LANCASTER, PA – The Johns Hopkins men's basketball team beat host and undefeated Franklin & Marshall, 74-54, to head into the holiday riding a three-game win streak. The Blue Jays improve to 5-4 overall and 2-1 in the Centennial Conference while the Diplomats fall to 6-1 and 2-1 in the conference.
 
Hopkins broke open a two-point game with a 16-3 run over a seven-minute span late in the first half. Junior John Windley kick started the run with a traditional three-point play, followed by a Jeb Williams three and a Charlie Jackson transition bucket and just like that the lead was 10. Graduate student Carson James capped the run with back-to-back layups to put the Blue Jays up 32-17 with 1:41 to go in the half.
 
Vakaris Grauslys and John Seidman closed the half with a pair of baskets for the Diplomats to make it an 11-point game at the half. Seidman then opened the second-half scoring with a bucket in the paint just 64 seconds in and the lead was down to nine.
 
Freshman Brayden Fagbemi answered with a layup on the other end and the teams then went back-and-forth over the ensuing two minutes. Trailing by 13, F&M got six unanswered from Kevin Nowoswiat and Omar Nichols to slice the deficit to seven with 16:21 to play. Hopkins came right back with a 9-2 spurt to push out to a 49-35 lead less than three minutes later.
 
Franklin & Marshall pulled back within 10 with 11:27 on the clock, but Jackson then sandwiched a pair of buckets around a Williams' triple and the lead ballooned to 17. The Dips battled back and trimmed the Blue Jays' lead to just eight at the 6:38-mark.
 
That's as close as F&M would get however as Hopkins closed the game on an 18-6 run. Five Blue Jays scored during the run, fueled by a combined 10 points from Fagbemi and graduate student Sidney Thybulle.
 
Fagbemi led all scorers with 16 points to go with six rebounds and eight assists. Jackson scored a career-high 15 points, doing 7-of-9 from the field, while also grabbing four boards. Windley added 13 points and five rebounds. Thybulle chipped in five points, four boards, two assists, two blocks and four steals. Grauslys led the Dips with 14 points and four assists. Seidman scored 13 points and pulled seven boards, while Omar Nichols added 11 points.
 
JHU held Franklin & Marshall 23 points below it season average while shooting 50.0 percent from the field. The 74 points by the Blue Jays are the most by a Dips' opponent since February 11, 2022.
 
Hopkins returns to action after the holidays on Tuesday, January 2 versus Rochester. Tip-off at Goldfarb Gym is slated for 2:00 pm.
 
Notes: Thybulle needs just one block to become the 10^th player in program history with 100 career blocks.