run with four points from freshman George Bugarinovic and punctuated by a three-pointer from junior Mike Rhoads to put the Jays up 27-19. The Red Devils chipped the deficit back down to two but JHU once again answered to take a seven-point advantage. Dickinson would have the final say of the first half with a 5-0 spurt to make it a 32-30 game at the break.

Bugarinovic led three Blue Jays in double-digits with 12 points and two blocks. Spengler chipped in 11 points with a career-high six helpers, while Hammer finished with 10 points and a team-high four rebounds. Wixted paced the Red Devils with a game-high 19 points and 12 boards. Honig punched up 16 points as the only other Dickinson player in double figures. Hopkins shot 55.6 percent from the field in the first half, but just 30.0 percent in the second. Dickinson on the other hand, shot 37.5 percent in the first and 55.0 percent in the second. The second-best free throw shooting team in the conference, the Red Devils lived up to the billing. They went 32-of-39 from the line for the game, for an 82.1 percent clip.

Hopkins returns to action on Monday, January 23 with a Centennial Conference match-up at McDaniel. Tip is set for 7:00 pm at the Gill Center.