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The Basics
• Score: Johns Hopkins-70, Franklin & Marshall-57
• Records: JHU (3-4, 2-2 CC) • FMC (4-3, 1-3 CC)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Goldfarb Gym
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins men's basketball team closed the game on a 16-0 run to beat visiting Franklin & Marshall, 70-57, on Wednesday night. Sophomore Michael Gardner led the Blue Jays with 15 points and a game-high seven rebounds.

How it Happened
• Matthew Tate scored on a back-door layup with 5:13 to play to put the Diplomats 57-54. Coming out of a timeout, Gardner answered with a pull-up jumper to spark a 16-0 run. Following an F&M turnover, junior Kyle Doran hit the front-end of a pair of free throws to tie the game at the 3:57-mark. Senior Nikhil Panu then gave the Blue Jays' their first lead of the game with a three-pointer with 3:17 to play.
• Sophomore Daniel Vila pushed the lead to five with a bucket in the paint and the Blue Jays sealed the win by going six of six from the line in the final 1:52. Hopkins forced Franklin & Marshall into five turnovers and 0-of-3 shooting from the field.
• F&M opened the game on an 11-3 run as the Dips made five of their first seven field goals. The lead swung up and down as the teams swapped buckets over the ensuing three minutes. Leading 16-8 with 11:20 to play in the half, Jared Wright hit a pair of free throws followed by a Lior Levy layup and the visitors led by 12.
• Hopkins twice cut the deficit to nine, but each time Franklin & Marshall answered and a fast-break layup by Tate put the Diplomats up 14 with 5:19 to go in the half. Gardner came right back with a triple to spark a 13-3 run that sliced the deficit to three heading into the half. Five different players scored during the run, which was capped by a Max McKee three-pointer in the corner with four ticks on the clock.
• Coming out of the half, F&M went on a 9-2 run, punctuated by a three from Tate to put the visitors on top 38-28. Hopkins responded with a 10-5 spurt that trimmed the deficit in half with 12:09 to play. The Dips quickly pushed their lead back to nine as Levy and Wright sandwiched buckets around a miss jumper by the Blue Jays. A pair of Panu free throws and a fast-break reverse layup by senior Ryan Curran made it a 47-42 game just 56 seconds later.
• The lead continued to see-saw up and down until that Tate layup at the 5:13-mark gave F&M a 57-54 lead. That turned out to the be the Dips last basket of the game as the Blue Jays took control late.

What it Means
• Johns Hopkins is now 37-63 all-time against Franklin & Marshall and has won two straight and three of the last four.
• The Blue Jays are now tied for fourth in the Centennial Conference with a 2-2 record.

Inside the Box Score
• Hopkins, which leads the Centennial in points allowed at just 62.1 points per game, held Franklin & Marshall to 21 points below their season average.
• Gardner finished with a game-high-tying 15 points and seven rebounds. Panu added 11 points, with nine of those coming from downtown. Vila chipped in a career-high 10 points, going 3-of-4 from the floor and 4-of-5 from the line. Doran pulled seven rebounds to match Gardner.
• Graduate student Austin Vasiliadis dished out a season-high 10 assists, one shy of his career high. He also grabbed five boards and five steals. Vasiliadis now ranks fourth in school history with 290 career assists and is eighth with 112 career steals.
• Brandon Federici paced the Dips with 15 points while Tate added 12.
• This is the Blue Jays' largest come-from-behind win since erasing a 16-point deficit to Gettysburg on February 11, 2016.

Up Next
• Johns Hopkins is now idle for final exams and the holidays. Hopkins will return to action on December 29 versus York at the RMC Coaches Tournament. Tip-off at Crenshaw Gym is slated for 5:00 pm.