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The Basics
• Score: Johns Hopkins-70, #16 Swarthmore-52
• Records: JHU (8-6, 4-3 CC) • SC (12-2, 6-1 CC)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Goldfarb Gym
• The Short Story: The Johns Hopkins men's basketball team upset 16th-ranked Swarthmore, 70-52, on Thursday night in Centennial Conference action. Junior Kyle Doran paced the Blue Jays with a game-high 17 points.

How it Happened
• Trailing 3-0 early, Swarthmore got on the board with a Chris Bourne basket at 16:23. The Garnet followed with five unanswered points to go up 7-3 at the 14:50-mark.
• Sophomore Daniel Vila ended the run with a fast-break layup to spark a 24-6 run that saw the Blue Jays take a 14-point lead. Five different players scored for Hopkins during the run that spanned more than six minutes. Trailing 27-13, Zack Yonda and Jim Lammers sandwiched buckets around a Jesse Flannery pull-up jumper to make it a 12-point game with 6:42 to play in the half.
• Hopkins answered with six straight points, capped by a Doran three-pointer, to push the lead to 18 just two minutes later. Swarthmore could get no closer than 15 and JHU took a 38-23 lead into the half.
• The teams went back-and-forth over the opening seven minutes of the second half. The Garnet pulled within 10 five times during that span but could not trim the deficit to single digits.
• Leading 50-40 after a Yonda layup, the Blue Jays methodically built their lead to 20 twice as they outscored the Garnet 20-12 over the final 12:26.

What it Means
• Johns Hopkins improves to 76-36 all-time against Swarthmore has won 11 straight in the series.
• This is Hopkins' first win over a ranked team since a 74-69 win over then 16th-ranked Franklin & Marshall on February 13, 2016.
• Head coach Bill Nelson now has 598 career wins as he looks to become the 18th coach in NCAA Division III history to reach 600 wins. The winningest coach in program history, he now has 493 wins at Hopkins.

Inside the Box Score
• Doran led all scorers with 17 points, one shy of his season-high. He went 6-of-8 from the field, including 4-of-5 from downtown. Graduate student Sam Gordon and senior Ryan Curran added 10 points apiece, while Curran had a game-high seven rebounds and handed out four assists.
• Graduate student Austin Vasiliadis had a game-high five assists while Vila had two blocks and two steals.
• The Blue Jays shot 47.2 percent from the field for the game against the nation's top-ranked defense. The Garnet came into the game holding teams to just 34.1 percent shooting. Hopkins shot an impressive 58.3 percent in the first half.
• Yonda and Cam Wiley led Swarthmore with 13 points apiece and Bourne added 12. Yonda and Robbie Walsh tied for the team lead with six rebounds.
• The 52 points are the fewest points scored by the Garnet since the last time they visited Goldfarb Gym. Hopkins beat Swarthmore, 60-49, on January 12, 2016.

Up Next
• Johns Hopkins hits the road on Saturday, January 14 as the Blue Jays visit the Haverford Fords. Tip-off at Gooding Arena is slated for 3:00 pm.