The Basics
• Score: #13 Johns Hopkins-83, Muhlenberg-63
• Records: JHU (13-2, 9-1 CC) • MC (5-10, 2-6 CC)
• Location: Baltimore, MD • Goldfarb Gym
• The Short Story: The 13^th-ranked Johns Hopkins men's basketball team jumped out to a 22-point halftime lead and went on to defeat visiting Muhlenberg, 83-63, Saturday afternoon.
 
How it Happened
• Leading by one at the 16:22-mark, senior Tom Quarry drained a fast-break three to spark a 13-4 spurt as Hopkins pushed out to a 21-11 lead. Freshman John Windley capped the run with a bucket from downtown at 9:16. Nate Henty Brown and Tom McGuire sandwiched buckets around a Carson James three-point play and JHU led 24-15 with 7:43 to play.
• Graduate student Conner Delaney then hit a three-pointer to push the lead back to double digits and ignite an 18-5 run to end the half. The Blue Jays got buckets from five different players in the final seven and a half minutes as they took a 42-20 lead into the half.
• Hopkins led 46-27 after a Jayson Williams-Johnson three at the 16:45-mark. Senior Braeden Johnson and James responded with back-to-back triples and just like that the lead was 25. The Mules answered with a six-point spurt to pull back within 19.
• The teams then swapped scores over the ensuing eight minutes as the lead seesawed between 19 and 25 points. Leading 69-50 with 6:17 to go, Windley found Johnson on the back-door for a dunk to ignite a quick nine-point run as the Blue Jays pushed out to their largest lead at 28 points. The Mules kept battling and answered with 11 straight points to cut the deficit to 17 at the 1:30-mark. Hopkins would close out the win with a driving layup from junior Rohan Prakash and a corner three from classmate Conor Gibson.
 
What it Means
• Hopkins improves to 47-20 all-time against Muhlenberg and has won the last four meetings.
• The Blue Jays move into a tie for first-place in the Centennial Conference after Swarthmore's loss at Dickinson.
 
Inside the Box Score
• James led all scorers with a career-high 20 points, to go with three assists and three steals. James went 8-of-11 from the field, including 3-of-5 from downtown.
Delaney added 15 points and a season-high eight assists. Delaney moved into ninth place on JHU's all-time scoring list with 1238 career points. He also handed out his 350^th career assist and now has 357 for his career – five shy of third on the Blue Jays' all-time list.
• Quarry also finished in double figures with 13 points while also grabbing five boards. Senior Ethan Bartlett grabbed a game-high eight rebounds and four steals.
• Williams-Johnson led the Mules with 18 points and was their only player in double figures. Giovanni Rubino added nine points and McGuire had eight.
 
Up Next
• Hopkins returns to action on Thursday, January 27 at Gettysburg, Tip-off at Bream Gymnasium is slated for 7:00 pm.
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